”We have a highly flexible approach to outsiders: we are capable of being highly tolerant – encountering and dealing with outsiders without resorting to violence – as well as being aggressive.”
Xenophobic one minute, tolerant the next: humans are strange primates
“Musical innovation happens from the bottom up and the outside in.” 'Music: A Subversive History,' by Ted Gioia
Our little hedgehog feeding station experiment worked! 🦔 🍂 🌱
🎥 The Empire Strikes Back (1980) ★ ★ ★ ★
My daughter and I just built a hedgehog feeding station. 🌱
🎵 My week in music (week #42)
🎵Just introduced my 11-year-old daughter to the early work of Massive Attack. She enjoyed it very much. So did I.
🎥 Star Wars (1977)
★ ★ ★ ½
We’re getting there...
”So why not log off social media, get yourself an RSS reader and wise up?”
Happy 25th year, blogging. You’ve grown up, but social media is still having a brawl
🎥 Spider-man - Into the Spider-verse (2018) ★ ★ ★ ½
🎵 My week in music (week #41)
🌱 Home grown apple pie
🌱 Little creature
“Noise is treated less as a health risk than an aesthetic nuisance [...] Complaining about noise elicits eye rolls. Nothing will get you labeled a crank faster.”
🎥 El Camino (2019).
★ ★ ★ ★ ½
🎥 El Camino was everything I had hoped for. It ended on a hopeful note, and the brief flashback with Walter White sure must have made all Breaking Bad fans grinning in their chairs.
Just a webpage showing how much CO2 is emitted by Google every second...
[www.janavirgin.com/CO2/](http://www.janavirgin.com/CO2/)
Ran 10k today, during Holland’s oldest street run: Singelloop Utrecht.
My week in music 🎵
🎥 Rogue One (2016) ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Veertien Nederlandse natuurbeschermingsorganisaties reageren in een open brief op de stikstofcrisis. Er is een probleem, maar nu is ook het moment om samen te werken aan een oplossing.
Nature Today - Benut stikstofcrisis als kans voor natuur en álle Nederlanders
There’s nothing like waking up on a rainy day with a new album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
🎵 Ghosteen
🎥 It’s been a long time since I’ve been so eagerly waiting for an upcoming movie premiere. The trailer of El Camino sure looks promising!
🎵 Iggy Pop’s latest album is getting mixed reviews, but I’m loving it.
“It is here that the well-educated person enters the picture: someone who studies a subject not to acquire scientific knowledge of it but to become a discerning judge”