SONGS: MONTH #145
"still in the mountains now getting a break from building my museum there picking august up from the airport and listening to music in the car also doing grocery and picking the girls who were supposed to help me filming the building of the installation and still singing songs to the kids especially during some rainy days with also hanneke and her family visiting us to at last listening to the radio traveling back to the netherlands through europe"
SONGS: MONTH #146
"a month spent quasi exclusively with the kids keeping in our dutch village with once again the surge of the pandemic and making our afternoon cheerful while preparing the meal listening to old cartoon songs on my phone but also now having myrthe more and more addicting little livia to disney stupidities and hearing her singing these mainstream songs but also teaching her some old songs i learned from my grandparents and having her really enjoying them"
SONGS: MONTH #147
"still spending much time with the kids singing songs together or to them particularly to entertain ourselves in the long afternoons waiting for myrthe to come home and also singing with roberto some italian songs during his visits to us with little sarah and also hearing songs during cas' birthday in the forest house but then getting into a new lock-down for the second wave of the pandemic and mostly keeping isolated celebrating silvester's birthday alone in a cafe in den bosch hearing some music there before all cafes got closed"
SONGS: MONTH #148
"in a lock-down keeping with the kids in our dutch village with no shops open and no other music then the one i sing or play to them mostly to fill the winter afternoons but also listening to the songs sang by livia and to the songs played by little silvester on children music books"
SONGS: MONTH #149
"still singing to the kids and hearing livia sing songs also learned while at school but also managing to take small trips together like to arnhem and utrecht and listening to the radio and the music being played in the city before the coming back of the pandemic keeping us all the time in our village with livia in the afternoon watching cartoons and hearing the same songs repeating quite often"
SONGS: MONTH #150
"hearing now songs heard from livia at school and feeling a bit shocked about the level of brainwashing with many christmas and religious songs being taught despite us not signing up for it and despite her classmates being mostly muslims and also singing songs myself to her and to silvester especially in the afternoon to make life a little jollier especially waiting for their mother to finish working but also hearing the latter singing songs to them mostly from disney cartoons and at last one evening also playing on television an old concert by freddie mercury and his band"
SONGS: MONTH #151
"hearing songs from different sources while still keeping with the kids and especially hearing livia singing but also hearing the songs from the cartoons she listens to and myself trying to play for her ths songs i used to play during christmas and in fact spending the christmas in lock-down playing some music occasionally to cheer up the atmosphere particularly during new years eve playing some oldies to the kids also annotating the songs played by little silvester interacting with some music books and hearing also songs while listening to podcasts drawing in the afternoon"
SONGS: MONTH #152
"spending most of my time with the kids singing songs to them but also playing on my phone the songs i learned in sweden while taking care of august and also hearing livia singing songs often out of context such singing birthday songs with no one actually having any birthday and also hearing some of the songs played by the cartoons she watches and beginning also to hear silvester singing a few songs again at times out of context such christmas songs well after christmas but also having him requesting me to sing for example the heidi before sleeping"
SONGS: MONTH #153
"still listening to the song sang by livia but also hearing the songs from the cartoon program she watches when i draw and at times listening to podcasts to not to hear the television occasionally also hearing songs there and also playing music for both silvester and livia when driving the car to go for excursions and letting them listen to old italian songs"
SONGS: MONTH #154
"listening to songs while still fully engaged with my kids and singing and hearing mostly children songs also at birthdays such as that of little sarah but also listening to italian songs when traveling with them particularly to national parks and other nice places in the netherlands where to hike"
SONGS: MONTH #155
"with the coming of the spring going for several excursions with the kids listening to songs in the radio especially to italian oldies but often singing together and having little silvester singing songs himself or requesting certain songs and in the weekends listening to myrthe singing a little too redundantly some mainstream songs"
SONGS: MONTH #156
"listening to songs while with my children while going on excursions by car or at home eating and waiting for their mother to finish working but also now having little silvester being quite demanding about the songs he wants to hear prior falling asleep and mostly singing him some old song taught to me by my grandfather and also hearing livia singing some of the songs from the disney movies her mother shows her at last hearing songs taking part to a protest against the bombing of the gaza strip"
SONGS: MONTH #157
"still in holland babysitting my kids and with little silvester now demanding the same songs before falling asleep also preparing for our trip to italy and downloading songs on youtube for a new compilation later traveling quite often to check a place where to build a sculpture in delft and also walking all the way to rotterdam from there and hearing several songs played by speakers in the city"
SONGS: MONTH #158
"on our way to italy to spend the summer there listening to the radio while driving or while letting myrthe drive and finally in the mountains hearing old gianna singing her songs and also singing to silvester spending some nights awake often also listening to sings driving the car up and down the mountains"
SONGS: MONTH #159
"left alone now in the mountains with myrthe going back to the netherlands stying with august and the kids working on the cubes during the day and taking care of them during the evening singing to silvester his favorite soldier songs during bed time but also driving up and down to pick up their baby sitter listening also to quite some songs later going to my mother at the sea side and for the first time being horrified on how out of tunes she is with her singing and very limited in her repertoire"
SONGS: MONTH #160
"hearing less songs working to put up the project museum textures almost every day now keeping away from the kids but then returning in the afternoon to them and listening to their songs but also to the songs played by the disney movies their mother showed them and later taking a break from work going for walks with the little family but forgetting my phone at home having to memorize the songs i heard but also i sang and after a fight with myrthe being left alone with august going to venice at first to renovate the apartment there and then to milan to drop him at the airport hearing songs in public placesbut also hearing songs from my german friend florian coming to visit me with his girls in the mountains and at last hearing songs from my neighbour playing oldies with his friends finally returning to holland hearing back all my kids songs and getting backin a peaceful relationship with myrthe"
SONGS: MONTH #161
"making it back to holland after a summer spent building my mountain cube and resuming my life there with all the children songs but also music listened during a short holiday to germany and some music sang by our albanian musician friend while letting our kids playing with her son tom and generally also a lot of songs sung rather redundantly by myrthe showing the kids more and more disney movies"
SONGS: MONTH #162
"hearing now songs sang by little silvester beside the usual songs i sing to the kids and also listening to the radio on our way to antwerp by car to check a foundation there but also hearing quite some songs sang by livia as well as songs from the cartoons she occasionally watches"
SONGS: MONTH #163
"listening to quite some music taking a trip with my family to provence and daily using the car there listening to the radio but also singing along with the children before making it back to the netherlands and starting a job as a low paid carpenter having to listen to the radio all day long with quite some techno songs from my youth and trying to memorize all this songs only writing them on my phone when going to the bathroom"
SONGS: MONTH #164
"another intense month keeping at work with noisy machines and trying to wear ear protections all the time with anyway a lot of radio being played by my colleagues who cannot be without and are surprised if i don't turn it on also trying to be desperately with my children really disliking to leave them at the daycare and driving with them for excursions in the weekend also with myrthe spending a nice time in arnhem listening to music in the car and even singing the beatles for livia who liked them before returning to work and having a feeling to quit after being offered yet another low-paid contract"
SONGS: MONTH #165
"still listening to a lot of music at work now being kept like a slave at the dusty and noisy workshop given that i made it a point to pick my children up from school on time and listening to all the radio and music being played there but also at time at home with my beloved children"
SONGS: MONTH #166
"a period trying to escape the low paid carpenter work situation still having to listen to the radio played by my colleagues in the intervals without any machines making noise and taking a few sweet trips with my children and at times also with myrthe listening to music together also at times using the internet on my phone listening to also songs over christmas at our italian friend daniela and also over new years eve with anyhow too little holidays having soon to return to the work environment being kept alone in the warehouse managing also to keep the radio off"
SONGS: MONTH #167
"at last quitting my job and all the radio songs i was forced to listen there going back to my life with the children singing songs also while working in the house with little silvester but also later with livia turning four and driving at last to italy listening to music especially from the playlist of oldies i made for us crossing germany and then switzerland"
SONGS: MONTH #168
"songs heard mostly while in the mountains in the winter with old gianna singing to the kids or me singing to them and later also playing much music in the car and hearing songs also in venice for the last time in our apartment there and then on our way back stopping here and there like in beautiful heidelberg and celebrating the day driving further listening old italian songs and singing all together very happily"
SONGS: MONTH #169
"back to our life in the netherlands staying taking care of the kids with livia starting school and hearing some songs there but also later buying with a radio where i can just plug in a memory stick with a lot of music and expanding my playlist with more oldies traveling with the kids around taking walks but also looking for new equipment to step forward with my project at last taking a trip alone to italy and back and listening to quite some songs in the german and later the swiss radio"
SONGS: MONTH #170
"back in holland during the spring taking some small trips with our new car and listening to our playlists also doing so traveling later to italy through germany with my kids with also more oldies i have downloaded on purpose with even some anarchist songs and in italy listening occasionally to some music while kids watched television or to the songs old drunk gianna sang to them"
SONGS: MONTH #171
"still alone with the kids in italy listening very often to music driving up and down the mountains to do grocery or for other errands and with silvester often wanting the same italian oldies but also putting at times some nice english songs for livia and at times also streaming it from the web and listening to songs also at a concert we ended up in a nice outdoor place in the middle of the ripened fields eating watermelon there with the kids and recognizing quite some songs being played later stopping at the seaside in jesolo to say hi to my old friend francesco and his family hearing a lot of songs also there played live in their hotel but also broadcasted on the streets later picking myrthe up from the airport and making it down south to abruzzo listening to more songs in the car also on the way to rome to pick august from the airport there and in the city strolling around with him"
SONGS: MONTH #172
"a last period spent in the abruzzo seaside and mountains also with august and then driving back to the mountains via bologna where i met my young aunt donatella and listening to quite some songs in the car also later listening to the usual songs heard from the kids and by her mother and after she left slowly driving back with the kids listening to a lot of songs particularly among the oldies i downloaded for the trip"
SONGS: MONTH #173
"back in the netherlands still fully taking care of the children spending much time together listening to their songs and playing old songs especially in the evening but also during the day with livia at school driving with silvester to fetch materials to build our new garage and in the car always playing different songs focusing on the compilation of old anarchist tunes and getting a few sticking in my head both in italian and in english not really liking so much the ones in spanish and later also playing quite some songs for his birthday"
SONGS: MONTH #174
"busy building the garage in the free time and with little silvester driving many times to carpentry shops to get more supplies listening to the playlists in the car but also with livia home from school in the evening listening to old italian songs as well as christams traditional songs and when their mother takes them to bed also listening to the dutch bedtime songs she sings to them"
SONGS: MONTH #175
"listening to songs also accidentally while for example checking out for gloves for the children in a store but then mostly listening to songs i have myself downloaded to listen to while driving with the children down south stopping in several city to check out the christmas markets and also there annotating the songs heard while roaming around with my two little ones later also staying at florian house having him playing with the saxophone christmas songs"
SONGS: MONTH #176
"spending a wonderful time with my children in the mountains having them singing or listening to songs in the car going down the mountains to do grocery or venturing further to buy a bulk bed for their room not really celebrating christmas together but either way hearing a bit of christmas songs around especially after the coming of their mother"
SONGS: MONTH #177
"making it back to holland through germany listening to songs in our car with the myrthe getting totally burn out at work now having to stay home full time thus listening more songs from her to the children but also myself playing at times some old italian songs for her in a period now being left without car waiting for our new van to be converted into a camper at last getting the it and taking a few trips listening the old songs of our playlist"
SONGS: MONTH #178
"with livia's birthday singing and also listening to quite some songs particularly when celebrated in her class with her classmates singing for her a whole repertoire later also with august visiting us from sweden singing with him also some songs reviving old ones and later with our van finally read getting back to listen to songs inside it taking small trips with the family and also hearing some old songs at myrthe's small brother during yet another birthday there"
SONGS: MONTH #179
"still very much confined to our life in our dutch village with our daughter attending school and myrthe still at home sick singing songs to the children and also having them singing but in particular listening to songs from our playlist when driving our van mostly in the weekends but quite a few times taking the children for walks in a near forest"
SONGS: MONTH #180
"camping with the family using the van and listening to the playlists i prepare for our van with also new songs and the traveling to italy living there in the contrada with old gianna singing and also myrthe feeling very happy and singing hearing also songs in the small mountain restaurants where i took the family"