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Very Metal Noise Pollution

...just got back from a tintin exhibit at a museum in town... it was concentrating on the ocean aspects of the tintin books and really damn cool... lots of displays, really thought through, and filled with cool original tintin drawings, hergés pen (!), scetches and other stuff... the best part of it though was that the shark-submarine from Red Rackham's Treasure was on display in full size... really nice...

...now it is off out to my sisters where wewill babysit and probably play some Xbox 360 NHL 2007... which is what William is getting on his birthday from us... should be fun...

...go Wild!

Dance Of The Mad Bastards

...so its been awhile...

...as soon as the wall was done, it was time for the next project... the house we live was going to get all the windows fixed and now it is our turn... so at 7 in the morning (i was long gone to work, but Anna was just out of bed) came the handymen and took out the windows, left a huge mess and disapeared... this means that we now have only the inner glass left and huge tent like things covering all the windows... the result? well, we can not see out, it always dark and minus degrees indoors... did i mention that the apartment now looks like a constructionsite? ...the work will take 3 weeks and during that time we are living like this, always overdressed indoors, and sleeping under double blankets and lots of clothing...

Brain Damage

...it is still snowing, took a photo with my phone for this page... but the photo looked like shit, so you have to imagine it... the translating is going ok, and that is better then expected... this is by far the hardest text i have worked on... marketing... it is just not my world, and sometimes it could might as well have been a completly differnt language, hindu, korean, swahili or anything... but i am slowly struggling, and i will be done tonight... i have to be done tonight...

saw the devil wears prada and 3.10 to yuma last night... prada okay, streep was excellent, as always, and tucci was very good too... so yeah, okay entertainment... 3.10 on the other hand was great, really good old-school western... and russel crowe was a very good villian...

over and out.

...a photo from my phone of the wall and the mess...

Easter & The Bunnymen

...did i say happy easter? ...in my quest to relax, get some sleep and get back to normal life again i completely forgot that it was easter... so no eggs, painting of eggs or watching max von sydow being crucifide on tv... just wine, good food, movies and laying in the sofa reading... yeah, and translating... it is going okey, pretty odd text, they pretty much picked 5 words and then use them in every sentence over and over again...

...still snow, and cold, but we do have sun and it is pretty beautiful outside our apartment in the real world... might go out later and return the movies... but it might be dark again then... well, i got some daylight yesterday... that should do for awhile...

(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais

...got another translation to work on this weekend... a 5 page management training document... will be tough i think, but should work... or actually it has to work, i am getting payed for it so... saw michael clayton last night... great movie, amazing acting... tilda swinton, george clooney and tom wilkinson were all amazing... really good movie... saw stardust too... good 2 hours of entertainment... definitely worth seeing if you just want to have fun and not have to think about the state of the planet, ha ha...

...today i will work on the translation the whole day and then probably watch some hockey tonight... minnesota lost last night, but they are doing fine anyway... play-offs here we come!

Snowblind

...we never had a winter at all... no snow in december, no snow in january, no snow in february... i really thought we would never get one at all... and now this... we have now had snow for two days and it keeps snowing... i must say, if it can't bother in december then i do not really want it at all... just a week ago we had nice warm springweather... and people say there are no such thing as global warming...

...saw clerks 2 last night... hilarious movie... so kevin smith has not lost the touch... really thought he had after the last couple of movies... but this one was great...

Sorry...

...one more thing.

Colorado - Minnesota 1 -3

Hell yeah!!

Born Slippy.

...should really go to bed, so i think i will... tomorrow is the last day though before the FOUR day easter break... i love religious holidays that gives you time off from work...

anyway, 30rock is one great show!

Bohemian Like You.

...i have never really liked mondays, not really for the fact that you have to work, well that too, but mainly because i sleep so bad on sunday nights that i am extremely tired all of monday... today was no different, sleepwalked my way through work like a zombie... and then home and stare at the mess and feel like i have no strenght for this... maybe it is time for some more entourage?

good shows coming up in stockholm next two months though:

low
the gutter twins
nick cave
malcolm middleton
blonde redhead
einsturzende neubauten
explosions in the sky
deus

In The Falt Field

...somehow the wall is not done yet, there seem to always be one tool missing to be able to finish what we are doing... which means one more trip to the hardware store and more money spent that we do not have... when all this is over we will have all the tools ever needed to do anything at all... i would not be totally surprised if we can, in our apartment, build a spaceship if we want to... so more work, more money and more dust laying on everything... personally i am starting to get really tired of living on a construction site and stumbling over tools and timber and a giant vacuum cleaner wherever i go... i have even noticed that i take long routes to get home since i do not really want to face the situation... better to take a little trip in town first, maybe check out some books or cd's... or why not just randomly walk around... and then home... or maybe one more stop...

...i have also completly got stuck on love and rockets... the band that three fourths of bauhaus formed after that band crashed and burned... especially the album sweet f.a. have been going on repeat in my ipod... do not really know why... there is nothing really special about that album, but right now i love it...

...it is not until you start building or tearing down something that you really start to miss having a car...getting material, paint, timber or anything else like that is impossible in a big city... everything is far away and non-reachable with the subway or a bus... and if you would manage to get there by yourself, you will not be able to carry anything home... right now we need 25 kg of cement and some timber... i am not going to carry that on the subway...

...heard some pretty good stuff from the new remix album from mindless self indulgance... maybe i should pick that one up...

Wild.

...in case anyone did not know, minnesota wild is now number 3 in the western conference...

Going Underground.

...sitting in the library at hornstull today with my trusted laptop working away on the book translation... it feels like i have been translating this for about 67 years now... but i guess that is the sad truth when you do it after work on your freetime, it gets sporadic... but i am doing my best...

...today it rained and was kind of sucky on my round... big houses with 8 floors and a lot of really heavy magazines... and my vest that i have the mail in broke, so i had to carry everything, which sucked and hurt my shoulder...

...still listening to the new nin, i have discovered that it is a very good album to sit and type to...

The Dust Brothers.

...so the fine dust is still everywhere, me and anna have cleaned, dusted and scrubbed everything, and when we turn around it is all there again... could drive someone crazy... we also managed to saw of the electrical cable in the wall... which means that the electrical outlets only works on two placesin the apartment now... which means that everything in the apartment is hooked up to these through connection after connection... probably not very safe, or smart, but necessary... but sadly this also means that we need to hire a electrician for another pile of cash that we do not have... the word money trap comes to mind now when i think of home improvement... but i guess that is life and will give us tons of grown-up points...

not listening to anything right now, but i am watching a show on travel channel about wine making in spain... yeah, i could live there...

BERLIN.

...the wall is down... the whole place is covered in a fine, fine layer of dust... everything... no, really, everything... money is flowing... we are coughing... but it lookes great... still, a lot of work left... need to get started again...

did i say that it was raining?

What is sleep?

...roland landed today, together with a big bag of tools... d-day is set for saturday and we will the tear down our wall... should be interesting...

...the big theme right now is otherwise that i am so bloody tired... i have been sleeping badly the whole week and have a hard time staying awake past 21.00... which is slightly sad...

...discovered yesterday that the singer in one of my favorite bands, girls against boys, will releases a soloalbum in march... i have been spending most of the afternoon listeing to some songs on myspace and it sounds great... he calls himself paramount styles... and the album failure american style... check it out, it is really good!

...well, the camping translation is now done and delivered, so i celebrated with a beer, oppigårds ale...

cheers!

Tired.

...so on saturday our wall between the kitchen and the livingroom will come down... it will present us with some minor problems, but i think that all in all it will be great... the apartment will get a lot more air and space and, maybe most important of all, i can see the tv from the kitchen... which means that i will not have to run back and fourth between NHL on the tv and the cooking on the stove... now if we could only win some money so that we can buy that new stove... it is proved to be hard to cook without a oven...

...the new nick cave is still really good, so is the new NIN... i really like what trent is doing with downloading and hope that others will follow... i also really like the approach with the new album, really great music to translate to...

...and talking about translating, right now i am struggling with a camping thingie that needs to be finished on thursday night... halfway there...

listens to: postpunk chronicles scared to dance

Bored?

...if you would ever feel down, depressed or just simply bored...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9PqjMSNfkU

...i promise it is worth clicking on...

Back In Black.

... so after a few days off, while dave was here, i am not back at work... i must say it was hard getting up at 4.44 this morning, i felt and probably looked like a zombie... it takes me almost 3 stations on the subway before i am fully awake, and then i have allready had a cup of tea before leaving the apartment... i do not think humans are made for these hours... and people who think that are actually lying... and that is a fact...

...saw a danish band called printer at debaser the other night... sounded kind of like a mix of old-school new order and underworld... really good... i bought the cd and is listening to it now... you should check it out... nice cover too...

... is it only me or is the press only publishing photos of hillary where she looks like either hitler or satan? ...all photos of obama are really nice and positive...

...well, i do not have time for this now... i have a camping pamflet to translate and a book that still is not done... gotta work...

up the irons.

Kent.

...so dave left today, and i will try and really start to write on this page, it seems like i chose a weird time to start this thing...
...two nights ago we went to västerås and saw kent and as usual they were absolutely amazing, great show, with great light and sound... it was also fun to see them outside of stockholm, with a crowd who was not to cool to applaud or dance and even sing along... i guess there is a reason why no bands ever claims that the best show on the tour was in new york, london or stockholm... small towns just rocks a little bit harder...

...but now the apartment is empty and me and anna are alone again, my guess is that we will spend the day in the sofa in front of the tv, some movies, some hockey and a couple of episodes of entourage, maybe even flight of the concords...

...anyway, until the next time...