Jimmy Eat World

yes! dish please;)

I went to antwerp yesterday. Pretty nice city, brussels is prettier, though. Much of the city is modern though; as the Germans bombed the port during the war. It is really close to Brussels. About 35 minutes, of course, it took my father and I almost two hours. Against my better counsel, my father wanted to drive as opposed to taking the train. They have a strange system with their highway signs here - where a particular city will be shown on every sign for about 20 miles, and then the next 5 signs on the highway will not show that name and then it will suddenly reappear. Needless to say, this through us for a big loop - as we ended up almost fully circulating the city's outer circle highway.

Antwerp is all about Peter Paul Ruebens. They have decided that this guy is their horse, even though he was not actually born in Antwerp, and they are gonna ride him long and hard, until he can't ride anymore.

On the other hand, the city of Brussels, is currently engaged in the apotheosis of Jacques Brel, celebrating the 25th anniversary of his death.

Jacques Brel, for those of you who don't know composed and performed folksongs in the 1950's. To the Flems he is like Frank Sinatra to the tenth power. His music was popularized in the US via a play called "Jacques Brel is alive and well in Paris" which is currently being reprised in Brusells under the title "Jacques Brel remains good and dead in Brussels." But he is of great importance to Megan and I as our parents probably would not have married if it was not for his music. In fact, they used one of his songs as their wedding song. This fact alone, i think qualifies Megan and I for Belgish citizenship.

I will try to be a more active participant on this weblog and e-mails, but the two local Internet cafes are both closed due to "Holiday." Sometimes I get the sense that hard work is not the most valued attribute here, instead I think it is the number of french fries one can consume in an hour.

How many French Fries have you been able to consume in one hour?

I think you should take on some of the locals in a French frie eating contest.