{"id":65,"date":"2005-11-09T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T10:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2005\/11\/09\/twenty-things\/"},"modified":"2005-11-09T15:00:34","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T13:00:34","slug":"twenty-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/2005\/11\/09\/twenty-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s meme time! Lindsay<\/a> has tagged me<\/a> so without further ado, I give you: twenty things about myself.<\/p>\n

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  1. I love coffee and cigarettes entirely too much.<\/li>\n
  2. I tend to dislike anything sweet — no waffles, cake, chocolate, pastry or candybars for me please. Give me spicy!<\/li>\n
  3. For most of my college days I lived on a steady diet of fries, frikandels<\/a> and more fries. My mom used to pack me some readymade frozen food which would then sit in the fridge until there was no more space — at which point I would defrost some of the food and throw it in the garbage. Cruel, I know.<\/li>\n
  4. I am a lousy cook.<\/li>\n
  5. I am a fan of Frank Zappa whom I humbly consider the greatest composer of the last century. My other site, Kill Ugly Radio<\/a>, is a tribute to the genius of his music and razorsharp wit.<\/li>\n
  6. The first album I ever bought was David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance”. Child of the eighties, oh yes.<\/li>\n
  7. I love cats.<\/li>\n
  8. I think rap music sucks. So do all the Beyonce’s, Shakira’s and Britney’s of this world.<\/li>\n
  9. I’ve played in a band (called moonbug) whose bassplayer is the brother of a very successful and talented musician by the name of Ozark Henry<\/a>. Whenever I mention this fact, Gabriela starts to giggle.<\/li>\n
  10. I had rather severe hearing problems as a kid. After I had finally undergone surgery, it was as if the gates of heaven had opened. I guess that’s why I love music so much.<\/li>\n
  11. I speak fluent English, Dutch, French, a dash of German and a smidge of Spanish. Gabriela tells me that, curiously, my voice lowers by almost an octave when I switch from English to Dutch.<\/li>\n
  12. I started playing guitar at the ripe old age of 18.<\/li>\n
  13. I own 7 guitars: 2 regular accoustic, one 12-string, one Gibson SG, one Fender Stratocaster, one Ibanez and one very cheap guitar I keep for sentimental reasons. That’s not counting the banjo.<\/li>\n
  14. While in art college (’89\/’94) I hated computers. I could not fathom how anything creative could be done on a machine<\/em> and swore I would stick to pencils, pen and ink. Now I spend 10 hours a day working on a Mac. Hah!<\/li>\n
  15. I am an Apple nut. Whenever I’m forced to switch to a Windows machine, it makes my eyes bleed and my brain hurt.<\/li>\n
  16. My favorite brand of beer is Grimbergen<\/a>. That might seem trivial to you but to us Belgians, beer is a religion.<\/li>\n
  17. I am terrible at reading maps and following directions. When we recently went to pick up some friends in Lille and drove them back later, I somehow managed to take a different itinerary every single time. Gabriela thinks this is very funny. I think of it as creative driving.<\/li>\n
  18. I find writing down 20 things about myself increasingly difficult.<\/li>\n
  19. I have never traveled outside of Europe but that will soon change<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  20. I am a libra! You didn’t see that one coming, did you!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Since you’re supposed to spread this meme, and since I know he just loves<\/em> these kinds of assignments, I am hereby tagging Juan<\/a>. (Sorry man!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s meme time! Lindsay has tagged me so without further ado, I give you: twenty things about myself. I love coffee and cigarettes entirely too much. I tend to dislike anything sweet — no waffles, cake, chocolate, pastry or candybars for me please. Give me spicy! For most of my college days I lived on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moonbug.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}