Friday, August 05, 2005

Belgian Beer in Amsterdam

For breakfast we went to a nice dutch restaurant. I had beef with cheese crackers and scalloped potatoes and Lexi had chicken with tiny little potatoes.

After breakfast we went down to the MOMA only to find that it had moved near the Centraal station, which we had just left. After retracing our steps back to the station we found the museum. Their minimalist exhibit was mostly uninspiring, except for a series of photos of paintings on walls that were done with a skewed perspective so that they look like flat 2D additions to the photographs. I think I could pull off a similar effect by taking a picture of a wall at an angle, taking that picture into photoshop and drawing a flat image on it, then projecting the picture from the same spot I took it so that the features of the wall line up and then tracing the picture on the wall. Still there's not much to minimalism, but I guess that's the point.

There was some great graffiti outside the museum, including this knocked out ferret and ninja penguin.



Some of the art was completely forgettable. The fact that it's up in a gallery seems to show that the art world shares the peewee football belief that everybody gets to play an inning no matter how much they suck. The anarchist video exhibits fall into this category too, B-movie wannabees haltingly reading a ridiculous list of bomb recipes. I don't have any patience for anarchists any more. The system may be flawed, but chaos is worse.

After the museum we went to this little Belgian beer bar. I tried some new kriek's and an abbey style blonde ale that was very tasty. The place was tiny and dark and had candles at each of the tables. Everything in Amsterdam is so much cheaper than in London or France. I love the lack of pretence here. Nothing's too fancy or too hoity toity. It's all simple pleasure like FEBO, cheap off brand clothing, chocolate waffles, belgian beer and poker.


The Belgian Beer Bar bartender pointed out a Belgian beer store that had a dream selection of beers. They had a whole case of lambics that I had never tried before. For the first time, there was someone who knew all the beers that I mentioned. We even found this cute English Ale called Fursty Ferret.

After picking up some beer we stopped for our last FEBO of the trip to take with us on the train. This time we had a private two bunk room on our train so we celebrated our 4th anniversary with FEBO, beer and the Buffy Musical while speeding across Germany.

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