Month: August 2008

Best. Lyrics. Evar!

I’m reshuffling my room to accommodate the bed that Hanna presented me with, and listening to old big band stuff I’ve had lying around I stumbled upon this gem with Sammy Davis & Count Basie: She’s a woman (W-O-M-A-N)

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Love and appreciation really shines through every line of the song. Heartrending. New bed below:

Hot! Wire! Soda! Buzz! Perverts! Photos aplenty!

How to hotwire cars. Not very much info, but it’s straightforward. Might come in handy once I have a drivers license. Then again, most of those hotwiring cars maybe don’t care much about staying legal?

The other day Petter showed me a few reviews that his old band Sodabuzz got for their demos. I’ve heard the tapes, and if you badger him enough maybe he’ll play them for you as well. I wouldn’t have recognised his voice had I not known it was him. Will be fun to see him perform with the new band. Petter groupie Facebook group, anyone?

Further proof that this blog is mostly visited by perverts with a mission. (friends notwithstanding) I can’t believe that I rank high enough on Google with those search terms – there has got to be a million of blogs and websites that actually cater to extraterrestrial amorous behaviour, yet the selection below is representative of what people search before coming here.

Also, the weekend was dominated by monocoloured drinks and unsteady walks from place to place.

It’s football maaaaadneeeeeees!

Outside our building there’s a football field that occasionally gets occupied by people running around in brightly coloured shorts. Last evening there was a kids game going on, and I thought I’d time lapse it. I’m sure there’s some sort of analysis that could be done on how the players and crowd behaved, but I just think it’s rather pretty with all the sunshine and ant-like behaviour.

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Wroom wroom!

Treating the whole thing as a rather poor leveling game, I’m burning through all available apps for getting a drivers license. The theory isn’t all that difficult, but my math skillz leave something to be desired. (i.e. How much does your total break time increase if you travel 90km/h instead of 60km/h)

Drivers license app

Still have no experience driving, and it is with dread I see myself behind a ton and a half of lusty murdering machine. Might want to meditate on that. Oh, and I might want to meditate on getting an El Camino.

Step by step, oh baby! (Fascism)

Excerpt from They thought they were free about the gradual changes in Germany that culminated in atrocities. Comparisons between anything current and 1930 Nazis falls under Godwin’s law, but it’s a shining example of what a slippery slope looks like.

Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it.

As with so many other articles I link to, this one showed up in a reference over at Metafilter.

Also, my brother and his woman visited Gothenburg this weekend.

You people are rebellious.

A very timely twitter from @hotdogsladies: The Beatles recorded their debut LP, “Please Please Me,” in one 10-hr day. So. You know. Have a productive day.

And a time lapse video of some young people who stumbled in on our yard yesterday and proceeded to pitch a tent and piss on peoples gardens. I think they’re here for the music festival Way out West that’s happening now-ish. Goddamn kids.

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