Another sad family drama happened in Belgium: Dutch news item

Whenever I read about something like this I am reminded of Michael Haneke's "Der Siebente Kontinent"...

Where ever you are Erik, thanks for giving me "Glycerine" so many years ago...

This news item about terrorism had me laughing my ass off:
CLICK ME!

Tom's love letter to me

"O we will know, won't we?
The stars will explode in the sky
O but they don't, do they?
Stars have their moment and then they die"

Thanks again Nick...

Everything is back to normal. Sort of.
Carnaval is over, people who weren't at the party can't believe I was actually drunk, Stefan survived after puking his guts out on Sunday and even moved into his own place on Monday evening.

Belgian mobster Matthias reminded me of a prom party we went to last year and I hadn't seen all of those PICS.
Sweet memories of sexy balloons.

Today the new Dark Tranquillity album leaked and although I'll buy it I ain't gonna wait two more months before I can listen to it.
I can be brief since I shall write an overlong review soon, the album fucken kills.
This truly is music that speaks volumes for and about me. I fully realize that makes me a fanboy but hey, I just like redheads haha!
Can't wait to catch their headline show on March 30th!

carnaval vid

more carnaval pics

Stefan's pics can be found HERE

Carnaval in Pittsburgh!

My pics of last night's carnaval party are HERE.
The following pics are part of Paul and Silvia's pics.














Me being too fast for the camera.


















Finished all Apfelkorn, drunk as hell, drinking water to prevent dehydration.














Drunk.














Dancing.


















Drunk but still socializing :-)














But not forgetting to drink until I drop haha.














Priceless!

my temporary room mate has split my skull open....
he shall not survive the night!

always nice to see what the temperature outside is when you wake up in the morning

The Hungarian part of me explained!

Thanks to Bas for sending this to me.
It's quite remarkable how many of these things ring true for me even though I've never lived in Hungary. Of course not everything applies to me but still I'm surprised by the amount of things that are.

This is 100% true about me:
"Once the ice is broken, Hungarians become more demonstrative.
Germans and Austrians for example used to describe Hungarians as fiery, explosive, unpredictable. Expect your counterparts to speak for effect, indulging in exaggeration, overstatement, even bombast."

Everyone who knows me will agree that once I feel comfortable I become all of the above mentioned things.

Perhaps this website might help others to understand where the hell some of my character traits originate from.
If anyone really cares at all.

Right now there isn't that much snow left which might be strange with the current weather we're having. This morning it was about -26 Celsius.
That felt rather unpleasant walking to the bus stop, wind cutting my face like razor blades. Good thing the bus showed up fairly quickly.

Right now it's about -17 Celsius but with the wind blowing it's more like -21 Celsius.
Compared to us the Netherlands are having a big pussy winter haha.

Let's see how long these arctic winds will keep blowing...

More snowing in Pittsburgh