Hailstorm in Germany

On my returntrip from Germany, I rode right into this hailstorm.
Pretty impressive, even while it lasted for only 3 minutes or so.

ROFL

Eek… Deleting my non-existing social life?!

I decided to delete some social-networking accounts. Among those is my hyves account. Hyves is very similar to facebook, with a large NL user base.

When you finally find out how to delete your hyves account, they sent a email saying (todo is translate to English):

Er moet een vergissing in het spel zijn, want als we niet beter wisten zouden we denken dat je je account permanent wilt verwijderen. Hiermee verwijder je ook al je foto’s, video’s, vrienden en deel je je sociale leven een klap toe die niet zelden fataal blijkt… Vaak hebben mensen ook even nodig om hun draai te vinden op Hyves. Maar goed. Haal diep adem, tel tot 10 en klik op de link om je verwijdering definitief te maken. Gebruik je Hotmail of werkt de link niet? Copy-paste dan de link tekst naar je browser.

roughly translated:

There must be something wrong, because if we didn’t know better, we would think you want to delete your account permanently. With doing this, you would delete all your photo’s, video’s, friends and give your social life a blow of which it rarely recovers. Very often people need some time to get used to Hyves. but anyway. Take a deep breath, count to ten and click the provided link to delete your account. Are you using hotmail or does the provided link doesn’t work? Then copy’n'paste the link to your browser.

Eeek. The sad thing…They convinced me…sort of…

Tags, gargleblaster

Finally I seem to be able to keep a promise.
After several failed promises to keep gargleblaster.org updated, this time i seem to manage to write a blogpost now and then, and regularly look after the site.

I also edited around 80 posts to give them tags, to get a nicely filled tagcloud. But… it’s a boring job and I realized there are more posts on gargleblaster as I thought :).

Will continue to do it however in the next days. Now I will jam mouse in the lower left corner of my screen (sleep display) and continue reading the last book of Naomi Klein. Yh that’s right! reading a book!

Top 2000? Here is my top 10 of best songs.

The last week on Dutch radio the top2000 of popsongs has been broadcasted. On 1 was Bohemian rhapsody by Queen, and the whole list contained a lot of good music. But…also a lot of rubbish.
Listening to the countdown, made me wonder what my favourite songs are…and why. I am very well aware top whatevers are changing from day to day according to your mood etc…but here is a shot anyway:

1. Dancing in the moonlight - Smashing Pumpkins
Original song of Thin Lizzy, who released it on the album Bad Reputation in 1976. The song was released as single in 1977 and reached the 14th position in the UK. The Smashing Pumpkins recorded a cover and released on a Disarm cd single.
From the 1st time I heard that song, I was absolutely in love with it.

2. Her ghost in the fog - Cradle of Filth
Released in 2000 on their Midian album, this song has everything what makes me love Cradle of Filth. Listening to this songs always takes me away to dark woods, mysteries and fairy tales. And…many “music-lovers” won’t agree this with me…but I really, really like the Cradle of Filth music…the drums, the guitars…the melodies and harmonies of the women voices…and the raw energy the songs have.

3. Velouria - The Pixies
Released on the Bosanova Album.

4. Dead Embryonic Cells - Sepultura
From the “Arise” album, in my opinion one of the best (trash)metal records ever.

5. One - Metallica
From the legendary album “…And Justice for all”.
I always preferred however the radio edit, with the samples from the movie in it.

6. Hurt - Johnny Cash
As how much I like to listen to Nine Inch Nails, the original version of this song doesn’t even come close to the version Johnny Cash recorded.

7. The Mercy Seat (acoustic version!) - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Released on the b-sides and rarities…absolutely brilliant version.

8. The Partisan - Leonard Cohen

9. The needle and the damage done - Neil Young
Not the harvest version…but the version as recorded on: “Live in Massey Hall - 1971″.

10. Nothing really ends - dEUS

Pfew…this was hard :) only 10! I have at this moment 9845 songs in my iTunes library…and i love almost each and everyone of those songs…But the above are really special in my opinion.
However…lots are missing…no Depeche mode, No Radiohead…No Pearl Jam, no Nirvana…no Kyuss…no White stripes….sigh…