Will try to keep some sort of pace up with painting/drawing/everything that distracts me from computers. So I will scan anything I am decently pleased with. Now I’m going to bake a freaking cake.
Posts published during oktober, 2009
I will wash my jeans for the first time today. I’ve worn my new jacket since I got home after school. Mom is at ICA (that is a grocery store) and Olle is at the scouts. I don’t get the fun with scouts. You read the Bible, make wood carvings with a boring knife you go out in to the forest and look at leaves and get your feet wet. You look at pieces of wood and check how long it takes you to get bored with going to the scouts. So boring!
Today is Frej’s 26th birthday! But he’s working all day long sadly, I’m at his place and am considering baking a cake or something for when he gets back. (or we might also meet up in town to go out directly to celebrate but then I could bring teh cake) But I’m having some trouble since I have a) no money for more ingredients than the ones he has here and b) no inspiration and c) am confused with his order of kitchen devices, have yet to learn to find anything here… What to do? Is there an easy cake solution? He’s a vegan too. And I have about 9 hours until he gets back.
Cutie needs cake, right!
Ok now I have to go write on my home assignment and speed myself on coffee.
Major love for Nick Cave (as always). Here he is in swedish show Kobra, talking about the Death of Bunny Munro which was inspired by SCUM-manifesto by Valerie Solanas. <3 :) :) Haven’t been able to read it yet but I surely will. The interview starts about 15 minutes into the clip and is in english. My sweet friend Carl texted me just to tell me Nick was on tv.
I am trying to study so I’m doing other things like looking through the pictures I’m tagged in on facebook.
This is one of my favourite picture of myself so far in life. Taken by Marika at her birthday party. This is my essence:
I like this one too, from midsummer this year. We all look so thrilled over life & Frej and I have matching cup holding skills.
And this one which is taken by Lina approximately 10 seconds after a bird has taken a shit in my hair from that street light.
Bleached my bangs more yesterday, with leftover bleach from last time. And also I helped Frej dye his hair black & cut it.
Paper colour samples I found when I was organizing my room.
Susanne and I were at another thrift store yesterday and I got Middlesex that I started reading right away and am already loving, The Third Revolution by Paul Harrison and a 1903 childrens book with amazing illustrations and insane stories with obedient girls. I spied on the guy who was before me in line and he got a bunch of books I wanted (Like the picture of Dorian Gray), I wanted to wrestle him over it but didn’t.
Pretty cover.
I have also been eating/consuming vegan only for well over a month now and have thus decided that I am and will remain a vegan. Not a light decision for me, am thinking it’s pretty much a life decision so I had to adjust to the thought for a while. And now I have and it feels really good!
Susanne and I went on a fleamarket round. Didn’t find much though, just three books. (Rädslans Geografi, Therese Raquin & Inkvartering)
I liked this.
Susanne & Ulrika.
‘I wore nailpolish which I pretty much hate doing but I wanted to be fancy this weekend and I don’t own any remover so now I have to stand it until it goes away by itself.
Got back home and messed with this guy. (His fancy cat breeding name is Original Gangster!)
I bought this book at the flea market, I used to read her biographic series when I was a kid (though they’re not children’s books, I’d recommend them to anyone but I think they were written for adults). This one was really good too.
Then Frej came over and baked me this cake with banana replacing sugar & avocado chocolate mousse!
You can make chocolage mousse with avocadoes really really easy and it does not taste like there’s anything healthy in there at all…
Here’s one recipe in swedish.
Trying to stay of the computer as much as possible. The doctor said it was either that or cortisone injections to the arms and I think I’ll try the first option for a while instead.
Today is my birthday! Frej and I have spent it so far watching art films on vimeo and eating chips for breakfast. Now I’m on my way to the doctor to get a checkup on my arms. I recommend watching the little documentary above, it’s about a man filling a whole city with gorgeous street art.
I survived the talking! I even think I did fairly good. Don’t know if I learned any lesson but still… Going to try to be proud of myself for doing it.
Today is global climate action day. I really do hope you are doing something.
Here’s a beautiful video someone made for Misery is the River of the World
The higher that the monkey can climb
The more he shows his tail
Call no man happy ’til he dies
There’s no milk at the bottom of the pailGod builds a church
The devil builds a chapel
Like the thistles that are growing
‘Round the trunk of a tree
All the good in the world
You can put inside a thimble
And still have room for you and meIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind
There’s nothing kind about man
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it always comes roaring back againMisery’s the river of the world
Misery’s the river of the world
Misery’s the river of the worldThe higher that the monkey can climb
The more he shows his tail
Call no man happy till he dies
There’s no milk at the bottom of the pailGod tempers all the winds for the new shorn lambs
The devil knows the bible like the back of his hand
All the good in the world
You can put inside a thimble
And still have room for you and meIf there’s one thing you can say about mankind
There’s nothing kind about man
You can drive out nature with a pitch fork
But it always comes roaring back againFor want of a bird
The sky was lost
For want of a nail
A shoe was lost
For want of a life
A knife was lost
For want of a toy
A child was lostAnd misery’s the river of the world
Misery’s the river of the world
Everybody row, everybody row
I have to talk in front of my class tomorrow and I think I have skipped class every time this has happened before in the history of my life. But I decided I can’t act like that anymore so do any of you have any tips for what I could do to make myself a bit calmer? The mere thought of it makes my heart race!
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- i'm Karin, I'm 23 & live in Göteborg in Sweden. (grew up in Jönköping.) I run an online vintage shop called Lily of the Valley.
I like antique things, I buy way too many books with the last cash I own, I am interested in body modification, art, knowledge and Frej. I am a vegan and pretty involved in environmental issues. I've studied human ecology and CSR, going on to environmental revisioning this fall..
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