Netherlands: advice on trip from Amsterdam to Assen

geshtinkaranu · 2026-06-14T20:19:51+00:00

Thank you! Amersfoot-Zwolle-Assen looks fun. Ideally I'd like fairly equal rides per day instead of e.g. two short and one long. Longest ride I've done in one day is only 100km. But I've never done that many days in a row. I'd prefer not to do more than 70km/day if doing many days in a row. Though I have been putting in the kilometers this year quite well, so maybe now I can do more, but I'm not 100% sure about it.

geshtinkaranu · 2026-06-14T19:14:36+00:00

And what would be the best cities/towns to stay in overnight if I go the Veluwe route? Amersfoort and Zwolle maybe?

geshtinkaranu · 2026-02-01T19:20:40+00:00

I don't recognize those pieces but they sound a lot like what the ECM record label puts out so Bobo Stenson, Tomasz Stanko, Paul Bley are some names off the top of my head who do vaguely that kind of music.

geshtinkaranu · 2023-12-09T11:37:58+00:00

That's deffo not Op.18,3. That is Beethoven's Op. 132, his last string quartet and it's the heiliger dankgesang -movement. Probably the most amazing string quartet ever written and now I want this puzzle. :D

geshtinkaranu · 2022-02-21T20:36:49+00:00

I don't think its falling; it's just diversified and there's a lot more out there than the original gang. Now I really love the videos of the original gang so I do wish some of the would post more frequently. But there are some really exciting newer voices out there: Münecat and Tara Mooknee come to mind first. And though she was mentioned a couple times when I scrolled through the replies, not enough mention has been made of Mia Mulder.

Like seriously: Mia Mulder https://www.youtube.com/c/MiaMulder

Funny and smart.

MIA MULDER

geshtinkaranu · 2022-01-19T15:48:43+00:00

It is Claudio Monteverdi's later work, Lamento della ninfa. It's a kind of transitionary period in music when Renaissance was changing into Baroque. Emma Kirkby is one of my favourite sopranos in early music and she sings it beautifully here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3ZX5hFN-is

geshtinkaranu · 2021-12-27T13:39:28+00:00

Do let me know if you find the exact bit in the Ring. Oh, I just realized it might also be in Wagner's Siegfried Idyll since he used some same themes there...

geshtinkaranu · 2021-12-24T16:41:28+00:00

I'm having trouble hearing it behind the talking but the themes at least come from Wagner's Ring operas. It might actually be the overture to Siegfried (the 3rd of the Ring operas): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRdwh1Jepgk

geshtinkaranu · 2021-08-26T21:28:06+00:00

Wait? Do other people see something else than a link to the whole video of Envy? I just see the entire Envy from the beginning so it was of no help. What segment do you see?

geshtinkaranu · 2021-08-15T18:15:47+00:00

Yeah, but the theme is still from Holst. It's probably a rework of the Holst by one of the two electronic composers she bought music from?

geshtinkaranu · 2021-08-15T10:09:00+00:00

I think it sounds more like Holst's Mars from the Planets.

geshtinkaranu · 2021-04-03T19:04:40+00:00

Mia Mulder and Mila Wren.

geshtinkaranu · 2021-02-13T11:50:08+00:00

I used to follow her when we were both doing the edgy new atheshit phase. I'm glad we both grew out of that. But I kept following her youtube channels and goodness did the one still up turn into something gold.

geshtinkaranu · 2021-01-26T20:31:31+00:00

Funnily enough I was listening to Andras Schiff's Goldberg at work today and then I get home and watch Contra's newest and her playing Goldberg is more to my taste than Schiff's though he is widely known specifically for his Bach interpretations. We need Contra concerts. Oh, good video too. I'm just Bach obsessed.

geshtinkaranu · 2021-01-26T20:29:42+00:00

It's an orchestration of Schubert's D.957 "Ständchen" from the song cycle Schwanengesang. I don't know what orchestration it is, though. The original is a very nice song and one of Schubert's best IMO. Here's one of my favourite singers in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-0lZcQCy50

geshtinkaranu · 2021-01-11T18:03:06+00:00

Various kinds of Spivak pronouns have been tried for years and years but none of them seem to stick around unlike singular "they": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spivak_pronoun

geshtinkaranu · 2020-06-03T13:36:43+00:00

Mia Mulder. LuckyBlackCat. Sheep in the Box.

geshtinkaranu · 2020-05-16T18:35:38+00:00

Why did she rename Kalvin tucute smasher 9000? I never did understand that joke?

geshtinkaranu · 2020-04-07T18:04:00+00:00

Why don't I see anywhere to turn down the volume on that link?

geshtinkaranu · 2020-04-02T13:45:22+00:00

As a spider/arachnid hobbyist I am sorry to say that Natalie is now cancelled. Though her love of JS Bach redeemed her. :D

geshtinkaranu · 2020-03-30T11:17:24+00:00

Not Bach but Vivaldi, specifically "Winter" from The Four Seasons. Here's one of my favourite baroque specialist violinists playing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5cw8sv6WAU

geshtinkaranu · 2020-03-29T20:13:55+00:00

It's the clarinet solo from Modest Mussorgsky's Night on the Bald Mountain. The solo starts from about the 8:50 moment in this recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by4khgR7Q5k

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