There are doors that lock And doors that don't There are doors that let you in and out But never open And there are trapdoors That you can't come back from

good afternoon!

yes, it has been a while, I know. I tend to blog when I'm bored, and well, it's been a pretty happening week and 1/2!

not sure where to start really...don't feel like I've got that much to write about somehow...or maybe I just don't really know how to write it.

my england trip can be summed up as follows: there was a fair amount of putting the world to rights, a fair amount of radioheading, a fair amount of record and book and shoe and clothes shopping, a fair amount of tea and coffee being consumed. I won't bore you with the details of my shopping list. ...no, I actually, I will...sorry...I know how boring this is, but I'm just so pleased with my purchases, and it's been a long time since I bought anything at all...with the exception of the radiohead stuff I got just after xmas...!

I got amnesiac (radiohead), they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top (liars), nude 7" (radiohead) on vinyl, and happy birthday! (modeselektor) and conquista/conquest (las rayas blancas i.e. the white stripes) on cd. I could have bought a lot more...but my funds were somewhat limited! also bought what we say goes and failed states by noam chomsky and being and nothingness by jean-paul sartre at waterstones in oxford. got one of my all time favorite books for claire as a thank you: the outsider by albert camus. a great read, very beige, yet sunny, ever so slightly perverse but beautifully written. hoping the lady is enjoying it!


...and then there was oxford! fantastically, beautiful oxford!

(queen's lane, oxford)

(magdalen collage, oxford)

(man and his dog at the entrence to the botanical gardens, oxford)

(weird fishes but no arpeggi, botanical gardens, oxford)

I miss it...so very much!!! :(


here are some pics from the curling session last night...the team I was in, "knattarna", came third!!!

(blog title: excerpt from pulk/pull revolving doors by r_d__h__d.amnesiac)

I'd be crazy not to follow Follow where you lead Your eyes They turn me Turn me on to phantoms I follow to the edge of the earth And fall off

engerland next!!!

(don't drive and snap...)

(where did the cat go...?)

(the view...mere minutes ago...most of the snow's gone now...good!)

(blog title: excerpt from weird fishes/arpeggi by raadiooheaad)

fry.is.2

...:::happy birthday fry:::...

When this just feels like spinning plates I'm living in cloud cuckoo land And this just feels like spinning plates

blueTHINGS...

...and the reason why i should not be allowed to cook...EVER...under any circumstances!

(burnt breaded plaice and burnt fries with remoulade sauce)

(blog title: excerpt from like spinning plates by the radio head...studioversion:amnesiac:::liveversion:imightbewrongliverecordings)

Baby alligators in the sewers grow up fast Grow up fast Anything you want it can be done How did you go bad? Did you go bad?

this looks sort of pretty in negative...but in reality it's a depressingly run down building...no one lives here by choice!

(leftyman: happy man, completely unaware he's about to get crushed by the big square thing with wheels - rightyman: crushed)

these signs fascinate me...i don't know why really...maybe it's the sheer brutality of the picture...?

"scenic" view of somewhere on tränsgatan this morning

the equivalent to tesco value deodorant (i'm not judging...). MYSTIC scent...INVISIBLE scent...really!? -what are you wearing? -mystic scent by ica! what were they (and WHO are THEY) hoping to achieve with this? who buys it? why are they buying it (it's not even that cheap, but maybe it smells good)? i have many more questions...but none are being answered.


good night.

(blog title: excerpt from fogradioheadamnesiacdisctwo)

oh I wish you'd get up go over get up go over and turn this tape off.

walking home...snappsnappsnapp...walking...snapp...up and down the...snapp...streets of...snapp...helsingborg...snapp.

(see you in my nightmares, bejewelled mannequin)

(i'm lost for words...and so was the person that wrote this, it would seem)

(övre eneborgsvägen at 9.20pm on a random tuesday...cars and shaddows)

(blog title: excerpt from a-wolf-at-the-door-radiooohead-hail-to-the-thief)

Just as you take my hand Just as you write my number down Just as the drinks arrive Just as they play your favourite song As your bad day disappears No longer wound up like a spring Before you've had too much Come back in focus again

aaahhhhhh..sweet RA D IOHEA _D! the cds and book i ordered from amazon FINALLY arrived today!!!  it feels like i've been waiting forever for this to arrive...

forever is two weeks!

kid a (2cd & dvd)  box set

ok computer (2cd & dvd) box set

amnesiac (2cd & dvd) box set

i might be wrong - live recordings

com lag (2plus2isfive) ep

airbag/how am i driving? ep

dead children playing: a picture book by stanley donwood and dr. tchock

not sure if this can be classified as "good news", but the zoo (skånes djurpark) that had their pack of wolves brutally killed at the weekend have been reported to the police by djurrättsalliansen (a swedish animal rights group). at least and at last some action is being taken!

skånes djurpark polisanmäls - helsingborgs dagblad 11/01/10

blog title: excerpt from jigsaw falling into place by radioheadedededed/in rainbows)

We don't have to show the slightest respect for other people's views – just for their right to hold them.

this is just a brilliant (and at times funny) piece of writing...

read it!

we all have the right to be offensive by david mitchell for the observer

(vaktgatan at about 8am today...on an empty stomach on a bike on a bumpy road)

(blog title: excerpt from we all have the right to be offensive by david mitchell) ...what!!! no radiohead blog title??? maybe next time kids!!!

step up get the gunge get the eggs get the flan in the face the flan in the face the flan in the face dance you fucker dance you fucker don't you dare don't you dare don't you flan in the face

(RIP)

I'm ashamed to be swedish

this is a disgrace

this should never have happened

never ever

but it did

it makes me feel sick

it is sick...SICK!

hel vargflock avlivad på djurpark - helsingborgs dagblad 9/1/10

wolves liquidated after swedish zoo escape - the local 10/1/09

canis lupus

(blog title: excerpt from a wolf at the door by radiohead/hail to the thief)

butter fingers.....................i'm losing my patience

(view from my window)

watch a film?
eat something?
bake-a-cake-of-some-kind?
listen to music (ra d iohea _d) while resting on the backrest of the sofa?
organise photos on the pc?
calculusing/arithmaticing/algebraing?

drink tea...?...can be done simultaneously as all of the above!

(views from the motorway pt I)

(views from the motorway pt II)

or maybe just go to bed...
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decisions...decisions...decisions........................................................................................................

(blog title: excerpt from rabbit in your headlights (feat. thom yorke) by UNKLE / psyence fiction - great video...watch it!)

WalkingWalkingWalkingWalkingWalkingWalkingWalkingWalkingWalking

(my blog on my fry on my blog)

it has come to my attention that google has a translation tool for translating web pages...like my blog for example! I've been blogging away for about a year now, and I never knew my mum read my blog posts in swedish thanks to the above mentioned tool!!! I'm horrified! ;)

I read some of my own posts that had been translated...I'm all for the translation tool, but sweet jesus, it's as if the blog had been written by an illiterate person...typing on a mashed up keyboard...wearing thick wooly mittens...in the dark...during an earthquake!

impressed...NO!

and as for my radiohead blog titles...radiohead in swedish...or should that be radiohuvud...IT.DOES.NOT.WORK.ON.ANY.LEVEL.AT.ALL.EVER.THE!END!

I realise I have no control (aaaaargh!!! where's the panic button???) over what language people choose to read this blog in...BUT PLEASE...I BEG YOU...DON'T USE THE GOOGLE TRANSLATION TOOL...it's rubbish at translating text! it turns everything into utter nonsense and as far as I am concerned I require no further assistance in the nonsense-writing-business!

so from now on...please use this instead: nordstedts engelska ord or email me! (just click on the little letter icon at the bottom of the blog post)

(the spooky hospital parking lot at about 5.30pm 7/1/10)

(the even spookier sävsångaregatan or lövsångaregatan...I forget which and they look almost identical anyway...this afternoon...silk-paper-hosues-and-a-black-hole-in-the-sky)

(blog title: excerpt from morning bell/radiohuvud/kid a)

The rain dropsThe rain dropsThe rain dropsThe rain dropsThe rain drops

more negative pics...hehehe!

the landscape is marked by snow and ice...I'm staying in! snow is pretty, but unfriendly. I'm thinking baking might be a good idea, and tidying the flat while radioheading it loudly on the speakers. always a good combination! add a cup of sugary lady tea to the mix and you have one happy peep right here.

really looking forward to my next london visit! never thought I'd say this...but I miss london. I was so fed up with it when I left, I never ever wanted to go back. distance and time has buried my dislike and made me see london the way I used to see it.

daytripping it to oxford on the monday and doing work drinks on the tuesday (26/1). really want to squeeze in a rough trade east / leon's visit too somewhere...need to stock up on some vinyl. (klirr?)

(have you got your towel?)

I wish the sneezing would just stop now...! :(

(blog title: excerpt from sit down, stand up (snakes & ladders) by r a d i o h e a d/hailtothethief)

Has the light gone out for you? Because the light's gone for me It is the 21st century It is the 21st century

I know...this is quite a lame effect, but I really like the pics for some reason. they look so sinister and dark. welcome to kid a land!

walter in kungshult, maria park

inside a rather warm and cosy walter at kurirgatan...snow

driving walter...and snapping pics at the same time...naughty naughty, I know, I know

I'm off to bed now...it's like 9.13pm...but like, I've got a cold, like, and like need to get better, so that I can, like, work and stuff. like my head is pounding like there's like a little annoying man inside, like, beating the shit out of like the inside of like my skull with like crowbars and other heavy-metal-like-objects, and I'm like ready to let the little man die...kill the headachemaster.

I also still feel like I'm on a boat...all the f**king time.

hmm...don't actually think I've written about that here yet...here's the short version:

went drinking on the helsingborg/elsinore ferries weekend before last with the boys. got off the ferry after having been on it for less than 2h, but I felt as if I was still on it. I obviously put it down to the fact that I'd been consuming alcohol. woke up the next day and I was still "on a boat". once again blamed the alcohol (who wouldn't after a 14h drinking session...). woke up monday morning...and I was STILL "on a boat"...and it hasn't stopped since. I felt so dizzy and sick on the monday and tuesday I had to stay home from work. I still feel really dizzy, but I guess I'm sort of getting used to it. It's feels weird though...really, really weird! been trying to look it up on the net, but I've found next to nowt on the subject. I've experienced dizzy spells in the past, but they've only ever lasted for maybe 10-30 seconds...this is continuous, and it doesn't seem to matter what I do...sit, stand, lay down, run, walk, jump, dance...! weird, and ever so slighlty scary!

full stop

(blog title: excerpt from bodysnatchers by wouldyoubelieveit,it'sradiohead!/in rainbows)

(bytheway)

the funniest thing just happened...

went on the dna section of the douglas adams website...

there are "moving" pictures of douglas on the right hand side of the page...

I was looking at the douglas's...

...when I might be wrong came on...

the beat and the douglas's are almost perfectly sync'd... and it looks as if douglas is dancing to radiohead!

:)

Down is the new up What is up, buttercup

no words.

(blog title: down is the new up by radiohead/in rainbows disk 2)

I don't wanna hear it I don't wanna know I just wanna run and hide This is just a nightmare But soon I'm gonna wake up Someone's gonna bring me 'round

WHAT IS POLITICAL REALITY?

an essay by

oliver postgate

sweden gives green light to controversial wolf hunt

the local

wolf hunt started

sveriges radio

but there is hope, it seems...ave atque vale by stephen fry

(I'd like to pre-order my copy now, please!!!)

(blog title: 4 minute warning by radiohead/in rainbows disk 2)

3xB

I'm BOREdBOREdBOREd

so I BLOgBLOgBLOg

a lot of BLAhBLAhBLAh

current and ever so slightly thom yorke heavy playlist:

the national anthem - rh - kid a

I might be wrong - rh - amnesiac

feelingpulledapartbyhorses - thom yorke - feelingpulledapartbyhorses (single)

where I end and you begin (the sky is falling in) - rh - hail to the thief

paranoid android - rh - ok computer

idioteque - rh - kid a

jigsaw falling into place - rh - in rainbows

pyramid song - rh - amnesiac

how to disappear completely - rh - kid a

no surprises - rh - ok computer

4 minute warning - rh - in rainbows disk 2

a wolf at the door - rh - hail to the thief

skip divided (modeselektor remix) - thom yorke - and it rained all night (burial remix) / skip divided (modeselektor remix) / analyse (various remix) ep

dollars & cents - rh - amnesiac

hearing damage - thom yorke - new moon (soundtrack selections with songs by karmina)

down is the new up - rh - in rainbows disk 2

the white flash (feat. thom yorke) - modeselektor - happy birthday!

everything in its right place - rh - kid a

fog (live) - rh - go to sleep (cd1) ep

last flowers - rh - in rainbows disk 2

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THE END.

i am up in the clouds i am up in the clouds and i can't and i can't come down

happiness # one

happiness # two

(these happinesses may seem identical to the untrained eye)

2010...so far, so good...a vast improvement from 2009...shocking!

it's only man-made numbers...the universe is the same...well, that's a lie. the universe will never be the same ever again. I take comfort in that thought. change is good, sameness is not.

the success rate of new year's resolutions in the past have always been unsurprisingly and tragically poor, but I do promise to do one thing in 2010, and that is to always bear the following in mind...AND TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

(blog title: excerpt from where I end and you begin by radiohead/hail to the thief)