Beyond the Debatable Hills

Florence of Arabia interprets the Spice Girls

2009-10-19T00:46:00.000+01:00

How can you defend a child rapist?

2009-09-30T22:48:00.001+01:00

Excuse me while I go find my soap box.

Okay. Woody Allen, David Lynch, Whoopi "it wasn't rape-rape and they had had sex before the not rape-rape incident" Goldberg and everybody else who defends Roman Polanski need to STFU and go DIAF. For fuck's sake. The man drugged and raped a 13-year-old and then the bastard ran away! That is what he did, no matter how famous he is or how good a film maker he is. And yes, the victim just wants the whole thing to go away which I sympathise with completely. This whole thing should have gone away thirty years ago. The reason it didn't is that Roman Polanski did not accept full responsibility for his actions. He belongs in prison.

Well said:

Also, *RAAAAAAAGE*

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent"

2009-09-21T17:42:00.003+01:00

I have nothing to say. Music I like recently:

Grouper

Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton

Unicornios del mar

2009-09-07T02:27:00.003+01:00

Today I thought, I should take advantage of the fact that I already know the (Arabic) alphabet and try to get ahead by starting on Hourani. Then I didn't. I am such a sensible person when it comes to planning. The problem is that time always sneaks out the back without telling me where it's going and there I stand like a fool, it is four o'clock in the afternoon, I am still in my pyjamas and I have gotten nothing done. Never mind. NARWHALS!

"Can I touch it?" - "NO!"

2009-08-25T11:40:00.004+01:00

Around 3:18 - wow, the staff at my kindergarten should have seen this. Of course, they never bothered to ask if they could "touch it," they just went ahead and did it anyway. They really went for it too. They used to reach down and give it a good long ruffle. And you know what? When I expressly told them to stop, yeah you guessed right, they didn't. They just laughed and ruffled some more, even when I tried to run away from them. Because why should we respect cute little 4-year-old chilluns' personal space? If we want to invade it, they can't really do anything about it since us being adults means that in addition to being about twenty times stronger than them, we have a natural authority over them that makes it very hard for them to tell us to stop doing something they don't like to them. Of course that gives us the right to ruffle cute little caffè latte* chilluns' hair as much as we want (we'd probably do it to ~*exotic-looking*~ adults too if we could get away with it).

I know that they will never read this and if they do they won't know it's me, but since I never got to say this to them as a child even though I really, really wanted to, I'm going to say it now: FUCK. YOU. BITCHES. :D

*Don't refer to me as "caffè latte" or any other stupid name you come up with. No, I don't care how well meaning you are or how ~*beautiful*~ you think people of ~*mixed heritage*~ are. That's not the point, weirdo.

Yeah so anyway

2009-08-20T12:40:00.010+01:00

I've had an idea for the sing-along blog for ages but I'm too lazy to write it up. Instead, here's a picspam.

I don't want to be part of your scene

2009-08-03T03:10:00.005+01:00

omg yay

According to their respective websites they play on the same day (idgaf about the other bands). Fingers crossed, fingers crossed! I might be able to make it to this one (fingers crossed again, fingers crossed again), because Popaganda is in Stockholm, which is only 40 minutes away by train. The only problem is that it's around that time that I'm moving to Lund... Why must important things always get in the way of my life?

Oh, do marry me, Tracyanne.*

*Photo by

Don't ask me why I'm up at this hour.

Let's do it againnn!

2009-08-03T00:59:00.002+01:00

My life according to Okkervil River

Answer these questions using song titles from ONE ARTIST only.
Try not to repeat. Repost as “my life according to (artist name)”

Pick your Artist:
Okkervil River

Are you a Male or a Female:
A Girl in Port

Describe Yourself:
Black Sheep Boy

How do you feel:
Bruce Wayne Campbell Interviewed on the Roof of the Chelsea Hotel, 1979

Describe where you currently live:
In a Radio Song

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Lost Coastlines

Your Favorite form of Transportation:
Starry Stairs

Your Best Friend is:
Lady Liberty

You and your best friends are:
Missing Children

Favorite Time of Day:
Black

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Savannah Smiles

What is life to you:
A Forest

Your last relationship:
Stand Ins, Three

Current Relationship:
Last Love Song for Now

Your fear:
Happy Hearts

What is the best advice you have to give:
Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See (that's not a song, but shhh)

Thought for the day:
Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe

How I would like to die:
John Allyn Smith Sails

My motto:
No Key, No Plan

My life according to Kate Bush

2009-08-03T00:22:00.002+01:00

Because Dr Horrible did it...

Answer these questions using song titles from ONE ARTIST only.
Try not to repeat. Repost as “my life according to (artist name)”

Pick your Artist:
Kate Bush

Are you a Male or a Female:
Waking the Witch

Describe Yourself:
Symphony in Blue

How do you feel:
Stranded at the Moonbase

Describe where you currently live:
A Coral Room

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Egypt

Your Favorite form of Transportation:
The Dreaming

Your Best Friend is:
The Kick Inside

You and your best friends are:
Army Dreamers

Favorite Time of Day:
Nocturn

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
Suspended in Gaffa

What is life to you:
Strange Phenomena

Your last relationship:
Leave It Open

Current Relationship:
All We Ever Look For

Your fear:
James and the Cold Gun

What is the best advice you have to give:
Walk Straight Down the Middle

Thought for the day:
Eat the Music

How I would like to die:
Cloudbusting

My motto:
Deeper Understanding

And now the gifs dooon't woooooork

2009-07-25T23:24:00.003+01:00

Oh blogger, thou art a heartless bitch.
Good thing I have photobucket!

Let's try again - Jim Parsons being weird & adorable:

Oh, and I should also mention that I want Sheldon's t-shirts. All of them.

draws little hearts around pictures of Sheldon

2009-07-25T23:07:00.005+01:00

Jim Parsons is so adooooooooorable!

"But if you are scared, if you are blue, I'll prepare a small song for you"

2009-07-15T13:51:00.004+01:00

I am tired of waiting for her new album. I want to hear a studio version of Esame/Sweet Esame/Esme/whatever people choose to call it.

I think this is what pain feels like!

2009-07-07T00:56:00.005+01:00

My back hurts when I move and sometimes when I don't move. It's not like, "Ohh, a little needle in a vertebra," it's more like "FUCKFUCKFUCKCAN'TBREATHE *cries out in pain*". Since Google has the answer to everything I typed in 'lumbago' in the little box and apparently there is nothing you can do about it except pop ibuprofen pills and wait for it to go away, which it does after one to 'a few' weeks. Well, isn't that just splendid. In two weeks I might be able to turn my head - or even my whole upper body! - and laugh really hard without getting a cramp in my back and nearly falling over.

Gleeheehee

Så går en födelsedag ifrån vårt liv och kommer icke mer

2009-07-02T22:58:00.003+01:00

Idag (eller igår, beroende på när jag publicerar det här) fyllde Roger år. Det blev jordgubbstårta och kaffe i trädgården med en hel orkester av mygg i bakgrunden. Roger fick strumpor, nya kläder, Snabba cash och en dinosauriecykeltuta i present. Han fick också äran att höja sadeln på min cykel, så nu kan jag svischa nerför Carolinabacken igen.

"Eye-an Curtis tog ju livet av sig vid 23 års ålder - hoppas verkligen att det inte finns några paralleller där"

2009-06-30T11:41:00.004+01:00

Svår Ung Man och nedlåtande journalister med korkade frågor. Roligare kan det knappast bli.

Rätt skysst musik i alla fall:

Rabbit where'd you put the keys girl

2009-06-29T18:56:00.002+01:00

Sometimes I forget how much I love Tori Amos. For a while I don't think about her much, don't listen to her albums. Then I come across some interview or video with her and I become fascinated again.

"Jesus, if I saw somebody destroying a piano I'd fucking murder them. Wouldn't think twice."

I want to like her new songs, but I haven't really felt anything she has done after Scarlet's Walk and I don't think I will even buy Abnormally Attracted to Sin. Too bad. But I still have the old albums and she will always be my piano heroine.

and leave the birds all the trimmings

2009-06-25T04:04:00.003+01:00

I have this urge to cut off my hair. All of it. It's so dry and damaged I might as well get rid of it. And I have never really cut my own hair before, just trimmed it. It seems like so much fun to chop everything off. I am pretty sure a crew cut would not be, erm, very becoming on me, but one shouldn't be too much in love with one's appearance. Besides, it will grow out again.

Roskilde 2009

2009-06-22T21:09:00.002+01:00

I dislike most things about festivals. The mud, living in a tent - especially since it always rains, being dirty all the time, drunk people who scream the wrong lyrics to "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" all night long, the smell - oh god, the horrid, horrid smell - of piss and puke everywhere, getting sick on the second day and stumbling around with a fever for the rest of the time, being unable to get away from people for even a few minutes, feeling drained from the constant high level of noise and stress...

Having said all that, look on this band list, ye mighty, and despair. See, the music makes it all worth it (almost). I am prepared to feel like shit for one week, give or take a few days, every year if it means I can go to as many gigs as I want during that time.

Bands I haven't seen that I really, really want to see:

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Fever Ray
Fleet Foxes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Deerhoof
Get Well Soon
Glasvegas
Marissa Nadler

I kind of want to go to Arvika Festival too, but Roskilde just seems a liiitle bit better. They have Marissa and Nick Cave after all. Now, who wants to spend a fuckload of money, that they really should save, on short notice?

...

Anyone?

ÖFJÄCASäodIÄFIJO

2009-06-15T14:09:00.003+01:00

MEN FAAAN JÄVLA HELVETES SKIT VARFÖR GÅR INTE CORALNE LÄNGRE JAG VILLE JU SE DEN PÅ BIO I 3D AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH JÄVLA KUK-SF-HELVETE JAG SKA FANIMEJ BÖRJA LADDA NER FILMER BARA FÖR DETTA FAN TA DEM.

Empty hand

2009-05-31T22:02:00.004+01:00

I watched Karate Kid yesterday.

"I told you I would never say goodbye/Now I'm slipping on the tears you made me cry"

2009-05-15T19:47:00.004+01:00

So apparently Trent Reznor is getting married. Yes, it is true. Trent Reznor is in love. And happy. Trent Reznor is happy. What a mindfuck. I remember when NIN played Hultsfred in 2005. Right before the band came onstage ominous clouds appeared from somewhere behind the Hawaii stage and started rolling in over the clear blue summer sky. They had barely started playing before a thunderstorm broke out. The sky went black, the crowd got drenched by the rain. It created exactly the right atmosphere. I swear Trent made the weather do it. It's so weird that he now twitters about tying the knot. But I am happy for him, of course. Still, this made me lol irl. I tried to imagine Mr Self Destruct watching Love Actually or Moonstruck and my mind went blank for ten seconds. I hope him and his fiancée have an Audrey Hepburn marathon followed by a Hugh Grant marathon (ugh, I can't believe I mentioned those two in the same sentence), because, as Oscar Wilde said: "The only way to get rid of WEIRD URGES is to yield to them."

"Before you know I'll be over the water like a swallow"

2009-04-25T22:12:00.004+01:00

Perhaps this seems to come out of the blue, but it doesn't. At least not for me.

I don't know why I applied to Uppsala University at all. I really don't want to stay here another year. And when I say "really don't want to" I mean I'd rather have a Hugh Grant marathon followed by a Rolling Stones marathon followed by a Charles Dickens audiobook marathon. For those of you who don't understand how much I do not want that, this picture illustrates it pretty well:

I want to stay in Uppsala as much as Dan wants Rorschach to die.

If I don't get in at Lund I want to start studying next year and work abroad for a while first. I'm thinking fruit picking in Australia (hey, I've always wanted to go there) or something like that. In fact, I might do it even if I get in at Lund this year. See, if I start (the equivalent of) a BA in Arabic next semester, I'll be done the year I turn 25. Who knows where my wanderlust might have gone by then?

My favourite Kate Bush song: hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/racc6x
Change the x's to t's.

Children of the night... how wooden their acting is

2009-04-21T01:25:00.003+01:00

Watched Dracula (1931). This was my impression of it:

Seriously, the years have not been kind to this flick. There was nothing scary or interesting about anything in it; it was just unbearably dull and Bela Lugosi made me laugh.

AMAZON FAAAAIIIIIIL!

2009-04-13T21:12:00.003+01:00

ORLY? What is their problem? Fail on you, Amazon. Fail. On. You.

Amazon Rank.

Lorne :'(

2009-04-02T18:59:00.001+01:00

What? WHAT?! Nooooooooooooo! He was awesome. This makes me sad.