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)

I used to think I used to think There is no future left at all I used to think

--- radiohead is going back into the studio in january. see ed's post on dead air space for more info. I was literally jumping with joy when I read this wonderful, wonderful news...I have a feeling most people are not all surprised at my reaction...given that radiohead is the most blogged "subject" on this blog, by a long way!

--- london calling... and I'm feeling obliged to comply...23-27/1!

--- QI g...not available in sweden, sadly, but I'm hoping to find an alternative source...if YOU know how/where, please share that information!

--- according to numerous sources that I do not wish to doubt, the first of 26 brand new futurama episodes will begin airing in mid-2010...on comedy central, but I'm sure (or at least, I hope) it will make it over to europe not long after!

that's just some of the things I'm looking forward to in the new year...there is one more, but I don't think I'm ready to share that one with you just yet...I'll keep you posted, I promise...but there are things that need to be sorted out, plans to be planned, details to be dealt with first...

HAPPYnewYEAR

&

why try and be anything else

(blog title: excerpt from I might be wrong by radiohead/amnesiac)

This is one for the good days and i have it all here In red, blue, green You are my center When i spin away Out of control on videotape

(bye bye bye...time to move on) goodBYE 2009

let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

we don't have to save the world. the world is big enough to look after itself. what we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.

the fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

you live and learn. at any rate, you live

--- douglas adams

(dna)

you can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... so let's look at the bird and see what it's doing — that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. he'll hold up a flower and say, "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. but then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. but you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] there are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. it only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.

I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and in many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here, and what the question might mean. I might think about a little, but if I can’t figure it out, then I go to something else. but I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn’t frighten me.

--- richard p. feynman

(rpf)

show me the world as I'd love to see it. there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.

--- radiohead

(rh)

HEllo 2010 (follow the arrows, see where they take you...)

(blog title: excerpt from videotape by radiohead/in rainbows)

:)

last chance to see - baby turtles

so cute...

what would i do? what would i do? if i did not have you?

how to disappear completely...kid a

i might be wrong...amnesiac

no surprises...ok computer

videotape...in rainbows

all lyrics: thom yorke/radiohead

Please could you stop the noise, I'm trying to get some rest From all the unborn chicken voices in my head

of the 160 odd radiohead/thom yorke related songs on my douglas*, and the overall fantasticness of radiohead, with the new stuff, the old stuff, the various thom yorke side projects, you'd think that maybe, a song that was released in 1997 on ok computer could easily get lost in the mix. not the case with paranoid android...my latest addiction! in fact, I'm in the process of re-discovering ok computer as an album. despite having listened to NOTHING but radiohead for a good couple of months now, I haven't really listened that much to ok computer (or pablo honey...but for different reasons). I lived/breathed/ate/drank ok computer when it was first released...it's not that I got bored with it, but I've felt I wanted to explore some of the radiohead albums I have listened less to over the years, like kid a and amnesiac.

(one of the best albums of all time...? YES!)

(album cover design: stanley donwood...as ever!)

want to immerse your soul in paranoid androidness? do not despair, it's only a click away!

paranoid android official music video

paranoid android live at saitama super arena, japan, 2008 (this is partly shot in a mtv-y style, especially the middle- and end sections...maybe best steer clear of this one if you're a migrane sufferer or are prone to dizzy spells and/or epilepsy! but it's so f**king great though, so might be worth a look-see nevertheless!)

paranoid android live at later with jools holland, 1997

(*my beloved ipod)

(blog title: excerpt from paranoid android by radiohead/ok computer)

I am a moth who just wants to share your light I'm just an insect trying to get out of the night

just been watching four episodes from the last chance to see series. I knew it was going to be good, but...WOW!

(mark and stephen with a couple of brown lemurs)

I watched the kakapo episode first...for obvious reasons. then the amazonian manatee, the northern white rhino and the aye-aye episodes. it's fascinating and frightening at the same time. read last chance to see by douglas adams and mark carwardine a few years ago and was completely blown away by it (I hate that expression, but I'm too lazy to think of a better one right now). really looking forward to the komodo dragon episode now!

I'm off to bed in a little bit...need to "catch up" on some sleep as I'm currently recovering from a two day drinking session (didn't get home until about 5.30am or something this morning...oops)...but I need dose of radiohead first to see me through the night. my radiohead obsession is becoming more and more severe...I'm a radiohead junkie...a radioheadhead!

(by stanley donwood and dr. tchock)

(blog title: excerpt from all I need by radiohead/in rainbows)

more xmas

(me, at home, pre xmas celebrations)

thought I'd publish some xmas pics...for no particular reason...I guess...just thought it'd be nice...or something...!

(my mum and dad's xmas tree)

(the infamous ängeln...that is still causing endless arguments between me and my sister)

(l-r: my mum, dad, uncle and my sister's blurry boyfriend)

(kräck)

(my new radiohead poster...thanks Claire!!!)

(xmas pressies 2009)

(the paulsson sisters post xmas celebrations)

going to denmark with the boys again tonight, so gonna go and get ready in a minute!

christmas eve!!!

God Jul

Merry Christmas

Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo

Joyeux Noel

Nadolig Llawen

Froehliche Weihnachten

Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr

Kala Christouyenna

Buone Feste Natalizie

Shinnen omedeto

Kurisumasu Omedeto

Gledelig Jul

Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia

Buorrit Juovllat

Gledileg Jol

Nollaig Shona Dhuit

Glædelig Jul

Hyvaa joulua

Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo

There are better things to talk about Be constructive Bear witness We can use Be constructive With yer blues...

nanananananananananananana...I'm off work for FOUR whole days as of 2.25pm this afternoon...nanananananananananananana

don't really have anything special/new/exciting to write about (sorry...I hate when people do that on blogs, and here I am...HYPOCRITE).

bought the last christmas gifts yesterday, and a few extras for myself...this dress for example (apologies for the crap pic...I have to sort my digital camera out, I've only got my mobile camera at the moment, hence the appalling quality).

(actually bought this dress today, NOT yesterday as I am claiming above...I'm such a liar!)

went to see this year's light show on terrastrapporna/kärnan last night...click on this link if you want to see the 10 minute long light show! it's pretty good actually! here are a few stills of the show (again, taken with my appalling mobile phone camera...)

dan före dopparedan!

(blog title: dollars and cents by radiohead)

Forget about your house of cards And I'll do mine Fall off the table Get swept under Denial, denial

today has been an all round good-ish, albeit in parts frustrating day.

I woke up at 4.30am, got up 4.48am (I snoozed my alarm 2x9 minutes)...had a shower, got dressed and cycled to work in the freezing cold on snow covered, icy streets. arrived at work a lot earlier than predicted and had to wait for the gates to open. went in, had a cup of hot chocolate and chatted to my sister for a while. then I started sorting christmas cards. then some more christmas cards. breakfast! then back to sorting christmas cards...and so the day went until it was home time at 3pm. 9 hours of sorting christmas cards...what is the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything...42! more like 42-million christmas cards!

(this is roughly the amount of boxes of christmas cards I sorted through today. I have no idea why the beardy man in the pic looks so f**king happy!?!

...he obviously doesn't work for posten!!!)

...and I couldn't even listen to radiohead whilst doing this utterly menial task! :(

now, on a happier and tastier note... I've been baking this evening!!! again! again=I made colourful cupcakes for adian's birthday party on saturday (adian is my friends carolin and john's one year old son). I'll upload a pic of the cupcakes when I get the pics from carolin. no cupckaes today, instead I made lussekatter (saffron buns). I've just had one, and I don't want to boast or anything...but it tasted like heaven in a reversed S-shape with saffron! traditionally, we (that's us swedish people) put raisins in the lussekatts too...but as I think fruit in food is criminal, so I left them out.

(skinny lussekatts)

(fat lussekatts)

(I forgot to eggwash them before they went into the oven, hence the "dry look"...ARGH...I always forget something...or maybe I should start to read the recipes more carefully before embarking on any baking adventure in the future...just a thought)

I'm gonna have myself a lussekatt and a cup of lady tea now... :)

dan före dan för dan före dopparedan...!

(blog title: excerpt from house of cards by radiohead ...shocking!)

naive?

maybe I'm being really naive, but I'd really like to think that if we all chip in and do our bit, then maybe, just maybe we can avoid...no, avoid is too strong a word and not accurate (unfortunatelly) under the circumstances. but maybe the outcome won't be as disastrous as is being predicted at the moment. seems inevitable, but have to stay optimistic!

it's not too late (I keep telling myself)...

there is endless reading material on the subject but it's too much to take in all at once...so I ingest it in little bite size chunks instead.

here's some of it:

joss garman: copenhagen - historic failure that will live in infame (the independent, 20/12/09)

copenhagen climate summit december 7-18 (the guardian/the observer)

brokenhagen - climate summit ends in failure (friends of the earth 19/12/09)

pressmeddelande: fn:s klimatmöte avslutas utan att anta "KÖPENHAMNSUPPGÖRELSEN" (jordens vänner 19/12/09)