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juni 24, 2004
Any requests?
Through ljud.org I found Andrew and his Songs to wear pants to. You mail Andrew and suggest lyrics, a title, instrumentation, whatever, and he may do a song for you. Right now I am thinking of coming up with something that involves a trumpet, only because Andrew says i'm really bad at it. My personal favorites at the moment is The THX sound with just my voice and Dragon style: Your dragon style is strong, but it is no match for my purple monkey dishwasher!
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Is it that bad for Italy?
This morning, only hours after Italy's ciao-ciao to the Euro 2004, I get a mail with the following offer:
Fly cheaper to Italy
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juni 23, 2004
Italienare utan humor vs. danskar med dito
Min danske polare Rasmus tipsade mig i morse om en kul artikel i danska Ekstra Bladet. En av tidningens skämtare ringer till Paolo Pacciani, sportredaktör på italienska Gazetta de Parma och avslöjar inte bara ett hemligt möte mellan danmarks och sveriges tränare, som för övrigt delar en sommarstuga i Nice, vi får även veta att Zlatan har tränat tillsammans med Thomas Sørensen, att en av spelarna satsat 30.000 euro på resultatet 2-2, samt att Thomas Helveg och Olof Mellberg har samma mamma. Pacciani är upprörd men inte förvånad utan relaterar till en annan stor konspiration som jag personligen hade missat, nämligen att Korea i VM 2002 organiserade så att Italien blev utslaget.
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BBC's Virtual replay
BBC, the finest of public service companies, constantly surprise you with their quality. This time I discovered a thing on their site called Virtual replay where you can replay any Euro 2004 game you want. You can put yourself in the shoes of any player, or even choose the Ball-cam and see the situation from the poor ball's view! Or, as I did when I grabbed the pic above, Sweden's Fredrik Ljungberg's view of Henrik Larsson's 2-0 goal against Bulgaria.
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Being in the wrong place at the right time
Two neighbouring countries play an excellent and exciting game of football and still everything manages to end good for both teams. Why am I sitting here at this moment when I am sure there are great parties in both Copenhagen and Porto?
BTW, I wish I could read Italian now. With a little help from the Babelfish though it seems as if the Gazzetta Dello Sport's readers thought tonight's game between Denmark and Sweden was rigged. Well, not even Italians can claim that after the game. That is if they even bothered to watch the game before they run off and cry like bad losers.
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juni 22, 2004
Särskrivning på engelska
Särskrivningar är ju ofta tragiska och roliga på samma gång. Jag tror ofta det beror på engelskans inflytande men det beror säkert på en massa saker. Idag hittade jag dock den första roliga engelska särskrivningen:
Ja, det var i ett spam-mail och det bekräftar det gamla goda citatet jag hittade någonstans:
Spammers: an undisciplined bunch of racketeers and poor spellers
Remove Your Self, ta bort ditt jag. I ett webbformulär? Tänk vad de kan göra med datorer nuförtiden.
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juni 20, 2004
Credit where it's due
Niklas Dahlin has supplied me with a GMail account. I thank him. I can now also be reached at svante.pettersson (a) gmail (dot) com.
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juni 19, 2004
Megafeztival, Grebbestad, June 19
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ZTV i stereo
Äntligen har vårt sega kabelbolag vaknat och börjat leverera ZTV i stereo!
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juni 18, 2004
Decibel Note
Welcome to a new and exciting piece of nerdery. In an ongoing series in this blog, I will post decibel measures of various activities. People complain about volume and throw around decibel limits without seeming to know how many decibels certain activities generate.
Today's note: 108 dBA=about 50 people in a bar cheering at Zlatan's 1-1 goal in the game against Italy.
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Virtuellt väder
På Megafeztivals hemsida kan man läsa en väderprognos som hävdar att det är perfekt festivalväder och att vädret ser ut att bli SOL varvat med en del stackmoln. På förstasidan hävdas dessutom att Solen skiner för fullt på underbara Vrångsholmen! Slår man på ZTV kan man dock i direktsändning se att det regnar och att de flesta har ganska varma kläder på sig. Någon sol är det definitivt inte.
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juni 17, 2004
Simple Adventures for Everyday Living
Simply excellent: Simple Adventures for Everyday Living.
My current favorites: The Sound of Mail, Junk Mail Echoes, and Post-It Graffiti.
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G3
I went to Copenhagen on Monday for some excellent Danish pizza and to see G3 with my Danish buddy Rasmus Heide. I never managed to write a review of the show but launched into an rant about Robert Fripp, one of the G3 performers, instead. I'll post that on this site later. But Rasmus, being the trained professional he is, whipped up an excellent review already when he came home after the show and now he has posted the thing on his website together with some blurry photos.
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Dansk valslogan?
Från rulltrappa i Köpenhamns Metro.
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juni 16, 2004
Devil's Right Hand - Steve Earle
About the time that daddy left to fight the big war
I saw my first pistol in the general store
In the general store,when i was thirteen
Thought it was the finest thing i ever had seen
So i asked if i could have one some day when i grew up
Mama dropped a dozen eggs,she really blew up
She really blew up and i didn't understand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand,the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
My very first pistol was a cap and ball colt
Shoots as fast as lightin' but it loads a mighty slow
Loads a mighty slow and soon i found out
It can get you into trouble but it can't get you out
So then i went and bought myself a colt 45
Called a peacemaker but i never knew why
Never knew why,i didn't understand
'Cause Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
Well i got into a card game in a company town
Caught a miner cheating i shot the dog down
Shot the dog down,watched the man fall
Never touched his holster never had a chance to draw
The trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed
Asked me how i pleaded,not guilty i said
Not guilty i said,you've got the wrong man
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand
The devil's right hand,the devils's right hand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
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juni 14, 2004
New pictures
The pictures from Emma's and my US Road Trip '04 are up now. As you see below, I will also be posting pics from the Timbuktu+damn! summer tour 2004.
Everything can be found in the digipix section.
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juni 10, 2004
Trädgår'n, Göteborg, June 10
More pictures here.
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Brynarkrasch
Är det bara jag som råkar ut för att min IE6 kraschar efter en stunds besök på paddy.weblog?
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The Hooters
I do not regret going to the show. It was close to two and a half hours of excellence.
There's way too little accordion in rock'n'roll these days!
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juni 9, 2004
Gotta Love That Internet
I am sitting here wondering if I should see The Hooters (no, Eudora, that is a band name, not a bad word) tonight. I listen to an old show and surf the web to see if I can find something on the band today. I go to main song writer Eric Bazilian's site and find a diary entry from today, posted here in Malmö. I move on to the drummer's blog as suggested by Bazilian and find another note from today. I thought that was cool.
Oh, and I'm going to the show now.
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No Midtfyns Festival this year
One of the classic Danish music festivals beside Roskilde is forced to cancel this year due to low ticket sales.
http://www.mf.dk/mf.asp?lang=dk
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Map Fest 2004
I've been here:
create your own visited country map
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juni 7, 2004
Celebrating the country
Lots of young girls run out on the field. There are stands around field filled with locals ready to celebrate their country. The performing girls all look the same, they all have ponytails on the exact same place on their heads, they are perfect, not too thin, not too big. They play with balls and they move around in a perfectly organised program. I'm surprised that they're not all blond. There are young women jumping around, there are small girls jumping around and we are even treated with an appearance from the elite group, The Chosen Ones, the finest specimens of girls the country has to offer.
Behind the girls are men in military uniforms ready to pass out flags to organisations who deserve them for the good work they've done the last year. Right in the middle of the presentation with the gymnastics girls, a military band parades by behind our backs.
No, this isn't Nürnberg 1939, this is Malmö, Sweden, June 6, 2004.
There has been a lot of talk about how we need to use our national day to celebrate our nation, not just celebrate the flag, as the name has suggested before. Now that people have their national day, the discussion has turned to whether this day should be a public holiday or not. And if it should be a holiday, which holiday do we have to give up? We can of course not afford to let people stay home an extra day from work.
But is this the type of celebration we wanted? I am sure people in their 60s and 70s recognised a lot from when they were kids but to me, these kinds of organised exhibitions of streamlined youngsters and military parades reminds me of nothing but Germany during the second world war. That is not a kind of celebration I want to see each year. The newspaper ads for this event, the local official celebration of Sweden's National Day, even had a little note at the bottom of the page saying, we especially welcome our new citizens. What about the ones that aren't citizens yet? What about those who are citizens now but still have memories about what was about to happen when the uniformed people marched up their old home town street?
Believe me, I am usually not that sensitive when it comes to integration and nationalism debates in this country. A lot of people here are interested in that sort of thing and there's a lot of talk about it. I tend to stay out of it though. But this time, I felt uneasy.
And I have to return to those gymnastics girls. They are called Malmöflickorna (The Malmö Girls) and you can see them above, doing their thing. There is something scary about that sort of well-organised behaviour by a big bunch of people looking almost exactly the same. If you don't get the German feeling I expressed above, you at least start to think cult. And those ponytails? I wish so I was a fat lesbian chick with short or no hair. I would join the cult and see how long it takes before I get to know, in one way or another, that I don't belong in their exclusive group. I would surely never reach The Chosen Ones.
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juni 2, 2004
Fredagsfyran
Förra veckans fredagsfyra:
1. Vilken typ av dryck skulle du rekommendera för kvällen?
Alltid öl. Estupidamente gelado, som brasilianarna säger. Galet kall, som vi säger här i Sverige. Och som även gäller i USA, blev jag påmind om under vår resa dit nyligen.
2. Vilken maträtt?
Thailänskt är alltid fint. Här i Malmö finns det dessutom ungefär en miljon olika restauranger att välja på . De flesta inom gångavstånd från vår lägenhet på Möllan.
3. Vilken aktivitet?
Gå ut och stöd våra kulturarbetare! Gå på en konsert, gå på teater!
4. Vad ska du själv hitta på i helgen?
Om jag hade skrivit detta i fredags, när fredagsfyran publicerades, hade jag kunnat skriva att jag skulle spendera helgen i bilen, körandes från Nashville till Baltimore via Blue Ridge Parkway och det hade ju varit coolt. Nu är det emellertid onsdag och helgens planer är jobb. På fredagen bär det av till Jönköping eller så får jag jobba i Malmö (försöker reda ut det nu) och på lördag blir det jobb på Jeriko i Malmö. På söndag blir det väl slappande. Förhoppningsvis ute i solen om det är fint väder, med mitt senaste bokinköp "Ghost Rider".
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The American Doorstop
I just returned from a trip to the USA and already in the first hotel room we arrived to I was reminded of the great invention I would like to call The American Doorstop. I don't think I have seen it anywhere else than in the USA.
As with most great inventions, it's a simple thing that works well. You attach it to the hinge, adjust the screw to as far you want the door to open and then you're set. Wonderful.
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