Hypnosis

Stare in to the picture
Relax yourself
You are feeling sleepy
Your body is heavy
Your eyelids can hardly stay up
Your arms hang lose on your side
You will soon fall asleep
You are now in my complete control
But when I snap my fingers you wake up

You will now start by ending world poverty.

You will on a trip to Africa sort out the situation in Darfur

You shall help Dalai Lama reclaim his position in Tibet

You shall stop global warming

Love More - Love All - Love Life!

*snap*

There you are, welcome to a new world:
Your World - My World - Our World!

(Sorry Johan about the color-coding,
but it really adds hippieness to a post like this ;) )

A Blast from the Past

Strömstad 2003.05.03

The picture as a motif isn't very fancy. But as a timestamp, a flashback it is quite interesting. As the caption says it is close to five years old. In fact the oldest digital image I have from my own cameras*
An analyze of it is quite interesting:

i: Aftonbladet is something I haven't read since four years.
ii: I still drank beer enough to cause holes like that on the jeans
iii: the cell phones were slightly uglier and bigger
iv: not easy to tell just from the image, it requires some Adamology, but the family owning the cabin ain't my family anymore.
v: the wallpapers - you can really tell the image is old :)

So 2003. How far ago is that in other terms then.

March 20 - Land troops from US, UK, Australia and Poland invade Iraq

September 12 - Johnny Cash dies of a neuro-disease

September 14 - Sweden rejects adopting the Euro in a referendum

Wiki, 2003 writeup

But I was luckily unaware of the fact that Per Gessle and his "Här kommer känslorna på eeeeen och samma gång" were going to bother us for the whole summer, and that Miio's remake of "När vi två blir en" was released.



*Oldest image from any digital camera would be this one:

Falkenberg, Gone fishing 2002.07.16 (sepia tone added)

My oldest picture from any camera is this one.
Scanned image from an analogue camera:

Hultsfred 2001.06.14 (sepia tone added)

A festival where we got to see the acts below, with Fireside, Kent, Looptroop & Weezer as favourite experiences of these:

Hawaii
LIMP BIZKIT [US],
MANIC STREET PREACHERS [UK],
WEEZER [US]
KENT
HÅKAN HELLSTRÖM
SAHARA HOTNIGHTS

Pampas
SOULFLY [BRA/US]
ASH [UK]
THE SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES,
LOOPTROOP
TIMBUKTU

Teaterladan
FIRESIDE,
LISA MISKOVSKY,
RANDY
ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT [US]

The bands we skipped, missed, or hadn't learned to love yet would be:

Hawaii
IGGY POP [US]
BACKYARD BABIES
ULF LUNDELL
THE HELLACOPTERS
BRODER DANIEL,

Pampas
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE [US]
FAITHLESS [UK]
DROPKICK MURPHYS [US]
THE HIVES

Stora Dansbanan
ED HARCOURT [UK]
DANKO JONES [CAN]
THE SHINS [US]
DAVID & THE CITIZENS

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That's it for todays class in Adamology.
Hope you enjoyed at least some of it ;)
Tests will be handed out the 17th of May 12:00 PM. Welcome!

/Peace

True Romance

And I can't wait to get on the road again.
Goin' places that I've never been.
Seein' things that I may never see again

Once again Willie Nelson fronts the post. And this time the third line holds more true than ever. No offence Bruno and Värnamo

The Wanderer

Hard evidence for those doubting the autheticity

Who names their sons Bruno anyways ... no offence

And who the f* is Bruno ... well, as the sign says translated:

The Värnamo son who became
one of the world's most famous furniture designers

Sun sets over the Designhotellet

The Designhotellet that holds a lot of the furniture's made by Bruno. And the very same hotel that by a random German tourist guide was listed as one of Sweden's most seeable hotels.

Värnamo city. It feels like a time travel to the 70's, in color shape and design. With stores like "Inges El" and seen here "Café 18". But it do make Karlskoga's city center feel like a fresh breeze of modernity and hope. Gotta say that the Latte served at Stig's Café was great though and the sun shone ever so bright over the heart of the Gnosjö-region.

I met an angel

I've actually met two of them, my wonderful hostess as well. Thanks for the housing and tour.

Well ... it's colorfull

This image is just random. Taken from some sort of model at the Textilakademien where the hostess spends her days sewing, weaving and knitting.

Where to from here?

What I really love about a day trip like this is the snapshot it brings me. A day spent in a new town with someone who knows it makes me get to know it much faster. Had the same experience on my one day trip over to Helsingborg to meet Karl. I wouldn't have gotten that close to any of those places if I hadn't had some first hand information and guidance.

And yeah ... about the Romance, the True one , great film, not completely water proof story but it is 1993 and it is Quentin Tarantino, what's there not to love about it.

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And speaking about snapshots. Couldn't help sharing this one taken from Växjö though

Take a seat!