Haven’t had time to write much, because tomorrow is my début in comedy! Originally, it would have been last week, but the Jong Cameretten tournament has been suspended, because they hadn’t enough contenders.
Now it’s the Sonnema Talent Tour for me, there’s a contract at stake, so root for me!
The show starts at nine at the Comedy Café in Amsterdam, entrance at 20.45, so if you want to root for me, don’t be late!
Roberto Strife
Nothing to write, so we just uploaded a list of 2009:
1) How did you begin 2009?
John Sacks: With my then girlfriend.
Roberto Strife: Unhappily.
2) What was your status on Valentine’s Day?
John: taken.
Roberto: Madly in love with my ex, together in Rotterdam.
3) Were you in school (any time this year)?
John: Only as a teacher.
Roberto: All of it.
4) How did you earn your money?
John: Teaching English.
Roberto: Promoting, writing, designing.
5) Did you have to go to the hospital?
John: Once, for my grandfather.
Roberto: Believe I haven’t, pretty special for a clutz like me!
6) Did you have any encounters with the police?
John: Not that I remember.
Roberto: No close ones.
7) Where did you go on vacation?
John: Not.
Roberto: Man, we’re boring! Me neither!
8 ) Did you buy anything over € 1200?
John: Yes.
Roberto: Does renting a house (if you can call it that) count if you make count yearly?
9) Did you know anybody who got married?
John: Nope.
Roberto: No, but I do know a hot girl that, sadly enough, got engaged.
10) Did you know anybody who passed away?
John: My grandfather.
Roberto: Just my innocence.
11) Did you move anywhere?
John: Nope.
Roberto: I moved out of my father’s flat.
12) What concerts/shows did you go to?
John: None.
Roberto: Tiesto, Lange Frans & Baas B, Partysquad (All Dutch) All American Rejects, Forever the sickest kids, Mindless self indulgence, With Cruel Intentions (friend’s band, twice) and probably something I forgot.
13) Are you registered to vote?
John: Indeed I am.
Roberto: Me too.
14) Who did you want to win Big Brother?
Both synchronised: Don’t know, don’t care.
15) Where do you live now?
John: London, UK.
Roberto: City of the damned and capitol to the Dutch, Amsterdam.
16) Describe your birthday?
John: with my loved one.
Roberto: Lonely whilst not alone.
17) What’s one thing you thought you’d never do but did in 2009?
Both again: One night stands (yes, plural).
18 ) What has been your favourite moment?
John: Every moment I can think of with my ex.
Roberto: Two weeks ago, when I finally realized, all I have here in this house, is mine. It kinda made me happy, been happy ever since (which is particularly strange for a writer on this site).
19) What’s something you learnt about yourself?
John: I can be very dependent.
Roberto: Sex does not make my world go round, and that I can be happy on my own, but rather not be.
20) Any new additions to your family?
John: No, not one.
Roberto: Only a few cuts for awhile, but we’re in the progress of fixing.
21) What was your worst month?
John: We’re in it!
Roberto: Guess my birth-month, April.
22.) What music will you remember 2009 by?
John: The downfall of society is this year marked by Lady Gaga.
Roberto: Overkill-Lazlo Bane/Colin Hay.
23) Who has been your best drinking buddy?
John: Before December it was my ex.
Roberto: Actually I’ve been a teetotaller for quite a while in 2009, before that decision, I was too fucked up to drink with a buddy.
24) Made new friends?
John: Roberto of course and a few others.
Roberto: Define friendship.
25) New best friend?
Together: Classifying your friends by best and worst is unclassy.
26) Favourite night out?
John: Every night is special in a different way.
Roberto: Too many ties to write down.
27) What do you look forward to most about 2010?
John: Updating this site regularly.
Roberto: Being happy for a change, getting my web-business up and running.
28 ) Whose behaviour merited celebration?
John: Society does not deserve celebration this year.
Roberto: My own at the buzzer.
29) Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
John: Society’s and my ex’s.
Roberto: My mother’s, my sister’s and by far more my own.
30) Where did most of your money go?
John: Alcoholic beverages.
Roberto: My living arrangements, and my ex.
31) What do you wish you’d done more of?
John: Being happy.
Roberto: Counting my blessings and writing.
32) What do you wish you’d done less of?
Both: Fighting, worrying, fucking and drinking.
33) How will you be spending Christmas?
John: With a pint in my hand.
Roberto: With the one person I can always count on, my dear father.
34) Did you fall in love in 2009?
John: Only out of it.
Roberto: Mournfully yes.
36) What was your favourite TV programme?
John: None really.
Roberto: Californication.
37) Do you hate anybody now that you didn’t hate before?
Roberto: Hate numbs the mind and is thus bad for you. It consumes instead of contributing.
John: I actually agree with that
38 ) What was the best book you read?
John: Been brushing up on my William S. I’m an old sap, so Romeo & Juliet.
Roberto: How horribly shameful, I fear it’s new moon, starting on higher reading (Charles Dickens) though!
39) What was your greatest musical discovery?
Roberto: All American Rejects
John: What the? I haven’t discovered any, quality of new music is mostly shite.
40) What was your favourite film of this year?
John: Don’t remember actually, couldn’t have been too good then.
Roberto: My favourite is still and always Cruel Intentions.
41) What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Roberto: More writing, less drinking and fucking. More hope, more faith, more people who cared, more love.
John: Could agree with that, though a better host for TWS would have helped also!
42) What kept you sane?
John: My own mind.
Roberto: Have I ever been? Well then I should say my dearest friends and my even dearer father.
43) Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Roberto: Every year the same, always Alyssa Milano. Runner-up is Alexis Bledel, don’t know why, but those sweet eyes make me want to whip it out!
John: Haha, you dirty cad! I’ve always fancied Adriana Lima.
44) What political issue stirred you the most?
Both: Can it be positive? Then it’d of course be the current American president.
45) Who did you miss?
John: All the people that left.
Roberto: My mother, my sisters’, the other relatives I haven’t spoken to in a while, and other people that weren’t there.
46) Who was the best new person you met?
John: Roberto.
Roberto: Again with the classifying, I guess that would be.. Well I don’t know!
47) Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2009:
Both: Well that is undoubtedly that: The world sucks, deal with it!
48 ) Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
John: Bloody nonsense.
Roberto: Just look up the lyrics of Dance inside yourself.
49) Where are you going to be at New Years Eve?
John: Same as Christmas!
Roberto: No specific plans yet.
50) What do you hope 2010 is going to bring you?
John: Luck, love, and whatever cliché I can think of. Oh, and a prosperous “The world sucks”!
Roberto: Less heartbreak and more of this crazy little thing called happiness, and of course I hope to meet my true love, if she’s there at all.
Hope you enjoyed learning a bit more about us!
Roberto Strife & John Sacks
Unlike my colleague John, I do have quite the history writing on the web, as you might know. Starting over with an old love, one can’t help to look back. It all began when I was fifteen, I founded Ennogmeer, a Dutch blog, and I wrote about my life, music and not in the last place football, I then quickly discovered that the Dutch blog-market wasn’t big enough for me, so I decided I’d try to market a video-blog, And-Even-More. On it, I showed video’s where I told everybody all about my life, for a while it was quite successful, the website had a vast group of followers from Germany, but when I hit certain roadblocks in my personal life, I couldn’t cope. After awhile I felt my privacy was in danger, so I quit. In the mean time a lot has changed, I now live on my own in the Dutch city of the damned (Amsterdam), I still have no contact whatsoever with my own mother, I’ve passed my first year of the English teacher’s education, and I’m in the process of writing my first novel.
Due to all the events passed, I never once thought of returning to blogging, but when John Sacks made me an offer I couldn’t refuse, of course, I could not refuse. Though at first our agreement was that I would only design The-World-Sucks.com, he quickly talked me into writing for it. I accepted because I very much agree with the basic feel of this blog, because not only does the world suck, but it seems to be getting more suckish day by day. People don’t smile as they used to, they just go about their own lives as if there’s no one else and they’re unique, but we’re all the same in a way, because we’re all getting increasingly depressed. The world doesn’t have to suck, but yet, we make it suck more every single godforsaken day.
Roberto Strife
