And that's the second tag list

EU Rota, thanks a bundle. Remind me to back up and give it another go after I've run you over.

1) Number of books I own:

Honest to God, I don't know. I'm guessing in-between 1,000 and 1,500. Most of them are in storage.

2) The last book I bought:

The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch. Yeah, I'm a fun guy to hang with. It's a good thing hookers are cheap in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, they don't know shit about quantum mechanics.

3) Last book read:

Boy and Going Solo - Roald Dahl

4) On deck soon:

Rational Mysticism - John Horgan

5) Five books that meant a lot to me:

Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card: got me into journalism, in a way. Read it when I was 12.
Ecclesiastes: I'm an agnost, but this sometimes makes me at peace with the universe for, say, about five seconds.
The Red Queen - Matt Ridley: makes you not want to have sex for about a week (ok, an hour). Great after breakups.
Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland: a properly written love story with a literary undercurrent, but without an author who is constantly trying to prove how amazingly 'literary' he can be (yes, I am talking about you, Mr. Eggers).
Saying Yes - Jacob Sullum: come on now, a conservative American propagating drugs legalization, using sane arguments? No Dutchman could be expected to resist that!

6) Tag five people and have them put this in their journal:

Rogier
Sirpa (yes, she got the previous one as well, but she's got plenty of time anyway)
Lucas
Bas
Myrtus

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OK, let's get rid of these tag lists

They are starting to pile up, EU Rota sent me one as well, but this one was in my to do list for quite some time already.

Here we go.

Britt is playing tag and I'm it!

1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video:

That would be somewhere around 300, not counting the videos. I don't watch those anyway since my VCR fell down from a 2 meter high storage shelf. Surprisingly, it did not survive.

2) The last film I bought:

The Scent of Green Papayas. Still have to view it though.

3) The last film I watched:

Tora! Tora! Tora! Unless you're asking about cinema, in case the answer would be Sideways (which wasn't released in the Netherlands until this year).

4) Five films that I watch a lot or that mean a lot to me (in no
particular order):

The 25th Hour - impressive, not just because of the haunting shots of Ground Zero, but also because it manages to convey in images what I like about America/Americans: their optimism, their (sometimes quite irritating) belief you can always start over, their sense of community, even (or especially) when home is very far away in a physical sense. (Of course, you Yanks (Southern states included) are still a bunch of arrogant twats, but I love you anyway ;).)

Black Hawk Down - after seeing this movie, I also wanted to be a Ranger and be gored in an African country! I'm kidding, of course, but this movie made me admire the guys who literally put their balls on the line. Making the world safe for democracy turns out to be rather unsafe.

Lost in Translation - lost for words. Let this be my life from now on, please.

Good Will Hunting - that's personal.

Karakter - Definitely the best Dutch movie ever made (not that there's much competition). If you see one foreign language film in your life, let this be the one.

5) Tag 5 people and have them put this in their journal:

EU Rota (hey, he tagged me, only fair to return the favor)
Pieter
Sirpa
Edwin
Michiel

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Welcome, GeenStijl visitors

Never judge a book by its cover the questions you read about it on a website (ok, not quite as catchy).

Those of you who have actually read my book, which was published only about a year ago (!), know that chapter 8 critizes WebWereld, not GeenStijl.

I've already asked my publisher to send you a review copy. (The rest of you can order it here, and take out a mortgage to pay for it here, in order to prevent financial hardship.)

(God, all this generosity makes me feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside. Might even be promoted to the second layer of hell if I keep this up.)

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