A totally random day
I’m writing this in english. You’ll understand.
I feel totally refreshed today. Why? Because yesterday was pretty damn great. I was totally knackered, had way too little sleep and enough wine the night before… but still I decided to do some stuff I was going to do for a long time. So I did.
The weather was great. I think it was high noon.
I went to the record store to get a Buckshot Lefonque album which I heard the night before at a friend and was pretty excited about. I couldn’t find it though, so I went for the recently released Neil Young live album instead, which is fucking great by the way. It actually came with a DVD with live footage of the concert, absolutely wicked. I posted a YouTube clip from it on here a few days back in case you’re curious. Then I stopped at the market.
Some guy built this great wall of second hand books there, so I was just browsing through them for something interesting. This is where I met a very cool person. She’s a human rights student from America and we were just chatting about the books and stuff. I recommended a book by Vilayanur Ramachandran, a collection of great lectures on the inner workings of the brain which I already owned and happened to see lying around there. She happened to have read ‘Heart of Darkness’ by Joseph Conrad (and saw ‘Apocalypse Now’ the day before, AND she was planning on going to Cambodia soon), so I was curious and grabbed a novel by him (’Nostromo’) which should be good.
Then I decided to get some new strings for my crappy guitar and she went along under the premise of buying a second hand guitar. We talked some more and I think we hit it off very well, despite the fact my mind was pretty clouded. We got the strings, fumbled around in the store and went to get something to drink as I was really thirsty. So we went to the little eco bar thingie on the Steenweg, which was good, as always.
I brought along my plastic chup-a-chup camera (don’t ask) so I bought a roll of film and we spent the next fifteen minutes trying to figure out how to get it to work. With a little help from the one-hour-photo girl at the HEMA it finally worked and I managed to get a picture of her. So we were just enjoying the sun and I decided to finally buy a ticket for the trip to Prague with my class. I think it’s sometime in May or April or something, so I’m pretty stoked about that. We walked to the Drift to get it. I wasn’t paying attention to the traffic as we were chatting and I was having a hard time keeping up with the rest of the world because of my predicament, so you could say I nearly got us killed on multiple occasions. This is an exaggeration but hey, you never know.
That didn’t phase her though, so we decided to go to the Louis Hartlooper theater and see a movie. We bought tickets to ‘Notes on a Scandal’ and had a drink on the terrace. The sun was leaving us at that point, so good for us we could sit inside a warm and cosy theater. The movie was pretty fucking brilliant I have to say. Judi Dench is just awesome and Cate Blanchett is too beautiful by far. Well we both thought it was cool and it stuck to our minds. Well recommended.
By then we were extremely hungry as I just had a few bites of potato salad in the morning and she was living on a bowl of cereal, so we went to a restaurant (Goos) in the coolest alleyway of Utrecht and had a short but sweet meal. Just as we were getting all existential I decided to go home, as I was about to crack. So we walked to the Neude, exchanged phone numbers and said goodbye and I biked my way home in a haze, got there and crashed on the couch and absolutely reveled in that fact.
I woke up at half past eleven or something and immediately went to bed and slept like a baby throughout the night. And now, despite the fact that the sun is not here to greet me this morning, I feel pretty damn refreshed and I hope I’ll see her again sometime. I’m telling you, randomness is bliss.