Monday, January 3, 2022

The Year 2021, my lists….


Top Movies:

              Get Back - Peter Jackson, The Beatles about their final recording, performance and get togethers, almost 8 hours of intense enjoyment with many lessons and insights on friendship, drive and management

Worth mentioning: Don’t look Up (Climate and dumbness of the USA), Tick Tick Boom (Jonathan Larson), De Oost (The Dutch and Indonesia), Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, The Hand of God - yes also about Maradona. Disappointing Bond’s No Time to Die, the last performance of the brilliant Daniel Craig as 007. Netflix: The Dig, Het Schelde offensief, Malcolm & Marie, Ferry!

Top Series:

              Casa de Papel, Start Up, The Spectacular, BuZa, Dix Pourcent / Call my Agent, Lupin and forgotten already many I assume

Top Book:

              De Bekeerlinge (The Convert) - Stefan Hertmans, t’ Hooge Nest – Roxanne van Iperen, Nickel Boys – Colsom Whitehead, John le Carre - Silverview

Sport Book:

              Barca -Simon Kuper, Op zoek naar Maradona – Sjoerd Mossou

Sport game attended: Queens Park Rangers – Southampton and that was all!

Non-fiction:

              The Happy Traitor – Simon Kuper, Beter wordt het niet – Caroline de Gruyter, Revolusi – David van Reybrouck, Mark Rutte – Petra de Koning, Een wonderbaarlijk politicus, Hans van Mierlo – Hubert Smeets, Hans Wiechel bio – Peter Sijpersma

Music:

Played lots of Jobim, Aznavour, Billie Eilish, Dylan, Kinks, Daniel Norgren. Great re-release of the 1979 Nu Nukes album by Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band, watched on You Tube a theatre interpretation of the Kinks, Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround

Concert: None

Podcast: Hard Gras

Restaurant: Amsterdam- Ciro, Provence – to many to mention

My sport year (source Strava)

Cycling- 5049 KM, 232 uur, 53 KM Climbing, 4* Le Mont Ventoux, longest ride 110 KM

Running- 700 KM,   80 uur, Amsterdam Half Marathon (17/10) 2:18 min


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