for the past few years, a lot of dairy farms in sweden have invited the public to come watch (for free) when the cows are released into the cow pasture in the spring. after a winter indoor, it's quite the sight with happy cows literally bouncing around in the fresh spring grass, play-fighting and shaking their udders about ( Read more... )

( 10 garden photos behind the cut )

Even though it was a very mild, fairly snowless winter this year, spring still feels as amazing as ever when it shows up. Cherry blossoms, sunglasses, roadtrips to our country house and that superblue sky. Of course, I could do without the pollen (I'm not normally allergic, but this time.. oi.), the grimey dirty look of everything and frequent ( Read more... )

Wow - can barely believe it, it's a first for sure: a year-end list, and before 2012 to boot!

the short version

number of shows (incl. festivals): 65-ish (not sure, forget when i don't take pics.)

seen more than once 2011:
- PJ Harvey (3)
- Veronica Maggio (2)
- September (2)
- Säkert (Annika Norlin) (2)
- Motoboy (1,5)

standouts: Niki & The ( Read more... )

our lovely (fat) tv started glitching. marp decided to open it up and fix it, because he apparently does that. he's been going over it in detail, soldering things and poking at other things, etc. after a week, he's finally getting ready to put it back together ( Read more... )

discovering i almost managed the last entry completely without fault (almost..) as i painstakingly entered each h and g missing by copy and pasting, one by one... and then just now catching a lacking h in the a href html tag, making none of the links work.. tsk, tsk tsk!

anyway. we saw david cronenberg's new movie, A Dangerous Method, tonight at ( Read more... )

i still don't have a g or an h to use on this computer, so my wordiness will have to be reined in...

for the first time since i moved here, i've been going to the stockholm film festival this week. what finally made me go? wellllll... the news that viggo mortensen was coming for a q&a after showing a dangerous metod. hello viggo, etc. so i bought ( Read more... )

as if i needed more proof that i have a slight problem with setting limits for things i enjoy..


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What better day than Halloween to revive this journal? Wee!


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we went and saw bryan adams play at gröna lund on thursday. it was great fun (and cheap, hehe - didn't need a ticket, just our season entry pass that'll let us into the amusement park all 2011), particularly for me. my very first large venue concert was bryan adams in the mid-90s, also in stockholm. awww. :)


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