+++ MultiColr is an awsome and quite addictive flickr photo finder thing where you chose up to 10 colours and it will find pictures with those colours present. (My tip: click beige! Beige is underappreciated!)
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I also just read through the entire Mythology of Carnivàle and now feel so enlightened! (And really sad that they cancelled it…)
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And I love love love Absolutely Fabulous, the only comedy show ever really worth watching! (And a few episodes of it can be streamed here!)
Patsy and Edina have been to a Marilyn Manson concert!
That was the first episode I ever saw and being a quite big Manson fan I was thrilled! :D
+++ Had such a nice weekend in Stockholm visiting my babe Adina!
Firstly, I missed a couple of trains because I was going to bid on tickets online which totally failed. I had to take the bus, which takes 7 hours and was pretty disappointed. But as the bus stopped in Jönköping, a man got on it and sat down next to me. After a while he asked me what I was reading (Selma Lagerlöf, Sagan om en Saga) and then I asked him what he was reading. Turned out he was checking out the script for a book he was to publish, on “real economy” as he said. I thus asked if by real economy he meant solidar systems and he said yes! I said I had just finished a book on the subject and mentioned the name – turned out he was the one who had published it. We then talked for five hours, came to Stockholm, met up with Adina and went straight to a David Korten seminar where I also met the writer of the book I had read, Åsa Brandberg. AWESOME!
Adina and I then went back to her place, watched random Bruce Willis movie and ate heaps of good food.
Here’s a 50 minute seminar with David Korten for whoever is up for it!
The day after that, Adina, her boyfriend Mika, his grandmother Karen and I went to an antique fair in Kista. I got a bunch of really great things; 60s white boots, a 30s dress, an umbrella holder thingie and two antique medical books which I will all show when it’s light outside and I can take pictures. I also got interviewed about my collecting antique photographies by the magazine Antik&Auktion. Will scan when it comes out in stores!
We then went to a party at Naomis place, to see her and Lisis and drink cider & vodka and danced to the Ark in the living room. Hadn’t seen Lisis in almost two years so it was great to see her again! My camera was on the brink of dying this whole day though so I didn’t dare to use it. I know both Lisis & Naomi took pictures though so I’m hoping to see them.
The day after that was a tired day though I managed to go to Myrorna in Skärholmen with Adina and Mika and then get into town to see Mican and her boyfriend who I hadn’t met before and who was lovely. We went to Kulturhuset to look at the Shirin Neshat exhibit Women without Men. Then we had coffee, raspberry pie (made my head spin) and then beer aswell.
+++ Just found my favourite book, The Heart Pincher by Boris Vian on Bokbörsen which is an online second hand book store! Ordered it straight away! My friend Maya borrowed it from me a couple of years ago and then the bag which it was in got stolen from her rental car in Dublin. Sad day!
+++ Adina and I watched a bunch of movies in Stockholm, the best one of which was definitely Ginger Snaps. (Check out the perfect website!!!) I love outsider goth/alternative girl movies (besides Ghost World which I absolutely couldn’t stand) and I love high school movies, and werewolves too! And funny dialogue!
+++ A blog reader, Jessica, recommended me this song, and I love it! Have played the video to myself a bunch of times today.
+++ Adina also gave me a kombucha again, mine died a few months ago from mold. Happy to have one again, I’ve missed it!
Ok people, this is me trying to get a bit more organized. +++ is a category for everything that I like or that is great or interesting but that I kind of usually neglect to post here because I don’t like making a post with just a sentence and a link to a site that I think is good or whatever… I’ll try to summarize it all in one post every week instead. Hope you like!
+++ Best thing of this week is definitely that I’m going to Adina in Stockholm on Thursday! <3 We haven’t seen eachother in like six months, maybe more. But now I have time and money to get to stay from Thursday to Sunday & we’re going to cook and eat lots of food! Yay!Eating rules, Adina rules, both together = awesome!! And Lisis & Naomi and her flatmate are throwing a party aswell! Looking forward to this weekend a lot!
+++ I cleaned the flat yesterday and this morning and am now plotting how to decorate the hallway further since it’s kinda sad looking with no place to hang your jackets and coat. Am also fantasizing about amazing wallpapers or painting a mural in the living room!
+++ Started watching old episodes of Criminal Minds here. Great distraction from life & I can iron things while I’m watching. I’ve gotten a little obsessed with ironing since I got my board back, and think I will sew more now aswell!
+++ Saw Johanna today after class and walked around town with her, went to the lovely Lotta of vintage shop Drömma, had sushi, I got litterature for my new course in global development studies & now I’m at Frejs place drinking tea and am supposed to read a Hettne book & mend my coat. All in all a very good day!
“We wanted to confront people with the meaning and logical conclusion of the promise of endless economic growth. We used a hamster to illustrate what would happen if there were no limits to growth because they double in size each week before reaching maturity at around 6 weeks. But if a hamster grew at the same rate until its first birthday, wed be looking at a nine billion tonne hamster, which ate more than a years worth of world maize production every day. There are reasons in nature, why things dont grow indefinitely. As things are in nature, sooner or later, so they must be in the economy. As economic growth rises, we are pushing the planet ever closer to, and beyond some very real environmental limits. With every doubling in the global economy we use the equivalent in resources of all of the previous doublings combined.”
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+++ Resan till Melonia (the Journey to Melonia) is one of the sweetest films I’ve seen in a long time. I have seen it when I was a child aswell but only once I think, because I only remembered small details. Now Becka, Miranda and I re-watched it this weekend and it’s such a beautiful movie with animations by Per Åhlin & the voices of some of my favourite people including Hans Alfredson and Allan Edwall. (and Robyn!)
Plot from Wikipedia:
“The beautiful paradise island Melonia is inhabited by the sorcerer Prospero with his daughter Miranda, the albatross Ariel, the good-natured vegetable-faced gardener Caliban and William the dog-nosed poet. They live a generally peaceful life, except for Caliban who has to work hard with the garden. A few miles away lies the dark island Plutonia, where the greedy industrialists Slug and Slagg rule. Once as green and flourishing as Melonia, Plutonia is now percieved as hell on earth, where children are forced to, under slave conditions, build weapons and tools of war, which Slug and Slagg believe is the way of the future. With Plutonia’s resources nearly exhausted, Slug and Slagg turn their gaze on the unexploited Melonia, scheming to take it over with a gigantic drill…”
Gotta love environmentalist, anti capitalist movies for kids!
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+++ Oh and you can win a free copy of Naomi Nowaks beautiful book Graylight here!
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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