UB boy makes his choice and gives the care of the Child in him back to the mighty Sea. Redeemed by this load UB Boy starts adrift in his still familiar scenery now with new laws. That's the way Life goes. He must overcome disgust, pain and frustration if he wants to adapt to this new environment.
September 1984 So in this beautiful song UB boy considers what to do. Through a glass the light scatters in different angles and in his eyes. Thus presenting a variety of choices to make. Quite a responsibility…
October 1984 UB boy makes his choice and decides to go to the beach. There he gives the care of the child in him back to the mighty Sea. Without any words. He promises the child to take it back as soon as everything is alright. He’ll then wake it in a Heaven's dawn.
January 1985 Not nice probably to say something like that. Could be a setback of dragging his own child all the way. And now UB Boy is relieved, all comes free, also the dirty & ugly things. Or maybe it is a paradox, eating ones own offspring. Who knows.
February 1985 UB Boy lies awkwardly on his arm and the pain works him out of bed. He then undertakes a journey through nocturnal The Hague. Its streetmap seems to correspond with the road map that directs UB through his life. So a bend in the street determines what way to go...
August 1985 UB Boy simply won’t see. Too much input. - UB Man still knows those moments he simply won’t see. - So something must have evoked this temporarily urge to be blind. As this album dictates, UB Boy must overcome all sorts of inconveniences like annoying light in order to adapt to this shiny daylight environment again.
September 1985 Okay, diverting in another direction if necessary UB Boy will do. Face the bloody light, kill his own darlings, right. But, once carried out, what is left to give hope?
December 1985 While UB boy was still scanning the schoolyard for colourful girls, a friend slid in his life. As the Oxford English Dictionary defines: “slide (slid, slidden) Move smoothly along a surface”. And so Peter smoothly slid his motorbike along the asphalt. What an entry!
October 1986 Somehow the ordinairy daily life knows how to touch UB Boy in the heart. While shopping for his bread, butter and Dutch cheese he recognizes the streets again he has been crossing every day. For so many years he only saw the inside of his skull. That gives confidence & hope..!
February 1987 Encouraged by the feeling that he can look after himself now, UB Boy decides to go to the Sea to collect his child. By some reason he takes his friend Deluciana with him. The blond warm blooded girl. Has UB already reached his Heaven’s Dawn?
May 1987 A year passed by, a year in which UB Boy completed his military service. He finds a job in a warehouse. There he meets all sorts of people and a Turkish boy makes him smile. That unwinds the body and rekindles the soul.
July 1987 UB Boy came so far. Every year he reaches the summer holidays it seems he finally got to the finish. But it always appears some stop-over. When will his inhuman efforts be recognized?
July 1987 In a quiet moment all the puzzle pieces slide together. The empty frame unexpectedly is filled after all. It now is a picture where all UB’s tough experiences and all that he encountered find a place. This picture is better than a certificate..!
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