Qoute of the day:


Life doesn't use vaseline,
it just bends you over.

/Mo'nique

Sexy!?

Sometimes when I hear
people talk about stuff
they find sexy, I just
feel way off base.

It seems I like other
kinds of carrots.

Look at me - I'm old!

Hey,

Look at me in 20 years from now!



Make yourself older! See your face in 20 years

Here's Johnny!

Over the years lots of songs have been written about Johnny and last week I fell in love with yet another one: "Johnny got a boom-boom" by Imelda May. It got me thinking about this Johnny-fellow. Who is he?

As usual I've done some research and came up with theese facts:
Johnny's born on the country side but moves to the city since he's an aspiering muscisian. (Johnny B Goode and Frankie & Johnny). Unfortunatly he has a drinking problem and likes to party with the boys in Return (Bye, bye Johnny) which leads to complications and temptations.
Cause he's got a girl called Frankie and problems keeping faithful.
He's also got a bestest friend named Mary who know's that the explenation to his behavior is that he wants to find sertainty nd looks for it everywhere else but where it is. (Frankie & Johnny, Johnny and Mary) Deep down Johnny believes that nnobody really knows the trouble he's in, and he's too proud to ask for help. Which leads him to get a boom-boom and become a big, bad boy. (Johnny come home and Johnny got a boom-boom).
My research on what he looks like doesn't conclude anything. All I can say is that if you see him I suggest you keep away!

The other Stones are comming back... with or without blue light!

This Friday there's some heavy funkin' going on at Fasching (jazz club) in Stockholm.
- Why?
- Because Stonefunkers are re-uniting. : )




Them remind me of this other song, labeled as Swedish ol' school rap, by Infinite Mass.





- But what's with all the blue lights? (in both of these videos)
- Well, there were this blue light trend in the early 90's. Many videos used the blue light effect and Prince even wrote a song about it. Today researchers believe that this was a reflections of our longing for space and the universe (universal knowledge) - a form of escapism from earth/ our country or just our flat.

- And OMG do they look like some real wannabe gansters?
- Yepp, this guy even wrote a song about them. Shakespeare also reflected on the subject when he said; "Throughout our lives we each play many different roles". In popular sociology scientists has since added "... with more or less success!" to complete Shakespeares sentence. It took them 30 so years to come up with that.

A brief guide to Space Age

Space Age:
"The Space Age is a contemporary period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events. The Space Age is generally considered to have begun with Sputnik (1957)." (Wikipedia)

But space age is much more than this, it's fashon, design, music and I love it.

Design:
A lovely Plymouth Tornado, an Egg, a fantastic fishtank, a cart (with a baby) and a very fashionable bike.








Fashion:
Think of Twiggy, mods, scooter dresses and asian button up shirts/jackets.
For more, why not have a search at ebay?

Hair:
Ok although I love the space age I have to admit I'm not a big fan of the hair. It might be that I've got tons of hair, too much, the thought of rolling it exhausts me. And I haven't got the slightest plan of ever cutting my hair short, which would be the other way to go to get a traditional 60's style. Either way, here it is:























Movies:
Stanley Kramer and Billy Wilder hit the big screen with stories about new ideas and ways of lives which especialy in Krames movies clashed with old ways of living. There's racism in "guess who's comming to dinner", conservative church upbringings vs science in "Inherit the wind" and in my favourite Kramer movie; "Judgement in Nüremberg" Spencer Tracy tries to deal with the aftermath of the 2nd world for the German people and everyone else.
Billy Wilder often portrays the modern 60's person. Often he portrayes sexually libarated people (for it's time), often they feel alone and often you get to see Shirley McLaine and Jack Lemmon team up in all their charm.
(see Stanley Kramer: Judgement in Nüremberg, Inherit the wind, Guess who's comming to dinner. Billy Wilder: One, two, three, Irma La douce, The apartment.)



Hitchcock had already made some great movies which he continued doing with both Psycho and Vertigo. Kubrick made Spartacus as it was a time for BIG pictures including Cleopatra and Ben Hur.

I like Arne Matsson, a Swedish director who made a series of five movies know as the Hillman pictures. Hillman is a the couple Hillman who run a ditective agency solving mysteries. There's nothing of the Ingmar Bergman complex since Matsson is more of a cross between Agatha Christie and Hitchcock. I tried to find some clip from these movies but could only find this one from another movie he made during the same time, it'll have to do. Look at the use of music and how well every shoot is planned. If you look really close you might also see a bare boobie. ; )
(More: Arne Matsson, The lady in black, Mannekäng i rött)



Other memorable movies are ofcourse Sidney Lumets masterpiece 12 angry men as well as these other highly recommended pictures: Breakfast at Tiffanys, Cool hand Luke, To kill a mockingbird, Witness for the prosecution, Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf, Our man in Havanna, Cat on a hot tin roof and the early Bond movies (Dr No, From Russia with love, Thunderball and Goldfinger).



Music:
One thing I find very intresting about space age music is that it doesn't sound like space age looks. Space Age music is: Exotica, Lounge music. Jazz with lots of carribean influences.
One of my favourites is Les Baxter, so I've included some music fro him. For more I found this great site right here.

Double Indemnity on a Friday night

Tonight I watched "double indemnity" and came to the conclusion that the guy who playes the insurance investigator should have a part in every movie there is, for all eternity. That's how great he is.

A cloud of smoke, not to be seen, only pressumed.

Short.

I'll be trying to get back to blogging.
This is to get started again, and these words don't mean much really other than it's 'meaning'.

Here's a picture: