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Springsteen must be psychic, ’cause I have had this song on my mind for a couple of weeks. And the he goes ahead and opens the show for the fans in St. Louis, MO with it. Just ain’t fair to us poor European fans.
And then She Kissed Me is song Phil Spector wrote for The Crystals in 1963. The Beach Boys also recorded a version of this song.
I went to the Antwerp photo museum with a friend this afternoon. I try to go there a couple of times per year and check out the new expos. I guess it is just an other excuses to see more photos.
Later in the afternoon, we went downtown, and ended up at the Bollekesfeesten. Serveral restaurants had put little stalls all around the Groenplaats. So we stuck around and decided to try some of the food there. And we like good food… So deciding what to try is not easy for us. Glass of Cava, some dim sums and sushi to start with. Main course at restaurant Hokfe van Bazel, a glass of wine and double shot of desserts. And all of a sudden deciding wasn’t so hard anymore.
And good folks of Antwerp, just for the record: I AM NOT GAY!
Couldn’t sleep… Just could not resist the temptation of posting these. Shot just yesterday, and too cute not to show…
I start up in the north I grow from special seed
I sprinkle it with sensibility
from French and Hungarian snow
I linger in the sprouting until my engine’s full
Then I move across the sea
To European bliss
To language of poets
As I cut the cord of home
I kiss my mother’s mother
look to the horizon
wide eyed, new ground
humbled by my new surroundings
I am a citizen of the planet
My president is kwan yin
My frontier is on an airplane
my prisons: homes for rehabilitating
Then I fly back to my nest,
I fly back with my nuclear but everything is different
So I wait, my yearn for home is broadened,
patriotism expanded by callings from beyond
So I pack my things nothing precious all things sacred
I am a citizen of the planet
My laws are all of attraction
My punishments are consequences
Separating from source the original sin
I am a citizen of the planet
democracy’s kids are sovereign
Where the teachers are the sages
And pedestals fill with every parent
And so, the next few years are blurry,
the next decade’s a flurry of smells and tastes unknown
Threads sewn straight through this fabric
through fields of every color one culture to another
I come alive and I get giddy I am taken and globally naturalized
I am a citizen of the planet
From simple roots through high vision
I am guarded by the angels
My body guides the direction I go in
I am a citizen of the planet
My favorite pastime edge stretching
Besotten with human condition
these ideals are borne from my deepest within
©2007 A Morissette
I need your help saving a little bit of Springsteen heritage!
For years Springsteen fans all over the world are tryin’ to save Tillie, a beautiful neon lit mural that once graced one of the walls of the Palace amusement park in Asbury Park, NJ. It took a lot of rallying, money and hard work to make sure it did not perish when they tore down the Palace.
Four years after Springsteen fans helped rescue three iconic murals from the Palace in Asbury Park, and two years since developers were supposed to relocate the murals into preservation sheds, neither the developers nor the City of Asbury Park have honored their promises to preserve the murals including the smiling face of Tillie.
To help preserve Tillie and the other murals, before time runs out, please the preservation petition at www.palacepetition.com and ask your friends and family to help.
I made this photo in 1998, on my 1st trip to New York and New Jersey. The Palace amusement park and Tillie’s face were in pretty good shape then. Not long after, part of the building collapsed and it was later torn down.
I shot with Saske at her place this afternoon. Just a quick little shoot, nothing fancy. But it was fun to do. Thanks Saske!
You’re the one I think about time after time
You’re the one that comes to me,
Visions in the night
I want to complicate your feelings
I want to heat you up inside
Yeah, I wanna make you mine
I’ll be your sun coming up
I’ll be your dog days
I’ll be your new morning
Kiss you baby
I’ll be the bluebird singing
I’ll keep you warm
I’ll take you deep in
Gonna make my bed beside you
In the bluebells of your soul
Gonna slip into your river, linger in your shoals
And when the stars are bright like fireflies
And the night is black as coal
I’m gonna make you mine
On another side of time
Before the sea runs dry
On another side of time
Where the love runs high
I’m gonna make you mine
Make you mine, make you mine
©1998 H Nova
20 lovely young ladies took the stage at Carre in Willebroek last night to compete for the titel of Miss Fashion 2009. Yesterday’s semi finals is the first of a series of events photo club Apertura will be covering for this organization.
Karen of FashionMove invited us to do a series of photo shoots. We kindly accepted. And yesterday Glenn and myself headed down to Carre to shoot the contestants as they walked down the catwalk. Unfortunately, five of them did not make it to the finals. But, you will see more shots of the girls that did make it on this site and others in the near future.
This year’s finalists, and Miss and Mister fashion 2008.
I don’t shoot action sports very often. But today I went down to Geel to watch the European Cup Waterski. Shot a couple of decent photos there.
It is amazing how close those boats come to the edge. They get as close as a couple of meters to the concrete walls of the canal. And guess what… I sat in the splash zone and got really hosed.