...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!)

TY

give up the ghost

the daily mail

mouse dog bird

lotus flower

by

the clothes are on the lawn with the furniture

```..a picture show..´´´

(positive snow fingers)

(negative snow fingers)

(...blurry)

(shoeseseses...and bump on the leg)

(trying something here...?????...won't do it again)

(blogski titleski: excerptski fromski morningski bellski byski radioheadski/amnesiacski)

untitled

a wolf at the door (it girl, rag doll) / radiohead

the wrong coat for you mt. heart attack / liars

buried in water / dead man's bones

building steam with a grain of salt / dj shadow

shadows of tomorrow / madvillain

xr2 / m.i.a.

iluvya / thom yorke

the black block / modeselektor

veridis quo / daft punk

u.n.k.l.e. (main title theme) / unkle

pulk/pull revolving doors / radiohead

dark night of the soul / danger mouse and sparklehorse

nattura / björk

benzie box / dangerdoom

hoochie coo / blackroc, the black keys feat. mos def and jim jones

climbing up the walls (zero 7 remix) / radiohead

black sabbath / venetian snares

skills to pay the bills / the beastie boys

hey boy hey girl / the chemical brothers

radioaktivität / kraftwerk

casino / starkland

pink and blue / outkast

the clock (surgeon remix) / thom yorke

klicketyklickklackklick

drum machine by tokyo plastic

feelingpulledapartbyhorses

electroniThom playlist...

like spinning plates /// radiohead /// amnesiac
iluvya /// thom yorke /// analyse - ep
the clock (surgeon remix) /// thom yorke /// harrowdown hill - single
pulk/pull revolving doors /// radiohead /// amnesiac
paperbag writer /// radiohead /// COM LAG (2plus2isfive) - ep
cymbal rush /// thom yorke /// the eraser
where bluebirds fly /// radiohead ///  COM LAG (2plus2isfive) - ep
skip divided (modeselektor remix) /// thom yorke /// and it rained all night - single
black swan (cristian vogel spare parts remix) /// thom yorke /// atoms for peace - single
skttrbrain (four tet remix) /// radiohead /// COM LAG (2plus2isfive) - ep
and it rained all night (burial remix) /// thom yorke /// and it rained all night - single
the white flash /// modeselektor feat. thom yorke /// happy birthday!
cymbal rush (the field remix) /// thom yorke /// harrowdown hill - single
hearing damage /// thom yorke /// new moon soundtrack
the gloaming (softly open our mouhts in the cold) /// radiohead /// hail to the thief
harrowdown hill (the bug remix) /// thom yorke /// harrowdown hill - single
sit down, stand up (snakes & ladders) /// radiohead /// hail to the thief
remyxamatosis (cristian vogel rmx) /// radiohead /// COM LAG (2plus2isfive) - ep
atoms for peace (four tet remix) /// thom yorke /// atoms for peace - single
feelingpulledapartbyhorses /// thom yorke /// feelingpulledapartbyhorses - single

(blog title: excerpt from feelingpulledapartbyhorsesthomyorkefeelingpulledapartbyhorsessingle)

it's all boiling over all boiling over your little voice your little voice

new project...need words...and your help...need your words!

email me OR click on the little letter icon below and send me

TEN-TWENTY(random)WORDS(or something like that)

thanking you muchly!

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

plastic bag, middle class, polyethylene, decaffeinate, unleaded, keep all surfaces clean

...the severely depressing local weather forecast for the next few days...

S N O W

S N O W

S N O W

..and.yet.more.never.ending.f**king..

S N O W

(swedenland as seen from high up above...above the snow...above the ice...above the slipperiness)

(2 hours ago)

(1 hour ago)

luckily there are a few good things amidst all the evil whiteness that is so rudly imposing itself upon my postman life...

(baked blueberry cheesecake à la camilla)

and of course...

(60% radiohead teaing it up like there's no tomorrow)

my amazon stuff FINALLY arrived today (what the f**k is up with amazon these days...why does it take over two weeks for orders to arrive...i am one impatient person, i know, but TWELVE business days is pretty C.R.A.P.)!

(blog title: excerpt from polyethylene (parts 1 & 2)///radiohead///airbag/how am i driving? ep)

You paint yourself white And fill it up with noise

feeling a bit pale...

but happy...

everything around me is very white and grey...

and it's reflected on this blog...

(me on tue...one of the first pics I took with tchocky...a mistake that turned out somewhat spooky...but incidentally it fits really well with the new look emergencyentrence)

(blog title: excerpt from NUDERADIOHEADINRAINBOWS)

After years of waiting Nothing came And you realise you're looking, looking in the wrong place

shower + pj's -- then -- chomsky + häagen-dazs

...and radiohead playing in the background (of course)

life is so so so so so good!

(yorke and greenwood)

...found out earlier today that mr yorke is doing a solo gig at the cambridge corn exchange in two week's time. REALLY wish i could be there...

(blog title: excerpt from radiohead's packt like sardines in a crushd tin box off amnesiac)

tChocky...!?!

my new mobile...TCHOCKY (name?)!

(LG KM900 Arena Black)

...but mine's black...like the one below!

me = :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

it's an early birthday pressie from my mum, dad and sister!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

funny haha! funny how?

eine kleine walter mauser has come back from the abode of hades...at last!

...with brand new studded tyres, a brand new side view mirror...and he's clean, so very clean (and we have every intention of keeping him that way, poor thing)!

snapped a few snowy pics out on my round in maria park yesterday...it isn't easy being a postie in this weather at times.

as for the walls of snow in front of the letterboxes...I have few theories as to why that is:

• news of the invention of the snowshovel is yet to reach parts of maria park
• the concept of the snowshovel and how it is best best put to use is completely lost on some people
• nature should be kept all natural and remain free from human intervention

(walter playing hide and seek..took me a while to find him actually!)

(ah, one of my favorites...20' of snow in front of a letter box always cheers me up)

(one almost get the feeling that the people that live here have an aversion to us postie's...?!)

(a bit like climbing a very tall mountain...and once you get to the top you receive your reward...force opening a frozen letter box that nearly take your fingers off...life is so, so sweet)

(maybe I'm paranoid...but I get the feeling they did this on purpose, just to annoy me)

postman in swedish is brevbärare, which translates as letter carrier...may I suggest the revised and more accurate title: "allväders-terränggående-brev-och-paket-leverantör" (any-weather-any-terrain-letter-and-parcel-delivery-person...or something like that...crap translation...sorry).

(blog title: excerpt from the gloaming.la rádióhéad.hail to the thief... click on the link...it's the gloaming live from the basement. a dancing thom yorke is something that truly always manages to cheer me right up!!!)

congrats little one!!!

I know...this isn't exactly "news" anymore...and I have already congratulated the little one...but felt it would be appropriate to post a blog entry as well ...as the five library is slowly falling apart! one by one. leaving. the end of an era!

no doubt the little one (aka lauren) will become the best bopa (broadcast operations assistant...correct title?) the world has ever seen!!!

so once again...

(lauren, roughly two years ago...sorry, it was the only pic I had on my fry of the little lady!)

CONGRATULATIONS LITTLE LAUREN

do us proud (I know you will)

ed miliband declares war on climate change sceptics

ed miliband declares war on climate change sceptics - the observer, sun 31/01/10

rip walter

(walter in happier times...)

...ok ok, he's not quite dead, but he very nearly did die last week when I was in the uk! (you are more than welcome to draw your own conclusions as to why that was...)

the story goes...

one of my colleagues was driving walter when I was away, when all of a sudden walter decided (in protest?), enough is enough. short circuited. brakes.stopped.working.

now, walter isn't exactly a drag racing car...but I don't suppose it matters hugely. it's never, ever a great feeling when the brakes of any vehicle stop working!

my colleague had to throw himself out of suicidal walter going at top speed (25mph...) down the busy road by work! walter then kept on going berserk, zig zagging it down the road until he hit a tree, smashed his headlights and passed out!

he's currently recovering in the car hospital and we're hoping to have him back by the end of the week!

get well soon little walter!