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Sci-fi Jackpot!

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:07:32 GMT

Woo!

While out to the trashroom I found three boxes by a dumpster filled with books. I looked through them and found several classics I've always wanted to read.

Here's what I found:

The Time Machine & others by HG Wells
20.000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
a collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury
two Moomin books with illustrations.
And some book about a plague epidemic in New York

Front of the Dorian Gray book.

And the back.

The Time Machine, check out that awesome cover!

20.000 Leagues Under The Sea, ah I love that classic book design.

It has amazing illustrations too!

And all except the Ray Bradbury book is in perfect shape.

Worst. Week. Ever.

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:53:47 GMT

Yeah that was one crappy week.

I had just started changing the way I think and being more happy. People had actually noticed me being more positive.

And then all that happened in one week.

I spent every day the entire week after trying to contact the club and then finally on friday I went out to the club and spoke with the owners of the place in person. They promised to pay the self risk amount from the insurance company. So that'd good, if they keep their word I haven't lost that much money.

Just so damn much hassle contacting them.

The 140$ (1200 swedish kronor) fine I'm okay with, it's my fault really for traveling with a youth travel card when I have a beard. I just got it at the worst possible time. I was in such a horrible mood already that week.

But now it's finally spring! Woo! I was out all day taking photos and the weather was kick-ass! (as you americans like to say) It's been a long long long damn autumn (they skipped winter again, damn you global warming!).

I've been waiting for warm weather for many months now. I've noticed I get happier immidiately when the sun comes out.

If I just live in sweden during summer I'd probably be alot less depressed most of the year.

:(

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:05:36 GMT

I'm so fucking angry right now.

Last thursday Hugo Boss who shares the same building as my job hade a sale and were selling things really cheap. I bought a new jacket that I think cost about 400$ in a store but I got it for about 120$.

I decided to use it for the first time on saturday when I went out to a club. I put it in the closet of a club named Ace and when I came back to get it again they had lost it. I had my passport, mp3-player and keys to my home in it.

They didn't seem to want to compensate me but they gave me a phone number to some guy named Daniel that would be the guy behind the club. I called the number today and some woman answered.

I called all the numbers on the clubs website but none works.

I wrote a mail and if they don't answer that I don't know what to do. I did call the police last night so I guess I could get some compensation from the insurance company.

But this is so damn frustrating.

I only got to wear the damn jacket maybe 3 hours.

And I have to get a new passport and change the lock to the apartment.

GAH!!!

Assholes.

I called a friend who's somewhat of a vandal and said the place is open for vandalism if they want.

sigh.

Cleaning out my friendslist

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:41:07 GMT

Wow, I really haven't used my LJ much these last couple of months. I rarely check my friendslist at all lately. And I think I know why, I had accumulated about 700 people on the friendslist which resulted in alot of really uninteresting posts to skim through every time I decided to check the friendslist.

I tend to add every people that post something remotely interesting or pretty. And all the artist/illustrator communities are really pointing me towards some talented people. I think I usually add a couple of people every time I check the friendslist.

But I decided to clean it out, there had to be a bunch of people on my list that I really wasn't that interested in.

So the last couple of hours I've been going through the list and every person who made some uninteresting post I checked if they had friended me, and if not, I checked the rest of their journal and removed them if I wasn't interested in what they posted.

I basically just kept the journals where people posted pretty pictures like drawings and comics.

I think I've removed about 50 people so far, and added one. (dammit)

All this removing people from my friendslist has really made me feel like a dick, I've really been harsh in removing people and some of them probably didn't deserve it.

However, there has been a couple of people I really have no idea why had them on there in the first place. Like total strangers writing about their day-to-day life. Weird.

I'm probably going to keep removing people every time I check my friendslist now until I have a managable amount of people on there.

But like I wrote, I feel like a dick now.

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In other news I've decided to try and get a "proper" job at the office I'm currently working part-time doing simple boring stuff. I'm trying to get the job instead of trying to get into some school for graphic design or whatever.

I'm probably making a mistake here and will be stuck at an office job for the rest of my life.

Oh, well. It pays pretty good so I guess I can lie to myself a couple of years before I realize I've made a mistake.

Hopefully I'll only work there for about a year saving up enough money to be able to make some kick-ass trip somewhere. Maybe getting a drivers license and car and then go out on a road trip before looking for an education doing something creative.

I seriously don't think I can handle spending years doing a job I hate. Hopefully that will win over my extreme procrastination and force me to be creative.

I should probably just go and live another country and force myself to grow up or something.

But I guess I'm too lazy.

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I'm going to a music festival in Germany in June called Rock Am Ring. There's some pretty good bands playing there and the festival has already sold out. We got tickets mere days before.

Here's a couple of bands/artists I want to see there:

Bad Religion
CSS
Hot Chip
In Flames
Incubus
Jonathan Davis
Justice
Metallica
Motörhead
Nightwish
Queens Of The Stone Age
Rage Against The Machine
Roisin Murphy
Serj Tankian
Stereophonics
The Fratellis
The Futureheads
The Hellacopters
The Prodigy
The Streets
Eagles Of Death Metal
Manic Street Preachers
The Offspring

A friend said there aren't any girls on that festival.. this worries me. But the same friend also said the festival never sells out, but they did just that weeks ago, so... I'm hoping he's wrong on this too.

A festival with only german men does not sound that fun.

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I'm sorry this post is so long and doesn't have any pretty pictures in it.

Please don't removie me from your friendslist. :(

My First UE Excursion

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:34:00 GMT

In late spring/early summer last year when walking around in Stockholm I had the luck to stumble upon an abandoned factory building about to be demolished. Even luckier I happened to have my digital camera with me.

The whole building was behind this fence and I debated for a long time with myself if I should enter or not. I went around the entire building and found a perfect spot to climb in and decided to go exploring.

For a long time I've wanted to do some Urban Exploring but as a serious procrastinator with everything I've never really bothered trying. This is pretty much my first and only abandoned building I've been to.

I ended up spending several hours there taking a couple of hundred photos.

Alot of the building was underground where there were no light or windows whatsoever. I had to take pictures and look at them on the cameras display to be able to see where I was going most of the time. (as this excursion wasn't planned I didn't have any equipment like flashlights etc)

Enjoy!

Here's the rest but not in order.

I returned the following weekend and they had already demolished half of what had been there when I was there. I doubt there's any trace of this building left now.

blahblahblahwittysubjectline

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:21:05 GMT

This strip is dangerously close to how I actually think.

I love the internet...

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:29:41 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=lasagnacat&p=r

I love it so damn much.

For fans of post-apocalyptic stuff

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:43:43 GMT

For as long as I can remember I've been into post-apocalyptic fiction. And for a long time I've been a member at a great post-apocalyptic forum over at pamedia.com.

Very recently I was granted admin membership on the site so that I can post post-apocalyptic news at the main site (and other stuff). So if you anyone of you are interested in post-apocalyptic fiction head over to the site where I'll be posting as often as I can. I'll mostly focus on movies and comics, but other stuff might slip in too.

Here's the site:

http://www.pamedia.com/phpNuke/
(if you just go to www.pamedia.com you'll come to the old site that will be replaced with the link I posted)

And join up to the forum while you're at it too, it covers pretty much anything post-apocalyptic, from books and movies to survival to the state of the world as it is today.

It's the nicest forum I've ever been to.

Woo! I'm free! (of school)

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:04:33 GMT

I just finished my post-high-school high-school swedish course and I got a pretty good grade on it too! If 1 means failed and 4 is the best I got a 3 as my grade.(we have a really strange and sucky grade-system here)

It's a really important subject if you want to study further so I've had that failed course in the back of my head ever since finishing high-school so it feels amazing getting rid of it. I'm free! :D

I'm not sure what I should do now though. No plans whatsoever for next year. It gives me a confusing feeling of freedom and anxiety. :S

Aaaanyway.

Here's a couple of movies I'm really looking forward to! (and you should too)

The Dark Knight
I'm not really much of a batman fan.. (not that that I dislike him or anything) but damn I love Batman Begins so much. I really can't wait for this movie! I like the pictures I've seen so far. The Joker looks crazy! (good)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army
I have mixed feelings for the first hellboy movie. Some bits were bad, and I didn't like some of the changes to the source-material. But the good stuff, which outweighs the bad, was flippin' amazing! And I have a feeling the sequel is going to be so much better than the first. The plot sounds alot more interesting and I love all the concept art. And Johann is in it! Damn, I can't wait! Trailer out this month I think.

Diary of the Dead
Even though I was dissapointed in Land of the Dead I'm crazy excited for this movie. Romero going back to his indie-roots can only be good. When the hell are we going to get a trailer??

Doomsday
From the guy who made Dog Soldiers and The Descent (I love both). After a deadly virus wreaks havoc in scotland they decide to just wall in that entire part of the island. Years later people have somehow survied behind the walls and created these post-apocalyptic societies. Then the virus suddenly re-appear in england and they have to venture into quarantined Scotland to find out how people survived to make a cure. No trailer yet but there's this nifty sneak-preview site with lots of info and pictures: http://www.doomsdayiscoming.com/

Dante 01
Debut solo-movie (I think) from Marc Caro (the other director of Delicatessen and City of Lost Children). A space movie that takes place in a orbital penal facility about an inmate who's met some aliens or something and gets weird powers. (I think) The trailer looks beautiful! Caro has a great eye for nice visuals. Premieres in January in France I think. Here's the main site where you should be able to find a trailer: http://www.dante01.com/

Werewolf Hunters of the Midwest
And this is a movie where there's veeeeery little information. It's by genius auteur Cory McAbee. He's a musician, artist, writer and director and made one of my favourite movies "The American Astronaut" in 2001. That movie is a black and white space western musical with great music and visuals and lots of weirdness and humour. There's a couple of fun clips on youtube I think. "Werewolf Hunters of the Midwest" is his latest movie, the first since "The American Astronaut" and I think it will be about some werewolf-hunter teaching someone the ways of werewolf-hunting. But also about a werewolf teaching a newly turned werewolf the ways of.. uh.. being a werewolf. Anyway I love his first movie and I can't wait for this.

Blessed with the thought of another persons misfortune

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:07:49 GMT

I was then dissapointed to find out the kid just hit the sign with his hand or something. But for a couple of seconds I was blessed with the mental image of a kid hanging upside down by its legs around its parents shoulders. Unconscious with the arms hanging down.

And this years Stockholm Film Festival was excellent. All the movies I saw was pretty much good.

But I especially recommend:

Eagle vs Shark
This movie was alot like Napoleon Dynamite but much more serious and with a point.

Rec
Flippin' great zombie film, probably the best if you want to be scared.

I'm A Cyborg, but that's OK
A touching and beautiful love story about two crazy people living in an asylum, from the director of OldBoy.

Into the Wild
True story about a 20-something guy that just decides to travel america and then live alone in the alaskan wilderness.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
True story based on the biography of a magazine (Elle) editor (or something, I'm not sure) who gets entirely paralyzed except for his left eye. It's called the "locked in syndrome" and he can only communicate by blinking. He wrote a book by just stopping people (by blinking) when they read the alphabet out loud. Inredible story and movie. I cried like a baby in the theatre but the movie was actually quite uplifting.

That is all.

Random stuff

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:17:29 GMT

Oh hell, forgot to mention. My trip to london was flippin' great! The Mindless Self Indulgence show was excellent! (even though I had hardly slept for two days and felt ill)

I spent more money on those five days London than I did for the entire month I lived there after graduating from High School. And I had an extremely good time! (well spent money in my eyes)

Bought two comics that I have now finished.

Blankets Which I thought was just okay. (don't kill me) But I haven't had a christian upbringing or been in love, I guess I couldn't relate. But I really liked all the childhood and winter stuff though. Which I guess I could relate too. It was excellently written and drawn, so all in all good.

And the other comic was Street Angel which I finished earlier today. One word.

Awesome.

I hope they make more!

And then I turned a friend towards Fell and Bear (which he thought was a Jhonen Vasquez comic and now refuses to admit it's not even though it says Jamie Smart on the cover), and I allmost got him to buy Gutsville but they only had issue two.

I urge everyone to read Gutsville. It's incredible!

Todays music suggestions are:

HUMANWINE
Luminescent Orchestrii
Asakusa Jinta

And the new albums from:

Prefuse 73
Efterklang
Múm
Nervous Cabaret

And these following movies are good:

Knocked Up
Superbad
This Is England
28 Weeks Later

And I actually liked the new Resident Evil movie! (I love post-apocalyptic and zombie movies)

In about two weeks time it's the Stockolm International Film Festival 2007 and these are the movies I will see there:

King of California
Persepolis
The Go-Getter
Waitress
Eagle vs Shark
Watching the Detectives
Rocket Science
Paranoid Park
The Nines
I'm a Cyborg, but that's OK
Juno
American Crime
Hallam Foe
Autumn Ball
Into the Wild
REC
Room 205
Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
No Country for Old Men
The Great World of Sound

That is all.

Oh oh oh! And is anyone else really missing Godspeed You! Black Emperor?

I am. ;(

Stockholm 31/10

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:51:34 GMT

Last wednesday I went out into the city and took some photos instead of doing homework. Now I decided to upload them instead of doing homework.

Have I mentioned how much I hate homework?

Holy crap first snow!

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:21:51 GMT

And I just noticed fall was here.

Edit: Ok, I just wanted to add that I just took this photo really fast to show the snow. It's really not meant to be a nice photo.

Another strip...

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:02:23 GMT

...using the exact same panels as my last one. (more or less)

Again made instead of doing homework.

It's funny because you can never know too much about zombie movies.

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 23:05:14 GMT

I have a crapload of homework to do.

But I made this instead:

I hate homework.

I hate it so much.

-witty subject line-

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:53:32 GMT

Why isn't all the people who has added me in bold even though I've added them?
It annoys me so damn much! ;(

It makes me feel rude or something.

Also today I finally got my Mindless Self Indulgence tickets for their show in London this october! I can't wait!

I got plane tickets to london and 4 nights at a hostel there for less than $100! And then right after we booked everything I discovered MSI is playing in london at the exact same time we're there. Really close to our hostel too!

It's like it was meant to be!

I'm also planning a Berlin trip in november and thinking about a trip to Paris, maybe in january.

I have to spend my money somehow you know..

Super Mundane War Neurosis

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:56:49 GMT

Ever since I came back from two music festivals over a week ago I've exclusively had dreams about music festivals.

Several times I've woken up in this half awake dream-state still thinking I'm in a camp. And I'm really confused wondering who's camp it is. And then after a while I find it all strangely familiar and I think to myself, holy crap, this camp looks exactly like my bedroom. And I keep thinking that for quite awhile, observing everything in my room, but I still think I'm sitting outside under a party tent or something.

It's all very confusing.

It reminds me of the first weeks I worked at McDonald's, I had these horrible dreams about work. And I used to sleepwalk half-awake and try to use the laptop as a bread toaster (or whatever it's called in english, the thing you heat up the hamburger bread), putting in invisible trays of bread and closing the laptop over it.

It's like I have war neurosis but from really boring mundane stuff. If I ever go to war I'll totally kill people in my sleep years after! :S

And I've started working in an office now, but only for about a month. The work is extremely simple, I just scan in papers and then write into this program on the computer what kinds of papers i just scanned in. The pay is excellent and just this month will be enough money for the rest of the year while I fix one of my grades in this post-high-school-school for adults that has to fix their grades before starting further studies, or however I should explain it.

The work is really relaxing actually, I've never felt so rested after a 9 hour workday! :D

Although, I've only been at it for one day so I might go crazy after a few days, who knows?

Oh and...

Holy crap I found the batmobile!

Back from another festival!

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:29:46 GMT

Well I came back from the Arvika Music Festival yesterday.

I had a great time! Although I didn't really see much music this time, only saw on band on saturday and I didn't see anything on friday (mostly because I got caught in this christian camp on my way to the concert area and stayed there discussing for maybe 4 hours until I got too drunk and tossed out). I did manage to see a couple of bands on thursday atleast.

I had a great time on the camping area so I'm not sure it was too much of a waste of money though.

I wasn't that tired in the end surprisingly, I think I could've managed to be on 4 festival in row for a full month straight. I was thinking about doing that before but it seemed really hard.

Maybe next year.

Now I'm thinking about going to another festival next week. I'll just have to see how much money I have left now (I spent way to much on the Roskilde festival) and if anyone wants to join me. It seems like alot of my girl friends (as in friends that are girls, not girls that I'm together with) are free and has money this time, which might be interesting going with to a festival as I've been to the last ones only with guys but now they all seem to be busy or broke.

I already feel bored here at home that I actually want to go to a fourth festival now right away.

Otherwise I should probably get a job or something or I'll be broke for the rest of the year.

But I'd rather go to another festival.

The bands I saw this festival was:

Hellsongs
Maia Hirasawa
Mustasch
Bloc Party
Frontline Assembly
Aerial
Pluxus

And we actually went into town on friday and watched Transformers in a theatre all to ourselves!

It was a pretty bad movie in alot of ways... but hey, GIANT ROBOTS!!!

I had a blast! :D

Back!

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:28:50 GMT

So I got back from the Roskilde Music Festival last night at about 10pm. I wasn't tired at all but then I slept now for about 13 hours so I don't know.

I had an excellent time! Made a fool of myself on several occasions but that was to be expected.

It was a nice start on my Roskilde career as this was apparently the worst/craziest weather the festival has had since it start in '71. I guess it can only get better now! :D

I think it was pouring rain non-stop and storm winds for over 36 hours(!) one day there. And whole sections of the camps was flooded in water. I saw tents with water up to over your ankles. And things were floating around everywhere.

I didn't have any rain clothes with me so everything was soaked on the first hour.

I remember leaving my home in sweden with sunshine and then the closer I got to Denmark it just rained more and more.

I bought rain boots on the second day and I can safely say it's one of the best choices I've done in my life! And I think the 100 000 visitors of the festival agrees. You see hundreds of sneakers just popping up out from the mud by the place you bought the rain boots. Everybody just kicked off their shoes immidiately and put on their boots on the spot after buying them.

After the first days we had several small(ish) lakes on the campsites you had to cross.

It was crazy.

But really fun!

...

...

And cold. :S

I think atleast one person drowned to death. But on the plus-side it was the lowest ever on rapes and fights.

I pretty much just sat down the entire festival. When the concerts started on thursday (I got to the festival on monday) we started taking with us camping chairs and sat down watching most of the concerts. It was actually pretty nice.

On one of the concerts (for the band Tunng) we found this balconey by the stage, and we actually got to the front and put up our chairs there. I could see everything perfectly and I was sitting down. I've never been so comfortable on a concert before! :D

The bands I saw (or mostly heard because there was so much people and I sat down most of the time) this festival was:

Arcade Fire
Basement Jaxx
Beastie Boys
Björk
Bonde Do Role
Detektivbyrån
In Flames
The Killers
Muse
Queens of the Stone Age
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Tunng

And now tommorow at 9am I'm going to the Arvika Music Festival.

EDIT: I found this photo from the festival to give you an idea of how it might've been:

And here's a nice slideshow of photos from the festival:
http://politiken.dk/fotografier/article337476.ece?service=gallery

EDIT 2: Here's an even better slideshow of photos from the festival where you can really se how wet it was at places:
http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/special/bildspel/visa/noje/0,4542,5843,00.html

Music Festival in 18 Hours!

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 22:09:39 GMT

In about 7 hours I'm off to the Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark. I'll have to spend about 10 hours on a bus to get there.

And then on monday next week I'll be back home at about 11pm and I have one day (tuesday) to clean and rest up before I'm off to the Arvika Music Festival on wednesday. So pretty much two weeks of pure festival.

I'll feel terrible but hopefully in a couple of weeks my memory will have filtered off the worst parts making it seem like the entire thing was great fun!

I can't wait! :D

Hmm, I have to go up in about 5 hours...

I guess should prolly go to bed or something.

Festival in 18 hours! Woo!!!

Home!

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:13:41 GMT

I just got back from the Hultsfred Music Festival and I'm so damn tired! :S

But had an amazing time even though there wasn't that many great big bands or that much people or that the weather was really cold, windy, rainy and pretty much horrible! Could be the festival I've had the most fun!

Now I just have two weeks untill I'm going to the Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark and then just right after the Arvika Music Festival back here in Sweden. I think I'll just be home over the night before I have to go there.

I can't wait! :D

Oh my god I'm so tired...

Music festival in 11 hours!

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:25:42 GMT

I'm curently recording this neverending song from this game: http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/g3/bells.htm onto a tape to have on repeat for the Hultsfred Music Festival that I'm going to in about 11 hours.

It's driving me mad!

I never realized how nasty my converse was until I bought new ones last saturday.

Thu, 17 May 2007 17:41:39 GMT

Can you guess which pair is new?

Oh hey, I turned 21 today...

Fri, 11 May 2007 08:43:28 GMT

I guess I'll have to go out tonight after all!

Oh dear god I had to remake the whole thing! :S

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:28:48 GMT

I screwed up with the pixels and stuff on the CD cover I finished yesterday, it turned out really pixelated when I printed the damn thing. So I hade to remake it from scratch today! :(

It went alot faster now when I knew exactly what and how to do it so here it is, my Birthday/Coming Back From Australia Mix CD gift to a friend of mine.

I think it turned out a little bit better this time actually. The shape of Sweden on the map is alot closer to how it really should be and stuff.