Een paar weken geleden sprak Threegirls met la gazelle Hannelore Knuts en haar vrienden Tim Vanhamel, Philip Metten en Eva De Leener. Op vraag van Hannelore, die de ELLE/april vorm gaf naar aanleiding van haar tentoonstelling UltraMegaLore in het Hasseltse Modemuseum. Het werd een fijne avond daar in Borgerhout, vol schone woorden gedrenkt in Limburgs [...]
This is the toy boy (Clooney) I have been working with during the past two years. He gave me hard times in the beginning, but soon we became best friends. Now it’s time for a new track, I’m swapping jobs (that greener grass..). But Clooney and I might meet again one day, who knows. Like [...]
Ooit gehoord van het serial-image-pop-up syndroom? Het gaat als volgt. Je leert iets nieuws kennen, of loopt al een tijdje rond met een idee, en plots duikt het overal op. Zo’n geile Lamborghini Diablo gezien in een film? Plots staan er twee geparkeerd in je straat. Een paar nieuwe woorden leren kennen? Als bij toverslag heeft iedereen het ad nauseam over geborneerde epigonen met irritante epifaniëen. Bedazzling, maar vooral, angstaanjagend. Want wat zien we allemaal over het hoofd, door niet te kennen?
Last September, threegirls travelled to Egypt. Some sweet Egyptian friends guided them around Cairo, which is a disaster of a city. Too many cars, too much hassling, and not a single (green) space to give your bottom a rest. After four days, threegirls had to sweat out Cairoan stress far far away from the smog [...]
This map may help you to travel around my portfolio. It is highly recommended to deviate from the highlighted path. You can cross borders, go back and forth, run round in circles, take pictures, or a nap, do anything you want. Except littering and peeing! Here you’ll find a bigger version. Here, you’ll find the [...]
Last week, I visited the city which once was the terminus of the infamous Orient-Express. Historically seen, Istanbul is one of the most intriguing cities in the world. Its first name was Byzantium, named after king Byzas who settled his troops “where the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn meet and flow into the Sea of [...]
Gini Rose Choupay evolved excruciatingly slowly from a strange mammalian rabbitish fish into a much stranger mammalian bird. Her genes differ from what most scientists expect to be typical of a human being. Her brain-genes, for example, seem to burden her with a lot of strange quirks [...]
De Nederlandse graecus, schrijver en poëet Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer wordt hier en daar hartgrondig gehaat, of minstens blauw beërgerd. Omwille van zijn uitdagende blik, zijn ‘kom maar op, ik ben gek op duels’, zijn vervaarlijk wapperende haren, zijn schijnbare immuniteit voor frustraties, zijn intelligentie. Hij haalt gevestigde waarden als Harry Mulisch en Rutger Kopland grinnikend [...]
- They exist already some time, and threegirls love them. Cutevil Yo-landi, her hypertalented lover Ninja (Waddy Jones, remember Max Normal) and DJ Hi-Tek of die Antwoord are South African's best white trash.
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- Pixels...
... and skaters
... extra
+ the new band of Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio). Rocks!
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- Great version of an even greater song. Killer bass!
And this one is my Talking Heads favorite ever! Born under punches! Auwch! Tribal!
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- Wolf Parade..
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- (just reading Raymond Carver's whatwetalkaboutwhenwetalkaboutlove, 'Why don't you dance' is one of the short stories)
What a gem! William Onyeabor is a funk musician from Nigeria. He studied cinematography in Russia for many years, returning to Nigeria in the mid-70s to start his own Wilfilms music label and a music and film production studio. He recorded a number of hit songs in Nigeria during the 70s, the biggest of which was “Atomic Bomb” in 1978. His songs are often heavily rhythmic and synthesized, occasionally epic in scope, with lyrics decrying war sung by both Onyeabor himself and female backing vocalists. In recent years a number of his songs have appeared on various compilations, most often his biggest hit "Better Change Your Mind", through labels such as Luaka Bop. His albums have long since gone out of print, prompting high prices from collectors on eBay.
William has now been crowned a High Chief in Enugu, where he lives today as a successful businessman working on government contracts and running his own flour mill..
(Sources: Last FM and Wikipedia)
The Dead Weather.. New Jack White Stripe project. One of the best intro's I have ever seen. And what follows is so simple but strong. He's a master.
And Charlotte Gainsbourg's fruitful encounter with Beck.. (I love Charlotte! She's cool+sweet)
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- Waw this is mind disco. Apparently 1000 galaxy clusters are travelling further and further away from us, at blistering speeds, and all heading in one single direction. A real mass migration of galaxy nations. Do you see those star families travelling, all packed, ready and raring to go? Scientists think there must be something very tempting out there. They see this so-called 'dark flow' as a sign that an other universe is calling at the other side. Another universe! As if I hadn't enough things to fret about yet! Thanks a lot telescopes.
Source: New Scientist
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- Matias! Aguayo! Rollin rollin rollerskater.
Ooooooo (Flaming Lips, I can be a frog)
Bat for lashes sublimely whispers and howls Daniel's name
A delirious version of New York by Cat Power
The Klaxons with the hypnotic Isle of Her
And to end in beauty, the new collective 'Monsters of folk' unites giants like Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), M. Ward and Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes). Very suave.
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- .. the charms of print
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- O so beautiful. This song deserves a kingdom.
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- Happy Janglin with Edward Sharpe and his Magnetic Zeros.
Nice part from 2:24 on..
And I just booked tickets for Micachu at the Brussels' Botanique. Sounds coooool.
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis are between 14 and 19 years old and they rock their billies alll the way!
Also new (album) & very beautiful. A Weltschmerz mix of shoegaze, dreampop and wave. XX is OO!
(but only for a few songs, then I long for Micachu again)
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'Onwards', by Illustrator James Jarvis and visual artists collective Shynola. Music by Canadian band Caribou. Created for the swoosh brand. # more
- that will do. Cut the commercial comedy! Your face starts looking like a perfume bottle! I even can’t tell the brands apart anymore. Your face starts looking like a mash-up of at least three kinds of perfume bottles! O my god, and a bit like a cow after delivery too!! Please Scarlett, a bottled cowface isn't worth even the biggest money. And stop imitating Tom Waits too.
Scarlett Johansonn, new face (or perfume bottled..) of Dolce & Gabbana's Rose The One
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- Audacity of huge! Simian Mobile Disco! Super traaaack!
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- Through this site, a very interesting tv-series on art came to me:
Art Safari is a BBC series presented by a characteristic - witty with a smile - BBC reporter guy (do they have a breeding room there?) called Ben Lewis, who talks with the most discussed contemporary artists and challenges their work with cheeky questions.
This very interesting one for example, deals with 'Relational art', a term invented by art critic Nicholas Bourriaud, ex-director of Palais de Tokyo. Ben Lewis goes on a search for whether relational art could be a new 'ism', the first real 'ism' of the 21st century..
You can find the art safari with Matthew Barney on Ubu Web.
And snippits of other ones on YT:
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- * Paolo Nutini
* Whitest Boy
* Ellen Allien - hope she brings Apparat
* Micachu & the shapes
* Ye vet
* Houray Fever Ray
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- Tyger is a magical short film from 2006 by Brazilian director Guilherme Marcondes. This 'cityjungle' animation is based on the William Blake poem 'The Tyger'. What I like about it, besides the visuals, the rhythm (very much like a poem) and the intentionally visible puppeteers, is that it avoids the pure romantic dystopian vision of society by making the tiger not only dangerous, but also a creator of natural beauty along the way. Humans are animals, after all.
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- A beautiful new indie game called Paper Moon, made by the Californian studio Infinite Ammo.
"Say, it's only a paper moon sailing over a cardboard sea
but it wouldn't be make-believe, if you believed in me..."
Paper Moon Blurst Trailer from Infinite Ammo on Vimeo.
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- The North-Korean leader Kim Jong-il is one of the most mysterious leaders in the world. Not much is known about his life, and what is known is often highly disputed. Yet the Guardian found some photo albums of this highly feared fluorescent leader. My favorite is the one where Kim Jong is not inspecting his nuclear warheads, but some idyllic wheatfields together with his doggy crew. O dictatorial leaders can be so funny in their dictatorialness!
This reminds me of the really really must-have dvd 'Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin', released last year by the ex-president himself (in the same series: Putin fishing bare chested, Putin killing bears and Putin saving tv-crews from giant Siberian tigers).
Source: The Guardian.
Photographs: KCNA/Corbis
And some more recent poses
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- Chill archi-french new song/band/clip..
'Live good' by Naive new beaters
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- In his famous 'Amusing Ourselves to Death', written in pre-internet times (1985), Neil Postman wrote down his fascinating fear that reality might be reflected more by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, where the public is oppressed by pleasure, than George Orwell's 1984, where the public is oppressed by pain. In the Orwellian vision of the future, totalitarian governments seize individual rights, while in Brave New World, people medicate themselves into bliss and voluntarily sacrifice their rights.
Shortly put, Postman thinks that mankind surrenders its rights in exchange for entertainment (television). He says that a particular medium can only sustain a particular level of ideas, and that television (in 1985, up to you to decide if that's still - or even more - the case today) cannot sustain any of the conditions needed for honest intellectual involvement and rational argument, since everything gets diluted on TV.
He gives a striking example: the first fifteen U.S. presidents could probably have walked down the street without being recognized by the average citizen, yet all these men would have been quickly known by their written words. The reverse is true today. The names of presidents call up visual images, typically television images, but few, if any, words come to mind. The few that do almost exclusively consist of # more
- Suzy says aloha! to Bnox Clo..
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- Interesting article series for philosophy lovers (Dutch): 'De grootste denkers van vandaag' - Vrij Nederland (04/04/09). You'll have to buy the magazine to read the full articles, which give a nice overview of the current to-the-point thinkers. # more
- No content! Just cool (willowy, flat-chested) birds! In a nice Parisian flat!
(Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lou Doillon by Annie Leibovitz)
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- Some psych tips in the spirit of - a whole new mind - Dan Pink and the queen of webproductivity Gina Trapani.
The Cult of Done Manifesto
1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing,
so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.
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- I have never known a woman who gets so little media attention in her own country, while thrilling the rest of the world. Pattie Maes is a Belgian tech expert, already living in the US for years. She is one of the leading researchers at the brilliant MIT Media lab. In Maes' world, the computer is no longer a distinct object, but a source of intelligence that’s embedded in our environment.
At her newly founded Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT, Patti Maes and her student Pranav Mistry developed a real 'Sixth Sense'. It is a wearable device which enables you to interact between the real world and the world of data, in a very intuitive way. For example when you want to know the time, just draw a watch on your wrist and you'll see the time appearing. Or in case you forgot your cell phone, just aim the device at your handpalm and you'll be able to form a number on your hand and do that call. The audience obviously went wild while watching her TED talk.
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- The new video for 'When I Grow Up' from Fever Ray (Karin Dreijer Andersson, The Knife).
Intense, ominous, and other-worldly. Or very this-world, depending on the colour of your sunglasses.
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- dEUS schopt keet koppen de kranten. Wij koppen: een paar paffende hanen in een hoenderhok vol op eieren trippelende kippen is precies wat we nodig hadden op de MIA's! Wat een conformistisch gejeremieer zeg. dEUS is helemaal niet jaloers op Milows' succes. dEUS is gewoon dieptreurig dat het zo pover is gesteld met de smaak van de gemiddelde Vlaamse muziekconsument, en nam om het zeepfeest te doorstaan dan maar de nicotine tot zich (zorgt voor mooie effecten trouwens). Met een fuck you naar Milows' 5-2 er bovenop (voetbaltaal versus voetbaltaal). Arrogant? Inderdaad, goddeloos arrogant, uiteraard. Maar je zou van minder hitsig worden als muziek het belangrijkste is in je leven. Van ons hadden ze minstens een doos puntige cd hoesjes naar zeepsmoelkoning Peter Van de Veire en mellow Milow mogen keilen. En een doos of zevendertig van hetzelfde naar de grijpgrage muziekindustrie (en er nog een paar extra extra puntige bovenop voor Tom Helsen). Dat zou pas leuk geweest zijn. Dat was pas een échte rel geweest. Volgende keer beter, dEUS.
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- Hooray for the best intoxicated sleeve
and the best a bit less happy house song
ever!
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- Na de Limburgse fruitbloesems in Katarakt, Gent als flikkenstad en Coca-Cola uit de Witse-automaat, wordt er nu ook sluikreclame gemaakt voor.. de notaris! Hmmm. Ideetje voor de banksector?
(Humo Nr 3565)
Ik zou hier wel wat over kunnen doorbomen, want eigenlijk is dit op zijn minst op het randje (zeker voor de openbare omroep). Maar daar heb ik nu even geen zin in. Want mijn auto is vannacht gestolen. Dit was mijn Toyota Starlet. Hij was erg flink. En braaf. En snel. En mooi. Maar een beetje naïef dus. Zomaar meerijden met vreemde mannen.
(laatste eerbetoon door Suzy Creamcheese)
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- Joden weer wat boos,
en wij weer eens goed gelachen.
Waarom zien ze niet in dat hun lichtgeraaktheid hen alleen maar verder van huis brengt? Bom in eigen boezem, zelf-polarisatie, zoiets. Wie of wat kan hen verlossen van die hardnekkige kramp in hun stramme benen en gebalde vuisten?
Cultuurfilosoof Lieven De Cauter verwoordde het vorige zaterdag nog eens op een rake manier (DS 31/01/2009), idem Ludo Abicht in De Morgen vandaag:
"Humor is net een goed verdedigingswapen tegen allerlei vormen van anti-judaïsme en antisemitisme, en dat weet ook het merendeel van de Joodse gemeenschap, alleen is er schijnbaar een internationale campagne 'tegen het antisemitisme' aan de gang, waarin een onverstandig amalgaam gemaakt wordt van echte uitingen van antisemitisme, die er ongetwijfeld zijn, en onschuldige, zij het niet altijd even intelligente of respectvolle grapjes die nauwelijks verschillen van de bekende flauwe Hollander- of Belgenmoppen." (DM 03/02/2009).
En tot slot, Marc Reynebeau:
"Veel van deze discussies gaan over de groeipijnen van de multiculturele samenleving. Over de organisatie daarvan is een stevig debat zeker nodig. Maar in dat rumoer sluimert een achtergrondruis, bijvoorbeeld in de kritiek op de politieke correctheid. Die zou onorthodoxe meningen over onder meer het multiculturele samenleven onderdrukken, demoniseren of zelfs criminaliseren.
Nochtans ontbreekt het niet aan outlets waarin werkelijk iedereen zijn ei kwijt kan. Behalve ranzigheid als het negationisme wordt geen enkele mening een strobreed in de weg gelegd. Misschien ligt daar net de knoop. De veelheid aan meningen is onmogelijk nog te behappen.
Ze strijden alle om aandacht en voorrang op het publieke forum. Ze willen de toon zetten, desnoods met de ellebogen, tot in Man bijt hond toe. Alle gemopper over de vrije meningsuiting bewijst dus net hoe bloeiend de vrije meningsuiting is. Laten we dat zo houden".
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- Take a look at the work of Julien Vallee, he's a Canadian living in Montreal, and the world flowing out of his fingers is wonderful.
This video was made for the project Globologos, an event curated by Canada's Sid Lee Collective. It aims to be an oasis for free-roaming ideas, a place where participants are invited to generate 'durable' creativity beyond consumerism. Artists were invited to create a video piece based on the work of Jack Languirand, a well-known Quebecois philosopher and poet. The little gem above is Julien Vallee's contribution.
Source: Computer Arts December 2008
And this is the new origami-type stop motion music video done by director/animator Sean Pecknold at Grandchildren, who has a couple of Fleet Foxes videos under his belt.
Mykonos from Grandchildren on Vimeo.
Other animated gems
(from the site:) In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview. This was in the midst of Lennon's "bed-in" phase, during which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon’s every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries traditional pen sketches by James Braithwaite with digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon’s boundless wit, and timeless message.
Source: I met the Walrus
By Monkeehub
By Ludovic Houplan & Hervé de Crécy
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- I've just been listening to Worried Noodles, a double cd (released in 2007) raked together by the quirky incarnation of quirk, artist David Shrigley. The songs are created by 39 top-drawer bands, and are based on the artist's lyrics, which are Shrigley all over. This track, for example, is just fatter than fat (music by Tussle, lyrics and voice by David Shrigley):
Here you find an in depth review by the (slightly top-down) Pitchfork guys.
And the full tracklist (which immediately gives you the 21st century canon of nifty bands)
which you can partly listen to here.
And for the sake of completeness, a short portrait of David Shrigley about his animationfilm "Who I am and What i want".
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- Snorry, no images but the sound will do. This is a brand new track from yoyow-species Common, in collaboration with Chester French, two boys from Massachusetts, being chased by Pharell, Mr West and Jermaine Dupri to catch them into their labels (they chose Pharrell's Star Trak).
Choosing your buddies, rule number one on planet music. And yes, letting yoyow-species do it with hipcat-species seems to be very fruitful. This will become a popular dancefloor killer, if you ask Suzy from the musicpolice.
More Chester French here. 'Beneath the veil' is a good song, the other ones are so so. To keep an eye on anyway.
Source: Lifelounge
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Worryingly Snowless Finland at Christmas Time, Ritta Ikonen
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- A few days ago, the coolest bard on earth, Nick Cave, handed over the prestigious but much debated Turner prize to Mark Leckey, from now on very cool too (that's still the Turner rule). Although I don't know Leckey's work at all (which appears to be not that abnormal), except for some glimpses via this video, I like him. First impression (very important since very sticky), undoubtedly. 97 percently because he looks like Brad in 'Snatch' and because of his innocent accent, I admit. Time to explore his universe a bit deeper.
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What I don't understand is that the critics moan about the fact that the Turner prize "doesn't provoke controversy and criticism anymore". First of all, the times have changed, big time. In this ultra visual culture, where anarchy is often immeditaley hijacked by marketeers, provoking (in the positive sense of the word) isn't about violence, dirty minds or screaming anymore. These days, only modest but sharp and intelligent poetry can charm people, draw their attention and make them think again. And that's exactly what the Turner prize nominees Runa Islam, Mark Leckey, Goshka Macuga and Cathy Wilkes are trying to do. The intention is alive, and I like that a lot more than the 'posh parading with anarchy' philosophy during the Young British artists - era. # more
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Stop the bullet. Kill the Gun. This is a campaign made by the agency AMV BBDO. Client is the hiphop/r&b broadcast Choice FM. These 60 minutes are a part of the 'Peace on the streets' campaign of Choice FM. The idea is very simple but because of the fantastic production unbelievably powerful. The camera used in the filming captures images at over 10,000 frames per second. It is the first time it’s been used for a British commercial.
The music in the ad is the stunning aria 'Casta Diva' from the opera 'Norma', created by the Sicilian composer Vincenzo Bellini. The version in the ad is of poor quality (probably because of copyright issues), but you should listen to a Maria Callas-interpretation. The aria was one of her favorites and Maria Callas is by no doubt the most 'famous' Norma of the postwar period. She performed the role more than 89 times (Source = Wikipedia). Skin crawling.
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- Diplo has made a cooled down remix of Brazilian Girls' new single 'Good time'. Jumpy jumpy!
Source: Lifelounge
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- Oh!bama, please win!
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- The 19 year old teen George Garratt changed his name into Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined. Cute..
Photo: South West News
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- If you like intense and eerie rock, you'll have to buy Black Mountain's wonderful In the future.
Put it very loud, in your car, driving into the night. It's wonderful.
'Wucan' - Black Mountain
Other lalala goodie (out since January 2008) 'A mouthful' by The Do (neurotic girly).
'On my shoulders' - The Do
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- If you love music, the almighty Luisterpaal of VPRO is really a must. Many new good releases are available for listening from track A till Z. Fully! During a week or so. Voila. That's it. Nothing more. to. say. # more
