Category: An ode to:
An ode to: N*E*R*D’s ‘In Search of…’
April 4, 2010 | posted in An ode to:, Music | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
There’s some very good and dear memories coming with this brilliant N*E*R*D album which was originally released in 2001 (the album most people own is the 2002 re-release, with different production and supported by rock-band Spymob). The memories range from spending time and hanging around with friends, listening to the album and capturing moments with songs,[...]
An ode to: Allen Ginsberg
March 28, 2010 | posted in An ode to:, Poetry | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
Surely everybody on this planet knows Allen Ginsberg (Paterson, 3 juni 1926 – New York, 6 april 1997) and at least a couple of his fabulous poems, still I wanted to share this. Ginsberg wrote the poem ‘Father Death Blues’ when he was on his way back home by plane after hearing his father passed[...]
An ode to: The Face Magazine
March 14, 2010 | posted in An ode to:, magazines | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
This photo by David LaChapelle, is my defining ‘The Face‘ moment, although there are many alternatives. It was quite a shock for many people, hearing that the magazine had to stop, May 2004, due to declining sales and reduced advertising revenues, problems all magazines currently have. For many people the magazine was something like a[...]
An ode to: Hope Sandoval
March 7, 2010 | posted in An ode to:, Music | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
An ode to Hope Sandoval… I’ve been listening to her songs for many years now, she’s in my small selection of female singers that I keep listening to over the years. Both her solo efforts (with the Warm Inventions) and the albums she did with her band Mazzy Star, have a quality and atmoshere best described[...]
An ode to: Martina Topley Bird
February 28, 2010 | posted in An ode to:, Music | by Ilja Keizer | Leave a comment
An ode to Martina Topley Bird… Wanna go back to ’95 and ’96 and re-discover the albums she did with Tricky, ‘Maxinquaye‘ and ‘Pre-Millenium Tension‘. Wanna go back to 2003, go to the record-store and buy her debut solo-album ‘Quixotic‘ again, go home and put it on repeat and trying to put the repeat on[...]