Pre-birthday blogpost

Now, as many of you know (or can see on my profile), my birthday is coming up...



And I just had this idea for people who don't know what to get me (not that I'm saying you should get me anything... but it's nice, you know), who don't have the money to spend on something that I might not even need, like or want, people who just like this idea, people who love me so much they want to do this on top of what they'd already planned, or anyone else, for that matter...



You see, as I'm slowly leading my life more and more apart from my parents' house and life, I'm beginning to think about my life away from them... and realising that when I'm moving out (which shall hopefully be next Summer; at least 'part time', for school reasons) I'm not going to have as much money or time to spend on going out and seeing friends (I count spending all my spare time on social websites as a real social life, too - but internet can be expensive) as much as I might want to.



Sooooo, with this little thingy (that may last until whenever after my birthday, really) I would like to get enough personal things from my friends to make some kind of wall art thingy to put on the wall wherever I might be moving to - and you'll all be with me all the time! <3



So here's the deal:



I would feel great if you all send me a photo.
Not just any photo, but a photo that reminds you of me, or describes me in any way you find suitable for me. Preferably some photo I'm not in.



And if you want to make something yourself, feel absolutely free to do so - I love anything arty!



Second part is, that you put a little text along with it, telling me why you chose that photo. And well, anything else you would like to tell me, really ;p





Anyone who feels like doing this, whether you know me very well or not at all, surprise me!





Love,

Yours,

forever,

xoxo C'row <3

How about song titles?

Would it be legal to use song titles of existing songs as a title to a blog post?

I always feel a strong connection to songs in several situations in my life... Do a lot of people get that?

So my exams have ended today... They went pretty good except for the last one, which I couldn't really concentrate on because a really dear friend of mine had decided to end her life last Friday. Needless to say studying wasn't the first thing on my mind.
I feel like I haven't told her so much I still needed to say... And I'm not quite sure about how I will now that she's not physically there anymore... I have tried writing letters to people I know that have died, but there's not way to be sure they really can get to hear any of the things you'd like them to...
Is there any way there is anyone here who has find a way that made them believe it worked? 'Cause I'd really like to know...

It's always so strange to grasp the fact that a person you love won't be there anymore...
She won't be able to celebrate Christmas with us like she used to, or birthdays, random parties, festivals... And at this moment there's no way to know how anyone in our group of friends will react on any of those occasions... but it will be hard for sure...
Then again, in a way I am happy that she has found peace and won't feel any pain anymore... I hope she can really rest in peace now and that, someday, we will be together again...

After my exam today I had quite a hard time, so some other friends tried to cheer me up, and even though in the beginning it didn't really work all that well, but after a while I could smile again and remembered that I have so many other friends to cherish - because at times like these you realise that even though you love people, you never let them know you do frequently enough.

So spread the love, hang out with your friends and enjoy every moment - you never know that it might be the last one...

I know this wasn't a really good post, but it said what was on my mind...

Love,
yours,
xoxo C'row <3

PS. One of the things we did today to get my mind off of things, was going to see 'The Social Network'. It was a really nice distraction, and I liked the way the story was told. It does bother me a little bit that I don't know what was real and what wasn't... Plus, I would've liked to know what happened after the last 'flashback' bit...
Anyway, good film to see when you have nothing else to do, or to get your mind off of things.
AND, it has Jesse Eisenberg, which is a BIG plus. I love seeing him act.

update much

First of all, I need to update more frequently, and I need more originality in my titles.

That said, off to the real deal.

Apparently, my health can't seem to deal with graduate school. Apart from being so tired I could sleep non-stop for 5 days (I'm not even kidding), my body has now decided to catch an infection which also keeps me in bed for over a week already.
Not only that, but it causes me to miss my last week before my first assessment period. Yay for infections.

All of this while I could've been outside taking wonderful photographs, 'cause the weather is amazing (photowise) [It kinda sucks otherwise, 'cause it makes people ill ;p]

I surely hope I will be better by Friday, because, as most of you will know, that's when the best weekend of the year starts.
I FRIGGIN LOVE HALLOWEEN! :)
Yet, due to being ill, I haven't been able to work on a proper outfit yet, and time is running out... Let's make the best out of it, I guess. At least, if I'm able to even go out this weekend, 'cause honestly, I'm sick of laying in bed all day. Luckily, I have this amazing invention called a laptop to keep me busy.

Anyway, I'm SO excited to hear about other people's plans and outfits for this year's festivities, so let me know when you read this! That way, even if I won't be able to go, I can still imagine all of you having fun in a crazy, freaky, horrific way ;p

Let me know.

Love,
yours,
forever

C'row <3

updated list of bands I've seen live^^

... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
2ManyDJs
A Brand
A Wilhelm Scream (3)
The Academy Is... (2)
AFI (2)
Agrumba (many times, since I'm the make up artist of the band for God's sake)
Aiden (3)
Aka The Junkies
Air Traffic
The All-American Rejects (2)
All Time Low (2)
American Steel
Amy Macdonald
Anouk
Aquabats
Arcade Fire
Architects
Arctic Monkeys
As I Lay Dying
The Ataris
Backfire!
Bad Religion (2)
Balthazar
Billy Talent (3)
Björk
The Black Box Revelation (3)
Black Kids
The Blackout (2)
Bleeding Through
Blood Red Shoes
The Bouncing Souls
The Breeders
Bullet For My Valentine
Caliban
Cobra Starship
Comeback Kid
Converge
Daft Punk
David Garrett
Despised Icon
Destine
dEUS
Digitalism
The Dresden Dolls
Duffy
Editors (2)
El Guapo Stuntteam
Emery
Emilie Autumn
Enter Shikari (3)
Epica (2)
Escape The Fate
Eths
Fall Out Boy
Feign (6)
Fine Fleur (2)
Fireflies
First Blood
Foreigner
Freaky Age (5)
From Autumn To Ashes
Funeral For A Friend
Gallows (2)
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Get Ready!
Gino's Eyeball
Gnarls Barkley
Gossip
Gunz 'n' Roses
H2O
HelloGoodbye
HIM
The Hives (2)
Hot Chip
Il Novecento (2)
Indica
Janez Detd.
Jay-Z
Joan as Police Woman
John Miles (2)
Juliette and the Licks
K3
Kaiser Chiefs (2)
Kapitan Korsakov
Katastroof
Kate Nash
Kill Hannah
The Killers
Killswitch Engage
De Knoesels
The Kooks
Lacuna Coil
Larsson
Lenny Kravitz
Lit
Lostprophets (2)
Mad Caddies
Marilyn Manson (2)
Mc Lars
Mercury Rev.
Meshuggah
Metallica
MeWithoutYou
MgMt (2)
Michael McDonald
Mika
Milk Inc.
Millencolin
Mindless Self Indulgence
Moby
De Mono's
Motion City Soundtrack
Muse
Mute
MxPx
My Chemical Romance
My Morning Jacket
The National
Neil Young
New Found Glory
Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator
Nightwish (3)
Nine Inch Nails
NOFX
The Ocean
Pain
Panic at the Disco
Parkway Drive (2)
Peter & Zoltan Katona
The Pipes
Placebo
Plain White T’s
Plane Vanilla
The Pointer Sisters
Prima Nocta (2)
The Purple Strangers
The Raconteurs
Radiohead
R.E.M.
Rise Against (3)
Rob De Nijs
Rufus Wainwright
Santana
Saosin
Serj Tankian
Shameboy (3)
Sigur Rós(2)
Silverstein
Simple Minds
Soulfly
Soulwax (2)
Sparta
Story of the Year (2)
Sum 41
Sweet Coffee
Taking Back Sunday
ThisCover
Thrice (2)
Thursday
Tokio Hotel
Tool
Toots Thielemans
Tulip (3)
Turbonegro
UnderCover (2)
Underoath
Underworld
The Unforgiven
The Upwelling
The Used
The Van Jets (3)
The Vandals
The Verve
The View
Walls of Jericho
The Whighs
Within Temptation(4)
You Me At Six
Zebrahead
Zohra
Zornik (3)

Soon: (unless some of them play at the same time, because most are on festivals)
3OH!3
A Day To Remember
Aerosmith
Against Me!
Alestorm
All Time Low
Amon Amarth
As I Lay Dying
Atreyu
Band of Horses
Bleeding Through
Blink 182
Blood Red Shoes
Boys Noize
Bullet For My Valentine
Cannibal Corpse
The Cribs
Dark Funeral
Eluveitie
Finntroll
The Flaming Lips
Gogol Bordello
Hot Chip
Ignite
Ill Niño
Iron Maiden
Job For A Cowboy
Jónsi
Killswitch Engage
Kiss
The Kooks
Korpiklaani
Lady Gaga
Limp Bizkit
Motörhead
Mumford & Sons
My Dying Bride
NOFX
OK Go
Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
Paradise Lost
Parkway Drive
Pendulum
Placebo
Queens of the Stone Age
Riva Starr
Serj Tankian
Soulwax
Steel Panther
Stone Temple Pilots
Tarja
Unearth
Walls of Jericho
White Lies
YouMeAtSix

10 things I liked most last... 2 weeks :p

Hello sweethearts…
I’ve been telling you a long time, but here’s the newest 10 things I liked most blog… I’ve started them again a while ago on netlog, and since I got some very nice comments on there I decided to start them here again too…
Apart from that, my life has been going rather slowly, school and everything as it should be, which is a nice change. Can you guys imagine that I haven’t stayed home from school ‘cause of exhaustion once this year? Pretty amazing, right? Well, I guess I should just get things started up again…
Soooo, here we go… With some random extracts from my pretty amazing life… :p


1. Ride with the Devil.
I’ve been looking for this film by Ang Lee for years now, so the fact that I finally own it is worth this week’s number one for me! I just love the scenery, the actors (like Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Tobey Maguire, I mean, come on), the time and of course, the story. Just the combination of the American Civil War with all the feelings the (pretty diverse, to be honest) characters get… It got to me all those years ago (Gosh, I sound so old now xD)




2. Starbuck Antwerp.
We finally got our own Starbucks in Antwerp! Knowing myself and my friends, it was about time. In the first few days it was there, I went there every day, even after school, which isn’t in Antwerp, so I guess I proved my point. I’m such a coffee addict that I’m glad spending the time and money that it needs to get some Starbucks! For those of you who didn’t discover the wonderful world of Starbucks yet, get your arse up and go find some! For those of you who did, keep up the good work! 



3. Oscar Wilde action figure.
February went by like a rollercoaster ride and before I knew it, I was yet another year older… leaving the teenage years behind and starting my twenties… Luckily, other things, like the fact that I have the most amazing friends with the craziest ideas for birthday presents, haven’t changed as much. This amazing figurine is proof! The little plastic doll of one of my all-time favourite writers comes in a box which contains more information about him, as well as some of his most famous quotes.




4. 18th century Belgian jacket.
Okay so, just how cool is it that, when you are randomly surfing the website of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for some nice historical clothing ideas, you just happen to bounce into a jacket that was actually worn in your own country? Sure, if I was born in the United States, it wouldn’t have been that big of a deal, but I mean, Belgium!!! We are like one of the smallest countries in the world, that no one usually knows off except for when it comes to waffles, beer or chocolate. I was dumbfounded and sat here with an open mouth for about 13.5 minutes. Then I decided this was definitely worth a place in my top 10 this week? And so it made place 4…




5. Edgar Allan Poe finger doll.
Of course, as if one present would be enough for the likes of my beloved Leigh… Next to the amazing action figure of Wilde, she also came up with this nearly as amazing finger doll of Poe, another writer which is pretty high on my favourites scale. Random fact about the doll: it also has a little magnet inside his head, so you can also use our beloved friend Edgar as a fridge magnet! xD




6. Trans Am.
Gah… Here I go again with another dream car… A Pontiac Firebird Trans Am is another car that I would love to have in my possession… Probably just another dream that won’t come true though...




7. Emilie Autumn and her Bloody Crumpets.
Especially the Crumpets^^ I’ve finally been to Antwerp to see EA live last week, and to say it was amazing would be an understatement. Even though the show could use some more… energy at some times, the parts where it didn’t really make up for it. I’ve never been to a show that was funnier, crazier and allover more amicable than this one. I love Emilie and I love her little Crumpets. I also love the key necklace by Veronica Varlow that I bought =).




8. THIS optical illusion.
I never really cared much about optical illusions, but with all the natural disasters that our world had to cope with lately, I thought this one was rather nice, and original. I found the photo on facebook, but no one mentioned the artist on there, so please, if you know who made this, let me know so I can credit him the way he/she deserves!.




9. Jan Praet, van rebel tot rover.
Another historical twitch to this blog (I’m in my element today, hmmmm?), but I love old legends and myths, and this book is based upon the legend of a Belgian robber named Jan Praet. This fictional work tells us the (imaginative) story of his childhood and youth, and why he became what everyone still knows him as nowadays. So yeah, that (the fact that the story interested me) and the fact that I thought the book had a nice cover photo, made me randomly buy the book. (for 2.99 euros xD)




10. Ambrose Bierce.
Another writer, and yes, from the time of the American Civil War xD. We had to read his short story An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge for English course and because we also had to look up extra info about the author it got me back into the Civil War time. Oh what a wonderful time it would’ve been for me to live in… If you temporarily forget that there was a war going on, of course…



So yeah, leave me some comments on what you think :p


Love,
yours,
forever

C'row ♥

news news news

Okay so... Because the plans I had with doing something 'new' didn't really work out because I was too tired and ill, I'm thinking about just picking up on what I did before again... would anyone mind a new series of '10 things I liked this week'??
I'm sorry for keeping people excited about the new thing while eventually it never happened... I might do it somewhere in the future, but I don't really see it happening any time soon...

Then, I want to keep you updated on bands I've seen live, so I could just copy and paste my list again, or I can tell you which ones are added to the list and post it again in a while, once there are a few more names on it.
So I deciced on the second option.
As told, I went to see All-American Rejects, with support by American Steel and The Upwelling.
Later on, I also went to The Night Of The Proms, where I saw Roxette, OMD, Sharon den Adel (of Within Temptation), Peter & Zoltan Katona (guitar-playing twins), Toots Thielemans, John Miles (again, I forgot to add him before, but I went to the Proms a few years ago too), Fine Fleur and Il Novecento.
As said when I mentioned John Miles, I forgot to add the bands I saw at my first Night of the Proms (in 2002), so I'm going to add these here too.
Il Novecento, Fine Fleur, David Garrett (playing some damn good violin songs), Simple Minds, Foreigner, The Pointer Sisters, Michael McDonald, Rob De Nijs and of course John Miles.
Maybe with all of those, I'll have a few extra bands in common with my dear friend Wesley...
Too add up to that, I'm going to see All Time Low (with unknown support up to now), Fightstar, InMe, Emilie Autumn, AFI, Pennywise, Agnostic Frost, The Bouncing Souls, Zebrahead and Dance Gavin Dance soon. So excited!
There might also be some local/unknown bands during the holidays, so we'll see about that... I'll keep you updated! :p

And then, an update about my life... apart from the gigs. (Now how's that possible, you ask? Well, just do as I do and talk about the gigs first :p)
I'm still not well, even though I am going to school again and liking it pretty much. (I do have to double my year though, since I didn't go for over half a year last year...) I've got the most amazing people in my class and we have a lot of fun together.
One of them, Sofie, whom I already knew from last year, is even coming really close to being one of my closer friends, since I tend to hang out with her a lot lately, we go to gigs together (oh here we go again) and we share a lot of opinions about stuff.
During the Holidays, my great Norwegian friend Pål is coming over, which I am very excited about... I've been missing him for way too long now :p
I love him, really.
Other holiday plans are: A lot of shopping (presents and clothing), a lot of partying (with family, but also with friends), a lot of chillaxing at home and a lot of just random moments, probably. I'd also like to go to the seaside for at least one day... maybe I could take Pål with me?

I think that's about it...
if I get too bored during my upcoming exams (Tue Dec 1 - Tue Dec 15) I'll see what the answers to my blogs question tell me and I might just start right away. Unless all of you tell me you don't want it back, of course, then I'll find something different.

I'll see you soon!

Love, yours, forever,
C'row <3

woah! even more live bands.

… And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
2ManyDJs
A.k.a. The Junkies
A Brand
A Wilhelm Scream (2)
THE ACADEMY IS… (2)
Agrumba (many times, since I'm in the band for God's sake)
AIDEN (3)
Air Traffic
The All-American Rejects
All Time Low
Amy Macdonald
Anouk
Aquabats
Arcade Fire
Architects
ARCTIC MONKEYS
As I Lay Dying
The Ataris
Backfire!
Bad Religion
Balthazar
BILLY TALENT (3)
Björk
The Black Box Revelation (3)
Black Kids
THE BLACKOUT (2)
Bleeding Through
Blood Red Shoes
The Breeders
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
COBRA STARSHIP
Comeback Kid
Converge
CPEX (2)
Daft Punk
dEUS
Digitalism
THE DRESDEN DOLLS
Duffy
Editors (2)
El Guapo Stuntteam
Emery
ENTER SHIKARI (3)
EPICA (2)
Escape The Fate
Fall Out Boy
FEIGN (6)
Fireflies
First Blood
FREAKY AGE (5)
FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES
Gallows (2)
GET CAPE. WEAR CAPE. FLY
Gino's Eyeball
Gnarls Barkley
GOSSIP
Gunz 'n' Rozes
HELLOGOODBYE
HIM
THE HIVES (2)
Hot Chip
Indica
Janez Detd.
Jasper Erkens
Jay-Z
Joan as Police Woman
Juliette and the Licks
KAISER CHIEFS (2)
Kapitan Korsakov
Katastroof
KATE NASH
KILL HANNAH
THE KILLERS
Killswitch Engage
De Knoesels
THE KOOKS
Lacuna Coil
Larsson
Lenny Kravitz
LOSTPROPHETS (2)
Mad Caddies
Marilyn Manson (2)
Mercury Rev.
Meshuggah
Metallica
MeWithoutYou
MgMt (2)
MIKA
Milk Inc.
MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE
MOBY
De Mono's
Motion City Soundtrack
Muse
MxPx
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE
My Morning Jacket
The National
Neil Young
New Found Glory
Nick Oliveri and the Mondo Generator
NIGHTWISH (3)
Nine Inch Nails
NOFX
The Ocean
PAIN
PANIC AT THE DISCO
Parkway Drive
The Pipes
PLACEBO
PLAIN WHITE T'S
Plane Vanilla
The Purple Strangers
The Raconteurs
RADIOHEAD
R.E.M.
Rise Against (3)
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
Santana
SAOSIN
Serj Tankian
Shameboy (3)
SIGUR RÓS(2)
SILVERSTEIN
Soulfly
Soulsister (3)
Soulwax (2)
Sparta
Stijn
STORY OF THE YEAR
Sweet Coffee
TAKING BACK SUNDAY
ThisCover
THRICE (2)
THURSDAY
Tokio Hotel. yay
Tool
Tulip (3)
Turbonegro
UnderCover (2)
Underoath
Underworld
The Unforgiven
THE USED
THE VAN JETS (3)
The Vandals
The Verve
The View
Walls of Jericho
The Whighs
Within Temptation(4)
X!nk (singer's a friend of mine)
You Me At Six
Zohra
Zornik (3)

Coming soon:
All-American Rejects (again, yes)