on assorted nights I have been playing CS:S on the new KEA (aka bunch of bacon loving noobs/RAGElings/gun fondlers and dog groomers) server, eg CSS://81.19.216.11:27015

during this time I have learned the following things:

• I suck badly at CS:S
• it is important to always be better than Jupitus and MYstIC G
• Jup's kid is waay better than his old man
• I suck badly at CS:S
• shooting Throdgrain is strangely rewarding, even/especially if you're on the same side
• people facing

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some of you know that I occasionally write for a Dutch music blog called File Under: New Music Well, thursday, friday and saturday of last week I was at Haldern-Pop in Germany, which is a (more or less indie oriented) music festival true to it's small footprint with only about 5500 tickets.

Was pretty awesome, and I saw a lot of bands I didn't know yet, so here's a list of what I've seen:

Day One

• Baddies (surprisingly good on stage)
• Broken Records (awesome)
• Wildbirds

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from which I am now sadly returned. it was awesome though. in fact I note I must have said the word awesome about 3000 times during the week

GLENTRESS



^^red, red and blue routes there. Not me in the vids sadly, due to a forgotten camera, but besides that Spooky Wood is pretty cool. The start is somewhat sobering inasmuch...

Hey, so I've been to see A&D yesterday after some serious arm twisting and even bribery by my mates. And a stream of winging and disparaging comments from me ofc. However I like going to the cinema, even if it is to see a movie that I will probably find meh, and they know this and make good use of it.

Anyways, the good thing about Dan Brown is that the films are mostly always better than the books even though you will still be able to see right though the plot through even the...

some of you may have noticed that I've been quiet for a few days, and you're quite correct: I've been covering a music festival called London Calling in Paradiso, Amsterdam for a Dutch music site called Fileunder:New Music. LC pretends to be a BritPop genre oriented festival, which showcases (mostly) unbroken bands who often are on their first foreign tour.

it was pretty hard work to get as many bands in as my friends and I did and boy at the end of the last day I was knackered! still...