I’m linking up with Lauren again, from the From my grey desk
blog.
My high fives for this week:
1. DIY-ing my home office.
I suck at finishing projects. It’s a miracle I finish
blogposts. My DIY projects are mostly never finished. For my Dutch readers,
remember this? It has two coats of primer and a colour on it. But it’s not even
near to what I want with it. And remember that cute apron I was sewing? Still has pins in it.
Anyway, I started decorating my home office and it’s going to
be awesome. In like 2014.
The supplies. I admit, all from Ikea. I live three minutes from one. Hello addiction.
Well,
if you’re in a musicaltheatre world, you’ll know him. He writes incredible
songs that tell great stories and has all kind of musicalstars singing it for
him. Awesome.
Yesterday
he gave a concert in Amsterdam with three amazing musicalsingers, Willemijn
Verkaik, Renee van Wegberg and my dear friend Freek Bartels. Scott Alan announced the concert last Thursday on Twitter and the concert sold out in 24 minutes! Luckily, Freek had a
ticket left and I got to see the concert.
And I
really wouldn’t want to have missed it.
It was
an evening full of beautiful written songs, sung by these amazing people. An
evening of emotions, a gay audience and the great Scott Alan.
What I
loved about it, was how personal he got.
He
likes to talk, so he announced every song with a story. And even though he has
a lot of humour and he’s a cheerful person, you can feel his pain and see his
soul in his sad stories.
He
wrote a song about coming out of the closet. And about being bullied. But, and
there’s the humour, also a song about his dog. That last one turned out to be a
great lovesong for weddings. Funny how it’s really about a dog, right?
Anyway.
I consider myself a nice writer. I think I’m good at it. But I’m still so full
of emotions, because of yesterdays concert. I can’t write today.
So I’ll
stop talking.
Just
listen to this. It’s one of my favourite songs of him, sung by Willemijn Verkaik:
