Yesterday I bought my first nailpolish in years and years! This will be my first & only one I guess… I really hate nailpolish, I think it’s fairly nice looking but it’s just way too annoying that it always flakes so fast and then you have to remove it all and redo it or look crappy. And I absolutely always fuck up a nail while waiting for it to dry too. You’d think that in the 100ish years (I actually have no idea how long nailpolish has been around but at least I know it existed in the 20s) it has existed they would have been able to invent something that stuck on your nails until it was removed… So up until now I’ve stuck to borrowing from friends amd then whining to them about how annyoing it is and that they shouldn’t have lended it to me…
Oh well I bought one now anyway. It’s from FACE Stockholm.
I also don’t like that the ingredients in nailpolish are pretty sucky and that you have to use chemicals to remove it. Now I googled it though, and found at at least two environmentally friendly nailpolish removers:Priti Soy Based Polish Remover and ECO-Easy remover. I might try one of them if I don’t stick to my old habit of having nails that look good for two days and then flaky ones for a month until it goes away by itself… Damn seductive nailpolish luring me in to buying it!!! I already can’t really enjoy it because I know it will cause me trouble! But at least I like looking at my fingers on the keyboard now, haha.
Was going to do this yesterday but didn’t have time before Frej seized the computer! My favourite versions! (Shane McGowan one is going to be second on the list after the original now…!) It is so good! It seems you can only buy it in the UK & Eire?? So you should if you’re there! I will instead then watch the video over and over. EDIT: found you can buy it here. But here are the other ones I love.
Screaming Jay Hawkins
Marilyn Manson
First version I heard of course, being a total little mansonite.
And someone’s made a really gorgeous video for it aswell!
Nina Simone
Joe Cocker
The Birthday Party
(not really a favourite.… but it’s Nick so I have to put it on my list anyhow!!!)
Not at all posed studying at Frej’s place. This is what my life looks like for most parts… tea and books!This was Från Pax Romana till Pax Americana about world orders, good book I think, cleared a lot of thinigs up for me (I have been a bit too oblivious to international politics & history in general before, glad I’m taking this course!). And that’s the dress I bought the other day which is full lenght and I will wear all the time as soon as it’s spring!! Can’t wait!
Serious face…
Frej and his new stockings! And a really pretty 80s blouse he found when we were thrifting the other week.
Little cutie!! I’m at his place today aswell, we have two weeks almost completely off from school before we get the next exam handed out & I am spending time taking it easy and reading through the litterature for the course. This weekend I’ve planned to make a big update at Lily! My arms have felt way better lately and Suss is helping me out aswell. So keep your eyes out! (Though I will of course post here about the update when it’s done!)
Now I am going to keep studying for a little bit… and then eat springrolls! The fasting Frej and I were supposed to start this monday has been postponed until I have recovered completely from the cold. Would be bad to fast while sick we figured, so we’ll probably start on monday next week instead.
Then I think you should watch this BBC documentary, Racism – a history. You can stream it directly on google videos here. Part 1, part 2, part 3. Each part is one hour and I think they’re very worthwile, they have been shown as part of the development courses I’m taking. They’re just what the title says; a pretty thorough history from colonialism through slavery and eugenics…
Carin was going to come to Göteborg today and have an adventurous day with me, but she got a cold and had to stay in Jönköping. I was in a cranky mood and tried to make my other friends on facebook do something fun with me but noone complied!!!! Except Suss but we have an adventurous household together everyday so that doesn’t really count! Then I went to town with Suss, thrifted a heap of things and then met up with Frej to try out glasses for him which failed. The things I thrifted were: a long pink 70s floral dress that I will wear when it’s spring. Which should be now. A beige/light orange tulle skirt. A few books, a framed 50s illustration that will go great in our kitchen, and two pairs of stockings. I gave one pair to Frej because it was those with one black and one white leg and they suited him way better than they suited me. I don’t really like wearing black and white sadly, I think it’s really pretty but I always feel uncomfortable in it.
Can’t really say that shopping made me in a better mood though I really really like this long dress, it’s barbie pink with turquoise flowers and buttons all the way up the front. Pink dresses = more comfortable!!!
1. Det ska bli slut på rumban – Röda Bönor
2. Oh bondage, up yours! – X-ray Spex
3. Beauty Fiend – My Ruin
4. Awful - Hole
5. Gloria – Patti Smith Group
6. Nanny Nanny Boo Boo – Le Tigre
7. Can’t Hold Us Down – Christina Aguilera feat. Lil Kim
8. Down at the Pub – Lunachicks
9. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien – Edith Piaf
10. To Kill a King – Hungry Lucy
11. That’s Not My Name – The Ting Tings
12. Shake Yer Dix - Peaches
13. Sången om Sexualmyterna – Röda Bönor
14. Då Är Det Inte Kärlek – Tant Strul
Bikini Kill – Rebel Girl
Ani DiFranco – Shameless
Wish I had time to think of more songs to put on the playlist but I have to rush off to school! Tonight I’m going to a demo and then to a party to celebrate the 100th international women’s day!
Yesterday Frej and I went on a walk in Kortedala, the weather was wonderful and a bit closer to spring than before.
By Beväringsgatan. It says Have you forgotten that you are a human being?
We ended up visiting the squatted house in Kviberg. Sadly I hardly took any pictures, just forgot. It’s in an old institution house so the feeling was really creepy in some rooms, but with beautiful light everywhere.
I got a wonderful black knitted hat with little rhinestones and a pink 60s lace dress in their free-shop! Lovely!
Met up with Linnea on the tram, she had just gotten her lip pierced. She has moved to Uppsala to study & we miss her a lot in the collective! First time back in Göteborg this weekend.
Brought her home and fed her with chips & crackers.
Linnea & Suss and our kitchen which for the first time in what seems like forever is lit up by actual daylight!
Here I had changed to the hat & dress I got in the free shop! That dress is my new favourite!! Going to take pictures of it when I get energy! Right now I’m really watching the Brown Bunny but I keep getting too bored and do other things like cleaning my room and writing blog posts…
This friday was Johanna’s 26th bithday & she threw a birthday party at her place, with cupcakes & balloons & 90s music.
Pretty Johanna with her birthday cat she got from Mattias! Anton & the cat, mkt svåra.
There was cheese but no crackers. Chocolate crackers were tried out and appreciated. I didn’t try since I don’t eat that stuff but I found it pretty miraculous anyway.
Elina
Bit of Åsa, Mattias with cheese & the chocolate crackers, Maria & Sanny.
Frej
Åsa and in the background the cake she had baked that I really should have taken pictures of because it was awesome!
Olof, Johanna and I
Lovely party with lots of talk about body parts, hair, and illnesses of different kinds!! Then the others went out & Frej and I went home since I was sick and still am, boohoo.
I put all my clothes on, got ready and then I didn’t get out of the apartment in time for school, lost track of time. Stupid! Now I’m not going at all because I’ve already missed the first hour by the time I get there. Oh well, sometimes I guess you do need a break & also I am developing a cold thanks to either my classmates or my flatmates (everyone are sick these days) so I will stay here and take pictures of myself and surroundings instead.
Tonight I slept with my window open & instead had lots of blankets and sheets. Maybe not good for the cold but it was very nice anyway.
I am going to go by my human ecology class’ after work at andra lång today though I’m sick & sober aswell, then celebrate my little Johanna’s 26th birthday! It’s pretty nice to not drink and go out anyway. Next week, if everything goes as planned (that is, if nothing that you have to be your normal self for) Frej and I will fast, starting Monday. So this is like my cleansing and very healthy month!
hi! i'm Karin, I'm 23 & live in Göteborg in Sweden. I run a vintage shop called Lily of the Valley. I like antique things, reading loads of books, drinking tea, body modification and cats among other things. I also study human ecology.
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