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Sunday I went to this shady bar in Warmoestraat with Jacob and Marie for the sole reason that you are allowed to smoke in there and the beer is dead cheap. Everything else in there is awful and the crowd is somewhat suspect. However there I am – drunk as a bug – on my bar stool looking at the interior, and I discover this poster of and old renaissance panting and immediately fall in love. That my knowledge of art leaves a lot to be desired is nothing new, so it is no surprise to me when Jacob is rolling his eyes to my mentioning that: “it is by someone called Bruegel”.

So the following day I start investigating stuff on Wikipedia, and now at least I know who Pieter Bruegel was. Later that day I go to Concerto, the record store at Utrechtstraat to pick up a few things. I actually believe that my initial idea was to buy the new Gomez album, but I leave the store with Tim Hecker, Magnetic Fields and Nils Økland. The strange thing is that while the clerk is getting the CDs for me, I am looking at some of the price busters, and there in the middle of the table is the self titled album by Fleet Foxes, which I have seen a lot of times before, but only now realised, is using Netherlandish Proverbs; the exact same painting, as the album cover.

Now that is a coincidence.