In the Dutch Mountains...
Winner of the week:
The low countries, i.e. Belgium and Holland. The murder of Theo Van Gogh, the adoration of Pim Fortuyn, two prevented attacks on MP's and the siege of The Hague in Holland. The execution of a Jew in Antwerp, the death threat to three MP's and the re-invention of Flanders' neo-nazistic party 'Vlaams Belang' (which gets about 25% of the votes) in Belgium... How can I not be proud of my roots?
Loser of the week:
Depeche Mode-fans, i.e. me.
Depeche Mode announced that they are to record a new album...
Just a quick calculation here.
In August they are going to release a kick-ass new single + remix-single. I'll buy both, 5.99 euro a piece.
By end September, they'll release an average album (23.95 euro) and a mediocre second single (5.99 euro x2).
They'll start their tour at the end of next year, so I'll go and see them in Antwerp Sportpaleis (45 euro) and buy a T-shirt (35 euro) and a tourbook by Anton Corbijn (45 euro).
Since they probably won't come to Dublin, I'll go and see them at Wembly (flight:150 euro, accommodation: 75 euro, spending money: 250 euro).
Their third single will be a crappy ballad sung by Martin Gore (5.99 euro x2) and then they will release the cheesiest song of the album as a fourth single, and put some extras on it; e.g. the videos of the four new singles (5.99 x2).
To top it all off they will release a Live-DVD, 34.99 euro. So I'm looking at a bill of 706.86 euro here.
Oh well, I suppose it's a small price to pay to see Dave shaking his ass, Mart sweating his ass off and Fletch making an ass of himself... Mode rules!
Winner of the week:
The low countries, i.e. Belgium and Holland. The murder of Theo Van Gogh, the adoration of Pim Fortuyn, two prevented attacks on MP's and the siege of The Hague in Holland. The execution of a Jew in Antwerp, the death threat to three MP's and the re-invention of Flanders' neo-nazistic party 'Vlaams Belang' (which gets about 25% of the votes) in Belgium... How can I not be proud of my roots?
Loser of the week:
Depeche Mode-fans, i.e. me.
Depeche Mode announced that they are to record a new album...
Just a quick calculation here.
In August they are going to release a kick-ass new single + remix-single. I'll buy both, 5.99 euro a piece.
By end September, they'll release an average album (23.95 euro) and a mediocre second single (5.99 euro x2).
They'll start their tour at the end of next year, so I'll go and see them in Antwerp Sportpaleis (45 euro) and buy a T-shirt (35 euro) and a tourbook by Anton Corbijn (45 euro).
Since they probably won't come to Dublin, I'll go and see them at Wembly (flight:150 euro, accommodation: 75 euro, spending money: 250 euro).
Their third single will be a crappy ballad sung by Martin Gore (5.99 euro x2) and then they will release the cheesiest song of the album as a fourth single, and put some extras on it; e.g. the videos of the four new singles (5.99 x2).
To top it all off they will release a Live-DVD, 34.99 euro. So I'm looking at a bill of 706.86 euro here.
Oh well, I suppose it's a small price to pay to see Dave shaking his ass, Mart sweating his ass off and Fletch making an ass of himself... Mode rules!
