Inside of Me

Today I had a camera crew up my ass. Which is not something happening to me every day, so today was kind of special.

Been having stomach aches for months now and since they got worse in the last few weeks I decided to pay my doctor a quinquennial visit. 

She decided to throw me a party today and send some people into me. So this morning I laid down on my side and three people entered me from behind. With cameras. And shovels. And pickaxes. They spent about an hour inside and came back with relatively good news. 

It's not a tumor, it's not cancer, but I do indeed have an infection. I will hear more about the infection in two weeks, but at the moment I'm already very much relieved it's not The Big C. That was Peter's biggest fear. Peter, the best husband in the world. Who guided me through this morning with the combination of a professional and a lover rolled into one fantastic person!

Goodnight

Today

Today I feel like buying a sweater. So here's my plan: I'm going to a mall-like environment, just across the German border and I'm going to buy a sweater with loads and loads of discount. And deer. And snowflakes. And ofcourse I'll take Peter with me.

Happy New Year!

2012 in Pictures

Here's my overview of 2012 in pictures. And a final post of the year wouldn't be complete without thanking my loyal followers, dear friends and occasional visitors for yet another beautiful year on Zephyr-Files! I'm not posting as much as I used to do, but I'm still here and will keep on blogging in 2013 as well.

Song of the Year 2012

 

It's the last day of the year and I haven't even picked my favourite song of 2012 yet! Is it the Scissor Sisters with Let's have a Kiki from their fantastic album The Magic Hour? Or will it be Will.I.Am and Britney with their anthem-like single Scream and Shout which is topping the hitlist here in The Netherlands?

 

Or am I mistaken and shouldn't I pick one based on taste? Should I look at the hard numbers and see what I played the most last year? In that case the choice will be simple. That will be Madonna's Love Spent sung live during her American part of the MDNA tour. My favourite song from the album was performed only once during her concerts in Europe and I am glad she decided to add it to the setlist halfway this tour.

Saturday Night

Hello. This is me. And my frown. On a Saturday night. The frown may be caused because I was concentrating on sitting still to make the shot as sharp as possible. Or it may have been the fact that I was pooping :)

Oi! Gpoy!

This is me. Captured with my new Hipstamatic lens and film which came with the Tintype SnapPak. Inspired by the old technique of tintype photography and using face detection it gives this very weird and classic vibe to portraits. And I hope to do some more portraits with it soon! Any volunteers?

Today. And also Tomorrow.

The Humping Pact - Zollverein

The Humping Pact is one of those concepts I really would have thought of myself. One location. A bunch of naked guys. And a lot of humping. The result is an amazing project of beautiful locations becoming even more beautiful. 

And the fact that I visited this location (Zollverein Essen) makes it even better. Everything I touched back then was humped. Several times.

Bal Masqué

As you may, or may not know, I don't do Christmas. Not making a big fuzz out of it, I just don't. But I joined Peter to his first big Christmas party at his current job and really had a great night! The theme was Bal Masqué, so we dressed up and hid our faces behind these simple silver masks. 

I finally met the coworkers I heard so much about and never saw.  And I saw them getting drunk and dance their asses off. As well as they saw me getting drunk and dance my ass off. I was glad the party was held in a hotel and we had a room there. That made my walk of shame really short.

Day Off

Day off today. Snow outside, coffee inside. I love snow, so I'm going out. But I love coffee too, so I'll stay in. If this is going to be my biggest dilemma today, it's gonna be a good day off!

First Snow - December 6th

Wham. Bam. Snow! Sinterklaas left the country last night and left a nice surprise this morning. A white blanket over our country! Sweet, I say as a guy having a day off. Fuck snow, the rest of my country says because they're all in traffic jams or in trains that stopped running.

Oh well, I'm just gonna enjoy it while it lasts. Maybe I'll curse the snow tomorrow as well when I travel to work by bike :)

Side Effects

That's right. I totally forgot about this one! The effect I hate most about quiting my bad habit is the fact that I want to go to bed at 8.30 pm. Even after a day like today, when I had the whole day off, I feel tired like I ran a complete marathon.

But no way that I'm gonna do a Goodnight post at 9 am! I won't let the quitting be my next bad influence! Let's have some speed to stay up late!

Happy Birthday, Bitch!

It's Britney, Bitch! And it's her 31st birthday today! There's only one Queen of Pop and that's M, but there are several princesses. Britney has been my favourite princess for years now, so I'll celebrate her birthday with her new video which she did with Will.i.am called Scream and Shout. Happy birthday, Bitch!

Tears on my Pillow

Tears of joy on my pillow. This pillow. I want it. I need it. I want 3 dozen of them! Gracing our couch, our bed, our car! redrum redrum and play with us. Forever and ever and ever!

Lievelingsbloem

Lievelingsbloem, or favourite flower, as the English speaking tend to say, is a Dutch campaign for flowers. A campaign that features hot guys inviting women to pick their favourite flower. But I'm a male. I love flowers. I love hot guys. So I degrade this campaign to the 1950's. When only women loved flowers and men bought flowers to the women they loved.

Coming soon to countries other than The Netherlands.

Erwin Olaf in Arnhem

The Museum for Modern Art in Arnhem is THE place to be at the moment. It houses the exhibition "Regressive" by Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf untill the end of January 2013 and if you're in the neighbourhood, it's definately worth a visit.

We went there this afternoon and enjoyed all three series that are part of this exhibition.

Berlin | 2012

The Keyhole | 2011

Dusk & Dawn | 2009

The Hottest Boy in the World

I really have no clue who this guy is, but I must confess it's the hottest boy I've posted on my Tumblr page in a long, long time. If anyone can give me a name, leave a comment. I wanna send him a big bouquet of flowers for being just him.

The Queen of Versailles

If you haven't seen this movie yet, I urge you to go and see it. In the cinema, on dvd or online. Originally the makers wanted to make a portrait of a couple living in the USA building the biggest house in the world.

But then the financial crisis hit them and that changed the whole documentary. We see a filthy rich family coping with the crisis. And that results in a portrait of people who really don't know anything about life.

This documentary also gives you an insight on my life at the moment. Yes, this happy blogger has financial misery of himself as well for the last two years. Bet you didn't know that about me!