Yesterday I took a deep plunge into the endless sea of mobile-models.
Finally I decided on this piece of work:
I'm happiest about my new number +46 709 342 310 (Just joking that's not my actual number). The fact however is that in many ways my new phone with my new number in many ways symbolises a new beginning - a purple one.
With this new phone I also get free sms! Which reminds me of that quote: If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented people would have said "Hey, forget e-mail - with this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people".
Task of the month: Confuse everyone around you by pronouncingyour phone number as a regular number! (Seven-million-two-hundred-forthy-three-thousand-one-hundred-nineteen...)
When the movie Malcolm X first came out I somewhat studied American black history and the European colonial era.
For several years after I felt enormous guilt and shame over how the white/European population used and exploited the African (Asian etc.) continent and it's people.
It took me quite some time to realize it wasn't my fault and the only thing that I could do was to try and act as a positive change from here on onwards. I really can't be held responsible for what my ancestors did.
15 years ago I idealized Malcolm X, but now as I'm (finally) reading his biography I find myself getting very angry with him and the opinions he had in fact wasn't so well thought through as I first believed.
For example, I as a feminist am deeply offended by the polarisation of black vs. whites that Malcolm makes. All of the injustices that's been done to blacks have equally been done to women all over the world AND Malcolm admits himself (without any remorse) to frequently hitting a woman in his biography.
I agree in the observation and the fight for black rights, but if you are a freedom fighter of some calibre you can't fight for just one cause, against one reign power, you have to be sensitive towards who and how you yourself might be exploiting and dominating someone else. Otherwise all the things you stand for might seem very, very hollow.
Therefore the first rule of freedom fighting is: you can not fight for equality for one without making it a general fight for everyone rights (even though you might focus primarily on one issue.)
Why? The world is not free, and I am not free but I long for you to be free even if I don't necessarily agree with you in your political opinions or am like you in race, sexual orientation or religious believes, as that's the way I want you to see, hear and respect me.
We humans are never as free as our most constrained sister or brother.
But back to Malcolm, I must grant him that it takes a great man to admit his mistake.
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My parents are liberal, even though they're hard-core working class. Growing up I judged politicians and parties by the appearance of their leaders. I didn't like Palme at first simply because I didn't like his nose. I liked this other guy more, he laughed allot.
Olof Palme
Then Olof Palme went and got shot. For any possible reader of this who's not that familiar whit Swedish history, modern Swedish history, huhm...
Sweden in general... We had a our minister of state shot and killed on an open street, back in 1986 and it's like JFK-murder, nobody knows who did it (one could probably found heaps of information about this on wikipedia, al es usual)...
I cried when he died. I was a very weary child who worried way too much about people dying, going away never to come back.
Anyway after that... for many, many years I didn't have any political views what so ever. I spent much of 1994 listening to my 2 best friends arguing about politics, he was liberal/blue, she was left-winged. After giving it a long hard thought I came to the conclusion that I'm more left than right.
By tradition Sweden is a social democratic country. 80% of the 1900 was under social-democratic ruler ship. The perfect Sweden aimed to be one of "folkhemmet" (the home of the people) and solidarity - a safe country where people stood up for each other and the right thing, helped the poor etc. That's why we pay so much in tax. (Older people I meet sometimes say "we used to talk about solidarity, but we don't anymore, do we?".)
I am still not liberal. I wouldn't say I'm a lefty. I'm desperately searching for something new and the story goes, I've voted for the Swedish environmental-party during the last 2 elections.
My crowd consists of mostly blue smurfs who regards their freedom higher than anything. And when talking to them I'm trying to explain that it's not that I'm all for a country ruled by a strong state, against freedom and high taxes. It simply comes down to this: - I love freedom, I want people develop themselves anyway, and as far as they possibly want. - But society is not a cake for everyone to dig into equally.
Hence, when anyone provides med with the solution to the chore-problem of society (according to me), when all men and females, black and white gets an equal chance to flower, then I'm politically theirs hole-hearted.
At first I was really surpriced to find Björn Borg in GX's top 15 most stylish men, but then when I thought about it - being somekind of Wes Andersson fan I realise that Björn is just as big a fashion icon as he was a tennis-player. (just look att all of Wes's films.)
Yesteray I saw a clip from one of his early Wimbledon tournaments and although he lost, girls came screaming down the courtside to meet/touch/get close to the swede after the game, nevermind who won and in much the same way as young girls reacted to Beatles when they first came. It had never been heard of in the gentlemens sport before.
No, I don't see the charm in Björn as a "dishy" guy, (his eyes are too close together and in general he's too stiff), but I do see his style.
Bellow you can see how Björn must have influenced both the great Andre Agassi and Rafael Nadal in more ways than just how they play tennis.
Tomorrow I intend to continue following fashion in Australian Open.
1. Learn how to speak Frensh.This way no one will get what you're trying to say which enhances your're chances to get into a fight in the first place. 2. Be blue, (like the aliens in that "I'm blue, la-da-di-da-da-daa"-song or any of the smurfs). 3. Become a wizard and learn how to perform various magical trix. 4. Win the fight.
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