Prussian Blue

Daniel just told me he had been watching a documentary about the nazi-equivalent of The Olsen twins. Just found a clip from it on You Tube. Don't miss it.

Yeikes!

Missing school

Riding in the car with a friend we had a long chat about what it's been like since graduation. And to be honest, it's been really weird, and more so the last few weeks. It is now September and I am fuckin' restless... One day totally hyperactive, the next I can't even get my ass out of bed.

But it's not that weird. I am going through a huge change. For the last 22 years these weeks, at the end of August, have been the time to start school... SINCE PRIMARY SCHOOL, through high-shcool, Awatapu College, military, university and last but not least the KaosPilots.

So no wonder I feel like buying books and getting a new school bag. That's what I've been doing at this time of year since I was seven! Well, I won't rant about what that means to me but instead share a part of what a good friend wrote in the first e-mail she wrote me since she started Team 14 at the KaosPilots. (In swedish, sorry..)

"...tänkte avsluta med att berätta om gårdagens stora välkomstfest som anordnades av team 13. Fan det var det roligast arrangemang jag settpå länge. Dom tar in vårt team i ett rum när vi så sakteliga närmar oss skolan. Vi får en massa champange och huttar whiskey. Sedan ropar dom upp oss en och en att vi ska gå genom en dörr, helt ovetandes går jag in, blir krigsmålad med rosa kroppsfärg och pyntad med stora blommor i håret. Sedan går jag fram till ett draperi där jag får förklarat för mig att jag måste krypa i slutet av tunneln… well tänkte jag, så jag började krypa, and little did I know, jag kommer fram i ett litet hål där står två personer från team 13 i vita rockar och drar fram mig. När jag kommer ut där står alla på skolan och skriker och tjoar, det var energi till taket i rummet och jag blir presenterad. Jag går sedan bort till mitt team och upptäcker att vi blir alla framdragna i en gigantisk vagina, jepp dom förlöste oss. Jag skrattade så jag höll på att dö när jag såg allas miner. Fan vi såg så överraskade ut när vi kröp fram i tunneln. Helt oslagbart! Sedan dansade jag mig svettig och lycklig i fyra timmar…"

That's what I want this time of year!

I can't believe my friends from school actually had the new students comming out of a huge vagina. Team 13 - You guys rock!

It makes me happy, proud and absolutely convinced that I will need to return to our fantastic backyard in Aarhus soon... :)

Party in Malmö

Following our roadtrip to Malmö/Copenhagen Henrik, me and some other friends went to a backyard party. It rocked and at 7 in the morning we were still dancing. I thought I remembered most of the stuff that happened until henrik sent me this video. ...yupp its me...

Art of the day

When I was in New York in April I was staying with Tracy for a couple of weeks. On the last day I started talking to Jonathan one of the neighbours. We said we'd go for a beer and he later wrote me an e-mail asking if I wanted to go to see a band in which one of his friends were playing. I had already gone back to Stockholm and was to psyched out about work to reply.

Today I found a folded pink sticky-note with his phone number and the address to his website. I checked it out and found a video he made featuring the band we were going to go see (My best fiend). It is a cool video... I also really liked some of the pics (nude ladies always get me). Jonathan's website became my Art experience of the day. I wrote him an e-mail and said thank you.

(If you click the right side of his face you get to see the video with the band... )

Photo recap

My camera has been out of order since April but I borrowed one and took some pictures... here is a quick recap of what I've been up to... enjoy.

The candidates issue by issue...

This American Life

Last night after we got back from the country side and an awesome weekend me and Henrik went for a walk. We passed the hang-out called "special cliff" and the reggae café before meeting Frank, Agnes Lo and Nikolaj. We hung out and drank some wine with them on one of the little jetties. It became a great evening of everyone telling their own real life stories... I suppose that it was our shared liking of great real-life stories that led Agnes Lo to recomend "This American Life" to all of us.

Hans Rosling on stage!

I just saw Hans Rosling's presentation on TED 2007... the man is as brilliant as always but funnier than ever. Check this dude out, listen to the facts and what ever you do don't miss the finale...

Berlitz learn a language

The people who make the Berlitz add should be awarded with a pulitzer... or a Berlitzer or something...



oh and yes... also check out Kanye Wests new video...




(thanks Jo for showing me both of these..)

A tube of Bergman

Ingmar Bergman died yesterday and journalists have been hunting down everyone who has ever worked with or fucked him. His relation to women is famous/notorious. It is amazing to hear all the women he worked with explaining what he did for them... - I am so grateful to have known him.... - He saw me and made me see myself... One actress confessed to greedy thoughts. - All the things I never asked him... etc. etc.

The Swiss-born psychiatrist Helen Kübler-Ross has designed a model to explain the human reaction to death in five stages...

1. Denial : The initial stage: "It can't be happening."
2. Anger : "Why ME? It's not fair?!" (either referring to God, oneself, or anybody perceived, rightly or wrongly, as "responsible")
3. Bargaining : "Just let me live to see my son graduate."
4. Depression : "I'm so sad, why bother with anything?"
5. Acceptance : "It's going to be OK."

(from wikipedia)

I don't know if the Kübler-Ross model can explain anything about how a human collective reacts to death but I have feeling that the Swedish reaction to Bergmans death primarily is a greedy one... sort of similar to the human reaction to the death of a tube of toothpaste. - Oh no you don't! There is still some useful stuff in there...