Music signalling

There are many things about a person that give indications, whether they are voluntary are not, about what kind of person it is. It can be clothes, hairstyle, accessories, the car, vocabulary, profession and so on. Music is also one of those things. People look for different things in music. I have friends who prefer music with a message, whether it is political or the usual thing, feelings, others that prefer unts unts unts-music where they, if I am not mistaken don't say that many things and when they do, they repeat it a lot. There are those who just put on a commercial radio channel and are as happy as they can be. Then there are people who feels the music, know every beat and every tone and even mix them. Then I have friends that I have no idea what they actually listen which is kind of strange I think. In any case, the music says SOMETHING about a person. Therefor I wonder what kind of signal I send in this very moment while listening to Dr Alban and his "Dr Feelgood" and Culture Beat's "Mr Vain" which one can see on MSN? :-D

I don't have much music at all compared to some others but I still wonder why on earth I have some songs...

*laughing*

I love Ice Age, just as I love Shrek! I was never a cartoon freak when I was little but nowadays I really enjoy this kind of cartoons/animated movies. Although not all of them are as well made. Monsters Inc is quite good too.

Origin matters?

Writing about Laleh making Swedish being inspired by Cornelis Vreeswijk reminded me of the general discussion what is "Swedish" (or any other national connection). This is a perfect example of things seldom having a clear origin. How Swedish can music really be if it is made by a person who originally isn't Swedish who is inspired by a man who originally is from Holland? He was born 1937, came to Sweden when he was 12 years old and stayed here until he died 1987, well known and loved here. Still both Vreeswijk and Laleh are at a large extent seen as Swedish. Whatever people think, they are or have done good music...so what does it matter where they are from?

Maybe?! Ameby?

As I wrote not too long ago, I have little patience when chating with people etc. That also means that I think faster than I write correctly. My fingers play tricks on me. E.g. I was just writing "maybe" to a friend, maybe = "kanske"...or that was my intention but instead of writing K A N S K E I wrote "aksnek"

ak -> ka sn -> ns ek -> ke

I wrote every pair of letter in the wrong order which my friend so nicely pointed out to me hahaha...

Laleh...a Swedish, but born in Iran, singer/songwriter who I think is talented..and so does others too obviously. She has received numerous prices here in Sweden. She does what she wants, e.g. against recommendations she sings in three different languages. It works and she is good. She borrows some of her style from a very good old artist, Vreeswijk, which is genius :-)

This song is called "Storebror" (Big Brother) (and has nothing to do with governments or bad shows on TV ;-)...just the regular brother thing)

To do with 5 euro & time

5 euro/movie = go often. 9,50 euro/movie and less income = very sadly not go... I miss it!! Going to the movies here is really expensive. The prices for it has during the years risen much, much quicker than the prices of other things which means that the prices for going to the movie here truly are too high. And people here wonder why so many download so much?! The same thing goes for music. One principal of economics is that of supply and demand that actually got into my head (well, it seems to be the basic, this so called almighty THEORY and everything that goes with it). The demand for a certain product or service shows how much people are willing to pay for it and the supply is what the producers are willing to sell their product or service. Obviously there are not enough people that are willing to pay so much money for so little and since there is a "solution" (downloading for free) to the problem, people uses that solution. There is no practical need for people to "buy less" as with things that are ONLY possible to buy (e.g. if clothes are expensive and you can't afford it, you don't buy so many clothes and so often). So... if they would lower the prices to going to the movies, I would most certainly go more often!

Eight Below

Stay

The Constant Gardener

Hooligans

X-men (1, 2 el 3?)

Lord of War

Tristan & Isolde

Pink Panter

Pride and Prejudice

V for Vendetta

Syriana

Mission Impossible

En Geishas memoarer

Hostel

Da Vince Code

The Corpse Bride

Seen that

See, I see the same movies over and over again. I have already seen tonight's movies. "Mission to Mars" (which is creepy), "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (boring), "The Village" (ok, but if you already know what is going to happen, it's no fun seeing it again), "Amistad" (good but makes me upset) and there is a movie with Jamie Lee Curtis which usually means that I won't like the movie. Then there are a few that are not very alluring... The point being that most movies are just plain boring since I've already seen them. Been there, done that... I don't like that feeling.

And they call this a Friday?

I am tired of being stuck here because of the snow!

In common?

Coincidence?

Is it a coincidence that Mel Gibson of all people is making such bloody movies?

Mr Cardinal Sin

I was reading about the Philippines when I came across the name Jaime Cardinal Sin who was a bishop. Funny name I must say... which also is mentioned when you look him up more detailed. Haha... You know, catholics and their beloved sins! I shall not go into further thoughts about that.

"His name should not be confused with "cardinal sin", which is a synonym for the seven deadly sins, and it has also been the source of many jokes in the Philippines revolving around him such as "The greatest sin of all...Cardinal Sin" or "Welcome to the house of Sin" reffering to his Church. (it was also an item in "Ripley's Believe It or Not")." (Wikipedia)

Snow walking habbits

It's a bit funny, watching how people's walking habbits change when there is snow on the ground. People walk everywhere without even seeming to care that they are walking in the middle of the street (not on main streets of course). People are pretty much walking everywhere but on the sidewalk :-) Hehe...it's a kind of "reclaim the streets" since people cannot walk on the sidewalks since that isn't prioritized so we "reclaim the streets" by walking right in the middle of them instead. :-)

Bad Swedish

When writing an application for a job, it is important to make a good and correct impression, right? What about the ads themselves? Shouldn't they be correct too?

"Engelska och Svenska är ett krav."

="English and Swedish is a requierement."

Ok... You have to know Swedish. Swedish in Swedish is NOT written with a capital letter )svenska), that is English writing rule!

"Tjänsten är på halvtid och startar upp på morgonen..."
= "It is a half-time employment and start up in the morning..."

Start UPP??? What is going up? Doesn't "start" mean to start? Bad Swedish!

So I wonder, is it only necessary that the new employee is good at Swedish and not the rest of the people in the company? ;-)

To sale or not to sale

NOT! I really don't want to. It seems like most of the available jobs are to sale different things, not the least through telemarketing. I hate it. I much rather clean or do something like that. So tired of seeing all the sales ads. It is not that I don't like people that try to sell me things it is the people you call that are so incredibly RUDE and even nasty. I have never in my life "met" so many screwed up people and you might very well be one of those who behave extremely rude and disrespectful to people who are only trying to make a living and do their job! I have never in my life been so nice to people and treated as bad! You have NO right what so ever to step on people who are trying to do something good. Do you prefere that they live of the taxes? Prefere that they sit at home, doing nothing? Not paying any taxes, not doing "their part"? Well, then shut up and just say "no thank you, good bye". That's it. Can you do that? Not treat people like shit?

Fallen Leaves

No, not even that at the moment. More like plenty of white critstals. I don't only like "Red Flag" but also this song, ""Fallen Leaves"...I have a feeling that I might like Billy Talent. Who knows...

Semla

Semla: sweet bun with whipped cream, some marzipan inside and powdered with sugar on top. That is what one is "supposed" to eat and WANT to eat at this time of year. Never been much of a traditional person and the same goes for my need to eat a "semla" every year. I usually eat one or so if I get a chance but it's not worth to hunt for one. They are usually quite dry and the whipped cream doesn't taste anything. So, this semla is for Y! ...who should be eating much healthier stuff at the moment ;-)

Press forward, please

I am talking about this day. What a lousy mood I've been in all day, many reasons. A woman woke be up by calling me, making me happy. I could go and check out her very nice, and cheap, sofa that she wanted to sell. I was going to visit her at 2 pm. At about 1 pm she called again to tell me that she just sold the sofa to someone else! How RUDE! She made me so mad. You just don't do that. She never give me a chance. I am 99% sure that I would have bought it so she wouldn't have lost anything.

This one but in beige.

Swimeli swim

It has been a good day! Going swimming/playing with three nephews can be very nice. The youngest (5 years old) was very eager to learn how to swim and he did a great job. I bet that he'll be swimming soon (just need some practice). Also doing the "bomb" many times. I must say it was a lot of fun going in the slide! It was actually a small adrenaline rush :-) I am getting much too old, not doing such small things often enough!! Well...I simply don't have enough people/opportunities to do it.

In a few years I have a feeling he'll be doing things like this...which isn't that far from what the big brother is doing.

Education as a merchandise?

From a debate article in a student paper about the Bologna process (harmonization of educational systems within Europe):

"The education is simply turning from a social right, means for liberation and self-realization, to a merchandise which should correspond to the demands of a obedient and well adjust labour for the state and the capital. This is not a conspiracy theory but an objective with which one is completlly open with: the highter education och reserach shall be used to benefit growth and thus promote Europe's position in the competition."

"At a gathering of these [parts of the process], the image of a gigant education factory emerges. In the Bologna process throughout* is prioritized above critical thinking, growth above democracy and competition above education."

"Whether this is a positive or negative development isn't written in stone, it isn't an objective fact. Just like other political standpoints it is characterized by th interests one represent, the standpoints one does and in this case also the view one has on education. If one consider people there to satisfy the companies' need, then one probably think that the Bologna process is pretty good. If one is of the opposite opinion // that the companies are there to satisfy the need of the people, then one have all reasons to behave critically to the speech of the blessed effects of the Bologna process."

Written by Olof Holmgren

(my own translation)

* genomströmning

Seen it

Always the same problem. It is weekend I feel like watching a movie. I go through all the channels. Either I know that I won't like the movie or more common, I have already seen it! I say to myself "seen it, seen it, uhh bad movie, seen it...". I'm not the kind of person who likes to watch a movie several times. Sometimes I see one twice, but just because I have nothing better to do. Although there are few movies that I do like to see several times but they are rare and they are usually the big movies like Matrix x3 and Lord of the Rings x3 etc. Never really understood the thing about collecting movies as many seem to like. Music is one thing because that you listen to over and over and you can enjoy it for years ahead. But movies? Näää... Just expensive. I prefere to spend my money on other things.

...ahh... money! I wish I could get an income very soon!

Fat(man?)

If my memory isn't letting me down... I play this for my growing sweetie! Tjohoooo! En massa vuxenpoäng får här sig en släng av animerad video :-) Vassego!

Fatman Scoop - "Be faithful"

My flatmates

They never play too loud or "wrong" music, or complain about me in any way. They are usually very quiet, just splashes sometimes.

Cold...or warm O'Boy

I just want to say that I hope that everyone who are sneezing and have sore throats get well soon. Take it easy, don't work (to hard at least), have soft sneeze paper* in stock and drink hot tea or chocolate and eat healthy stuff :-) Krya på er...

* yes, my own word. I am the sneeze queen!

And something to cheer you up!

I like Peps! Who doesn't?! :-)

Blog subjects

Since people blog about everything and maybe more about nothing, I thought it might be appropriate to blog about blogging for once...as probably thousands and thousands others already have. I just got the question why I am blogging about scissors and why others are blogging about equally uninteresting things when there are som many other things that are much more important (which I laughed about!). I don't know either. Only have a theory about avoiding doing other things of different reasons. BUT if someone would HAPPEN to write about SMS, I would think that is kind of interesting since it is a reflection of todays society in some parts of the world. Isn't that also what people who's interest is the society and how it works should be doing in a way? Reflecting society since it is all connected. E.g. the extensive use of SMS (which I, btw, am very familiar with) could be seen as a sign of globalization and communication. Saying something about technology, young people's use of it and the effects that might have, but not to forget about older people's use of SMS, e.g. how impossible it seems to be able to learn how to write fast using the T9. It also have an effect on the way we write and out ability to do it in a correct way. Shorter, new words, the use of smileys...wrong spellings etc.

Btw, I should start combining the two, blogging + SMS...or more like MMS. If I only could have the patience to read the intructions how to do it. Aaaand, not to forget, the most important thing, the PHOTOGRAPHING which is the main point of combining the two, or three things.

One last thing. A personal reason that I like to blog, sometimes about absolutely uninteresting things for others, is so I won't have to disturbe my friends and family with as many thoughts and outbursts about everything and nothing all the time, as I used to. As some might have noticed, there are fewer emails from me nowadays. Now people can CHOOSE if they want to read what I have to say...or should I say, I don't have to think about how much people IGNORE me since they now don't read the texts here instead of throwing my emails away (unread). So, as I have said before. This is where I unload my crowded head.. maybe right out into the blue but at least I do get to unload. It can also be seen as a kind of diary of course. It takes to much time to write things down in a paper diary, I don't have the patience nor the time to do that. I have tried.

Ps. There is a ridiculous large amount of cats when you google for pics about blogging. I don't get it...

I don't like scissors

I have a strange relationship to scissors. I avoid them and I keep them around me. I have one in my kitchen, two here on the desk in my bedroom and two on two different tables in my living room. In total 5, that is is one every 10 m2. What is important to notice is that they are all just for cutting paper and such things. On the other hand (haha) I hardly ever use other kinds of scissors because I see no real point using them more than a very few times a year. Better that way. Today I reminded myself why I don't like scissors :-( (but it is for a "practical" reason hmm) Well, I won't use it again for a long time!

Striving for multitude? Meaning?

In the end of many of the job advertisments that I read these days, it says something about the company, municipality or who ever the employer is, strives for a ethnic and cultural multitude, even distribution in terms of sex/age etc. That is excellent but what I am wondering about is, what "kind" of people are the specific employers actually looking for? If the job is in the health care sector, they probably could use more male applicants (which they also sometimes point out), if they are looking for a stockkeeper*, they could use more women or if it is something that has to do with a golf club, they "should" probably look for immigrants... What about the rest? The jobs that are not that "obvious"? Some places are maybe already full of a specific "kind" of people depending in what part of town it is situated etc. It is hard to know how the employers work with the multitude goals, if they really strive for it or if they just write about it because it sounds good. Anyway, how can I know which "part of me" that I should point out or speak less about (if any) according to the employer/ad?

About working... I slept while my dad was working, many, many years ago. I was obviously both tired and bored (I prefered when my brother was the babysitter, bringing me with him to his friends, parties and many other, very "cool" things!). You can imagine how discrete my dad was while taking pictures on some breaking-up days** ;-)

* lagerarbetare
** skolavslutningar

Apesar de você

Apesar de você with Chico Buarque. Never mind the video, I am only after the song, which I like very much! A song I have listen to many times while growing up.

Moat

The moat* close to where I live...

*vallgrav

Go Portugal!

Good news! The Portuguese people has voted for a more liberal abortion law that permits abortion until the 10th week of pregnancy and not only if the pregnancy threatens the life of the mother, the foetus/child is very sick or if the child was concieved because of a rape! Only 44 % of the people entitled to vote actually voted. That means that the results of the election isn't binding but the president promise to make sure that the new law is passed in the parliment!

Book of kindness

Ah, I love them! Especially when I get to chose them myself...which the last 4,5 years (except for a few months once) haven't been able to do that. I still don't really have the time to spend on reading "fun" books but I did for a hour or so today. That is relaxation. Well, I actually didn't chose this book myself, it was given to me, but I want to read it and it has many good points, of which I will talk more about another time. It is about kindness. The real kindness, not the "stupid kindness". Definitely a book I know a few people who could need to read it. Not that any of them are reading this blog anyway (have a very hard time believing that they would ever do that) so they will not get my hint anyway. I can say as much as their need to read this book about kindness and the BENEFITS of being a kind and generous person is, according to me, strongly connected to another way of thinking of benifits, a totally different kind of benifits...which is connected to a very important and today in Sweden noticed way of doing, changing things... politics. They don't get it, or so I personally think, that helping others would help themselves a lot more than only trying to help themselves as much as they do or are "planning" to do.

World Press Photo

I am a photo freak sometimes, I take loads of pictures. "Practice makes perfect", right? I have to practice even if it usually is moment pictures, so I do. One of the gifts I have had most use of in a long time. I wouldn't mind get this good one day ;-) So if you want to see some unbelievable photos, take many looks at these photos! One word: WOW

http://www.worldpressphoto.com/index.php?option=com_photogallery&task=blogsection&id=17&Itemid=146&bandwidth=low2high

Here is another one, from the past...

There is one thing though. Some/many of these photos are taken during circumstances that I prefere never have to see for myself. There is a saying, that a picture says more than a thousand words...

The Lick

You know what? I am sitting here with a receipt from McDonalds that someone GAVE me today. Weird huh? *chuckle*

The Lick without the music and the guy. A nice, warm, puppy would be nice right now.

It's raining frogs

No men, frogs. I have just seen Magnolia, finally. It is really, really good. It is different from most movies, the way the storyline is built up and because of the good acting in the stories that might be real life for some. You never know for sure what is going to happen. Are things going to end happily or will things go bad or will you ever know which way it goes? Will the people realize what they are doing? What did really happen?

Money = egoism

"Money have influence on people's behaviour and motivation, even fake money. It is shown by the research results from a university in Minnesota in Minneapolis. In tests, test persons was exposed to different events, while they were close of toy money. The persons that had money involved in the tests, worked for a longer period of time before they asked for help solving a problem, but they were also less helpful than other test subjects. In a planned accident, where a scientist dropped a box of pencils, it was those who had most money who picked up the smallest amount of pencils. Money makes people more hard working but also less helpful."

dkr.dk/videnskap

And now the much hated frase... "I told you so!"

He is better than my thoughts

Somedays are just no good. Nothing special making you feel like shit. You just do. Old thoughts that you feel better without just come back to haunt you and kick you a little. Reminding of things you can't fix or change anyway. Useless thoughts that just make you sad and everything you see, hear or read reminds you of all that...

To chear myself up... Anthony Kiedis (the singer of Red Hot Chili Peppers). Looking like that (except for the hair) being over 40 is NOT bad *sigh*

Patience in crowded mind

Patience is a virtue, that's for sure. In some sence I don't like writing but in others I do. I prefere the situations that don't requiere to much time needed to think and formulate the best and most academic ways, that is writing emails, chatting and blogging. My constant problem is that I like it more than most of the people I know = I always write more than them. Also my more than 10 years of intensive writing (from time to time at least) has given me habbit, or what ever I should call it, to write fast and a lot when chatting, leaving me with a lot of boring waiting time until the other person 1. bothers to think of to answer, 2. starts thinking of what to answer, 3. starting to write, 4. actually finish to write. Fortunatly there are some few, extremely few...or should I say one person who beats me/is in the same way :-D Yes, I am not always a very patient person...and there are often simply way to much stuff in my head :-S The main remedy to this problem (yes, I sometimes find it to be a problem to me, even if a small one) is, or I have been told by different people, to AGE. Then I have to think more about what I do and say. Yes, but it takes time. Ageing takes a lot of time. I can't wait ;-) I am too impatient hehe... I am probably going to get high blood pressure in the future. I could use some shyness or at least a brain drain (to use the expression in a very different and wrong way). Or, maybe a lobotomi and a Valium. Maybe a horrible trauma could shut me up?

I've got waaay to many thought in my middle sized crowded head!!!

You're saved by the bell. Lost starts now so finally you are getting rid of me, this time. :-)

Ps. I just want to add that I can be extremely patience also, depending what it concerns. Sometimes I am much too patient for my own good and maybe others.

Shrekalicious

Oooh! Me liky! Shrek & Co are great. I've never been the person, or child, that watched a lot of Disney movies, you know, all the classics etc. I've seen several of course but far from all. Remember having friends that had all the movies on video. The first video anyone gave me was one or both of my parents when I 14-15 if I remember it correctly... and it was The Children of the Corn ;-))) A horror movie by Stephen King :-) What does that say about my filmatic upbringing?! hahaha... (I blame that on my mother and big brother hehe) Well, back to my more childfriendly movie, Shrek. I just saw Shrek 2. I think that the first one was a bit better but the second one was very good too. This kind av animated movies (when I comes to non real actors, cartoon/animation, doesn't matter really) is what I like. It has several layers to enjoy but most of all that they are making fun of so many other movies/artists/people , using all the classical ingredients but in the non conventional way. E.g. the most beautiful version of the princes is NOT the one looking like Barbie, or that you can't blow up a frog (making it a balloon) or Pinochio wearing pink thongs or a Donkey liking big buts. Not to forget all the great music...and DONKEY! What whould the movies be without Donkey?!?! Disasters I would say. Fairytails in the best version!

Can't remember if I've shown this before but it is good enough to be shown twice anyway so...

Humes

I tried to blog a little yesterday but it didn't work, but now I'm back. I have nothing special on my mind right now. I have still so much to read and now it isn't just my own problem if I don't, now I have a writing partner. I don't know who she is really, she just contacted me and said that she liked my presentation (nice :-)) and that she'd like to work with me and after have read her litle presentation she gave to me, ske felt like a good person. Even if her interests/background isn't useful in themselves in the area that we have to write about, it is nice to have some common interests, for personal reasons more than the course. Some more usefull thoughts for you is that I like to listen to Desmond David Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) when he speak in LOST ;-) Another thing. There just HAVE to be a reason for there being two men named after famous philosophers!!! "John Locke" and "David Hume" simply can't ba a coincidence. The very first time I heard the name "Locke" and later realizing that he even had the first name "John", I realised that there has to be a point with that. Unfortunatly I can't remember very well what their main philosophic points. I could need Mike right now (my old teacher...who btw moved back to the states and by doing that ripping my old school from an excellent teacher) :-)

Solidarity work?!*

I have been asked a favour by a friend to translate a piece of text from English to Swedish. Nothing big. "Of course" I said without hesitating. Said and done I translated it but I had to ask another friend about a word, mentioning that I was translating something for a friend. "So, how much do you get per word?" he asked. Nothing, I told him, surprised by the question. "Oh, solidarity work huh?" he said. What is wrong with people?! Since when do you charge somebody for a small favour? Of course one should be getting some kind of "pay" if you help someone that is expensive and/or requires a lot of work, but for small things? I am simply not used to that kind of thinking. Things usually gets "even" sooner or later anyway. When my friend asked for help I was only glad to be able to help! What's the big deal? "Solidarity work", hmm, as if I was doing something strange or unusal or even politcal. How the ... can helping a friend with a simple thing be considered "solidarity work"? Does every nice thing have to be about something greater? Can't people just be friendly with their friends?

Well, this guy is one of those people how I think might consider the word "solidarity" to be a strange and almost dirty word. I can add that this guy and I rarely agree on anything that has to do with things of value, but still. Is it strange to do someone a favour?

Guess that there are not many people scratching his back...

* Using the word "solidarity" instead of "voluntary" is to emphasize the meaning that he put into the word but also that he used that specific word in Swedish.
Solidarity = willing to help and support other people.
Voluntary = out of free will.