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Beijing, China [20 Jan 2010|11:54am] [ music | Jazzy lounge music in the hostel lounge ] Haven't posted an entry in a while. Frankly I can't really be bothered with all my photos anymore. I'm still on Beijing and I haven't been there for two months. But I got some time over now so I finished up the last of the Bejing photos. Places I've been to since Beijing is: Xi'an Chengdu Chong Qing Yangtse river Wuhan Shanghai Zhujiajiao Beijing (again) Tokyo Kyoto Hiroshima Osaka Himeji Kobe Shanghai (again) And now I'm in Nanjing, China alone.. My friend Rickard went ahead to Thailand and Marcus met a chinese chick so I decided tto try traveling on alone for two weeks before joining Rickard in Thailand. The first time I'm traveling alone. It's a bit scary but things are going good. I'm constantly confused though. But here's some old old photos from back when I was still in Beijing: Japan was amazing btw. Could be my favourite country. 2 comments|post comment

The Great Wall of China [19 Dec 2009|05:20am] [ music | Eels - Dog Faced Boy ] We decided to take a harder 4 hour hike on the Great Wall of China. It was exhausting and at parts steep as hell, but so damn worth it. Always avoid the tourist way. We got to Shanghai yesterday and have booked up 9 nights at a hostel so that we can spend christmas here. The hostel is way to calm for comfort now but hopefully some party people will show up for christmas. 2 comments|post comment

Beijing, China [14 Dec 2009|04:58pm] [ mood | relaxed ] post comment

Ulan-Bator, Mongolia [07 Dec 2009|08:39am] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | Jesca Hoop - Seed Of Wonder ] Aaaaaaaaaand, I'm done! With the photos taken in Mongolia... Now I only need to catch up with the photos taken during my two weeks here in China. But it's okay, only a bit over a 1000 photos... It's okay... I can do this.. I can do this. I can do this. I can do this. ... :S post comment

Terelj, Mongolia [06 Dec 2009|06:46am] [ mood | awake ] [ music | Dom Viktiga Skorna - Hip Hop Är En Livstil ] I'm currently in Xi'an. We've taken tandem bikes around the city wall and been to the Terracotta Army Museum drunk. We've also managed to book a flight to Tokyo, Japan over new years eve where we'll live in capsule hotels. Hells yeah! :D 10 comments|post comment

Orkhon, Mongolia [25 Nov 2009|04:32pm] [ mood | calm ] [ music | Mon Frere - Drain ] 4 comments|post comment

Somewhere in the Mongolian outback [24 Nov 2009|03:08pm] [ mood | artistic ] [ music | Busdriver - Wormholes ] While on our way to where we would spend the night in the Mongolian wilderness the guide stopped our car by some local Mongolians who were butchering a slaughtered horse. I'm pretty proud of these photos but I'm well aware that most people wouldn't want graphic images of a slaughtered horse plastered all over their friendslist so I'm putting the images behind a cut. ( Graphic (but beautiful) Images Of A Slaughtered Horse Behind This Cut ) 2 comments|post comment

Kharakhorum, Mongolia [23 Nov 2009|10:42am] [ mood | exhausted ] [ music | Balstyrko - Regn ] I'm in Beijing, China at the moment having a lazy day after 4 days of partying. I'm tired as hell but I've had such a great time. Every public place closed at 9 pm in Mongolia so we spent pretty much the entire time in the Mongolian wilderness. We left Mongolia last friday and spent the 30 hour train ride drinking beer and vodka with americans, french people, mongolians and canadians. I recommend everyone being shitfaced while crossing the border into China. It made filling in the millions of forms a whole bunch more interesting. I've taken over a 1000 photos now so here's a first batch from the mongolian outback and the site of their old capital city Kharakhorum. post comment

Transsiberan - Moscow, Russia to Ulan-Bator, Mongolia [15 Nov 2009|06:22am] [ mood | horny ] [ music | The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash ] The the people on the train and the russian countryside was alot nicer than in Moscow. We met a whole bunch of nice and interesting people. As we didn't stop at the stations much more than maybe 10-20 minutes I wasn't able to take that many good photos. But these were some of the more OK ones. Next up a crapload of photos taken in Mongolia. post comment

Moscow, Russia [10 Nov 2009|01:21pm] [ mood | excited ] [ music | Aim - Downstate ] Moscow is a really really rude city. Beautiful, but oh so rude. Photos! At the moment I'm in a kick-ass hostel in Mongolia for only 6$ a night with free wi-fi. Tommorow we'll go and live in the wilderness like the locals for two days. Should be interesting. 4 comments|post comment

Should I upgrade my LJ account to Plus? [18 Oct 2009|12:13am] [ mood | curious ] [ music | Blur - Fade Away ] I've always used photobucket for posting photos och pictures but recently I've started to get a bit worried about the the fact that they apparently own everything you upload on their site. Because of this I've started thinking about upgrading my LJ-account to an Plus account. Apparently you can upgrade to Plus for free if LJ can post ads or something on your blog. Is anyone of you using an Plus account and is it worth it? Is the LJ photo storage any good? Is it anything like Photobucket where they own everything you upload? I'm also thinking about maybe (but probably not) upgrading to a paid account. I've been thinking about changing the name and stuff. I would really appreciate some input on this. 2 comments|post comment

Keeer-aaaye-zeee! [13 Oct 2009|08:21pm] [ mood | bouncy ] [ music | The Billy Nayer Show - Man On The Moon ] The date of my trip is getting closer and closer... Only two weeks of work now and then one more week before I'm off. It's a really strange thought thinking that I will be on the other side of the world in just under one month. I might not even come back for years! :S (I might get killed for organs or decide to study where I end up) Our boss has started to complain about us talking about the trip all the time, he says he's getting way too much information about VISA's and the weather in Mongolia. :D Only three weeks! Keeer-aaaye-zeee! :S Next up: A list of cool steampunk stuff! post comment

A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART FIVE! [13 Sep 2009|08:10pm] [ mood | confused ] [ music | Abney Park - Child King ] This first part of the year has been an awful movie year. The only new movies I've really enjoyed is probably Inglorious Basterds and District 9 and the fact that I saw both this past week really shows how crappy the year has been in movies. But fear not! The future looks mighty fine, as you will see from this following list of movies I really really real... damn, that really isn't a catchy title for these lists. I guess I didn't expect this to become regular thing.. Oh well. GET TO DA LIST!!! Fantastic Mr. Fox This is Wes Andersons latest movie, and everybody loves Wes Anderson right? Life Aquatic is one of my favourite comedies ever and I've enjoyed every movie he's made. This one is based on a Roal Dahl book I know nothing about and it's stop-motion animated. It has this kinda of scruffy look to it which I love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo Solomon Kane I haven't read the books but a story about hyper-religious puritan slayer of evil monsters set in the 1600's sounds like a hoot. It looks a bit like Van Helsing which isn't a good sign but I guess Van Helsing stole his look from this. Rumours say it's pretty great so I'm in! http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/solomon-kane/trailer The Book of Eli I have mentioned I love post-apocalyptiv stories right? I even post news some times at pamedia.com, the friendliest post-apocalyptic site on the net (you're all invited!). Anyway, this post-apocalyptic movie starring Denzel Washington and Gary "made-of-awesome" Oldman is about this guy (Denzel) trying to protect some mysterious book which can save humanity (please don't be the bible, please!). Gary Oldman does what he does best and plays the bad guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfFkVrmEkA Mr. Nobody Now this looks like an interesting movie. I think it's from Belgium but it seems to be in english. I'm not entirely sure about the plot but I think it's about this guy who is the oldest living person in a future where everyone is immortal. The movie will be about him telling the story of his life, but as he's telling it he starts changing facts, exploring how his life might have beeen if he'd done different choices. It seems really quirky and beautiful. Hopefully we'll have another Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQLPK_iHPM Infestation Now this just seems like insane fun. Giant bugs attack a town and hilarity ensues. I actually think this was aired on the SyFylis Channel this august but it should be pretty good I've heard. It looks hilarious from the trailer anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvKpx_x1Bw Tron Legacy Man, I haven't seen Tron since i was very little. I remember thinking it was really weird and wild. This sequel seems really solid and Jeff Bridges even returns and is apparently evil this time. And imagine, all of this is actually going on in all of our computers and video games right now! Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwvuirSEAA Sherlock Holmes Say what? Guy Ritchie is doing a Sherlock Holmes action comedy? And it actually looks like a lot of fun? No way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI Kim-ssi-pyo-ryoo-gi / Castaway on the Moon South-Korea is really churning out a crapload of good movies these days aren't they? Like this absurdist-comedy about a business man getting trapped on an island in the middle of a city after a failed suicide-attempt. No one notices him there and he has to survive on the island like some kind of bizarro-Crusoe. The stills I have seen from this looks stunning and I love the whole concept. (even though it reminds me of that JG Ballard book I've been meaning to read) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGvhwwWP8Q Adás / Transmission This post-apocalypt(-ish) movie from Hungary is about people suffering from withdrawal symptoms after all the screens and means of telecommunication have inexplicably stopped working. It looks damn fascinating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20OWhcp-8BM http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51428672 The Pack The french has really started making great and interesting horror movies lately. While this french movie about a family getting attacked by mutants didn't seem that special.. until I saw this still of the mutants and now i can't wait. That is just a really cool monster. No trailer yet.. ;( Les Derniers Jours Du Monde / This Is The End Another french movie. It's about this guy trying to get to the love of his life before the world ends. While I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic movies I really love these movies set just before the end too. Especially if there is no way of escaping it and you know everyone will die att the end. It creates some really fascinating drama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te4chW9OkgE Shinboru / Symbol And finally, I have no idea what this japanese movie is about but it looks like pure insanity. It seems to be about this guy stuck in some kind of white room and things just start getting surreal. And there's a guy barking like a dog or something... I really have no idea what's going on. (and I really need to get around to watching the directors previous movie Big Man Japan which is a mockumentary about this guy battling giant monsters in Tokyo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUSxF3R8zYA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqIhrmS0iI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAO52xo46LE Only 50 or so days left now until I'm off on my own personal expedition to Russia, Asia and Asutralia. I'm hoping to do a couple more of these posts about stuff I find cool before I go. I've had a couple of different ideas for posts. We'll just have to see. 12 comments|post comment

Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass [05 Sep 2009|11:19pm] [ mood | cheerful ] [ music | Munly - Tried And True Against Law ] The same weekend we were out looking at rune stones we were also over at the my brothers place, and that place is just filled with cool crap. Including this old movie projector which I took some quick photos of. post comment

Missing out on the best film festival autumn ever.. ;S [03 Sep 2009|08:01pm] [ mood | freakin' out!! ] [ music | Warsaw Village Band - Woman In Hell ] As I'm going backpacking this november I'm going to miss the Stockholm Film Festival for the first time in like five or six years and I'm starting to freak out! :S As I'll probably head over to Australia and maybe New Zeeland next year does anyone know of any good film festivals i could go to over there? Or maybe even in any other country around there in asia? post comment

Whores are fucking scary. [01 Sep 2009|08:29pm] [ mood | drained ] [ music | Beats Antique - Mission ] Last week was supposed to be my last week at work but then they asked if I could work a bit more. I said yes to work one more month and then maybe for october as well because you can never have too much money. But damn if it doesn't suck so damn much. I had been counting down the days since May... ;( post comment

Viking Rune Stones Beeeeyotch!! [29 Aug 2009|09:22pm] [ mood | hungover ] [ music | Gods and Generals on tv ] My sister and her english boyfriend was over visiting and wanted to see some viking stuff so we drove around and looked up some local rune stones. I figured it might be of interest to some of you nerds out there. I find it pretty cool that these stones has stood there for almost a thousand years. 4 comments|post comment

Survival expectancy: Zero [10 Aug 2009|06:01pm] [ mood | headache ] [ music | Beats Antique - Slapdash Era ] My glasses just made this stringy sound and fell apart by itself. So now I need to buy new ones. A friend recommended buying your glasses over the internet as it should prove alot cheaper. He was right and I'm going to pay like 500 kronor instead of 3500. (500 kronor is about 55 USD) How the heck can they be so expensive in the stores?? The internet proves itself yet again. By the way.. I've decided on what I will do this Fall as I'm losing my job in about 3 weeks. I'm going on the flippin' TRANSIBERIAN! Booyah! (or it's actually the Transmongolian but anyway..) So this november I'm going with two friends over to Moscow and then we'll take the train towards Mongolia where we'll stay about a week. After that we'll continue towards China and beyond! I'll probably be away for about 6 months with a survival expectancy of zero. I'm hoping to see most of the countries around there.. Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, South-Korea (maybe even North-Korea, that would be something), Japan and whatever other country there is over there. Then on the spring next year we'll probably go over to Australia and find some temporary work. Should be a hoot. post comment

A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART FOUR! [ZOMBIE EDITION] [21 Jul 2009|08:30pm] [ mood | busy ] [ music | Beirut - A Sunday Smile ] I'm doing this list a bit different this time. As there are trailers out there for all the movies I'm posting them instead of just some interesting photo. And you might notice I've already written about a couple of these movies before but I think they're all worth mentioning again. Oh yeah, and it's ALL ZOMBIE MOVIES!!! this time... To the list-mobile!!! Zombieland I mentioned this movie on my first(-ish) movie list months ago but back then there wasn't any photos or footage out. Now there's a trailer and while it wasn't really what I was expecting or hoping it would be like back then (running zombies.. ;/), it looks kick-ass and fun in a whole other way. Woody Harrelson and a bunch of other people tries to survive after the zombie apocalypse. Mutants A french zombie movie I don't know too much of. But it looks to be alot like 28 days later only in northern france. Early reviews aren't too positive but I'm hoping it will be worth a watch atleast (there's too few zombies apparently). My tolerance to crap is extremely high regarding zombie films. Mutants [REC] 2 Booyah! There's finally footage out for this! I truly love the first movie. It's one of the few truly scary zombie films. Some of you might be more familiar with the american remake Quarantine but the original spanish movie is really the one to see. This sequel is made by the same people and I really like the way they've decided to make the sequel. It keeps the same idea as the first movie but there's a slight change which makes it totally different. I pray to his noodly holiness that this won't suck. The Dead Holy crap a zombie movie from africa! And it looks pretty great too! It's about an american soldier (of course, we can't have them africans starring in their own movies) trying to get home after getting stranded in africa after the zombie apocalypse. Axed An australian zombie flick which I don't really know anything of the plot of but it looks like a rip-roaring good time from the trailer... Get it? Rip-roaring? You know, because there's a crapload of zombies in the trailer ripping and.. uh.. roaring? Doghouse Another movie that I've mentioned before. And it still looks awesome. It's from the director of Evil Aliens Jake West and the writer/artist of Dogwitch Dan Schaffer. A group of male friends makes the mistake of entering some village or something where all the women have turned into man-eating zombies! (so no change there.. ha! take that ovary-people!) Colin Here's an interesting one. It's a low-budget movie which is getting praised right and left. It's a zombie movie from the perspective of a newly turned zombie. He shambles around and we get to explore this strange new violent world through that. Colin Teaser Trailer La Horde Holy crap I'm only through half the movies... Anyway, here's yet another movie I've already mentioned but now there's a trailer out. In this french zombie flick a group of criminals have to work together with a group of cops when the building they're in gets overrun with a horde of zombies. Teaser_La_Horde by blankytwo Salvage While this british zombie film might not have the biggest budget it looks extremely good and it's getting great reviews. Hopefully there's enough zombies. A cargo container gets stranded on some beach and I guess it contains Trioxin 245 or something as people start turning into.. Can you guess it? Yes, zombies. Pontypool And this is the last repost of a movie I'm doing. You should already know of this highly praised canadian zombie film. The movie takes place in a radio-station as the infection spreads through the english language. I actually think the DVD of this is out today in the states so run out and get it immidiately. I'll just wait here until I find some other way of seeing it. Paris By Night Of The Living Dead Oh I love that title.. and this just looks like insane gory fun! Just check out the trailer and pray those crazy frenchies can keep it up for an entire movie. ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction No this isn't the adaptation of the comic but rather a political zombie indie comedy which looks like a mighty good time. There's some fine gore and zombies in it and it actually seems pretty funny. Survival of the Dead And this just got a proper title. It's the latest movie from creator of the genre, the one and only George A. Romero. There isn't really a proper trailer out for this yet but I managed to find this often removed early trailer on youtube. So take a look now before it gets removed again. His latest movies might not be the best (I really do like Diary though) but I still have faith in the old man. He hasn't screwed up as much as George Lucas yet. Lifeless And lastly here's something that isn't even a movie. It's a great looking tv-show that has been in production for years. It's pure Romero and it looks pretty great. Rumours say they're close to getting a distribution deal (but I guess they missed out on being the first zombie tv-show to Dead Set which aired in the UK last year) so lets hope for the best. If you head over to the main site at http://www.lifelesstheseries.com/ you can check out a couple of clips. So to conclude this list.. Let's hope you're not too tired of this genre yet. Ha! 13 comments|post comment

Fucking danish. [11 Jul 2009|04:00pm] [ mood | contemplative ] [ music | Anita Tjioux - Gol ] I've had an amazing three week vacation.. Road trip to Copenhagen, Denmark to see Gogol Bordello. (first week) The car was gone the first day so we went to the police who knew nothing of it. We assumed the car got stolen. We didn't let that dampen the mood and managed to have a fantastic time in Denmark getting drunk at amusement parks and getting rides by strangers to Christiania in the middle of the night. After we had returned home by train on friday the danish police called and it turned out they had indeed towed the car away so Marcus who was the owner had to go back and pay fines and stuff. Fucking danish. Arvika Music Festival (second week) We got there on tuesday and went home on Sunday. I felt absolutely terrible the first three days or so (probably due to the tonsilectomy i did a bit over a month ago) and had a pretty crappy time. But eventually I ate a whole bunch of fruits and I felt alot better. The rest of the festival was amazing madness (even though i missed pretty much all the bands I wanted to see). Short 3-day visit to Berlin (third/this week) I just got back from this trip last night and I had such a great time. I went there visiting my two friends Jessica and Cajsa. Unfortunately Cajsa was working every day but I got to spend a lot of time with Jessica who guided me around the city for cool stuff to take photos of. I borrowed a bike and we went around all over and I took these photos: Jessica in front of an abandoned building. Unfortunately we were stricken with hunger and then forgot to enter the building after we had eaten. :S Another abandoned building.. But it was impossible to get in during the day. ;/ Berlin is a paradise for urban explorers. I thought the piece on the sign was pretty impressive just for its location. An artist painting on the Berlin wall. And on the last day we got sporadic moments of intense rain (and city photos with rain in should always be in black & white). And on monday I have to be back at work again. -sigh- 2 comments|post comment

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