Ohai

Hello. My name is Yannick. Welcome to my blog. Feel free to stick around and hear all about what happens to yours truly, although I can not guarantee it'll be extremely interesting.

I guess I've always found blogging to be digital masturbation. In essence, I figured, someone writing about their own life can only be interesting to themselves, and other people that are crazy enough to actually like the self-absorbed dribblings of a twenty-first century internet philosopher. Over time, however, and by being exposed to other people's blogs and various internet literary scraps I have come to realise that the blogosphere is not just wankery, it captures the spirit of these modern days perfectly. More suiting than novels or articles, interneture (get it? get it? clever, right? I even googled it, and I'm the first person to come up with it!) is the written embodiment of our society. People twittering about buying new bbq sets, scene kids making lists of their favourite Simple Plan albums, people describing their entire lives in blogs, andsoforth. As I said, from a literary perspective, these things are void of anything meaningful. The dynamic relationship of exhibitionism and voyeurism that is so obvious in our lives, however, makes it so that in my eyes, we know each other better than ever before. I personally don't mind this trend, and embrace the changing of times. Plus, fuck, reading people's diaries is fun, so if they want us to, why not?

Anyway, before I get too academical, let me introduce myself. This is my first blog post, after all, so you might as well get to know the basics before I tell you all about the way my fridge smells, or what my cat puked up this week. I'm Belgian, currently 21 years old, and my biggest motivation in life is music. Whether it's listening, playing or writing, music is something that I am in direct contact with, oh, let's say 80% of my waking life. I love cats, especially my own, a fat 14 year old feline stuck in a perpetual state of sleep, only interrupted to either eat, ask me for food, or meow for half an hour to get me to open some door, only to be meowing from the other side two minutes later. As you have certainly noticed, I have a certain fondness for large words and long, confusing sentences, which will become more and more obvious as I write more for this page. This parallels my love for writing, and I guess I can put some short stories I've written on here, if anyone would care at all. I guess you don't even need to care. It's my blog. :3
But yeah, what keeps me going is music. I play in a two-man band called James Berlin, with my best friend Bregt, with whom I have what you could call a bromance. Think Turk and JD from Scrubs, and you're getting there. We've been playing music together for 7 years, and will continue to do so until one of us marries Yoko Ono. You can check out our music and other fabulous things on our myspace page www.myspace.com/jamesberlin, or on our official website (but lets be honest here, who even uses those anymore?) www.jamesberlin.com. We're recording a split EP with Lasvas Radio (a band I felt like plugging in here, because they are great guys and talented musicians) this summer, so if you like what you hear, drop us some love on our myspace or facebook page. Or, you know, write our band name on your breasts, take a picture and send it to us. That works too.
What else? It has been said that I have an elaborate movie encyclopedia in my head, as I seem to have an almost autistic ability to effortlessly memorize every useless fact about movies and series. Prepare for both music and movie reviews on this blog. Another thing that I was told is that I make the best sandwiches in the world. I guess a talent is a talent. Einstein had his theory of relativity, I have... sandwiches.
There's more, but this is getting lengthy, and there's a limit to how much self-absorbed writing I can do without feeling like a cunt, so I suppose you'll get to know the rest of me through my writings.

Until next time (which is actually in about 20 minutes because I'm already writing my first legit blog post),

Yours sincerely
Yannick