You say it's your birthday

My sister's 15th birthday is only next week, but we already threw her a little party last weekend.

delicious chocolate birthday cake with an ehm, French text on it, that's what happens when you buy pie in Brussels... my sister Iris and my cousin Jana

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder was on television yesterday night and was pretty much amazing. That galling atmosphere is still haunting me.

And how great and cute is Tim Robbins in this film?

22 grand job - in the city it's alright

Today was the first day of my student job, which I'll be doing for the next three weeks. It's the same job I did last year, adminstrative work in the call centre of a company that sells liquid oxygen (for lung patients etc). The tasks I have to do are "pretty boring stuff" (to quote Das Pop), but I honestly did have a good time. I was especially glad to 'reunite' with 'my' collegues, who are such great people.

Sometimes I think I can smell light

On Friday, I finally made it to the art exhibition "It's not only rock 'n roll baby!" at the Bozar in Brussels. It's an exhibition showing a variation of arts (paintings, drawings, installations, photography etc) by a quite extensive amount of musicians, for example the likes of The Kills, Chicks on Speed, Pete Doherty (the famous blood paintings) and many more.

I had been wanting to go there for already quite a long time and was pleased to hear Phara was glad to join me. The exhibition turned out to be really ample, so we've spent there quite some time. Some artists' work was a bit too pretentious for me to really like it, but I've also discovered a lot of beautiful and inventive work. A couple of exhibits I really liked were those by Riceboy Sleeps (project of Jonsi from Sigur Rós and his partner Alex Somers from Parachutes), Pete Doherty (I appreciate the fact that he put the focus on his drawings, not on the blood - that would've been too "let's make some shocking morbid paintings and show everybody what a freak I am". It did struck me that he has loads of blood, though), Bent Van Looy (Das Pop), Nick Zimmer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Fischerspooner (at least they put up a party).

Of course we finished our Bozar trip by (searching and) visiting the shop. I bought a book about the exhibition and a The Kills button.

In a week or two there's the finissage to this exhibition - be there!

(you couldn't take pictures there, so I just made photographs from my book - excuse the quality)

Bianca from CocoRosie

Pete Doherty
Pete Doherty (I've bought a t-shirt with this print when I was at the Babyshambles gig in Brussels earlier this year)

Brian Eno's light trip ("just like MSD") - took a while before we got it

The Kills' polaroids

Miss Kittin - made me laugh a bit ("where is royksopp?")

Kembra Pfahler
Kembra Pfahler

Riceboy Sleeps
Riceboy Sleeps

Patti Smith

Bent Van Looy

Alan Vega

Nick Zimmer

the entire list of musicians who were part of the project

my Kills button

Paris day 4

Paris day 3