| Vacation bitches! |
[22 Jun 2009|03:13pm] |
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Today starts my summer vacation!! Woo! Or it really started last friday as midsummer is a national holiday here.. but my three weeks off from work starts today. Woo! :D
- Tommorow I'm going on a 4-day road-trip to see Gogol Bordello play in Copenhagen, Denmark! Rockocalypse guarenteed!
- Then on monday next week I'm going to the Arvika Music Festival for a week. A couple of the bands that are playing are; Nine Inch Nails, Mars Volta, Eagles of Death Metal, Röyksopp, Korn, Fever Ray and many many more.
- And then I'll rest up on sunday-tuesday and then fly over to Berlin for three days.
My vacation is planned to the extreme! Woo!
After that I'll start working again. But only for 1.5 months.. then I'll have nothing but time and money to spend on months and months of traveling. This year is shaping up pretty nicely I think. :)
A strip...

Just to clear things up, this Stina (who is actually named something else) is just a friend so there's no real drama going on here. I just found the randomness amusing.
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| A strip.. / What the hell should I do?! |
[01 Jun 2009|07:16pm] |
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Here's a strip about a conversation I had with my dad over the phone.

Parents huh?
Aaaanyway... Due to the state of the economy these days the bank where I work at have been forced fire alot of people. As my contract would run out by the end of august I get to work to the end of that. Not a big deal for me as I was thinking about quitting at that time anyway.
Now the question is... What the hell should I do this fall?
I've saved up ALOT of money.. I could travel for a pretty long time and study for the amount I've saved up. So this fall I will have total freedom combined with money. And it's just months away! :S So I really need to decide on something to do.
I plan on studying something on Fall next year so these plans will be for this fall/winter and for spring/summer next year. I'll probably seek into some film school during the spring.
A couple of ideas:
- Travel around Europe going from hostel to hostel. This would probably be a bit expensive and the fall/ winter isn't the most fun time to travel in europe. However it would probably be the safest and easiest way to travel by yourself.
- Go to asia and backpack around there (Thailaind, China etc..). This would be cheap and warm. But the thought of traveling alone in places like that scares me. A friend plans on traveling around these parts starting November and into the next year so I might meet up with him later on.
- Study french in France for about half a year or something. I've been thinking about this for some time. I've liked france since I was little and I would really like to be able to read all the kick-ass comics that are in french. But a trip like this would probably be the best to do after you've traveled around as there's a high posibility that you would like to stay longer when you've settled in.
- Road-trip through America. I'll probably do this next summer just before I start studying. Two friends have showed interest in doing this as well.. Also I don't have a drivers license yet.
Anyone else have any ideas or any input?
I have to say though, that the thought of traveling alone like this scares the crap out of me. But I really think this would help me get out of my shell. I'm way to scared to do new things and talk to new people. I think doing some kind of trip like this would really be good for me.
If I end up just sitting around here at my parents house for the rest of the year doing nothing I will be forced to spend all my money on some really expensive suicide contraption as I don't deserve the privilege of living.
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| Extreme Traileridge!!! |
[15 May 2009|10:36pm] |
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I just came back from watching Star Trek.
While the movie went by extremely fast I thought it was a bit meh. It was funny and pretty, and really entertaining. But there wasn't really much of a story there.
But I have high hopes for the sequel.
Aaaanyway, a bunch of trailers has been released for some of the movies I talked about on my movie lists.
Check them out!
Stay tuned for another list or two of cool upcoming movies.
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| I feel like being more creative.. |
[03 May 2009|01:18am] |
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I'm thinking about starting a photo-blog where I post one of photo every day (or atleast a week). I'm hoping this will force me to be more creative more regularly.
I might start a new blog for this or just post it here. But if I post it here it might be better to limit myself to one photo every week.
Now I'm going to watch the 6th Day with ahnold schwarznegger. They're airing it on TV and I haven't watched that for years.
GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!!
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| A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART TWO! |
[29 Apr 2009|09:33pm] |
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I really enjoyed doing my last list of movies I was looking forward to but I felt there were so many more movies worth mentioning so I've decided to do another list.
If you missed my last list you can find it here: http://barbarpappa.livejournal.com/48579.html
Now, enjoy part 2 of movies I really want to see; (and so should you)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Terry Gilliams (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys) latest movie starring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrel and many many more. Heath Ledger was supposed to be the only lead but when he died they decided to use many different actors for the role. The movie will deal with imagination and dreams so it should apparently work.

Cargo Upcoming swiss space sci-fi that I don't really know much of, but damn if I don't look forward to more space movies. I'm hoping this will be more serious as it's from europe.

Iron Sky In this upcoming finnish movie nazis secretly colonized the moon and in the year 2020 (or something) they are coming back! This sounds so damn entertaining.

Apocalypse, CA The world will end from a meteor or comet or something and a group of friends head out on a road trip. This just seems like such a nice little film about the destruction of all life on earth.

Doghouse This british zombie movie written by Dogwitch writer/artist Dan Schaffer looks hilarious. All the women in a town have turned into murderous zombies and a group of male friends tries to survive.

Metropia An animated swedish dystopia set in a near future where an underground subway system runs all through europe. The animation is done using distorted photographs.

Battle for Terra Sweet, more space sci-fi. This is a low-budget CGI animated alien invasion movie, only the "evil" invaders are humans searching for a new planet after earth is destroyed. The aliens looks a bit too cute but the movie looks and sounds solid anyway.

Gentlemen Broncos Latest movie by Napoleon Dynamite director. This time he teams up with Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords. All the viral clips of him in character have been hilarous. Let's hope this turns out better than Nacho Libre.

The Slammin' Salmon Latest movie from The Broken Lizard comedy group. I've really liked all of their previous movies, especially Beer Fest which I seriously rate as one of my favourite comedies. This is rumoured to be their best movie yet.

Paranormal Activity I have no idea when we'll be able to see this horror movie. It's about a couple that sets up a camera for the night to film what the hell is going on at night. What they film is apparently pretty scary as I have only read about how scary the movie is. I watched the trailer a long time ago and I do remember being a bit freaked out. Unfortunately the studio that bought the rights don't have any plans of releasing the movie but wants to do a remake instead. :S Assholes.

I Sell the Dead This seems like a fun little movie. It's about graverobbers in the 1800's that encounters zombies or something. It stars Ron Perlman and Dominic Monaghan and has got great reviews.

The Clone Returns To The Homeland A japanese super-serious sci-fi movie about an astronaut that gets resurrected by cloning. The astronaut then reverts back into the memories of his childhood where his twin brother sacrificed himself to save him.

And there's still more! Ha! :D
Maybe I'll do another list.
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| My first actual comic. |
[13 Apr 2009|02:53pm] |
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Here's a comic me and my sister have been working on. I wrote and drew up how each panel should be and then she drew it all pretty.
It's my third comic script I've written but the only one that has actually been "finished" with art and stuff. I wrote a non-related story some years ago but we never finished that. And then I wrote the first part of this story which actually started from the start. But I decided to start with this story instead which is pretty much in the middle.
We'll hopefully do more parts of this with the same character.
It's the story of this homeless person that travels around europe (maybe outsite of europe too in the future) and learns all kinds of strange things about the world. I'm aiming for a sort of magical realism universe. Where everything is pretty much like our world, only with small bizarre almost magical differences.
I've written the second part which my sister is (hopefully) drawing now. She's pretty busy with school and I'm just tired of work all the time so it might take a long time between finished parts of this story.
Keep in mind that this isn't really finished. I just did the speechbubbles quickly so i could see if this worked at all. We'll hopefully do the panels nicer and then maybe even color it.
Oh and it's a pretty short story of only 6 pages so do try to not read through it too fast. I tend to read my comics pretty slowly and look att every panel closely. I think that's how I write my comics to be read as well.

( Read the rest behind this cut. )
I haven't really decided on a title for this yet. The working title is just Vagabond which I might stick with.
I'm also thinking about Trashcan Vagabond or Trashcan Odyssey.
So, what did you think?
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| Those homeless are sneaky bastards.. |
[11 Apr 2009|01:34pm] |
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Last night me and a friend got attacked by a homeless person with a nail-bat or something.
Someone just hit me in the back when I took a leak under a bridge.
Weird.
Good thing I was really drunk at the time.
(my back hurts a bit now)
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| Oh, Omegle... catalyst of funny. |
[10 Apr 2009|05:53pm] |
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hehe, http://omegle.com/ is hilarious!
It's this chatsite which connects you to some random stranger and you chat as You and Stranger.
Here's my first go:
Connecting to server... Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on. You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
Stranger: hi You: good evening Stranger: how are you You: i am perfect Stranger: thats perfect You: it really is You: how are you? Stranger: agreed, i am 90% You: what happened to the other 10%? Stranger: 91% now... You: sweet Stranger: well it lowered after my cat came into my room wanting to be fed You: i am 5/5's Stranger: chaffing You: did the cat feed of you? Stranger: where are you located? Stranger: not quite, he tried You: I am within everyone and everything Stranger: nice You: it really isn't Stranger: i am located in Greenland You: why not.. BLUEland? You: ha! Stranger: oh you cheeky swine!! You: i crack myself up Stranger: i bet yo do You: I do drugs that is Stranger: what sort Stranger: oh crack Stranger: lol Stranger: i'm slow today You: zing! Stranger: i just woke up, please forgive me Stranger: now where did i put thar red bull... You: is it because of the coldness of greenland that lsows down your stoms? You: slows You: atoms Stranger: yes You: dang You: I thought so Stranger: it is a very liberating Country Stranger: although not much to do it has to be said You: good thing though that it makes time move slower too Stranger: oh yes You: you will outlive us all, but always be un-trendy Stranger: haha Stranger: so true You: but that is your burden Stranger: our Women do look Beautiful though! :D You: yes maybe, because they will be young for a longer period of time, but then they will look old even longer as well Stranger: hehe yes Stranger: hey i must go, breakfast is calling me Stranger: nice to speak to you You: you so crazy! food can't speak
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
Good times!
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| Looking forward to losing my job. |
[29 Mar 2009|08:48pm] |
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The bosses at my work have discussed ways to cut costs and will do an announcement on thursday. Everybody is pretty sure they will lay people off.
I'm pretty much doomed. Not only am I the last one in, I'm also pretty non-essential.. also I really suck at my job. I'm surprised I haven't been kicked earlier. I guess I'll have a nice long summer break.
Good thing I've been saving crazy amounts of money since I started working and was pretty much planning on quitting later in the summer to go traveling.
And on a non-related point, here's a list of the very few good swedish movies in existence. It was something I posted on a movie blog on the topic of "Let the right one in" some days ago. Maybe some of you might find it interesting.
Fyra nyanser av brunt (2004) (by the same director as “let the right one in”) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342636/
Tic Tac (1997) (huh, just found out it’s by the brother of the director of “let the right one in”) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120329/
Smala Sussie (2003) (like a swedish pulp fiction.. set in a small town out in the middle of nowhere) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323998/
Farväl Falkenberg (2006) (You either hate this one or love it. I was really really moved by it. Very much aimed at men in the 20's.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0855805/
Sånger från andra våningen (2000) (very special movie, check out the other movies by the same director, he's a one of a kind) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120263/
Psalmer från köket (2003) (Ok, this might be more norwegian, but I think it’s co-produced with sweden and one of the leads is swedish, it’s great anyway!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323872/
Lilja 4-ever (2002) (the director started making some annoying arty-farty movies after this one, but his previous movies are truly fantastic too) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/
Den Osynlige (2002) (not great but pretty good, hollywood did a remake called “the invisible” or something) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298491/
Vägen ut (1999) (haven’t seen this comedy for ages but I do remember really liking it) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177347/
Stockholm Boogie (2005) (might not be the deepest movie but I was really entertained by it, some really nice stockholm summer scenery too) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488853/
Hamilton (1998) (one of the few okay swedish action films.. and there’s really really few of those, Mark Hamill plays the villain (!) This might not be that good really, haven't seen it in years. But some of you might find a swedish action film to be neat) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119249/
Masjävlar (2004) (just a well-made good and fun drama set in the far north of sweden) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439695/
Enjoy.
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| God Hates Sweden... |
[25 Mar 2009|08:54pm] |
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Seriously... we had spring for like a week and then BAM! It's winter again with snow and cold.
Everywhere else is having spring.. except Sweden. We get it God, you hate us. But we still won't believe in you!
Bah! But I do like the winter.. really. But we've had it cold and dark for almost 6 months now... I can't take it anymore.
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| It's a disaster!! |
[19 Feb 2009|11:01pm] |
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Hmm, I have to realize I'm not really too fond of concerts. The sound is usually worse than on the CD (*cough*MP3*cough*) and it's a pain to stand for over an hour. (I'm weak) And it doens't help that I'm usually much shorter than most people so It's a constant struggle to see anything of the band.
However, the Amanda Palmer show I saw in london about a week ago was pretty sweet. I didn't see ANYTHING and I probably drank a bit too much because my memory of the show isn't the best. I seem to do that alot with concerts. At the time, the concert actually feels better if I'm a bit drunk. But afterwards when I hardly remember anything it feels kind of pointless.
I don't think I'll bother much with concerts anymore.
The band playing before Amanda Palmer turned out to be this great swedish band (group?) Detektvibyrån (the detective agency). They sound pretty much exactly like Yann Tiersen (he did the Amelie soundtrack) only with a bit of an electronic sound. (Yann Tiersen fucking rocks so that really is a compliment)
I've listened to them since their first EP so I was extremely happy and surprised to see them play before Amanda Palmer. I ended up talking to them a bunch after the show and got two (of three) of them to sign one of their shirts they were selling.
Then two days later in London I planned to see Chrome Hoof but it was sold out. We tried finding some club but it turned out impossible to get into any after 11. Very strange. They don't want customers in their clubs in london apparently.
I've had similar problems in London before and I have to realize it actually isn't that good of a nightlife city.
I finally read Watchmen and it rocked. Wasn't the best thing evah, but really good. I guess you have to look at it in the context of how american comics had been prior to it to see its genius.
I have my doubts about the movie though. But we'll see i guess.
Oh, and I just found out fucking Dresden Dolls have played in sweden. I did it by seeing this photo:

That's Amanda Palmer wearing a shirt from one of the bigger swedish clubs in Stockholm. I did some research (google) and found out that Dresden Dolls played at the club in 2004.
I missed a Dresden Dolls show in SWEDEN... by 4 years!! ;( I had no idea.
AAAnyway. Me and my sister have started to do a multi-part comic where every part is about six pages long. She did a killer job with the art on the first part and demanded I would write some more scripts. So I did a second part and is in the progress of scripting the third one now.
I might post it here or maybe even do a new blog and make into a proper webcomic. I'll just have to see how the end product turns out.
I'm actually quite excited about writing comic scripts. I've started to learn how to do it more or less painless. Would be cool if I actually had a future in writing. I had almost given up on a creative job even though I've slowly started realizing I really can't stand doind something I hate most of the day. It really is horrible.
God damn I'm just babbling on here aren't I? I'll see about scanning in some of the comic pages so people can see my sisters amazing art. And maybe, hopefully enjoy the stories too.
The new Scott Pilgrim book was highly enjoyable.
And todays movie to watch is Timecrimes. One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in a long long time I think.
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