Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Rock cemeteryHet lijstje blijft groeien... na Cash, Zevon, Palmer, is nu ook Elliot Smith richting Eeuwige Repetitiekoten getrokken... op eigen initiatief dan nog, en hij heeft het blijkbaar op nogal spektakulaire - harakiri - wijze aangepakt. Ik heb Smith ooit bezig gezien op Les Nuits Botaniques in Brussel, waar hij een zeer te pruimen optreden neerzette - mooie stem en een aantal pakkende, zij het konventionele songs.
El Hombre 5:28 PM
AC Milan - Club Brugge: 0-1!Incredibile! After Anderlecht's victory yesterday ('tegen een klein Schots ploegske', according to some), Brugge kicked AC Milan's butt today - btw, Milan won the League last year...
El Hombre 5:03 PM
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
RSCA-Celtic Glasgow: 1-0!A few days ago I was talking about the Champions's League games of Anderlecht; they just managed to win one! Not quite as glamorous yet as the legendary victory against Manchester United three years ago, but not bad either (given that they were 10 to 11 after half an hour)...
El Hombre 5:31 PM
Soquel Demonstration Forest
Here's a picture I took of Markus jumping from one of the many stunts in the Soquel Demonstration Forest.
The Demo Forest ("many have entered it, few have left unscathed") offers some of most inspiring and fun singletrack of the Bay Area and is a well-known mountain bike playground. It also contains some of the most technical, steep and challenging stuff; take for instance the Saw Pit trail - I'm not sure whether I ever finished it without crashing (usually a rather innocent low speed scramble in front of some obstacle, but still...). And then there are the numerous log jumps and stunts that people build - highly entertaining. This sunday we (i.e. the Mountain Schweinehunde) went down the Tractor trail, which is a (very) high speed rollercoaster - we did carry some protective gear, which actually works wonderfully for the psyche: one doesn't think about stitches or the hospital all the time...
El Hombre 1:25 PM