🎥 Back to the Future (1985) ★★★★
Enjoyed watching this childhood classic with the whole family tonight. Found this great original pre-production image of the design of the DeLorean at Moviestillsdb.com.
🎵 Listening to Claude Debussy’s beautiful Three Nocturnes before sleeping. It has been a very long time since I listened to it from the beginning until the end. So mesmerising and soothing…
📚🎵 Currently re-reading: Hearing and Writing Music: Professional Training for Today’s Musician by Ron Gorow
Philosophical, theoretical and practical: easily the best book on music theory I know.
🌱 We just unpacked the Bonsai Starter Kit my daughter got as a birthday gift, and learned about scarification and stratification. Start of a new hobby? We will know in about 5 years..! 🙃
🎵 Sunday morning Jazz-Funk vibes with this great 1975 album 900 Shares of the Blues by Joe Farrell, Mike Longo & Ron Carter.
🎥 Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) ★★½
Watched with my youngest daughter, who got curious about the Star Wars Universe after we started watching Obi-Wan Kenobi a few weeks ago. She wasn’t too impressed, so now I regret that we started in chronological order…
🎵 Giving the highly anticipated new album And I Have Been… by Benjamin Clementine a first listen, while enjoying a cup of coffee. So far, I like it.
🎥 The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Getting ready for watching yet another Bond film, this time while doing an indoor rowing workout.
🎵 My week in music (week #43 2022)
The opening track Who gives a thought on Brian Eno’s FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE was on repeat a lot this week. And The Knife’s Full of Fire got me through the last part of a cycling workout.
🌱 🍂 Autumn colours! 🍁🍂
🎵 Recording voice-overs for an upcoming soundwalk. First time I put the pre-amps of my new Allen & Heath mixer interface to the test, and so far I like their sound very much.
🎥 Live and Let Die (1973) ★★★
In my quest of watching every Bond in chronological order, I got pretty tired of all the bad jokes and lazy plots. Even though this first one with Roger Moore is even more campy than all previous Bond films, it actually got me back on track.
🥾 Halo around the sun, spotted during a walk in the forest last weekend.
🎵 My week in music was pretty all over the place…
Finished reading: In de huid van de Boeddha by Paul van der Velde 📚
This is a great book that gives a lot of different historical perspectives on Buddhism in general. The influence of 19th century esotericism on ‘Western’ Buddhism was totally new to me and quite mind blowing.
🎵 Weather Alive, beautiful new album by Beth Orton. Introspective, atmospheric, her best album yet.
🌱 Just saved a 40+ year old cactus from dying. At least the viable parts that were left of it. Or so I hope…
🎥 Enemy of the State (1998) ★★★½
Started watching by chance on television and never stopped. Very suspenseful action thriller and a true 90s gem by the great Tony Scott. Great cast also, Gene Hackman is absolutely killing it.
🏳️⚧️ The world is getting a bit more inclusive by the day…
🌱🐝🦔 I wanted to clean up the hedgehog house for the winter, since I wasn’t expecting a lot of bumblebee activity anymore. I was wrong, so I covered it back up to give them a few more weeks…
🎥 Diamonds are Forever (1971) ★★
The last Bond with Sean Connery didn’t age well… Misogynistic and even racist at times. The first appearance of a black Bond Girl by Trina Parks was great though and made up for it a lot. Love this behind the scenes photo.
A Day in the Life. Rainy morning commute on a bicycle bridge. Utrecht, Netherlands.
14 October 2022, 8 AM
🎵 Such a great and timeless song..! Moonlight Mile by The Rolling Stones.
Had a lovely weekend in Alkmaar, with delicious vegetarian Indian food and an exhibition in Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar with a retrospective of Rudi van de Wint.
Found the perfect destination for this year’s harvest of almonds: toasted and crumbed, on top of a risotto with roasted sweet garlic, thyme and mascarpone. From Jamie Oliver’s Return of the Naked Chef.
