Sail away
23.06.08Filed Under: life with 3 Comments
sail away
sail away
sail away
music: The other side of the world :: The Tindersticks
Still here
19.06.08Filed Under: weekly or something with 2 Comments
It´s been such a wild ride for the past week. Events out of the ordinary, both here, irl and in the blog world it seems. For me it all started last friday while I was a dermathologist talking pictures of a new laser treatment machine and the phone rang. I ended up seeing Dolly Parton perform that night. Being a music whore I really appreciated her as a musician even though perhaps she´s not really some one I listen to. It was a good show at Stadion which is an open air stadium. Work has been crazy in a good way but not leaving much time for blogging or commenting (sorry about that).
On sunday I went to Helsinki with a very good friend. We had a great time. The kissing ducklings were captured there. Helsinki is such a beautiful city. The architecture, the light and the overall ambience there is just great. Finish people are a bit more relaxed than Swedes. You see old ladies going to Stokkmans wearing hats, gloves and matching hand bags. Gentlemen strolling around being seemingly proud over their age. We (Swedes) look more neurotic when you look at us. We go to the gym, the plastic surgeon and when nothing can be done to trick youth we loose all need for style. We get sloppy. Ok, I´m totally exaggerating here but you get the picture. Finland is 30 years behind us while being totally tech savy at the same time. That creates a very interesting environment.
Tomorrow is summer solstice, and happy solstice to you who celebrates it.
Change my mind
12.06.08Filed Under: Movies with 3 Comments
I switched on the tv tonight and right as I did Colour Me Kubrick: A True…ish Story started. It was a good movie starring John Malkovich. I have some troubles watching him act. He´s always like Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons, creepy and over acting but today I started to feel that he´s kind of brave for choosing the roles he does like the one of a pathological liar, like in this movie. He does it so well. He´s so not a Hollywood type and it´s just great here! Alan Conway actually existed and did in fact impersonate Stanley Kubrick. Not looking at all like him or even seeming to like Kubrick but obsessed with fame and fortune, I guess.
It was a bit disturbing because it reminded me of pathological liars from my past and it was sort of embarrassing watching him tricking people and getting away with it but it is a movie I definately recommend! It was fun at the same time as serious. Comedy and drama! Just like real life.
Uptight tonite?
11.06.08Filed Under: music with 2 Comments
So you worked hard all week and now you really need to party? You´re a cute gal, dressed right and need to bob your head? You´re a guy with the teddy shoes going, the tight crisp black jeans but nowhere to go. Fear no more. All you need to do is get this album, together with a case of beer and a bottle of Jack Daniels and you´re all set. My favorite tune is Liar Liar by The Castaways but there are plenty of good songs to keep your spirits up!
And remember, these boots are made for walkin! :-)
Finally a 3G iPhone!
10.06.08Filed Under: shopping, sillyness with 5 Comments
Thanks to Apple and (soon) Telia I now have a digital boner! A 3G iPhone is all I ever wanted. On july 11th it will come true. Good bye crappy working SonyEricsson!
Not sure what to make of the me.com thing though. It´s still seems a bit pricey after the cool factor weared off a bit.
Well, I´m just sayin…
food porn
07.06.08Filed Under: life with 2 Comments
Sometimes cooking food is pure relaxation. Most of the time it´s just stressful to think of something to eat, prepare it, eat it and digest. Today I went crazy and spent some time in the kitchen. I braised chicken in wasabi, sesame seeds and shoyu soy sace. There was steamed broccoli. Puilly lentils cooked in broth and made into a salad with fresh tomates and home grown cilantro. I cooked som shallots with butter and cream (pardonnes moi Weight Watchers but they were like sweets).
The weather here is funky, it´s too warm for the season. You´re not allowed to put on the grill in your garden in fear of fires. It feels like late august and it´s just total relaxation being outside reading Haruki Murakamis Blind Willow, Sleeping woman.
July 9th I´ll be seeing Lou Reed perform his album Berlin with New Londons Children Choir and the band consisting of Rupert Christie, Steve Hunter, Fernando Saunders, Rob Wasserman, Tony “Thunder” Smith and Mike Rathke. I think Berlin is an amazing album that has been sort of neglected so I´m stoked about seeing the show.
Transformers prevents guy from frequent flyer mileage
02.06.08Filed Under: weekly or something with 5 Comments
Some guy named Brad were not allowed to fly with British Airways because he was wearing a T-shirt with a Transformers Robot print on it. Security at Heathrow said it was against regulations to board a plane wearing a weapon, even though the weapon being a cartoonish print on a T-shirt. Brad ended up getting another shirt because he didn´t want to miss his business appointment in Germany.
It does feel a bit like Aprils 1st? Right!
I think Kleerup has made a good summer soundtrack. He lets Titiyo sing on Longing for Lullabies. Her voice sounds like it´s about to burst because she sings too high but manages to pull it off. Sweet and fragile.
I went to the dentist today. Why is it that every time you need anaesthesia it doesn´t work and you moan like a little bitch and then when you´re done the anaesthesia sets in and the rest of the afternoon your chin droops and little bubbles of drool forms from the corner of your mouth? I plan on doing like Clark Gable did and have all my teeth replaced with plastic ones.
Please tell me that there´s a 3G iPhone coming on june 9th and that Sweden will sell them pronto. My cell phone is the shits.
Great expectations!
28.05.08Filed Under: life with 6 Comments
Seems I hit a brick wall in full force.
Music: Before the bullfight :: David Sylvian
woot for roxio toast
27.05.08Filed Under: music with 2 Comments
Awhile ago someone sent me a live recording of a David Sylvian concert. I was grateful but got a bit disappointed because it turned out the songs were in FLAC-format. Those can´t be played in iTunes. I was gonna download Songbird but didn´t feel like having another app and another music library. Someone told me that Roxios cd burn program Toast version 8 and up could convert FLAC to Apples LossLess or other prefered fileversion. I only have Toast 7 and am happy with that since I don´t need all the new stuff with Toast 9 yet (except for the Blueray burning, but still). Well it turns out that even Toast 7 can convert my FLAC-files so here I am listeing to David Sylvian and work goes so smoothly. :-)
Help me find a missing tune about Doris Day
22.05.08Filed Under: music with 5 Comments
Back around the early 90s, (possible late 80s) I had a mixtape of cool songs. The tape is long gone but one song´s still stuck in my head but I have no idea what the band/artist was called.
The song was a sort of love song for Doris Day. It was a melancholic pop tune with a sense f humour. The lyrics went something like this:
I´d like to say Hey Doris Day.
Doris, you probably don´t remember me
but I was there at the movies. I was there.
I´ve googled but ran out of ideas on how to deepen my search. Ring a bell for you? Please comment or email me! :-)