My very talented friend Bodil has started a blog of her own. She´s an excellent writer, Bodil writes in Swedish and you can visit her here. Remember to say hi!
Archive for weekly or something
Gallery
I have finally gotten everything together and uploaded a gallery, of course now I want to make a new website all over again but this will do for now. It´s also a bit difficult to decide if I should have two sites, one in English and one in Swedish or if I can mix like I do now. We´ll see and things will progress over time.
Helping a good friend setting up a blog. She´s a journalist and the one I went to India and France with. She writes in swedish but you can check her out here.
And now I´ll get my stuff together and leave work for the weekend.
Fog
I just saw a program about Helmut Newton on tv and I´m not sure what to make of it. Sometimes it´s nice to get to “know” the artist behind work you admire and other times it just leaves you empty. It was nothing wrong about him at all, au contraire, he was a cool enough dude. But still, I feel blank.
Marseille
When I was leaving for Marseille almost everyone kept saying that it was so dangerous and that I would run into sailors all the time. Strange how rumours outlives reality all the time. I guess Marseille was bad at one time but it seemed a long time ago when I was there. It was a great city that I´ll like to go back to!
Boards
I have this teenage angst urge to always take out my camera at night. After a few beers everything seems so artistic somehow. Sigh. The next day they all look blurry because there´s never enough patience to hold the camera still. Still I kind of liked how this one turned out.
Better late than never. I just finished Chuck Klostermans Killing yourself to live and he made it obvious that listen to Boards of Canada is an ironic thing to do. Sad because I really like Boards of Canada… ;-) I thought his book was fantastic no matter what.
Mikado
My favorite Japanese restaurant is surprisingly located in the middle of northern nowhere, Sweden. Unfortunately it burned down to the ground about a year ago. It´s being rebuilt in Östersund which is alittle more somewhere of northern Sweden. Östersund is actually a pretty nice town. It will reopen this winter.
I saw Lou Reed perform Berlin last wednesday and it was amazing. He´such a cool, grumpy old man. It was pure joy to hear Berlin in its entirety live.
I´ve been waiting like a madman for the iPhone to come to Sweden but when it finally did telia decided to over price everything so hysterically that I´m just gonna wait and see what happens. Meanwhile I´ll hold my iPod Touch to my ear in hope of passing as one of the cool kids *shrugs*
Wednesday morning I leave for Marseille. A week long excursion of Marseille, Hyère and Nice. Will most likely not bring a computer so blogging will be at its usual low update rate.
Neil Gaiman is a great author in my humble opinion, I´m reading Anansi Boys right now and I´m laughing my dandruff off.
Anyone who´s into good music and feels that a trip to Sweden is important should meet me in Göteborg for Way Out West on august 7th. Amazing line up! Just amazing!
I rode a train the other day for 5 hours. The car I was in had 4 fours that were out of order! How safe is that really? If something would happen I would´ve needed to get into another car to get out! It did feel a bit strange actually.
Music: The White Lane :: Alex Gopher
Mahogany
Motion blur is a nifty feature, yet hard to capture well. This old beauty was passing by and I tried to get the focus on the boat but it only went so/so. This beauty is probably around 70/80 years old and still going strong. In impecable state. I can´t imagine owning one because for every hour at sea there´s at least 40 hours of grinding and polishing but it´s easy to admire the craftmanship involved in maintaining an old boat like this.
Isn´t it weird how things shift focus when you get older? Going crazy nowadays means daring to drink a cup of coffee after dinner (no, decaf is not really coffee) and threatening that nights sleep. In the good old days going crazy meant downing 10 vodka on the rocks while clubbing.
music: Canton :: Japan
Still here
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.
Transformers prevents guy from frequent flyer mileage
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.
