Corry Brokken en de Hi-Five introduceren de BP Super Mix Song

This is a song about a new fuel: the BP Super Mix. BP introduces three 'new' types of fuel. Those fuels are mixed from the two types of 'ordinary' fuel in the sixties: Normal and Super (nowadays in Western Europe you hardly can find any Super anymore, as it was leaded fuel, Normal I haven't seen in ages).

The record itself was pressed the same way the Senton-record which I posted before: by use of the 'Procédé Sonopresse'.

Funny thing on the front-cover: in small letters it tells you that Corry Brokken only sings on PHILIPS records.

Anyway, enjoy:

Bayer Kinderaspirin

Well, this is the second 'record' I captured from an advertisement disc. It is a paper record with a plastic layer on top of it which contains the grooves. The disc may be from the fifties or sixties. Unfortunately no one added dates anywhere, so it is just a guess.
The front cover shows a boy who doesn't want to take his medicine. The promotional record tells us about the new aspirin for children with a fruity taste.
The back cover has the complete song printed out, so children could even sing along.
On the back of the record there is information on the medicine and the front shows a smiling child.

Well, listen and look for yourself:

Senton - You must go on, you can go on

Well, this is mainly for the dutchies only, as what you are about to see below is a Dutch 'song'.
It was captured from a promotional disc (as in record) to promote some anti-depressive medicine.
Organon was the manufacturer of the product Senton (I have not been able to retrieve any information on the product so far).

On the back of the cover it sais:

Het geriatrische preparaat om oud te worden zonder oud te zijn
(The geriatric preparation to become old without being old)

Well, listen to the song and enjoy :)


The so called 'flexi-disks' which were often used for those promotional records were often made by a Rotterdam based company: Sonopresse Rotterdam. They produced over 100 million of those thin, flexible records between 1961 and 1984.

Socks...

Almost everybody knows about the hassle of doing laundry. Maybe not putting it in the machine itself, not even the hanging the stuff to dry, no: the folding afterwards is the worst part.
But ok, you start doing it and then the smallest pieces remain, mostly socks.
Socks are the most difficult thing to pair. Shoes - if you would wash them - are usually quite distinct and trousers come mainly in one piece. But socks, no.
Often it is hard to tell if one black sock should be combined with thát one or thát one. But, the oddest thing about socks is that you always seem to end up with a few leftovers of which the counterparts are never to be found again. But if you throw them away, you can be sure to end up with other single socks.

The solution is: bind them together, put them in the bottom drawer and maybe after a few years, some of the single socks will end up as a pair again! The rest: throw them away!

The God Delusion

Many people already know by the title of this post what I am talking about: the book written by Richard Dawkins on the subject of the improbability of an existing god(like) figure and how useless religion is in general (in Dutch the title is 'God als misvatting').

Well, I do fully agree with what I have read so far. The regret I have is that the book might only be read by those who are already (converted) atheists.

It is not a science textbook and the views are not all unbiased, but it at least has the courage to question out loud what millions of people do not or cannot.

In times where even the Dutch government went back to a heavily Christian winged reign to possibly turn back lots of recently earned freedoms (from the past thirty years) we - as atheists or possibly agnostics (although the book has something to tell you if you are agnostic) - should show our teeth as well...

Again, a year has past...

So, most people may have noticed. I did too (that a year has past again). I had the luxury to have the most wonderful view of Amsterdam out of a penthouse situated in a renovated silo in the IJ (a big piece of water, connecting Amsterdam with the IJsselmeer, which is also quite a big lake). A pleasant place to be at that time of the year. No fuss, no 'big things' coming up. Just some friends, some drinking. You know the drill.
The thing was that i took pictures of the fireworks with my very old Chinon CP-6 analog photocamera. Well, that's an easy one to answer. a) I know how the thing works (with diaphragm, exposure time, etc. etc.) b) I know how to set those options! and c) It has a better lens than my Canon Ixus 4 an my Sony Ericsson K800i. And it's old school, I should not forget the vintage part!

What i did not remember was that there were still pictures on it. Not from like a year ago, no, more like three years ago! Snow, old housemates, drinking coffee, smashing toilet doors, stuff like that. Things you do when you are a student...

Anyway. After one of the most annoying days of the year (Christmas is the other one) I even survived 2006. Well.. what's for starters for 2007 then? A bit of doing taxes? I should have. I should have... I did not. No, I left the night of the third of January to find myself playing games on a bloody LAN-party. Yes yes.. even as a thirty year old guy I know how to make time to stop sleeping and start gaming/drinking/smoking (damn.. I hadn't smoked so much since... a VERY long time.. then you know immediately why you shouldn't do it anymore.. but, doesn't matter as I try to do this only twice a year :) )

What happens after such a week (okok, four nights or something like that) of doing 'the best for you body' Ha, well.. then you feel completely empty. Nothing is good anymore. Nothing can make you happy anymore. It is amazing what it does to you. You never want to get out of that dark dungeon where you played games.. This time the 'jet lag' took me three days of recovery... and still I feel a bit... well.. not quite under the weather.

Screensaver?

I don't know, but this is strange.. I got this as a screensaver at once on my laptop running Suse Desktop.. I don't remember installing such a screensaver.. could it be a keylogger or something? Hmmmmmm If someone knows the answer... please post a comment.

Bank

No, thanks for the offer, but this lovely bank is a bit out of my leage ;)
(the note says: "Take it if you want to!")

3FM Serious Request 2006: 30 miljoen landmijnen, daar kun je niet omheen!

De afgelopen dagen meegewerkt aan Serious Request 2006 in de eindregie wagen voor de tv/internet uitzendingen. Onze taak was als volgt: bestuur en bedien de 12 remote cams zo dat het interessante televisie blijft. Tevens dienden we aldaar de SMS balk te voorzien van verse SMS'jes die bij duizenden per uur binnenstroomden.
Vrijdagmiddag rond een uur of vijf begon men via de SMS-chat over uiensoep: "kom je nou nog uiensoep eten?" Waarbij ook iemand daar op reageerde: "Ja, ik kom zo voor de uiensoep!"
Daar reageerden anderen natuurlijk weer op met: kippensoep is lekkerder. Ik weet niet hoe veel soorten soep er langsgekomen zijn, het waren er iig. een hoop.
De grap met de soep heeft tot het einde van de uitzendingen op zondagmiddag geduurd. Tja, elk sms'je leverde iig. weer 90 cent op voor het goede doel.
(oh ja, opbrengst toch weer: 2,6 miljoen Euro! in België 2,4.. dus een HELE HOOP)

Green Screen Shoot

Today we had a shoot for a new music video. I'm pretty curious what it will look like when everything is keyed into the greenscreen.