please excuse me but i've got to ask.....are you only being nice because you want something?

"borrowed" this pic of zlatan (in a compromising position) from my sister's blog...

the official explanation is that he's "playing with the cords under the cupboard"

mmm, yea right, of course he is...!

(blog title: excerpt from the eraser by thom yorke off the eraser)

bday£££music

modeselektor - hello mom!

sparklehorse - it's a beautiful life

flying lotus - los angeles

mos def - the ecstatic

harmonia and eno '76 - tracks and traces

Before you run away from me Before you're lost between the notes The beat goes round and round The beat goes round and round

week twelve picturama

lift safety certificate at kurirgatan 6b

issued: 1976

expired: 1977

alternative: seven flights of stairs

thanking the lady klirr

three of my very most favorite things

radioheadski - oxford(shire) - chocs

so very special

thanks again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again...

(the 7" is radiohead's street spirit on white vinyl)

ty art by klirr

hihihi...

1. kock = chef

2. örk = yuck

3. snapped this last night when carolin and i walked home from our night out

rhubarb and strawberry cheese cake a lá veg (minus the rhubarb, plus raspberry compote)

the berries are slightly off centre...i know it's silly, but it really f**king annoys me...

earth hour 2010 at the veg residence

and finally

the roads are safe

the roads are safe

no more

a veg behind the wheel

a veg behind the wheel

mph: 104

...BEWARE...

where? väla södra industrial estate

when? tomorrow afternoon

what? my first driving lesson

why? ...

how? hah!

...BEWARE...

(blog title: excerpt from jigsaw falling into place:radiohead:inrainbows)

TURN OFF YOUR LIGHTS TONIGHT AT 8.30PM

turn

OFF

YouR

LIGHTS

T.O.N.I.G.H.T

@t

8.30pm

:):):):):)

 ...:::!!!III  THANKS EVERYBODY  III!!!:::... 

marchmusiccc

the amazing sound of orgy /// radiohead

little girl /// danger mouse and sparklehorse

plastercast of everything /// liars

lose your soul /// dead man's bones

girlfriend in a coma /// the smiths

ceremony (live) /// joy division

thehollowearth /// thom yorke

déboutonner /// modeselektor

pull up the people /// m.i.a.

astronauts /// cranes

untitled 7 /// sigur rós

i love you (me either) /// cat power & karen elson

superstar /// sonic youth

white chalk /// pj harvey

come to me /// björk

stem/long stem /// dj shadow

meat grinder /// madvillain

spacelab /// kraftwerk

burst generator /// the chemical brothers

da funk /// daft punk

like spinning plates /// radiohead

the other side of mt. heart attack /// liars

to be continued...

EARTH HOUR 2010

DON'T FORGET

WWF EARTH HOUR LINK

the easiest way to sell your soul is to carry on believing that we don't exist it must be hard with your head on backwards

they may not be the prettiest american pancakes ever baked
i may not be the best cook that ever walked the earth (hah, as if!)

it doesn't stop me from trying...and today i decided to try and make american pancakes...i'm as shocked as you probably are...but i succeeded!!! they were edible...a bit more than just edible in fact...quite nice actually!

(five american pancakes with butter, blueberries, raspberries, almonds and maple syrup)

american pancakes (serves four people according to the cook book...but in reality just one tiny person!)
3 dl plain flour
1 tbs sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate
3 dl natural yoghurt
1 egg
1 tbs melted butter
(recipe: vår kok bok/norstedts förlag)

(blog title: excerpt from permanent daylight,,,radiohead,,,my iron lung ep)

anyone for a sandWISH?

(embarrassingfullstop)

póstur köttur

(..cat as seen through the letterbox on a monday afternoon..)

ex2 turned one yesterday...and it completely slipped my mind!

Blow into this paper bag Go home and stop grinning at everyone

came across this last night while reading, erm, a donald duck comic book...

one of the ducklings...huey, dewey or louie is saying "give me a prefrontal lobotomy" in this comic strip. now, i've been reading comic books since i was a young child (disney ones amongst others) and have come to learn the fairly limited and always "child friendly" disney language. never before have i come across anything like this in a disney comic book...

how refreshing!

the script writers and artist who wrote this particular story are: lars jensen, david gerstein and flemming andersen respectively. ...and the story is about killer, zombie teddy bears that have been possesed by animal ghosts!!!


happy sunday everyone! :)

(blog title: excerpt from paperbag write-----radiohead-----com lag ep)

a bit of cc & jg

humans must be to blame for climate change, say scientists - the independent, friday 5 march

gore takes aim at climate change sceptics - the independent, monday 1 march

study reveals carbon footprint of uk music industry - the guardian, friday 12 march

more music vs cc

u2 criticised for world tour carbon footprint - the guardian, friday 10 july (2009)

u2 dismiss carbon footprint criticism as 'unfair' - the guardian, monday 17 august (2009)

...finally 20% radioheadish news...jonny greenwood, more specifically!

radiohead's jonny greenwood to score film of haruki murakami novel - the guradian, monday 8 march

best note down the following in the diary: the maida vale performance of dogwood will be re-broadcast by bbc radio 3 on 19 march!!!


(left: herr greenwood playing the radio)

i sat in the cupboard and wrote it down in neat they were cheering and waving cheering and waving twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis but it got edited fucked up strangled beaten up

to lady claire...

this won't make your newly acquired black eye disappear any quicker...but it might help you ignore the blackness for a little while...

have some

and a few squares of

then when i come over to visit, we'll got to

go for a stroll down the cowley rd, then later pop round to jericho for a yummy veg burger at

oh...and let's not forget the best café in the known universe

we'll put the world to rights over a

or two...and some

and i wouldn't mind a trip eastwards for a serious shopping spree at

a perfect day!

(blog title: excerpt from myxomatosisssssradioheadddddhaillllltoooootheeeeethiefffff)

...stepping over heads...running from the underground...

a few good bits from the sunday papers

professor brian cox: 'we don't know what 96% of the universe is made of - we don't understand something fundamental' - the observer, sun 7th march
(i wish i could get bbc iplayer in sweden...)

jarvis cocker, the pop rebel doing battle with the bbc - the observer, sun 7th march

why is it that "we" only ever manage to export crap from this country???
invasion of the swedes: a cultural incursion from the north - the independent, sun 7th march

just to prove my point:

music:
abba, ace of base, roxette...all swedish "music" exports. believe it or not, but we do actually have a few good bands in this country as well...good, but lesser known outside the scandi borders: bob hund, timbuktu, ebba grön, thåström to name but a few.

literature:
stieg larsson (i now only know a couple of people that haven't succumbed to reading the millenium trilogy...and i'm one of them...and nothing/no-one in this universe could persuade me to read these books). again, there are quite a few good authors in the looong land of sweden...unfortunatelly, most of whom have never been translated into english...but you may just be able to get a german translation of the following: jonas gardell, marcus and peter birro, mark levengood.

film:
unless you're a bergman enthusiast...swedish cinema will probably leave you pretty disappointed. there are a few ok-ish films...but generally speaking, nothing to get that excited about! ...although i will say this, ernst-hugo järegård is one of my all time favorite actors.

(blog title: excerpt from 4minutewarningradioheadinrainbowsdisk2)

return.of.the.cave.cat

he's built a home!!!

a duvet cave!!!

on my sofa!!!

(smug cat in window)

what's next???

came across the below article on the guardian website earlier:
just.so.weird...  so.unimaginably.bonkers... and.so.immensely.sad...
i know you shouldn't believe everything you read...and i really hope this isn't true!

girl starved to death while parents raised virtual child in online game - 5th march

your crazy kitten smile..

it has been suggested that zlatan and richard (see "richard and me") are related. this could well be the case... however, as any relation between the two is yet to be established at the time of publication, i have an alternative theory...

zlatan often sits in the window behind me while i'm "working" on fry. i thought he was just checking out the birds (bird as in bird as in the winged creatures that has a tendency to plopp on my windows...pigeons and seagulls etc...don't get any ideas). little did i know that this was simply a clever cover up for looking over my shoulder when i read the richard and me blog.

so my theory is that...blood relatives or not...i'm pretty sure i know now where zlatan gets his inspiration from for his nightly escapades!

(innocent...)

(innocent...)

(caught...HA!)

on a completely unrelated note...
tinsel and baubles. on public display. in march. (and it's not like the people that live here have forgotten/couldn't be bothered to take their christmas decorations down...they put them up yesterday!)...now, i don't consider myself a stickler for tradition/convention...in fact i like it when things are shaken up every once in a while. i'm of the whatever-makes-you-happy school of thought..

but christmas decorations in march...not sure if that will ever catch on (or that it should).

(merry xmas everyone!)

(blog title: excerpt from true love waits::radiohead::i might be wrong live recordings)

bbc 6 music.. and more

has bbc 6 music fallen of deaf ears? not if the listeners have a say... - the observer 28th feb

bbc 6 music and asia network face axe in shake-up - bbc online news 2 march

bbc trust open to 6 music "rethink" - bbc online news 3rd march

click here to sign the petition

STOP THE CUTS TO THE BBC

(Why don't you quiet down) (Why don't you quiet down) (Why don't you quiet down) (Why don't you quiet down)

another sleepless night
the reason comes in the shape of a cat
a meowing one

(the terminator)

i'm cat sitting my sister's cat, zlatan while she's in stockholm visiting her boyfriend. she dropped the little kitty off last night, and as i was gonna work today i decided to go to bed at a fairly "resonable" hour (for once). zlatan obviously thought i was a right bore and decided the best way to show his diapproval was by moving the cat litter around his kitty toilet (loudly), meowing looong, desperate (loud) meows, running around the flat (loudly...i thought cats were supposed to be graceful and virtually "soundless"...i was wrong) and then he's giving me puppy eyes when i'm attempting to tell him off...

rude...plain rude, i tell you!

all night..this went on all night..

i.did.not.get.any.sleep.at.all.

when my alarm went of at the crazy hour of 5.15 this morning and as i was getting out of bed...he tip toed around for a bit to make sure i wasn't going back to bed again. then he curled up into a little cat ball in a corner of my bedroom and went to sleep.

his job was done. he's now preparing himself for round two...well, we'll see about that, zlatan!

(the Thominator)

link to a giggling Thom Yorke trying to play/sing weird fishes/arpeggi at the cambridge corn exchange last week. sweet!

(blog title: excerpt from dollars&cents by radioheadur and the album amnesiacur)

It barks at no-one else but me Like it's seen a ghost I guess it's seen the sparks a-flowin No-one else would know

the week (i.e. monday) in pictures...

(found this note on xxxxx's letter box..."no local mail"...ok then?)

(revenge of the pigeons)

reason: i think i may have kicked at a pigeon last week. NOT kicked, kicked AT, as in there was no physical contact between my boot and the actual bird...not that that made any difference to the bird whatsof**ingever...revenge is sweet...revenge is pigeon plopp...pigeon plopp on my window.

(blog title: excerpt from thetourist/rh/okcomputer - these words always pop into my head whenever i get barked at through a letter box by a dog...it happenes worryingly often...i'm not paranoid...it's true...dogs hates posties!)