#utrecht station

[hartkloppingen-ov]

Zondagavond, 11 juni. Je speelde op de toetsen van Utrecht Centraal. Ik was dichtbij gaan zitten, ik wilde iemand daar horen. Je had een hoed op en ik ook. Ze leken op elkaar. Het derde stuk dat je speelde vond ik prachtig en ik wist al dat als je op tijd klaar zou zijn, voor vertrek van mijn trein, ik je zou vragen hoe het heette.

Een eindklank in D-mineur, ik keek je aan en gaf een verlegen maar gemeend applausje. Met mijn tassen liep ik naar je toe en je vroeg me mijn nummer op te schrijven zodat je me het stuk, en de informatie over de Russische spionage-film, kon toesturen. Ik reageerde uit reflex en weigerde, vroeg je alleen de titel. Ik liep naar het perron dat het verst weg zat, nadat je zei dat ik gauw naar mijn trein kon gaan.

Meteen spijt. Een keuze waarop ik niet meer terug wilde komen, maar dat nu toch doe. Kon ik maar die tien cijfers maar in dat kleine boekje van je etsen. Een piano-tutorial op YouTube komt krakerig uit mijn laptop in een donkere woonkamer, het raam staat open.

Ik laat je graag binnenkort mijn interpretatie horen. Misschien kunnen we zelfs in een (piano)café afspreken.

@hartkloppingen-ov

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[sensemami]

[huariqueje]

Utrecht Station - Wim Bettenhausen , 2007.

Dutch , b. 1942 -

Acrylic on panel , 50 x 60 cm.

[boschintegral-photo]

Utrecht Centraal Utrecht, Netherlands

[hartenlust]

voor als je niet alle stations uit je hoofd kent:

haarlem

den haag hollands spoor

groningen

amsterdam centraal

maastricht

rotterdam centraal

deventer

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

Wat de NOS zegt over de geplande uitbreiding van de NS dienstregeling: “Daarnaast gaat de frequentie van de meeste Sprinterritten omhoog.”

Wat ze bedoelen: “De frequentie van de Sprinterritten in de randstad gaat omhoog.”

Ik bedoel. Kijk naar het plaatje:

[annnnperkins]

what you don’t see is that i was completely soaked and freezing in the cold

[paulpingminho]

[onedayaftertheother]

November 30, 2023

[vogelmeister]

i should take note of what places in the netherlands are mentioned in goud bc that would be interesting

[mickkspics]

[hotelbooking]

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[probablyasocialecologist]

Analysis of data gathered using cutting-edge methodology – including detailed satellite images and measurements from more than 1,400 ground monitoring stations – reveals a dire picture of dirty air, with 98% of people living in areas with highly damaging fine particulate pollution that exceed World Health Organization guidelines. Almost two-thirds live in areas where air quality is more than double the WHO’s guidelines.

[...]

“This is a severe public health crisis,” said Roel Vermeulen, a professor of environmental epidemiology at Utrecht University who led the team of researchers across the continent that compiled the data. “What we see quite clearly is that nearly everyone in Europe is breathing unhealthy air.”

[boschintegral-photo]

Utrecht Centraal Utrecht, Netherlands

[izpira-se-zlato]

JO Paris, 22.03.24

Gig report! Compiled this morning in the car to Antwerp with help form @zadig-fate and @yoda-bor 💛 I recorded everything except Katrina (bc my camera app crashed in the middle), so I'll upload this once I'm at a place with stable wifi again :D

all my buses were delayed so I power walked to the train station. Then that train was delayed so I almost missed my Eurostar. Then my Eurostar was also delayed. "That's what I call a Deutsche Bahn special, actually." – Kris ("when your first train is late but then it's okay because the second train is also delayed")

so many people I knew in the queue. From Helsinki. From London last year. From Utrecht. 😊💛

when I grabbed my number, Jan and Nace returned to the venue (and they were so pretty in daylight and in person)

Nace said hi as they walked past 😊

their postures??? Nace has definitely worked on his posture, meanwhile Jan appears so slim and small. It's wild.

Jan and Jure returned to the venue together, looking… Pissed is too harsh a word, but frowning? So we first kinda thought they were actually pissed off. But then Nace showed up a minute later, his usual sunny self, and was immediately accosted by fans. So. I assume it was less "pissed off" and more "do not approach" (and it worked)

soundcheck was Gola and Vem da greš, which we could hear every time they opened the doors (this was my last general access gig. It's EA from here on out, baby!)

Kris and I had decided to go on the balcony and got spots right next to the sound booth, where we were joined by @thisismyobsessionnow 🫶

it was warm but the sound was really good (duh)

also we had nice cushy seats like the old people we are 😂

first opener was a duo of brothers made up of discount Jure and Käärijä if he was French. Discount!Jure had a nice chest (Jure at home)

their music was eh, the lyrics cringe

Kris says they spoke french but I spent most of their set on tumblr/discord so I wasn't listening, but it was a Choice since pretty much none from the EA crowd spoke French

speaking of EA, there were allegedly 60 EA tickets though I saw numbers up to 62 (500 people venue)

JC Stewart was fun

he was told he looked French prime minister. He got confused by president vs prime minister but he also got kinda flustered. He was shown a pic and was "oh yeah, I see it"

we got Katrina opener

Nace. Jfc.

the venue was super hot so I tried to appreciate the fit while he had it on in full – white buttoned shirt with a sweater vest over it and a proper tie and glasses, going for the full teacher look except hot???

I still spent a good chunk of the gig looking at Jure though. The elevated balcony spot gave ussuch a nice view of him

Bojan was smiley and sounded way less congested than in Utrecht (maybe he's on the mend?)

Kris on the other hand was sipping tea on stage. In particular very sassily during Demoni

Kris had guitar problems at the beginning of Šta bih ja and went to Kiki to get it fixed but Bojan didn't see and so was actually worried for a moment that Kris had gotten sick off-stage. Kris was adorable in reassuring him that he was fine

they were all so mobile again

og demoni scream. In the middle. Might have been Bojan letting out his anxiety over Kris having disappeared from stage

"Kris, honey" and then that moment. What in the BoKris was that. I just turned to Kris and said that out loud bc what the fuck

There was a sizeable crowd of Slovenians in the audience and Bojan was delighted

fairly even split in the crowd for French vs foreigners, though the French were louder in yelling

the most hilarious to me moment: Bojan did his spiel about "who here experiences panic attacks?" And the crowd cheered, and he was like "yay! Panic attacks! It's me!" And Kris next to me went "I'm the problem, it's me," and literally on the last syllable, Bojan started saying the exact same thing. One brain cell. Or maybe he has the stream on his in-ears

Barve oceana 🫶🫶💛💛

according to Astrid, I looked ridiculously happy (I was ridiculously happy)

best galaxy of me version tonight. I still don't like it though 😂 it's gonna be my metulji 😂

Bojan went into the crowd for Umazane misli

it's so fun to watch from above

Vita was his trusty shadow and also a beacon of light to spot Bojan with

this time I don't think they forgot her in the crowd

Bojan made the balcony sing while he was still in the crowd. But it was mostly just Kris, Madeleine, and me, at least on the bleachers/seated part. We still gave our best 😂

Carpe Diem was not part of their "encore" but came before

no Tokio :( might be the first show without it?

fucking Novi val

the way Jure jumped up and sprinted to trade a drumstick for a baguette, it was so hilarious

he was so happy, and he first made fun of Nace for being unable to eat it

he shared it with Jan

Jan got chocolate and they put it into the baguette and then shared it.

Jure let everyone else also take a bite, including Bojan who was ostensibly singing

Nace bottle feeding Kris. What the fuck. Can someone make sure they still don't know about AO3?

no Umazane shenanigans even though Jan and Nace had talked right before it so I'd been hopeful

so many um versions in other langauges. It wasn't the longest rendition, but we also

when Bojan said we'd get the original Slovene version, I thought it would be the one he made up on the spot when they went on stage to play it all the way back? When they were babies. So it was a small disappointment when it was just the regular Slovene version 😂

Bojan asked the Slovenians if they were able to tell that they weren't playing at home and they said no and Bojan was so so delighted

he's also given the mic to people in the audience outside of Umazane misli (ne bi smel and plastika, I want to say)

he sang galaxy of me with a guy from the front row (Josh?)

not a lot of Jance, possibly because they were looking after Kris?

still a lot of eye contact

or maybe it was the fact that they apparently were out in Paris together in the afternoon 😏

my phone was so hot by the end (and I have 4gb left of memory)

after the gig I couldn't find my hat so I was worried I'd left it, so I went back in. Which was how I got JC and Vita to sign my gig memory book

I had forgotten about wanting to grab Vita's signature so if Astrid hadn't reminded me, I would have missed out

the boys got JC Stewart sick, he said his voice was going

It was raining so the boys ran out of the venue towards a van while we cheered. Bojan took a group selfie

Jan and Jure left first with the crew in that van so we assume that the others took a second car

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

The YouTube video I’m watching: You can travel by train from Paris to Amsterdam in 3 hours for only 30 dollars

Me: if only you could travel from anywhere within the Netherlands to Amsterdam within 3 hours for only 30 dollars though