Saturday, December 19, 2009
Wie zorgt er voor de reclame?
Monday, December 14, 2009
Let's make things sexier - part 2
Monday, November 16, 2009
Café arrapato
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Aan het lijntje gehouden
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Altijd scherp
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Ten oorlog
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Kleurwedstrijd
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Waarschuwing: roken is verwarrend
Absolut Rock 'n Roll
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Guerrilla
Gratis boeken
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Maak de slagzin af...
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Conspiracy Theory
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Alarm bij Dirk
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Wij van Rogier Cornelisse adviseren Rogier Cornelisse
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Put your best face in cyberspace
Monday, October 19, 2009
Waar rook is...
Let's make things sexier
Monday, October 12, 2009
Starbucks voor als er geen Starbucks in de buurt is
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Zie waar ik vlieg
Monday, October 5, 2009
Zebrapadvertising
Friday, October 2, 2009
Kijken, kijken en dan online kopen
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Stop teasing me
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Concertgebouw doet hip
Niet voor niets
Monday, June 29, 2009
R for Raw
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Product is the best promotion
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Strive for imperfection
How to tell a great idea from an ordinary one
Friday, June 12, 2009
How to be a writer
One day I hope to be a successful writer. But it's hard to imagine how to become one. By writing I guess. Trial and error. Maybe a course might help. There's lots of them. Even the great Charles Bukowski wrote one. In a poem. And it goes like this:
Monday, June 8, 2009
A silly idea
About ten years ago, my good friend PJ wanted to start a band. He got together six friends of his who could play a little music. I was one of them. We sat together one night at PJ’s place and had a beer. We didn’t know eachother (well, some of us knew some others of us) and we had no idea about the band we were about to enter. The only thing we agreed about was that we didn’t want to be just another mediocre guitar rock band. We needed a concept - a brilliant idea.
One of the guys raised a question: “What is the kind of music you most hate?” We all answered it. Six out of seven answered “Country music.” One guy – guitar player – said he liked country music very much. The guy who raised the question said: “Ok. Let’s start a country band.” It sounded like the most ridiculous idea in years. I said: “Fine, but since we’re not from the United States we’ll never be real cowboys. So let’s call ourselves The Sissy Cowboys.” Everybody liked the name. We had a country band.
Since I was to be the singer the guys thought it was a good idea that I should write the lyrics for the songs. I started to read a lot about cowboys. And I bought myself a rhyming dictionary. That helped. I would just steal a sentence from a Lucky Luke book and then find words in the dictionary that rhymed to the end word of that sentence. That’s how I wrote songs like ‘Don’t You Dare To Call Me Chicken’, ‘A Real Cowboy Can Never Take A Day Off’ and ‘Carry Ann’s Push Up Bra’.
We've been kind of successful in certain crowds for several years and played in many venues and lots of festivals. And we even made a videoclip (ourselves) for the song 'Sherrif Please Release Me'.
All I wanted to say is: if you have an idea that sounds crazy, you're probably on to something.