Seen:

The Sultan’s Elephant by Royal de luxe

You’ll just have to take my word for it but you can’t believe how happy I am Antwerpen spent 800,000 Euros to have the popular spectacle The Sultan’s Elephant in the streets of my city Antwerpen, Belgium.

Films:

As far as film goes I enjoyed Brokeback Mountain, Borat, Walk the Line and especially V for Vendetta and The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.

Music:

I was enthralled by Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture which came to me via V for Vendetta. The track is about 10 minutes long, but you should head straight for the very short danceable bit (the cannons) at the very end of the song. Explosive! I started listening almost exclusively to classical music station Klara here in Belgium. Klara als features a most excellent experimental music programme: mixtuur.

More on 1812:

There is relatively little music below 50 Hz, loud bass below 30 Hz is rare, music below 16 Hz is almost non-existent, and music below 5 Hz is probably non-existent. (Incidentally, the cannons in Telarc’s recording of Pyotr Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture are said to go down to 5 Hz.)

Books:

Fear of Flying (1973) – Erica Jong
Conjugal Love (1947) – Alberto Moravia