Pinkpop Enzo.

Hello again, I've been meaning to write a new post for a while. Then again, I've been meaning to do a lot of things lately...
I guess I'll start with Pinkpop.
If you don't know what that is, it's a three day music festival here in NL, which takes place on the holiday of Pinksteren (hence the name). I went with Matthias, and basically it was.........
AMAZING!!!!!!!
No, really, I mean, look at the list of artists we got to see (in order of appearance):
-Lifehouse - Simple Plan - Elbow - Coldplay - Versaemerge - Tim Knol - Cage the Elephant* - Wolfmother - Graffiti6 - White Lies - The Bloody Beetroots Death Crew 77* - Kings of Leon - Scouting for Girls - Plain White T's - Two Doors Cinema Club - Eliza Doolittle - Go Back to the Zoo* - Band of Horses - Kaiser Chiefs - Deadmau5* - Foo Fighters*
I put little stars to the artists that I most enjoyed listening to. Pretty cool, right? I'll now go over the details...
Okay. There are two things that could potentially kill a person at Pinkpop. The first is extended exposure to second hand smoke. The second (and more likely event) is the consumption of Matthias's breakfast sandwiches. (Just kidding, M!! They were really good!!) We basically just teased each other the entire trip. I guess we can do that because we aren't strangers, or friends, or family. Well, maybe we're sort of friends. He did save me from being mashed in a mash pit during the Death Crew show. My hero.
Anyways, can you believe I got to see Deadmau5 live??? It's like, a dream come true! But also an oxymoron if you think about it.... like Schrodinger's cat... the people standing next to me were really boring, though. They didn't really dance. They mostly just stared at me dancing. Plus there was a super friggin tall guy right in front of me, which was annoying, but I guess I should have expected that when I chose to go to a concert in the Netherlands. Note to self: next time, bring elevator shoes.
Simple Plan was really funny to watch because they tried to speak Dutch. Here is what they said:
"Hey there, Nederlaaaaaand! Are you ready to jump? Are you ready to Sprrrrrrring?! Heel ggggggggggggggggoed!"
Everyone was cracking up. Matthias thought it was kind of lame that they tried to organize the mash pits, though.
Speaking of jumping, there were these bugs on our tent late at night, and Matthias was like, "Ohh, look, these are the jumping kind! I'll bet if I poke it, it'll jump."
Me: "I don't think that will work..."
Mat: *poke* "Come, on jump!" *poke*
Me: "Uhmm...."
Mat: *POKE*
Bug: *slides off tent into grass*
Me: "It jumped alright... to its death."
Mat: *pokes the other bug, which also falls into the grass"
Don't know why I felt the need to tell you that...
Also, it was really funny, because Matthias was heating some water to make coffee with when the camp police dudes came over and were like, "So uhh... you can't cook on the field. You can only cook in the cooking area." What was so funny about it is that Matthias is good at stalling people while he argues why it should be totally acceptable for him to cook just where he was, so that by the time we were surrounded by 8 or so officer guys (who obviously had nothing better to do than to tell us we couldn't make coffee...) M said, "Well, okay, I'll turn off my cooker for you. My water has started to boil anyways." They left. I was laughing out loud in my head. We placed the cooker in a hole behind our tent from then on.
You know, there were some pretty clever people on a nearby mountain listening to the concert (because it was really, really loud, I'm sure they could hear it pretty well) I mean, there was a big group of them standing there. But there was one die hard Kings of Leon fan who I really have to commend. He is one creative guy. This guy actually hang glided over the festival square to hear a bit of the concert! If that's not clever thinking, I don't know what is.
So basically, the Foo Fighters were AWESOME! It had started to drizzle a bit when they began to play, but then halfway through a song, the singer just stopped and said, "I'd like to take a moment to point out that there's a FUCKING RAINBOW over there! *points* Look at that! This is the best fucking rock concert we've ever played at!" That was seriously so cool. I'd say they were the best act of the whole festival; they made for a really nice ending to the weekend.
Oh, and apparently I'm a little bit less than friendly to attractive male strangers.
For instance, Matthias thought it was strange that I didn't talk to/dance with the teenagers who were lurking around me at a club thing, and that I didn't stare at all the boys with no shirts on as they walked to the showers.
But to be honest, I didn't want anything to do with these guys. For 2 straight hours on the last night, guess what our ears were entreated with? Go on, guess. Well, I have no idea what you guessed, but it probably wasn't right. Imagine a chorus of 20 of these oh so very attractive young men asking the same question over and over, yet never expecting an answer. The question was this:
WAZZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP??
2. Full. Hours.
Oh yes. These are the men for me.
There were actually a lot of people. No, not just a lot, an OCEAN of people. If you really want a number, it's 60,000. That means a lot of litter. I literally tripped over litter every time I tried to walk in a straight line on the festival square. But you know what was funny, when Matthias and I staggered into the house at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, the kids were screaming and I was like, "Wow, it's really hectic here!" and Carla said, "Yes, you just came from a concert with 60,000 people, and you think my house is more hectic with 4." Hahahahaha, ja, zo is het Carla, zo is het.
Now for the "enzo. (etc.)" part.
1. I saw the new X-men film with some friends. It was really good!
2. There is a super hero on tv here and her name is Mega Mindy. Apparently she does live shows sometimes, and dad's like to go with their kids because they think she's hot. This is so, so wrong.
3. I almost forgot to mention that we got free cola at Pinkpop.
4. I told my friend that all I really wanted to was to get my big blanket from home and eat ice cream with my dog while watching a movie. She said, "Well.... I have a cat, a big blanket, ice cream and a movie. You could come to my house after school." I did. It was really nice of her.
5. So it's a tradition for kids who have just passed their last exams of high school to hang up their backpacks from the outside of the house (on a flag pole or a window or something) but so far I've only seen 3. Someone hasn't been paying enough attention.
6. I heard people talking at Pinkpop, and it's really weird to hear so many different accents from the same country! I'm so used to the Hague accent, I had forgotten that people in other cities speak differently.
Okay, but now I really have to figure some stuff out, and it's getting late and ahhh I'm kinda stressed but not really so I ain't gonna proofread this, sorry if there are mistakes, but I can't fix that right now.
Tot ziens,
Emily