Rock Star Take On SEXUALITY | Spring 2026 | The New Rock Star Channel (new video)

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Rock Star Take On SEXUALITY
| Spring 2026
| The New Rock Star Channel
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The New Rock Star Channel is back!
With a new format:
– 10 minute video
– no preparation

This week, the thirtieth video.
A Rock Star Take On SEXUALITY
Spring 2026

video recorded on Tuesday 21 April 2026

In this video;

1. We’re back! 00:00
With a Rock Star Take on SEXUALITY
And if you’re watching this in real time, I just had a little holiday, so this is the first video that will go up after I’m back.
And I’m prerecording this, but as you will notice I seem to be making more mistakes than usual, so I really need that holiday!

This is the spring edition of a Rock Star Take on Sexuality.
These videos are usually pretty dense so once every three months I try to lighten them up with a topic that seems to be a little more fun for many of us.

2. How to really enjoy The Thing 01:23
I think I have something solid for you this time!
Breaking my own rule not to prepare this, I thought a little about it beforehand, and I think I have something good for you.

3 ways to enjoy it more

3. #1 Honor your Yesses! 03:17
Just like No is No (and should be respected); a Yes (“I want!”) is indeed, a Yes.
Let that sink in.
Even when we’re single, we’re masters at talking ourselves out of getting intimate with someone we met, at a moment when we least expected it, and then started talking to and had so much chemistry with.

We (even as singles) always find reasons why it’s not a good idea.

We should start treating spontaneous chemistry with someone, as being given a box with the finest ingredients, for free. Probably ingredients you would not know where or how to find them, if you went looking for them.
Of course you would cook a delicious meal, if that happened!

So honor your Yesses, and start “cooking”.

4. #2 The Brave Shortcut 06:13
This one only takes a lot of guts!
No preparation required, but here we go:
Be present in the moment.
That’s it.

Once you can be in the moment, you accept everything that happens in that connection and step back entirely from the idea of how “it” or any one of you should be;
The gates to the heavens open.

5. #3 Be fulfilled on your own 09:13
Definitely the most difficult one, but also the most rewarding!
It’s to (re-)create your own sexuality from the inside out, (an “ecosystem”, would probably have been the best word), so rich that intimacy with someone else is no longer a prerequisite for it to be fulfilling.

Experiences with someone else are no longer the main ingredient;
They’re now the icing on the cake.

6. Next time in a Rock Star Take On 11:42
When filming this video I did not yet have a topic for next time, but I promised I would give one here.
And I have a very powerful topic for you!
It might feel triggering, but it’s one with a lot of power buried deep within it…
Let’s unleash.

Up next a Rock Star Take On
SHAME!

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protect your boundaries | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 2026 04 24

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protect your boundaries

Physically, mentally, financially, time-wise;
Let the right one in.
—
I don’t consider myself psychic. Or, if I’m honest, I do still consider myself psychic, but all evidence points to that I’m not since all predictions I made with regard to love, have proven to be false.

Luckily for me, these were not events that played out on a world stage, and if I had not told you about it you would not have known.
So no harm done.
Yet it frustrated me I got this wrong, and started toying with the idea of making my intuition and psychic abilities more accurate.

I landed on desiring an endgame where everything was told to me by spirits or higher powers.
Accurately, preferably.
But the whole experience of being informed by higher powers or mystical entities alone, was already highly appealing.

Around this time, when I realized all my predictions had fallen flat, someone said that they would never “contact” unseen powers or “entities”
Quotation marks for contact, because I would never actively contact through a seance or anything. And quotation marks for entities, because I don’t have a less spooky word.
But you get the idea.

Words and nuances aside, it was clear that I held a different belief in the matter.
And not because I thought contact with the unseen was always harmless.
I understood the concern.
But there was a difference of opinion, which was that I was much more weary of the dangers of everyday interactions and of systems that hold our society together.

The legal and financial consequences of marriage or having your own business for example.

I’m not saying it’s healthy to overthink these kinds of constructs, but to me these unforeseen consequences of regular life choices are more scary than the idea of accidentally opening the gates to hell.

Being vigilant of who or what you allow into your life, is a 24/7 job.
It cannot be limited to keeping out the Ouija board.

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Delight | 2026 04 21 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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It was voted best Dutch movie of the 20th century and had 3.3 million people seeing it in theatres.
A success similar to the 1969 book with the same title.

Both this Dutch movie and its bestselling novel went international under the name “Turkish Delight”.
A direct translation of the Dutch title.

My guess is the subtitled version of the movie Turkish Delight did not gain a lot of traction until the 80s, when VHS made distribution more accessible.

This coincided with Turkish Delight’s director Paul Verhoeven as well as lead actor Rutger Hauer, now having Hollywood careers.
The film was studied by people who were looking into either one.

But what was it about Turkish Delight that had made it so compelling to begin with?

The novel was written by the Netherlands’ iconic writer, Jan Wolkers.
As opposed to his contemporaries, Jan wasn’t just a flamboyant writer but also an artist who drew and sculpted women.
This gave him a colorful life to write about, and he pulls you straight into his bed, writing this book in the first person.

The opening page describes him touching himself while looking at a photo of his ex-girlfriend. He is angry she left him for a traveling salesman.
After weeks of self-pity he gets his act together, takes a shower, dresses up and embarks on a string of sexual escapades.
Sometimes three women in a day.

What is not said in the book, but I remember it from the movie, is how bohemian and artistic the space is.

A ground floor studio in Amsterdam. It’s a workshop and living space in one.

Everything is drenched in sunlight;
The messy bed, white walls, paintings, drawings, sculptures, work in progress everywhere.

Is an artist’s life their truest art?

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Plan anything (better) | CREATOR series w. troll dolls (new video)

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This week episode 8:
“Plan anything (better)”

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In CREATOR we make our art/content, but you can plan anything with this system.
The only rule for these videos is:
– no preparation
Because any process you don’t know by heart, belongs in the trash bin!

video recorded on Tuesday 14 April 2026

In this video;

1. Welcome to a new episode in the CREATOR series 00:00

Where we plan (boring! I know) in a better way.
And it’s an exciting day because I’m introducing new trolls today.

2. Why this system works so well 01:20
Although you wouldn’t say it, if you see me in action with a dollhouse and trolls, I am actually using an official system called SCRUM.
You can identify this system by its use of Sprints, time periods from 1 to 4 weeks.
SCRUM was created in the 90s to breakup software development into smaller time brackets, that always delivered something useful (an increment).

But the great thing about SCRUM is that you can’t just use it to make large projects more manageable into bite-sized pieces.
It’s also really useful to make small projects. like creating content, more structured and to step of the treadmill of creating on the fly!
(but you can still create on the fly – to which I will come back to later)

With SCRUM, represented here by a dollhouse and trolls, you can make big projects smaller and small projects more structured and deliberate.

3. Creating on the fly; but planned 06:50
Your production does not have to be knowing exactly what you want to create.
You can schedule pockets of time to create whatever you want.

SCRUM, because of its origin in software development, is traditionally tailored to making big projects smaller.
As an artist the way to apply this is to break up your big projects (f.e. a book) into bite-sized ones (weekly post).
But you can also use it to make small projects, like on-the-fly posting, bigger;
Into a strong creation/ production schedule.

4. How to plan your week 08:06
With the dollhouse (recap)
-ground floor: Infinite possibilities
-1st floor: Room of Ready- what you have selected to create this week
-2nd floor: Floor of doing, Everything that is in transit
-3rd floor: Dome of Done, Everything that is done
+ also 3rd floor Balcony: Everything that is both done, and also posted (delivered)

5. Introducing the FROCC Monster (a new troll) 10:13
FROCC stands for the values of SCRUM;
Focus, Respect, Openness, Courage and Commitment
I introduced the FROCC Monster as a reminder to stay in line with these.

I compare the FROCC Monster to the Tamagotchi, an electronic pet from the 90s.
Depending on how you take care of it, it grows up into something extraordinary or into a monster.
The FROCC Monster can only stay healthy if you feed it the 5 values on its list.

The FROCC Monster will be present in every video, similarly to the pink Scrum Master troll, who monitors the process and our weekly Review.

6. Introducing Technical Debt (new trolls) 15:15
Traditionally, Technical Debt means things you bypassed to deliver the product on time.

So for software this may the product may not be compatible with future elements.
But I also recognize another type of Technical Debt;
Resources are failing to take care of, which will ultimately undermine your production capacity.

When you see the pile of things that don’t get done rising, plan these 2 things:
1 – the big clean up for every area where you have Technical Debt (1 troll each)
2. – an improvement to your weekly planning system (1 smaller troll each)
To include the area where technical debt accumulated

7. Recap 23:39
This system is not limited to planning your content, or your production.
You can also include other work for example Technical Debt (=updating incomplete work, maintenance or work on your resources) and improvements on the planning system itself.
“Include financial administration into weekly sprint“
Can be a troll similarly to a piece of content that needs to be created, and with a troll on the first floor, as Ready to be taken into production.
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go time | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 2026 04 17

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go time

Energy beats stagnancy
Power crushes perfection
And there’s probably tons of stuff going on in the cosmos

Because there always is.
—

In case you are reading this the moment it is published, everything is in Aries now.
From regulars Sun, Moon, Mercury, and Mars, to slow movers Saturn and Neptune.

On a nostalgic side note:
It’s Saturns once-every-27-years stop in Aries, that could explain the revival of the 90s era.
Saturn was in Aries, in the late 90s.

The Force is strong with this one.
The first sign of the Zodiac and identified as the warrior, quoting Star Wars here again:
Aries, is about raw, untamed power.

There are many things that went dramatically wrong with the sequel Star Wars trilogy, released December 2015, 2016 and December 2017.
But one thing it did do;
This trilogy got me on the wagon.

Or at least the two instalments 2015 (The Force Awakens) and 2016 (The Last Jedi) did.
The final film was a huge disappointment for new fans like me, who had felt drawn to the very thing that got abandoned in 2017;
Raw, untamed power.

The same raw untamed Aries power we now have in our skies, but that is always available to us.

What the sequel trilogy understood – and what it desperately tried to undo in 2017, scared shitless by the polarizing fanbase dynamics it had unleashed – was that the Dark Side could be seductive.

Contrary to earlier trilogies, The Force Awakens gave us a magnetic dark-side prince with wavy black curls and flying black robes.
Kylo Ren, played by Adam Driver.

And rumor has it he knew from the first film his arc would be one of redemption.
His reckless, raw and untamed behavior would lead to a happy end.
Until December 2017, and it didn’t.

Weeks before premiere, the film was butchered into submission.
With Driver sending in last minute audio, per request. Recorded in his wardrobe closet for best acoustics.

Scenes filled out with stand-ins we spotted from lightyears away.

There was no happy end.

And yet the raw untamed power, unleased in 2015, could not be undone.

And guess what?
It never can.

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Destination | 2026 04 14 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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I remember finding a box of chocolate mints after a garden party. The morning in our backyard was so fresh, but nothing had been cleaned. There were still bottles and glasses, spread over small side-tables and a folding table.
Worstcase scenario?
First alcohol experiment age six.
Don’t think so, although it would explain disliking the sip of cola I tasted there.

No, I want to talk about the best thing that happened!

Well first of all, the AM discovery really did feel like kids in a candy story. A treasure trove of party leftovers.
Salted peanuts, some crisps maybe. The empty glasses, bottles, full ashtrays and both used and unused napkins, felt like discovering the remains of a world we were not allowed to enter.

But I would probably have forgotten it, had it not been for discovering a box of After Eight dinner mints, which appeared to be empty.
On closer inspection, I discovered 3 to 5 mints, stacked together vertically hidden under the flap.
And the mints were indeed in mint condition, as these chocolates are individually wrapped in black paper bags.

I ate one, assuming it was just regular chocolate, and was a little overwhelmed by the intense taste.
But immediately hooked.

There were other children there as well, and I must have offered to share, but as I recall I ended up eating them myself.
Hooked to this day, and I rarely have them in the house, because I can’t possibly pace myself with them.

Years later I remember a new discovery, which is the text on the back. I expected a whole brand story there, but it was just the name, repeated over and over.
Which was probably for the better, because it already had my personal story.

In the forbidden garden of delight.

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Rock Star Take On AGENCY | The New Rock Star Channel (new video)

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Rock Star Take On AGENCY
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This week, the twenty-ninth video.
A Rock Star Take On AGENCY

video recorded on Tuesday 7 April 2026

In this video;

1. We’re back! 00:00
With a new episode of a Rock Star Take on;
And today the topic is AGENCY

I didn’t have a new topic ready for you last time (the Charisma video), but said I’d put the new topic in the description box, and it became “Agency”.

2. Agency is our real/true desire 00:22
We have come a long way.
Because ten, twenty years ago, people didn’t “have” agency, although of course the word existed. Just like the word “ownership” which has a similar meaning.
But those words were not used, they didn’t hold any meaning.

But even nowadays, our desire for agency is usually hidden beneath other more tangible dreams and desires. But our desire to have agency underpins many of our desires!

We want “X” because we think/ assume, it will (finally!) give us a sense of agency.
We imagine ourselves doing “X” (yes), but we also imagine doing it our way!

If you want to do something your way, then you have to start leading with it being done “your way”. And not leading with you doing or aiming for “X”.

3. They are coming for your agency (always) 03:44
Agency is not given freely.
Every industry and all (life) situations, have rules but also unspoken agreements, all undermining your agency.

Regardless of what you’re up against, there’s almost always a way achieve the freedom of agency, but it takes work.
A lot, of work.

Focusing specifically on acquiring agency, does dramatically increase your chances of achieving it!

4. Holiday and next time 06:44
Rock Star Take is back in May 2026, and this seems the perfect moment for our spring episode of Rock Star Take on SEXUALITY.
Because May is the heart of Spring.

Up next, the Spring edition of a Rock Star Take On
SEXUALITY!

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you have everything you need | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | 2026 04 10

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you have everything you need

There are choices to be made about what you believe
Mine is that your life is so valuable, it will not be wasted
—

A deeper layer of commitment.
That’s how I would label the newest addition to what has accumulated to quite an impressive pile of Life choices.

A pile which is also, in all fairness, impressively disorganized.
And of which I, similarly to a pile of disorganized clothes, only use the top layer.

Yet I know that if I start digging, usually in the form of reading my notebooks, vision, or planning, back;
I find tremendous stuff.

Would be easier if I didn’t!
Then I could just toss everything I did out, but No.
The pile with unused clothes always comes up with remarkable stuff.

But this new realization is not buried yet, it’s still on top. “Shiny and new” as the lyrics to Madonna’s Like a Virgin go.
And it definitely has a certain Virgin/Artemis/ post-apocalyptic warrior vibe to it.

“This work will get done. And I will do it alone, because if I needed a partner to do it, he’d be here.”

Now, I would definitely agree with you that finding out what our purpose is in this life, is no easy task.
Got you.
And you’re right.

However, I think we can very easily agree on what this life is definitely not for.

For waiting.
For hoping.
For spending time in places we do not find joy nor meaning, and that includes online spaces that meet those criteria.

Life is not meant for clinging to people we “lost” months ago, or never connected fully with to begin with.

I’m not that literate on religious works but I’m guessing they all come down to;
Life comes with meaning and purpose.
And the wasting of life itself, being its primary sin.

Your time, your energy, your attention, your emotions;
They are your currency.
Given to you, personally, put into your backpack marked Life, so you can do whatever it is you are here to do.

If you do not have the resources to accomplish a certain task, then you will not be held accountable.

But for the work that has your name on it?
Check your bag, it’s all there.


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Infinite | 2026 04 07 | That ONE Book (start at any page)

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I don’t know what scares me more:
The thought of having a full life again, and even busier and more surprising than ever before. With international travel, adventures, and a mission.
But also forgetting the lessons intense isolation taught me.

Or for this loneliness to be eternal.
Which does have the unexpected advantage of never forgetting the profound life-changing insights loneliness gave me.
I would never need a cheat sheet because the lessons would never become a memory in the first place. They’d stay a lived experience.

Now don’t get me wrong, I have so much faith my life will move forward like that first paragraph.
If someone asked me for advice there, about the unnamed fear of losing the only thing, the very gift, their darkest years have taught them, then I would answer:
“Give yourself room to lose it. Be great in the beginning, then deteriorate, talk nonsense. Let people judge you’ve lost it. Let yourself be remembered as someone, who for a very brief moment and through great personal sacrifice, was given an almost divine clarity.
And then dropped back into the limited human consciousness we all have.
Let it go.”

So I will tell myself that too.

But the second one? Tougher. It means an acceptance that you may not matter, and a letting go of the need to ever be witnessed, to ever be acknowledged.
And yet rationally I can see how the path I am on cannot be complete without fully embracing the idea it will never end and I’ll be “here” forever.

What I answer now is this:
Anywhere you want to go, it can only feel good if you consciously chose it.
Including accepting loss, isolation, and aware that in the end;

The path could turn out to have been the destination.

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your Mid-sprint review | CREATOR series w. troll dolls (new video)

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This week episode 7:
“your Mid-sprint review”

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The next CREATOR series with troll dolls is Monday 20 April 2026.
The video ends with me warning I have a holiday coming up, and won’t be back until May, but I miscalculated!
—

In CREATOR we make our art/content, but you can plan anything with this system.

Welcome to The New Rock Star Channel.
We use the analogy of planning one week of a rock star tour, where the choice for different gigs symbolize the art your post on your social media.

The only rule for these videos is:
– no preparation
Because any process you don’t know by heart, belongs in the trash bin!

video recorded on Monday April 6 2026

In this video;

1. Welcome to a new episode in the CREATOR series 00:00

It’s Easter Monday in the Netherlands, which is a holiday in the Netherlands, and it seems like the perfect time to have a Mid-sprint review.
A sprint is a time-period between 1 and 4 weeks, in which you plan to get amount of work done.
This is a one-week sprint for a content creator, which is what we create in one week, so it’s a production schedule.
This dollhouse is my own personal sprint, which is always from Friday to Thursday.
And we’re taking a look at it mid-sprint, and see what the trolls are up to.

2. Setup of the house 02:24
The basement represents infinite possibilities, or everything you could pick but didn’t.
On the first floor are the Ready trolls: These are the pieces of content you have selected to create during this sprint.
The second floor contains everything that is still in transit/ you’re working on.
And the top floor everything that is done.
On the balcony is content that is both done, and also shared/ posted.

In my case, I’m halfway and a staggering number of trolls is still waiting, Ready to be created, except I didn’t do anything with them.

3. Acknowledging what you did do 07:07
If you spent your time doing other things, then acknowledge those.
If those projects do not have their own troll/ project card yet, make them and put them on the balcony.
So you make it visible what you did do, even when that is something unrelated to work.
Give yourself some love, for what you accomplished even if you did not plan for it.

4. Reprioritize 09:30
In the room of Ready, prioritize your remaining projects.
Usually by placing the content you need first, first in line.

For example: I’m shooting this video today, because I want to post it today.
And tomorrow I create what I want to post tomorrow.
Ordering the pieces in the order you will be needing them usually makes the most sense when you’re running late.

However, it’s quite possible prioritization alone is no longer enough, and you need to bring in bigger guns.

5. Solutions if you’re short on time 13:25
If your original content planning can no longer be achieved, you have several options.
5.1 – Maybe you can swap something?
If you have a piece of content later this week that is smaller, you could squeeze that one in today, and move today’s production to the later date.
5.2 – Cancel the content and then:
– don’t post at all
– replace it with an older repost in the same series (CREATOR formula/ portfolio)
– replace it with a fresh piece of content you create today, and whisk it up on the spot (MESSENGER formula)
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