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Here's my favourite everythings, from favourite music and books to favourite pick-up lines (used by or on me - not)

Music
      Songs
      Albums
      Concerts
      Guitar solos
      Elliott's lullabies
Books
Films
'Sitcoms'
Languages
Peoples
      Little peoples
      Current girlfriends
      Redheads
      Actresses
      Actors
      Heroes 		Quotes
Music

Songs
These are my all-time favourite songs. This list will grow I'm sure, so check back to pick up some inspiration. Anyway, these songs I can listen to over and over again without even a remote chance of getting bored of them. Good good.

  1. The Verve: Bittersweet symphony (this will stay here 'till the end of time probably)
  2. Smashing Pumpkins: Hummer
  3. Tindersticks: Tiny tears
  4. Jeff Buckley: Last goodbye
  5. Sophia: Every day
  6. Tom McRae: Walking 2 Hawaï
  7. Sigur Rós: Svefn-G-Englar
  8. Gorki: Ooit was ik een soldaat
  9. Deathray: Now that I am blind
  10. Ride: Leave them all behind
  11. Mogwai: Yes! i am a long way from home
  12. dEUS: Hotellounge
  13. Jeff Buckley: What will you say?
  14. Mazzy Star: Still cold
  15. A-HA: Take on me
  16. Lou Reed: Sweet Jane
  17. Ian Brown: Corpses
  18. Palace Music: Horses
  19. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Nomadic revery (all around)
  20. Orange Black: Southern feel
  21. The La's: There she goes
  22. Tom Waits: I hope that I don't fall in love with you
  23. U2: With or without you
  24. Madonna: Borderline
  25. Cat Power: Cross bones style
  26. Tindersticks: Kathleen
  27. Stina Nordenstam: Reason to believe
  28. Neil Young: Cortez the killer
  29. The Cure: Pictures of you
  30. Foo Fighters: Down in the park
  31. Gorki: Mia
  32. Smashing Pumpkins: Soma
  33. Palace Brothers: Riding
  34. Suzanne Vega: The queen and the soldier
  35. Tom Waits: Martha
  36. Ride: Natural Grace
  37. Serge Gainsbourg: Bonnie & Clyde
  38. Novastar: Wrong
  39. U2: Ultraviolet (light my way)
  40. Gomez: Rhythm 'n blues alibi
  41. Elliott Smith: Say yes
  42. Venus in flames: Heart & bones
  43. dEUS: Serpentine
  44. Nirvana: Lithium
  45. Richard Ashcroft: (Could be) a country thing, city thing, blues thing
  46. Sophia: When you're sad
  47. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Breaking the girl
  48. This Mortal Coil: Song to the siren
  49. Mazzy Star: Into dust
  50. Chris Whitley: Big sky country
  1. Smashing Pumpkins: Mayonaise
  2. Nick Cave: Into my arms
  3. Nirvana: Smells like teen spirit
  4. The Cure: Letter to Elise
  5. Tindersticks: A night in
  6. dEUS: Suds & Soda
  7. Noordkaap: Druk in Leuven
  8. Orbital: Out there somewhere, part 1
  9. Orbital: Out there somewhere, part 2
  10. Mogwai: 2 rights make 1 wrong
  11. Tindersticks: Marbles
  12. Palace Brothers: You will miss me when I burn
  13. American Analog Set: A schoolboy's charm
  14. Sigur Rós: [Untitled] 4
  15. The Supremes: I hear a symphony
  16. Kings of Convenience: I don't know what I can save you from
  17. Radiohead: Pyramid song
  18. Ryan Adams: Amy
  19. Moby: Hymn
  20. John Lennon: Working class hero
  21. Macy Gray: I try
  22. The Verve: History
  23. Oasis: Cast no shadow
  24. Dyzack: Hanging on this bone of gold
  25. Leftfield: Melt
  26. DJ Shadow: Stem/Long stem
  27. Air: Playground love
  28. Elliott Smith: Angeles
  29. Massive Attack: Unfinished sympathy
  30. Beastie Boys: Sabotage
  31. Dinosaur Jr: Take a run at the sun
  32. Sonic Youth: Sugar kane
  33. Aphex Twin: Heliosphan
  34. Morphine - Cure for pain
  35. Jeff Buckley: Lover, you should've come over
  36. Nick Cave: Are you the one that I've been waiting for?
  37. Afghan Whigs: Mr. Superlove
  38. Manic Street Preachers: Motorcycle emptiness
  39. The Stranglers: Golden brown
  40. Neil Young: Old man
  41. Reindeer section: I've never understood
  42. Depeche Mode: Enjoy the silence
  43. Grrrr....Tffff: Martha


Albums
Not in any specific order

  1. Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese dream
  2. Jeff Buckley: Grace
  3. Tindersticks - Tindersticks (their second)
  4. Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega (her first)
  5. The Cure - Disintegration
  6. American Analog Set - Know by heart
  7. Sixteen Horsepower - Secret south
  8. Sophia - Fixed water
  9. Mogwai - Young team
  10. Nirvana - Nevermind
  11. Neil Young - Harvest
  12. Nick Drake - Five leaves left
  13. Orbital: Orbital (the yellow one)


Concerts
  1. The Prodigy: March 1995, Vorst Nationaal
  2. Mogwai: August 1996-7-or 8 (don't remember), Pukkelpop festival
  3. Sophia: December 1999, Vooruit Gent (concertzaal)
  4. Sixteen Horsepower: Somewhere 2000, Vooruit Gent (concertzaal)
  5. Pavement: August 2000, Pukkelpop festival
  6. Richard Ashcroft: Somewhere 2000, Botanique
  7. American Analog Set: December 2001, Botanique
  8. Tom McRae: July 2001, Rock Werchter festival
  9. Neil Young: beginning 2002, Flanders Expo Gent


Guitar solos
Generally speaking, I don't like guitar solos that much, except in the following cases. Have a listen in the 'zoundz' section.

  1. Smashing Pumpkins: Bury me -- from 03 min 26 sec to 04 min 13 sec
  2. Pavement (Pavement has one solo and me likes it): Infinite Spark -- from 03 min 27 sec to 04 min 50 sec
  3. Limahl (Yes, him!!!!): The Neverending Story -- from 02 min 02 sec to 02 min 16 sec
  4. Neil Young: Cortez the killer -- the whole song is one long solo




Elliott's lullabies
When elliott was still a baby we played/sang lots of songs to help him sleep. The following songs usually did the trick.
  1. AMY - Ryan Adams
  2. Real men - Tori Amos
  3. Tiny tears - Tindersticks
  4. A schoolboy's charm - American Analog Set
  5. I've never understood - Reindeer Section
  6. Svefn-G-Englar - Sigur Rós
  7. I don't know what I can save you from - Kings of Convenience
  8. Into dust - Mazzy Star
  9. Sail away - David Gray
  10. Mia - Gorki
  11. Babylon - David Gray
  12. More than you - Neeka

Books  

  1. The secret history: Donna Tartt
  2. Ontdekking van de hemel: Harry Mulisch
  3. Boy: Roald Dahl (anything by RD really)
  4. A prayer for Owen Meany: John Irving
  5. Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger


Films

  1. Lost highway
  2. The neverending story
  3. Boys don't cry
  4. The kingdom
  5. Austin Powers: International man of mystery
  6. Monty Python and the holy grail
  7. True romance
  8. La Haîne
  9. C'est arrivé près de chez vous

'Sitcoms'  

  1. Blackadder
  2. That 70ies show
  3. Bottom
  4. The young ones
  5. Het peulengaleis
  6. In de gloria

Languages

  1. English
  2. Russian
  3. The one with all the cool clicking sounds, you know, the African one

Peoples 

Little peoples
  1. Elliott (very original, I know)
  2. Isaak (my friend Vic's son) and Jaidev Mae (Niffer's daughter): shared 2nd place. I have seen Isaak but not Jaidev Mae so it wouldn't be fair to prefer one to the other. Note for Vic & Annelies: make no mistake about it, Isaak is cool.
  3. Mini-me (from the film 'Austin Powers: the spy who shagged me')
  4. All hobbits except Frodo (he's a wuss)


Current girlfriends
  1. Annelies


Redheads
In random order (this changes according to the mood I'm in)

  1. Peter Van Hende (see photo gallery)
  2. Eva Verschueren
  3. Nicole Kidman (before she dyed her hair dammitt!)
  4. My colleague Koen


Actresses
  1. Patricia Arquette (end of list)

Actors
Do you really think I have time to bother about actors?


Heroes
  1. Rudy Vandendaele (RV): writes tv reviews for Humo. What he writes, how he writes it: it's all great. Every week. I have never met him and I don't think I ever will (I don't even know how old he is or what he looks like), but he's still my literary hero.





Quotes  
Every time you open a page on this website, there's a different quote in the bottom of the screen. Here's where they come from.

  1. I ain't scared of lightning
    Come on do your worst    : Tom McRae - I ain't scared of lightning
  2. The Big Times they're talking about
    well now I know
    they have not yet begun    : Admiral Freebee - Rags 'n Run
  3. turn the bow into the wave boys
    I feel a storm comin' in    : Tom Mc Rae - Walking 2 Hawaï
  4. falling feels like flying
    until you hit the ground    : Tom Mc Rae - Walking 2 Hawaï
  5. move along now
    nothing to see here    : South Park
  6. soon enough
    soon enough this will all be a memory    : Tom Mc Rae - Human Remains
  7. I know, the sun's about to come up.
    I close my eyes anyway    : Bonnie Prince Billy - At break of day
  8. she was cute in a trippy sort of way
    the kind of girl that smiles and nods all day    : Bill Janovitz - Atlantic
  9. frozen prayer upon my lips
    inside the blood runs hot    : Woven Hand - Blue pail fever
  10. everybody needs an angel
    but here's that devil by my side    : Palace Brothers - Horses
  11. the perfect girl, the perfect place
    to watch the world go down in flames    : Tom McRae - Walking 2 Hawaï
  12. it's plain to see the sun don't shine today
    but I ain't in the mood for sunshine anyway    : Tindersticks - Kathleen
  13. 'cause you have seen some unbelievable things: Cat Power - Cross Bones Style
  14. like the stars that fill the midnight sky
    her memory fills my mind    : A Camp - The bluest eyes in Texas
  15. you are always on my mind
    (x 10) (x 10)    : Palace Brothers - New partner
  16. nights they were so exciting
    couldn't sleep or dream or even think straight    : Orange Black - Southern feel
  17. driving too slow so I keep on yelling
    faster, faster, Dad!    : Orange Black - Southern feel
  18. there she goes
    there she goes again (x 150)    : The La's - There she goes again
  19. berihtje on al de rappers van hiel belhië:
    hoe heprobeerd!    : 't Hof van kommerce - zeh ne kie oe loat es't?
  20. oh yeah she was taking me over
    and oh yeah it was the start of the summer!    : Ash - Oh yeah
  21. I've never been too good with names
    but I remember faces    : Lemonheads - Shame about Ray
  22. the last days at school they were so boring
    all that I could think of was summer break    : : Orange Black - Southern feel
  23. everything was in place
    everything seemed alright    : Bruce Springsteen - Missing
  24. you called me up, just to surprise me
    to hear my voice, see what I'd say    : Bonnie Prince Billy - At break of day
  25. meet me out for coffee,
    where we'll talk about it all    : Tom Waits - Martha
  26. all around the left buttock whoohoo
    and all around the right whoohoo!    : Bonnie Prince Billy - Nomadic Revery
  27. I'm not a vegetable, I will not control myself,
    I will spit on the hand that feeds me, I will not control myself    : Radiohead - Vegetable
  28. I propose a toast
    to my self-control    : Morphine - Cure for pain
  29. you have my number
    you have my name    : Chris Whitley - Big sky country
  30. I've been to Nebraska
    it reminded me of Spain    : 16 Horsepower - Strawfoot
  31. broken down and hungry for your love
    with no way to feed it    : Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should've come over
  32. it's never over
    all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter    : Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should've come over
  33. watching the days go by
    isn't half the fun it used to be    : Tindersticks - Sweet memory
  34. can't stand it
    I know you planned it    : Beastie Boys - Sabotage
  35. I've been lying in bed
    for a week now    : Tindersticks - Tiny Tears
  36. you don't have to do anything that's new
    but seeing you try to wins me back    : Embrace - Now you're nobody
  37. you can have it all
    my empire of dirt    : Johnny Cash - Hurt
  38. you take me from this madness
    the awe-inspiring sadness    : Richard Ashcroft - Country thing
  39. I spend the night looking for my insides
    in a hotel room, waiting for you    : Richard Ashcroft - A song for the lovers
  40. all you good good people
    listen to me    : Embrace - All you good good people
  41. so future boy, where are you from
    my time machine crashed over yonder    : Turin Brakes - Future Boy

































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