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De Goedheilig Man.

Wed Nov 19, 2008, 1:13 PM
  • Mood: Content
  • Listening to: Orange Grove - Hurtin'
  • Reading: Terug naar Oegstgeest - Jan Wolkers
This weekend children up to approximately age 12 will be shouting in the St. Anne Bay awaiting the arrival of the good old Sinterklaas.
This long bearded man arrives from Spain with his "black petes" giving him a hand. He has a big book with all the children's names in it, and he knows whether you've been a good or a bad kid. On the 5th of December he silently pays a visit to all the houses on our island with his petes and white horse. If you've putten your shoe in front of your door with a carrot in it, you'll be lucky enough to get something in return.

Now that's how things are celebrated by kiddies up until the time they realize that its just mommy and daddy who bought all those great christmas gifts for you. Thing is, shortly after this Sinterklaas arrives(and leaves as well) another whitebearded man comes with a sleigh all the way from the North Pole accompanied by elves instead of petes.

I remember as a kid, I always disliked the Christmas-man, he seemed to be competing with Sinterklaas'. What an odd figure, he was way fatter than Sinterklaas' as well. For all I knew the Christmas-man was as a fake!

Little did most of the kiddies know, they both were.

So what to do you say? When neither Sinterklaas or the Christmas-man truly gives presents away?

Well we just give presents to each other, welcome to the new era of celebrating Sinterklaas en Christmas. Lootjes trekken. We always find a way to be pleased, now don't we?

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  • Current Residence: Curacao, Netherlands Antilles
  • Interests: Poetry, Philosophy, X-treme sports, Music, Nature.
  • Favourite movie: There are a lot.
  • Favourite band or musician: Sigur Rós
  • Favourite genre of music: Folk.
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:iconhomophile:
Yes. You must.

And before I turn to ashes I must see them live... again. Because it was the best night of my life... or at least it´s tied with running into Jónsi in a sushi restaurant and having him wish me happy birthday :) it´s a pretty close call.

I sincerely hope you get to see them someday!

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Tíminn lagar allt, gefur líf
Kyndir upp bál
Logar sálar

Ekki lengur kalt, hef aftur líf
Lifnar mín sál
Heiminn mála

- Sigur Ros
:iconffc14:
Wow, that's just unbelievable, a happy Birthday from Jónsi himself. Amazing stuff. And yes thanks for that, it's hard from where I live to be able to see them live anywhere near. Closest call would be Florida in a period where it won't mess up my school. But they didn't tour Florida.

No worries though, they live in my imagination :) I'd like to ask you a very hard question ... What's your favourite song? :D
:iconhomophile:
Well here's to hoping they tour again, and come somewhere near both of us!!! Trust me when I say it's more than you would ever expect...

Oh lord.... hahahah. i can't really accurately answer that. I'd like to say Untitled 8 ( popplagið ), but I feel like i'm doing some small injustice to all my other favourites by picking one. It's quite infuriating though because i don't even remember what popp sounded like live... anyway back to the very hard question, some of my other favourites:

ný batterí, gong, svo hljótt, sæglopur, untitled 2 (fyrsta), untitled 6 (e-bow), inní mér syngur vitleysingur, með suð í eyrum, glósóli, flugufrelsarinn, svefn-g-englar... it changes all the time. right now i'm fixated with e-bow... the last two or three minutes kill me (in the best possible way ;) )

wow, that was alot. hah.

so now that you've put me through that torture, I must ask the same of you :p

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Tíminn lagar allt, gefur líf
Kyndir upp bál
Logar sálar

Ekki lengur kalt, hef aftur líf
Lifnar mín sál
Heiminn mála

- Sigur Ros
:iconffc14:
Haha I'll be happy to answer that as well :)

My favourites are defenitely
Flugufrelsarinn, Milano, Godan Daginn, Ny Batteri, Svefn-g-englar, Saeglopur, E-bow, Popplagid, Daudalagid, Heima (both versions), Bium Bium Bumbalo and Danarfregnir og Jardarfarir, Ilgressi and last but not least Hafsol (the Hvarf-Heim version)

And pfft the other ones are lets say 0,001% less better? haha
And yes it surely does change a lot.

And please, do forgive me for not correctly writing the icelandic names and such haha.

Now except for Sigur Ros, what other music do you listen to? :D
:iconhomophile:
Hahah. i forgive you. i have my keyboard set to Icelandic mode, so hence me being able to create ð and æ and ö and þ ... and etc.

Oh yes, i forgot to mention the Heimas and Bium Bium Bumbalo and Danarfregnir og Jardarfarir. They are all lovely, too. Hafsol is one of my favourites, too especially if its live.

haha you're the only person i've met that actually likes Milanó. You get bonus points for that.

Anyway. well. um. i currently don't listen to much else besides them. haha. I like other Icelandic bands like ólafur Arnalds (love him!), and Jónsi´s boyfriend´s band Parachutes, and I listen to a little Björk.

Besides that, I like radiohead, rammstein (what i listen to most if i'm miraculously not listening to sr), arcade fire, doves, david bowie, david gray, death cab for cutie, kd lang, placebo, puscifer, and.... probably many others i either dont remember or havent discovered yet. im still stuck in the 'addicted to sigur ros' phase.

you? i have the feeling since you asked that question you actually listen to other music :Þ hehe.

by the way, we have to deliver senior speeches in my school a couple weeks from now. im writing mine right now... on them. hahahah. i'm excited to confuse people.

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Tíminn lagar allt, gefur líf
Kyndir upp bál
Logar sálar

Ekki lengur kalt, hef aftur líf
Lifnar mín sál
Heiminn mála

- Sigur Ros
:iconhomophile:
thank you so much...

everyone should keep the Sigur Rós spirit going. it's what keeps me going... glad to recieve kind words from a fellow fan :)

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Tíminn lagar allt, gefur líf
Kyndir upp bál
Logar sálar

Ekki lengur kalt, hef aftur líf
Lifnar mín sál
Heiminn mála

- Sigur Ros
:iconffc14:
welcome welcome aha :) and yes, before I fade to ashes, I must see them live, for once =)

Cheerios.
:iconzampedroni:
Thank you for the nice words you posted in my gallery!

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