Aljo-Log

Archive for January, 2009

These are the most popular songs of 2008, as voted by the listeners of Australian radio station TripleJ.

#1 – Kings of Leon – Sex on Fire
#2 – MGMT – Electric Feel
#3 – Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
#4 – Empire of the Sun – Walking On A Dream
#5 – MGMT – Kids
#6 – The Presets – Talk Like That
#7 – Pez – The Festival Song(feat. 360 and Hailey Cramer)
#8 – The Presets – This Boy’s In Love
#9 – The Ting Tings – That’s Not My Name
#10 – Drapht – Jimmy Recard
#11 – Ladyhawke – My Delirium
#12 – Pnau – Embrace
#13 – The Herd – The King Is Dead
#14 – The Rapture – No Sex For Ben
#15 – Cut Copy – Lights and Music
#16 – Ben Folds – You Don’t Know Me (feat. Regina Spektor)
#17 – Dizzee Rascal – Dance Wiv Me (feat. Calvin Harris and Chrome)
#18 – MGMT – Time To Pretend
#19 – Flight Of The Conchords – Business Time
#20 – Birds Of Tokyo – Broken Bones
#21 – Bon Iver – Skinny Love
#22 – Birds Of Tokyo – Silhouettic
#23 – The Living End – White Noise
#24 – Kings of Leon – Closer
#25 – Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat
#26 – Ladyhawke – Paris Is Burning
#27 – Josh Pyke – The Lighthouse Song
#28 – Architecture In Helsinki – That Beep
#29 – Josh Pyke – Make You Happy
#30 – Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma
#31 – Cog – Bird Of Feather
#32 – Vampire Weekend – A-Punk
#33 – The Kooks – Always Where I Need To Be
#34 – The Grates – Burn Bridges
#35 – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
#36 – Death Cab For Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart
#37 – British India – I Said I’m Sorry
#38 – Cold War Kids – Something Is Not Right With Me
#39 – Ida Maria – I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked
#40 – Bliss N Eso – Eye Of The Storm

Today is the National Holiday of Australia, a day the Aboriginals call ‘invasion day’. The Australian of the Year is an Aboriginal professor who proposed to pick another day of the year as Australia Day. I read in The Australian that pop singer Leo Sayer became an Australian citizen today. If it were up to me, I would also want to become an Australian national. The Dutch are still sour over me caring so much for the U.S. Military, they want me to be a Dutch military veteran, this is why they gave me a pacemaker. I got an email from the Commander (1984-1987) of the American Forces Network Europe, we are really good friends because we share a similar passion for American military radio. But now I am going to have to take anti fear medication, because there are people who can remotely control my heart rhythm and that the Dutch simply refuse to address the truth about my situation so they only keep prescribing me medication. The Dutch did all they could over the past 25 years to make me an outcast in Dutch society. If I would feel at home in Australia, and if Australia wants me, then why would I let the Dutch ruin my life? So what the Dutch did was, they poisoned my eyes just before I would travel to Australia in 1997 and that while in Australia I suffered permanent eye damage, because of intense Australian sunlight. The sunlight in The Netherlands is much easier on the eyes. I find this a cowardly act! Three years ago I corresponded with an Australian woman, today I saw a video on the website of The Australian about a singer who had won the award for Best Female Australian Country Singer of the Year. This singer looked just like the woman I had written three years ago. Both my friend and this singer are similarly attractive blonds! 

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This is a lyric by Dutch band The Golden Earring. It makes me think of how I fell in love with an American military radio presenter, of whom I didn’t even knew what she looked like. But that of course the Dutch didn’t approve of me committing to this American woman. This song is about a blond woman who is bad. When I was 16 years old I was in love with a brunette. She got another boyfriend, and this guy knew she liked me better. The Dutch government must have taught me to love blond women, only because I would never have been given the opportunity to be with a Dutch blond. I did fall in love with American military women who weren’t blond. Maybe my love for blondes has to do with my love for American females. About this song, this is a well made song, but that I don’t like the Golden Earring because they are from a country I have no interest in. 

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…..yeah, I got a woman mean as she can be,
sometimes I think she’s almost mean as me…
Long Blond Animal…..

Get out of my parlour, won’t you
Get out of my life
Put on that crazy raincoat
You’re gonna need it tonight
Get out of my parlour
For I cut you with a knife
Don’t want your disease
Don’t need that silly jive

I was an innocent by-stander
I was middle of the roadman for you
Then you took me for a ride, now baby
Showed me all the things you could do
I always listened to the good looking lady
A mistake I won’t make no more
‘Cause you might be a good looking lady
You’re rotten to the core

I’ve been under your influence
Under your spell too long
Now people keep me at a distance
Everything I do is wrong
My brain’s disintegrating
Devils singing my song
This cannot continue
This cannot go on

I was an innocent by-stander
I was middle of the roadman for you
Then you took me for a ride, now baby
Showed me all the things you could do
I always listened to the good looking lady
A mistake I won’t make no more
‘Cause you might be a good looking lady
But you’re rotten to the core
You’re nothing but a long blond animal

ah, ah, ah ,ah ,ah.

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Many years ago I used to listen to ACC every Saturday on the American Forces Network, but AFN is off the air here since 1994. I love country music, but that Dutch radio doesn’t play any country. So last week I decided to find out if I could listen to ACC via the Internet, and yes, this is possible! Right now I am listening to Kix Brooks presenting American Country Countdown. This is sooo good! To me the artists are at least as important as the songs they sing. That I enjoy a song because of who is performing it.

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I wish I were free to think, remember and anticipate, because I lack these freedoms. And that I cannot understand why everybody keeps on saying this is a mental condition, while illness has got nothing to do with this! Freedom of Thought is Human Right Number 18. Who, how and why would deny me my freedom of thought? That over the past year someone else has been making my decisions (with my brain) every day and that this person won’t set me free to live my own life. I am really angry about this. What do I feel like? Where do I think I would feel at home? What would I want from my life? I know that I won’t answer ‘to be Dutch in The Netherlands’ to any of these questions. I think this is because I hold the Dutch government responsible for my messed up situation, that these people might have done this to me on purpose, even though I cannot prove this (yet). There is this music video by a band called ‘Alpha Beat’ and that this video is clearly showing how males who are on my side will lose their hair if they aren’t careful and that males who are on the side of the Dutch won’t risk losing their hair. This is so mean. I am sure this has to do with the fact that the Dutch government wanted to punish guys like me who were so much into the US Air Force. The government must have made sure that I would be socially isolated. So then I realized that I liked English language radio better than Dutch radio. The other day Harry Potter was on German TV so I viewed it for a few minutes. Harry Potter is a guy who also was in love with my high school sweetheart. Both this guy and this girl did year 11 twice, together in the same class, while I was always being kept at a distance. Harry Potter isn’t a hero at all. Uk TV celebrity Simon Potter is nice, and last time I saw him on TV was in (about) 1989! The Dutch were so full of envy that they completely destroyed all aspects about me that might be of beauty or of value, and that these people still think I would want to go and study at the Delft technical university. I studied so hard in the 1980s and it got me nowhere, so studying is fine with me as long as it is part of my job to learn all aspects about some product which is part of such a company’s activities. Please understand between 1992 and 2005 my mind was off limits for useful thinking, that only in 2006 I was able again to do a little programming on my PC. This lasted for a few years, until about one month ago when my brain was locked off again. So I cannot read about programming or try anything technical with my mind or computer. This is no illness! This is deliberately being denied to me by people who can. And I have had enough of this. Even though this must serve some purpose, and that I will get paid for it. Money cannot buy back 20 years of my life. There was no need for me to go bald, there were women who deliberately were handed the ability to take my hair and they did. Try explaining this to a shrink… “I know this woman caused this bald spot and that woman caused that bald spot.” This shrink didn’t buy my story. Probably because she couldn’t deal with the truth. I am sure that should my mind and body be in working order that I wouldn’t have a problem finding a job. But that I will never get my good looks back. I cannot let these people get away with this. This is my pride.

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On a day like this you tend to evaluate your situation. And that Dutch stand up comedian Youp van ‘t Hek on New Years Eve mentioned that Alzheimer can affect young people too. As for me I could suffer from Alzheimer with my bad memory, I cannot remember what I did 5 minutes ago. The Netherlands really no longer is my home, but the Dutch are holding me captive. This old cartoon from The Australian still makes me laugh, there is a lot to learn about foreign countries. To have ties with a country you will need to know a lot about such a country. And there are hundreds of countries world wide. So all these countries need to be studied and understood! I would want to live in Australia and I know a few things about Australia even though I wouldn’t know the answer to the question in this cartoon. Australia is fun. And that I feel the Dutch government is denying me a future, which is really bad. They know they are depriving me of a life in freedom and still they are doing it.

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