Love to love him

Today my boyfriend and I are together for 46 months. 

Simon

This night the Dutch movie Simon was on the television. I have saw it before and it really intrigued me back than but now it did even more with me.


Short synopsis:
Simon is about the very special friendship between the straight weed dealing Simon and the gay dental student Camiel. During there vacation in Thailand the friendship gets in heavy weather, what leads into the two friends losing contact. When the guys accidentally run into see each other after 14 years, Simon appears to be very ill..


Long synopsis:
In 1988 Camiel got hit by Simon's car. Simon is a big sturdy guy with a very small heart. So Simon brings Camiel to the ER and the special friendship is born. This is because Simon is one big piece of hospitality and thinks Camiel is a funny guy. But mostly because of Camiel, who is fascinated by the sturdy life of Simon. Simon does so many things Camiel doesn't dare doing. Simon has a female (girl)friend Sharon, who is a famous kickboxer and another good friend of Simon is Marco who's full of tattoos and if possible even wilder than Simon.


Treated by Simon goes to Thailand with Simon and the gang. First he's a guest there at the filmset of an American/Vietnam-movie where Simon is a stunt coordinator. After that Simon and Camiel meet up with the rest of the gang on another island. At that island their friendship gets tested and they end up losing contact after the trip.


14 years later Camiel and Simon accidentally run into each other. Simon is very ill, he got cancer. But he's acting really airy about the whole thing just as that he doesn't hang much weight onto their losing contact all those years ago. Camiel who's living together with broker Bram, again get's kind of intrigued with Simon. He starts a good relationship with Simon's 20 year old daughter Joy and her 15 year old brother Nelson.


Camiel and Simon get really close again and they share the difficulties of the cancer taking over Simon's body. The strength and humor of Simon through this hard time of life, will leave a indelible impression on Camiel.


This movie has left me with so many appreciation for the people that have this kind of strength and power to enjoy life to the fullest until the end of their life's. Amazing and a real example!


To get to know more about this movie visit it's website here.

Kat von D - The Tattoo Chronicles

I ordered the new book of Kat von D a couple weeks ago and I just finished reading it. It's her diary of a year and it was such a nice book to read. I like diaries, so this one was a good adding to my list. She's so honest and open in this book and I could relate to a lot of things she describes. And off course the stories behind the tattoo's are inspiring and mind opening. I really like the different kind of reasons there are behind these tattoo's. I will here place some information about the book I found on the internet for you to get a more complete idea of the book.


About the book:
Kat Von D's followup to her New York Times bestseller High Voltage Tattoo offers an intimate look at a pivotal year in her personal and professional life through an illustrated diary that begins in spring 2008 and ends in summer 2009. When Kat does a tattoo, she writes about it and draws sketches in a journal, creating an entry for each piece. She has hundreds of ledgers of these entries in her own writing which reflect not only upon the significance of the tattoo for the person who is receiving it (their story), but also how the experience of creating this tattoo affects her personally. In these entries - some poignant, some hilarious, some serious - she lays it on the line about how doing these tattoos affects her life and her art. Here are the highs and the lows, the good, bad, and the ugly - including her feelings about her fame, her family, her boyfriend (Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue), her friends, and fans. Visually stunning, this graphically compelling diary is jam-packed with tons of Kat's sketches, candid photographs, images of a variety of amazing finished tattoos and her many unusual personal collections - all shot by Kat herself. Fans will love the array of clients featured here, including Metallica's Kirk Hammett, guitarist Dave Navarro, and Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, as much as they will love seeing new photographs of Kat that were taken specifically for the book. Here's the real Kat Von D - unscripted and uncensored - and her fans are going to go wild for it.

12/07/05

Lovely pictures, love the vibe. I like the feeling of being alone at the beach.

Relax glam life

Black Love

Lately I'm very into the color black. Always had a thing with black. The sealing in my room is black, something that people find weird and thinks make your room dark. But that's completely untrue!!
Besides that I already collected a whole dinner set in black, so in love with it.
And offcourse a big part of my clothes are black.


But lately black took another way in my life, it's the color of this part of my life. And I don't mean that in a very depressed way or something. It's just the color of life right now. And off course it has to do with the fact life is not at it best for me now. Got diagnosed with Rheumatic Arthritis today, so I would be lying by saying life is extremely fun. 


But what I wanted to say is that Black don't always have to be a depressed, angry, sad thing. It never has been in my life and I think it never will be. Black is just a part of me.

Mijn leven in de hel, English title: Slave Girl

I read this book a few weeks ago, but it's still in my mind, the story is still fresh. 
It's about a english girl that comes to Holland, and get's stuck in the red light district in Amsterdam.
Here what's on the backside of the book (only for the Dutchies sorry, I will look something up in english for my in international followers)


Mijn leven in de hel - Sarah Forsyth
De negentienjarige Sarah Forsyth werkt op een creche in een Engels provinciestandje. Op een dag ziet ze een advertentie: LEIDSTERS GEZOCHT VOOR KINDERDAGVERBLIJF IN AMSTERDAM. Ze is wel toe aan wat avontuur en reageert onmiddellijk.


Na een serieuze sollicitatieprocedure wordt ze aangenomen: het lijkt wel een droom. Die droom verandert in een nachtmerrie op het moment dat Sarah op Schiphol aankomt. De mensen die haar ophalen duwen haar in een auto, nemen onder bedreiging haar paspoort af en rijden regelrecht naar de Amsterdamse Wallen. Daar wordt ze zonder pardon achter het raam gezet. Haar ontvoerders laten er geen misverstand over bestaan: als ze probeert te ontsnappen, zal dat haar dood worden. Anderhalf jaar lang ondergaat Sarah de meest vreselijke vernederingen, tot ze uiteindelijk dankzij puur geluk en een onbewaakt ogenblik de mogelijkheid vindt om te ontsnappen.


Slave Girl - Sarah Forsyth
Sarah Forsyth has spent most of her life in fear. Born in Newcastle in 1976, from the age of three, the very people who were meant to be looking after and protecting her were sexually abusing her. Somehow overcoming the hurt and heartbreak of this horrific childhood, Sarah managed to build a new and happy life for herself as a nursery nurse. 
Then, one day, Sarah spotted a newspaper advert for a job in a creche in Amsterdam. Thrilled by the prospect of a fresh start away from Newcastle and all the memories it held, she eagerly signed up. But within minutes of stepping off the plan in Amsterdam her life began to fall apart. There was no creche and no job: Sarah was a victim of sex-trafficking. That night, a just twenty-one years of age, her life - her real life, her life as Sarah Forsyth - ended. 
Fed cocaine and cannabis, and forced at gunpoint to work as a prostitute in the Red Light District of Amsterdam, Sarah was turned from a young innocent English girl into a desperate and terrified crack whore. Riddled with fear about what her pimps would do to her if they caught her trying to run away, it took Sarah almost a year to find the strength to fight back and escape. But, unlike many of the girls that she was forced to live and work beside, she did get away. Sarah Forsyth is a survivor. This is her heart-rending story.

Ik kan wel huilen ( I could cry)

A very impressive documentary about two girlfriends and there fight against breast cancer.
One of the 2 woman gets diagnosed with breast cancer. They decide to film eachother through the out the process of dealing with breast cancer. A very confronting documentary about the effects of cancer on her body, their life and their friendship. Special!


You can see it here: Ik kan wel huilen

I wear the Veil

Just watched a documentary made by an Canadian woman for her daughter. It was about her wearing a veil because of her believe in the Islam. She wanted her daughter to make up her own mind about wearing a veil or not. She visits (with her daughter) Muslim woman around the country and talks with them about there view on wearing a veil. At one point she visits her parents, she was raised catholic, and it was very clear that her parents weren't agreeing with her turning Muslim.
Throughout the documentary you noticed that she realizes that her view on her own veil changes. And at the end of the documentary you see how see took her veil off and took another way in life and religion.
If you want to see the Documentary you can do so here: I wear the Veil

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HET LEVEN 

WORDT

GELEEFD

OM TE

INSPIREREN OF

GEINSPIREERD

TE RAKEN.

Dit brengt nieuwe energie,

beweging en verandering

met zich mee waardoor

mensen in staat zijn te 

koesteren, lief te hebben en

voor iemand te zorgen

- Gelezen in Pink Ribbon -

Sorry only for the Dutchies.

Ryan McGinley

After the serie of Ryan McGinley in the last post. I went and took a look at his other work. Here I found 4 other pictures I really liked. The feeling of the pictures makes me feel the feelings in the picture. When that happens i'm sold. And so it is: I'm Sold!

Dusk Swim

Rebecca

Peach Girl Water

BMX