1 Foreword Dear readers, We are finally back with the last issue of the semester! Scriptus pres- ents issue 25 to keep you company during the summer. The holidays are almost upon us, but before being free from intensives, we can still en- joy the gorgeous weather! Don't know what to do when it’s this hot in Amsterdam? Check out an article about AUC’s very own festival, Dormfest, which will take place in Science Park on the 24th of June. Need more music? Andrew Kambel’s article about Gorillaz's new album Humanz will provide you with some interesting insight into the world of the English virtual band. If you have been following Scriptus’ previous issues, you would know how great our regular writers are. In this issue we offer Ele- onora Gelmetti’s experimental creative piece and an insight into food- ie Diana Ghidanac’s Avocado Show. What’s more, Charlotte Verboom is back with her last article on Love, Sex and Magic, giving us insight on the morning-after pill. In this issue, we also have Noa Smits’ debut with a creative piece. Other must reads include a profile about the dorms’ new masseuse Nina Klaaf, Humans of Amsterdam Oost written by this semester’s Journalism students and Georgian restaurant’s review by Ana Tavadze. Enjoy the issue and have a great summer! For those of you graduating, you may leave the bubble, but the bubble will never leave you! Happy graduation! Yours Truly, Tekla Tevdorashvili Editor-in-chief Scriptus Board Angela Chaloska (Head Illustrator) Quinta Dijk (Treasurer) Liene Krauja (Head Designer) Alma Rottem (PR-Manager &Secretary) Tekla Tevdorashvili (Head Writer, Editor-In-Chief) List of Contributors Eleonora Gelmetti Diana Ghidanac Pauline Hageman Nora Kajamaa Andrew Kambel Lily Sannikova DenizNoa Ovalıoğlu Smits Ana Tavadze Dormfest Team Charlotte Verboom Disclaimer: Scriptus is written, edited and designed entirely by the students of Amsterdam University College. The news magazine does not re- flect or express the official views of AUC. Comments, questions and 2 criticisms are welcome at [email protected]. 3 US: 00s (1984+) By Eleonora Gelmetti mountain, that we seem unable to see. I belong to a generation whose only consolation Inter- dis -connection is seeking for perfection ending up with disappoint smoking a joint out of your lonely window. instagram’s likes, yes but instant gratification Like a widow how many pictures does it take you lost your love, to look perfectly fake? self-love. For Christ’s sake would you leave me alone? There is no one to call I need to throw up my dinner in this moment of need get to look skinnier thank God, I’ve got some weed and die while alive. that is going to make me Frustration. numb. Instantresult of gratification no-education is cultivating Superficial. In-capable patience of stable cultivating connections rela- passions, tionships. relationships, working When it’s hurting, hard are you calling very a person to talk, hard or to reach the top of the are you taking 4 5 Home (Vol. 6) changed a lot over time, ey since I moved~For me, to theAUC. definition I used to ofthink home it has was about being with my family, a scissor to cut? By Tekla but it has changed and evolved into In-capability of Tevdorashvili ~I think home is where the something else. Now it’s the feeling of freedom, being able to express dealing people who make you comfort- able are. People that I love, but yourself in whatever way, to be with suffering. also people I feel most comfort- yourself, and to be accepted. I don’t ~I’ve never understood peo- able with. even mind if it’s with other people ple who are so obsessed with I am from Israel: I was born in or by myself, just sitting in my room Anxiety. the concept of “home.” I like the U.S., but my parents moved and doing whatever I want, that’s my house, I like my room, but back to Israel when I was already home to me. I think it will I could never call it home, be- young. I grew up in Jerusalem change even further after AUC. Insecurely cause home means so much and in Tel Aviv, but most of my I’m from the Netherlands, from a more to me. It’s any place in life in Tel Aviv, which I consider town called Castricum. It’s more like the world where to be my hometown. a village than an actual town, but it’s leading a perfectly self-confident I can lay my head and feel I’m not quite sure what AUC is pretty big. safe and peaceful. It certain- for me yet, it’s becoming more I’m going to Australia for 7 months after AUC. I’m going to visit my fam- sugar-free ly is a place where I have my of a home. I’ve only been here fine life loved ones next to me, but at for a few months, but it’s start- ily there, travel and work a bit to gluten-free the same time a place where I ing to feel like home, every- support my travelling. I think it will be different, I’ve always lived pret- emotion-free-existence can have some space, be dis- thing is starting to feel more tant, and in a way - free. familiar and therefore more ty close to my family and now I’m persistent credence I am from Tbilisi, Georgia, and comfortable. In Tel Aviv I know going to be so far away. I have fam- ily there, but more distant family. of your irrelevance I’ve always lived there before everything, I know the shops, moving to Amsterdam. the streets, I recognise people I think, it will force me to grow up if you don’t leave a In a way, AUC is an opportuni- in the streets, but it hasn’t hap- even faster than I’ve already have pened here yet. so far. I’m just going to learn to live I don’t have any plans for the I would like to maybe live in with lots of different people and call futurety to find because myself. planning nev- America for a while after AUC. lots of different places home. er actually turned out to be Just because I feel it would be a I don’t like the excellent and diverse something I was good at. So I bit different from Europe, and motto that much, but I do think that stopped planning. I prefer to also I would like to study there. AUC is more internationally orient- - I’ve always found the U.S. very ed than most universities, the pop- tude. I know it may not sound interesting and complicated, pragmatichave a “go withbut theat this flow” point, atti and I want to get to know it bet- (although, most of the students ulation is definitely more diverse ter. I want to live somewhere are from Western countries). I like explore and get in touch with that has a beach. I don’t go to that AUC brought me into contact partsI really of wantmyself to thatfind aremyself, still the beach that often, but I need with all these different people that I unknown to me. That is what to have a water source near me. would have never met otherwise. It I am doing and will continue I think home will become allowed me to see people from out- to do. something I create. Home will side the Netherlands and Trace. follow me. outside my community. h 6 Ana Tavadze Alma Rottem Leonie van der Kolk 7 Despite being virtual cartoons, Gorillaz are a very features rapper Vince Staples and his anemic yet lifelike band. Their members visually age as time Land of the Free™, passes in the real world, experience turmoil and seemingly setting the mood for what is to about to happiness and go on their own adventures when come.fierce critiqueBut the swinging of the not-so-free house piece ‘Strobelite’ that not touring—just like most of us ‘real’ people. Here, follows immediately transports you to a dimly lit Gorillaz creator Damon Albarn has succeeded in 90s dance club with disco balls and the suggested making something that is so similar to humans yet It’s these contrasts that make the album a joy ex- weird, eccentric nature of our own humanity. On ploring:strobe lights tracks illuminating such as ‘Saturnzthe crowded Barz’, dancefloor. featuring Humanz,can be so Gorillaz’outlandish newest that it release,makes us this reflect duality on the is young dancehall heavyweight Popcaan and his taken quite literally as they balance their most poi- grand but meticulously articulated vocals, make gnant, tangible lyrics with highly danceable tunes for a sound akin to a dark fever dream that you just that elicit the image of a world that’s at the brink of can’t help but bounce along to. apocalypse yet simply cannot stop dancing. - A lot has happened for Damon Albarn in the sev- dromeda’ is another example of Albarn having mas- en years since The Fall, his last full-length effort as teredThe spacehis trusty party-banger drum machine that you and can synthesizer,find on ‘An Gorillaz. Under his own name, he has released the creating a splendid disco-like track that booms and 2014 album Everyday Robots and collaborated with glides in exactly the right places. But here, ‘Brocco- a multitude of artists.