The Airportline: Observations

I made a list. A few weeks ago maybe. Inspired by a Stockholm list in Dagens Nyheter. I made an Amsterdam remix. Why? I do not remember at this point. But, it would be a shame to leave it collecting dust on my laptop. So, with confusion and some black coffee I present,

The Amsterdam List

Favorite drink and in what Amsterdam bar? Zatte at Brouwrij et IJ
Best microwave food: oat meal porridge
Best staadsdel in Amsterdam: Jordaan
Like to go for a coffee at: Latei, Crea (see picture), Cafe Stevens, Westerpark
Best lunch place: Crea's home made soup with bread
Best coffee: Coffee Company
Best concert hall: Paradiso
Best bar: Nieuwe Anita (fresh fruit overdrive)
Here I take my parents to dinner: Last time Bazar, but that was too loud.
Latest Amsterdam find: East of Oosterpark around Dappermarkt
Last seen exhibit: Richard Avedon at FOAM (pretty damn good photography!) and The World Press Photo Exhibit.
A good go away present: Home made mix-cd made with love and care.
Favorite luxury article: My Dolce & Gabbana perfume my sister gave me for Christmas
Reading right now: Sensemaking in Organizations, two week old New Yorker Magazine, I Trygghetsnarkomanernas land, The Prague Revue issue 8.
Most like to read: Bodil Malmstens blog, International Herald Tribune, Dagens Nyheter at OBA, The Economist, Miranda July.
Favorite color: red
Favorite brand: Woody Allen
Favorite shoes: My sailor shoes I bought from a fat lady in the Austrian Alps. Comfort, style and ocean reference combined.
Spend on clothes monthly: 20 Euros
Fashion role model: Every Oxford professor that wears tweed.
Exercise: Floorball, jogging, biking, yoga
The most expensive thing I bought: My education.
Favorite product in the pharmacy: nose spray for colds / nose spray for allergies
Best drunk food: Whopper Meal at Burger King / Southwest Smothered Burrito at The Taco Shop
Listens to: Better, more educated, interesting, new, glamorous, existential music than you do.
Best pre-party music: Depends on the people, but lately souly hip hop and rap.
Latest songs I hummed: El Perro Del Mar – You Gotta Give To Get
Latest bought album: Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
Most likely to dance to: funk, electro pop, hip hop, swing, jazz, balkan
Latest impulse buy: airline ticket to Copenhagen
Latest great deal: airline ticket to Copenhagen
Latest second hand buy: two shirts for 16 Euro's in some boutique in Berlin.
Practical thing: water boiler in combination with coffee filter, bike, Internet.
Fashion I never want to see again: Stockholm filled with black trench coats.
Supports: Chelsea, love, Whitest Boy Alive t-shirts, Yellow Bird Project, intimacy (not the Bloc Party album though, that really sucks), views, concerts, biking, newspapers and probably a bunch of other things which I do not have the energy to list here.

So I’m going to Rotterdam, where the boats are bigger and the houses taller than in old school Amsterdam. Some people don’t like it, others do. I’m going for tennis, for Rafael Nadal against Dimtrov and for the French basketball player look alike Tsonga against Tursunov. The ABN AMRO tennis tournament is going on this week and since my flatmate is something of a tennis freak (even though I beat him in a nerve wrecking tennis match on the hard asphalt courts of Westerpark this fall) we decided to go. So we are getting on a train to head south, where the concrete has more rust, and where the tennis balls fly a little faster. A Thursday adventure into the ATP tour in tennis, I’ll bring my camera to take some poorly focused pictures of balls flying around, and other tennis related activities, come back tomorrow and you’ll see the results. If your not going to a tennis tournament, I suggest you go here and download the Friendly Fires remix of the Lykke Li song I'm Goon I'm Gone. It's pretty amazing.