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I can't move
I can't move
I can't move
I can't move
I can't move
I can't move
I can't move
I can't move
I can't move
I can't do things
I want things to happen to me
I want to let go of things
I want to be free
I want you to leave me
I want you to see me
I want you to be with me
A, A, A, E, I, O, U
Martin Creed - I Can't Move
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| the message window |
[08 Dec 2009|11:46pm] |
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When I logged in to type this a msg window popped up asking me if I wanted to "Restore from draft?" I clicked okay. At which point a two-sentence paragraph appeared before my eyes that i had written about 1 month ago. It espoused of a chronic bitching about my swedish life in a very similar means to what I had originally wanted to express before I was deterred by the msg window in the first place.
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[09 Nov 2009|12:34pm] |
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DEAR GIN; WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS?!!
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| LIVR01 |
[04 Nov 2009|10:18pm] |
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REALLY glad Science and Methodologies of Literature is over with.
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| OMD |
[02 Nov 2009|02:21pm] |
Hi folks,
It's happened. I've become obsessed with the 80s band: Orchestral Maneouvres in the Dark. But check out how good Andy McClusky is at dancing. Srsly.
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| "Peace sells but who's buying?" -Megadeth |
[10 Oct 2009|08:05pm] |
koyaanisqatsi says:
oh the new fad is the worst at york
all muslim women (who im my mind choose to denegrate their character with veils that serve broken ideologies more than prophets) now wear designer head pieces
what are they called?
erm
but ya, almost every one is an advertisement for gucci, D&G, prada, cK
the constant gardener says:
hah omg
gucci religion
koyaanisqatsi says:
its what both deserve.....that is....souless capitalist interests deserve to have the annoyance of oppressive religious ideologies in their face....
and vise versa
but then i start to think, dear god(?)....what if they gang up on the rest of us
your right drew....it will be Dolcemuslim vs world!
an unholy pairing of the two most vile things i have the displeasure of knowing about
the constant gardener says:
LOL
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| "lagom" |
[06 Oct 2009|03:11am] |
The whole of Swedish culture in one word. Fortunately (for them), this word is practically not definable in the English language.
Of course there are those who have tried: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagom
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| Letter to Billy Joe, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool for becoming huge douche bags |
[27 Sep 2009|08:51pm] |
Dear Green Day,
Yesterday I saw an 11 year old Swedish boy busking the song "21 Guns"; it was cute! Later when I got home I thought: 'What the hell, might as well Youtube that shit' cause the song was SO stuck in my head. I knew it sucked but WOW! Can't believe how much you're fucking up society for young kids. Especially since the purging of teen angst emotions is the central and relevant characteristic of your song writing aesthetic. Like, you clearly know the power your hold over elevteen year old aspiring guitarists the world over. I see it gleaming as a tiny fire in my own brother's eyes when he picks up his acoustic and instantly plays any number of songs he knows (always new metallica or new green day - and when i say 'new' i mean 'crap').
With "Jesus Of Suburbia" there was still hope - the lyrics were definitely not trash-although quite clearly the result of an inflated pop star ego but srsly I'm just nitpicking because of the ridiculous glorified usage of cocaine and 'fucking,' a word which appears at least 15 times (linguistically and visually) in the video, -but now after teaming up with Bono from U2 and making this garbage "Saints Are Coming" and "21 Guns" crap you've really got the kids convinced you're fighting some liberalistic peace cause that is steeped in an antiquarian argument for traditional American family values which, if the kids listened/read deeper into the lyrics they would see just doesn't exist in your "I-don't-care-if-you-don't-care / why do I feel so lost" So-Cal punk aesthetic that's gone distorted big screen blow-up. Not that YouTube is any intelligent cultural indicator but I think the following argument from (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5oKccOCUMY&feature=PlayList&p=0FEBD206AC8D5219&index=6) is articulated quite clearly enough:
Element4078 (5 days ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply | Spam chojinkid is exactly right thank you for saying
chojinkid (6 days ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply | Spam the have evolved their style but they're still unique, punk rock songs are not gone, you'll find them too in both american idiot and 21st century breakdown
xXxGODSMACKxXx (6 days ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply | Spam I have both albums, technically its punk, but not next to their old stuff.
chojinkid (6 days ago) Show Hide +1 Marked as spam Reply | Spam their old songs were good but very similar to each other, now they have matured and their musical tastes might've changed as well, now they have a more various array of songs, you can't play the same stuff for 30 years in a row, needless to say in their recent albums you can hear more complex songs and a band technically improved compared to the past, green day is now a professional rock band with a wide musical culture
xXxGODSMACKxXx (6 days ago) Show Hide 0 Marked as spam Reply | Spam Couldn't have said it better. People think they should still write songs about masturbating, that have become alot more anti-religious now.
I mean, here we can see Chojinkid is articulating a point of view I believe is not uncommon among the kids these days, and what's more - he's doing it in fairly refined and precise manner. Also, I don't think he's necessarily wrong, quite the contrary. Green Day has certainly honed their chops and evolved in a direction to include both pianos and orchestral string arrangements with crunchy guitar riffs. The problem is these addition have evolved from a want for production values and from a surplus of money and certainly not from an evolution of lyrical depth or contemporary songwriting relevance, indeed these 'complexities,' as Chojinkid calls them, actually function as extra production bump which totally swaps out the relevant raw teenage suburban aggression for radio play that you dad can also listen to.. oh that's right my Dad loves the Green Day song that features U2 and indeed loves its throwback to Eric Burton and the Animals by referencing "There is a house in New Orleans...".
Well Green Day I am drinking cup 3 of spanish red wine and I realized this is probably getting too verbose for your ritalin, plus I'm starting to bore myself see but ANYHOW, all I am saying is Nimrod was the last great Green Day album but you struck financial gold with "Good Riddance (the Time Of Your Life)" -a very uncharacteristic song for you and one which probably evolved from valid reasons of growth and experimentation -and that changed everything didn't it? I mean "Basket Case" paid the bills at first but it certainly put you in a real stagnant spot for re-hashing the same emotions on the "Insomniac" album without clearly knowing how to express the fact that you were getting older and were flabbergasted that miraculously people outside of the So-Cal punk scene were suddenly listening to your music. There's a moment I love in the 90's Much Music attic - Green Day came to play at Much to promote the "Hitchin' A Ride Single" (which by the way was a song effectively about nothing.. it was clearly a song developed from becoming a popular live band touring the world and it is a sort of fun peppy song) -and Rick the temp asked you what music video you wanted to play and you all looked at each other and started laughing and then Billy Joe speaks up and says something like... Um we don't really listen to music that gets a lot of play.. what do you guys think? (turns to band) Right now we really like the band 'Mr. T and the Experience'
A noteworthy point is that Mr. T and the Experience are still making albums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mr._T_Experience) - although my reseaching also informs me I misremembered the name slightly. Anyhow, I Dookie, along with Nirvana: Unplugged and Metallica's Master of Puppets, are the formative albums which taught me to play guitar and it pains me to see a crap puppet version of Green Day doing the same for kids today. So fuck you.
Anyone who read this far should watch the following interview, Green Day 1995:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVQDWj4UEqc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXIy0Sb2Oc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBOLKuZwtrU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_mdp1OB_0M
You were great once!
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[25 Sep 2009|03:43am] |
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I miss having a camera. I'm aching to start making youtube videos again.
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| christlike child. |
[22 Sep 2009|11:13am] |
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when you arrived it was like we died and left our bodies. we went somewhere else, you and myself (that other woman). funny how real this is and yet makes the corporeal world vanish; the thing which makes us solid is indeed lighter than air. when it's hard to see our way in the dark (where we end and what's burying us begins) i will remember this prayer-how we're all dying to live again-and exclaim to my lover, 'Maranatha!' meaning both: 'Come Lord!' and 'Lord you have come.' And when this is all right we will have both turned on an elbow and left.
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| sverige journal.1 |
[21 Sep 2009|09:16pm] |
there's muddy cobblestone tonight in Lund. everywhere i look is footprints (i took off my shoes-full of holes anyway-from the Baltic Sea rain) and what have i been walking around Klostergården in circles for?
grass stained pants
bisexual ontology
and a tupperware of forks
updating this space in my head
so the webpage stays blankblank
cough syllables for the kids
but the swedish and french stay put
can barely speak english with
an empty cannister of fireworks
rescued from a municipal factory dumpster. talking to the only Swedish hobo. THE ONLY ONE
while he cleans out a matress for me to sleep on.
did you know camping is legal is Sweden? Google - 'allmansrätten'
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| Falafel nummer 1 |
[14 Sep 2009|11:57pm] |
Drew Taylor what was the name of the really bad song about eating falafels in Malmö?Yesterday at 10:34pm
Karolina Stenudd the song's called Intergrill and the band 50hz. It is truly awful, even worse when you're sober..4 hours ago
Ale Holmdahl backstabber! It's awesome! 4 hours ago
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Karolina Stenudd you keep telling yourself that..(although I have to confess I sort of like it, deep deep down)4 hours ago
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Ale Holmdahla closet-intergrill-fan huh? One day you'll be ready aswell!
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[03 Sep 2009|06:19pm] |
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Little tired of being homeless.
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[31 Aug 2009|11:43am] |
bleed park
wax avenue
pastknowed
antiquine deluxe
buttercell
eld
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| Short conversation recorded at a dinner. |
[03 Jul 2009|10:15pm] |
SOMETIME in May...
"Will we ever learn to love our fellow man?" The old gospel player had been put on repeat. With the fleshy pita wraps it was like for a second we embodied the fact of what was eating us up on the inside. Matt turned and looked at me, and said-"Hmm mmm, it's good."
SHE said: "It feels like a really long trip today.
"You know, since we went to church earlier. My mind has been a lot of places."
I could hear the domestic stain of dishes smacking themselves against the wash basin as she recounted for me the weird existential crises of her day.
"I just have a hard time coming back," she said. "I need to find some middle ground between here and reality, between reality and that other place where I go."
She had more to say to me but I was off in the other place again.
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[28 Jun 2009|06:22pm] |
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In the Oxford English Dictionary one of the definitions for the word 'whitewash' is "to make clear."
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