The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

- Robert Frost, 1916

I watched "Grey Gardens" today and little Edie was so cute when she recited this poem. I felt I had to write it down before I forgot.

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.

Mr Christ, mr Iscariot and greed

I watched "Passion of the Christ".
One really has to know ones bible storys to get it, other ways it's just a very detailed movie about the torture of Jesus (of the Christ family).

Mel Gibson made a few antisemetic comments a few years ago. Then he had to apologize for them. The jews where upset and Mel hasn't worked since.
My explenation is one of these - either that there is a jewish conspiricy. Or, people finaly realized that Mel is pretty overrated.


And speaking of Christianity I want it noted that my favorite apostle is Judas. I've got two reasons:
- He's into kissing. He must also be very confortable with his own sexuality to go kissing on men. People who are secure in their sexuality are sexy in general.
- He's also the one who really made Jesus famous. Had Judas not betrayed Jesus who would've remembered either today? You could in fact say that Judas was the Simon Cowell of his time.



The movie also got me thinking about sins. Deadly kinds of sins.
Greed must be the worse of them all. It's also the most widly spread. Which is very notable in times of economic diffuculty.
I wish Judas could come back from the dead and make out with them.

Norrlanders & 2008

It's a myth that Norrlanders are quiet people, in fact they both talk and scream. Everyone except Isa and Jenny, but Isa is shy besides liking pearls and disco-lights. Jenny is from america and doesn't speak any swedish.

Other major differences is that:

- People actually go to the mall to watch the people from Idol perform
- They just care about the most basic rules of driving
- It's warmer than in Stockholm
- People don't hug when they meet friends and family

As this year's about to come to an end I thought I'd wrap up the best parts of 2008, on a bigger level.

• Political event


• Musical debut


• Best picture
  
• Sportevent of the year
  
• Fashion


• Everyone wanted one of these
  

On a personal level 2008 was a good year for me. Containing lots of personal trials and tribulations, as well as clarity and changes for the better. Resigning, getting my ass back to school, and - although everyone speaks of the economical crisis, I'm full of optimism.

And on that note and from the bottom of my heart I wish everyone a great 2009

World AIDS-day

Today I'm going to suggest two movies.
One is very provocative and the other is the story about Hiv-AIDS.
Both made me cry.

Learn more:
And the band played on
Kids

Safina and other cozy-factors in early November

One of the worlds greatest fighters is playing Venus Williams i Doha today - I'd say that qualifys her for the title Player of the day:

I'd also like to mention, as I'm also a big fan of her brother Marat, that although he's great Dinara by far passed him this year.
Inerestingly enough she used to have the same temprament problem hindering her to play the great tennis she has in her. As he but by some magic blow of the wind, she just overcame it. I really hope she'll be able to win her first Grand Slam next year.
First and formost I wish her victory in Doha.








Stockholm was cold today.
These to items keep me warm:

A pair of gloves bought at indiska for 79,90
Cozy-factor:









A movie called "Brisby & the secret of Nimh". It's about a couple of mice who wants to move their house to the lay of the stone.
Cozy-factor:

Dessa dumma grejer vi gör...

Fingret:
Det anses fint att när man dricker kaffe så ska lillfingret så rätt ut.
Det anses fint eftersom det var så man gjorde på hovet i frankrike på 1700-talet. På den tiden var frankrike det ballaste som fanns.
Men anledningen till att hovdamerna och herrarna drack kaffe med lillfingret sådär visste man egentligen inte.
Och anledningen var att hovet var ett syndens näste. Resultatet blev därmed att att syfilis var vanligt.
Syfilis gör att lederna stelnar... Därav lillfingret som sticker ut.


Östermalms-dialekten:
Jag har också fått reda på att anledningen till att östermalmarna låter så fåniga är att det tydligen var en väldigt häftig kille som kom till stockholms socitet. Han hade ett talfel som gjorde att han pratade lite konstigt, men snubben var ju cool och därför började man i dom finare salongerna prata precis som honom.

Som den afrikanska ritualdansen i "Cant buy me love"

Men portaying women on film

Here's a small odyssey in men portraying women on film.

Here's an early example from 1917:


Other people like it hot from 1959:


And then there's this landmark from 1982:

Women, Blacks and Sherlock Holmes

Robert Downey Jr is playing a black dude in "Tropic Thunder".
Of course you hear upset voices about the injustice in this. Who is he coming here playing a black guy and making fun of characteristics of blackness?! It's just yet another way for white people to keep us down!

I take the complete opposite point of view because of the following.
Why then is it ok for blacks to portray whites, which has been done numerous times. I'm not buying Eddie Murphy's various characters (black and white and women) being created to keep the subjects of those jokes down, it just for fun.
Another important point, I do not complain about men playing women on the wide screen, which actually is the same thing. The first time I recall that happening is by Fatty Arbuckle way back in the silent movies, since than it's been done more times than I can count while women playing men hasn't happened quite as often. When women finally play men it usually doesn't happened in the name of fun. Why is that?
If one wants to argue about the injustice between races being confirmed by movies I suggest one looks at it from the way that the portray is being done. In the early Fatty Arbuckle movies women wasn't the sharpest of brains and men usually portrayed them to get away from something (a chore or a crock)... which one could argue was a way of keeping us down.
But Roberts character in "Tropic Thunder" bares no resemblance to that what so ever, in fact he is quite the opposite which proves to me that; when you portray another group of people it's another way of saying "I accept you and your differences". And I do believe that if you can not be laughed at, you're not worth taking that serious neither.

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Oh and while on the subject...
Robert Downey Jr AND Jude Law in one and the same Sherlock Holmes movie!
Kaahshwing!!!



Yes I've found yet another reason to be happy to be alive.

They don't make them like that anymore

How many days of your life is the day when you find out that Paul Newman died.
Only one and this was it.

Here's a top 3, where Paul forever and eternally will remain one of the best of them all:

1. Cat on a hot thin roof
2. The sting
3. Cool hand luke

Ugly/Cute duckling

Words from MySpace - A couple of reviews

Girls Just Want To Have Fun

That's right, Girls truly just want to have fun.
Lesson 1 however: In order to have fun, avoid this movie completly.

Shooter

If Rambo and Bourne Identity had a baby this would be it.

Pump Up The Volume

Sweetness me, this surely couldn't be set today... no cellphones and an underground radioshow (where the guy plays a regular vinyl).

Watch it yourself to find out all the other reasons why this is a movie worth love.

Dumb and Dumber

and dumbest...

Damien: Omen II

My inner child just wet her pants

Less Than Zero

This is perhaps the first reason why Robert Downey Jr is so brilliant. It is also an interesting piece - being that it was made in an era of happy-go-lucky-teen-boop-movies. This movie shows the backside of being young and rich, drugs, sex and rock n roll...
It is also written by american psycho's - Bret Easton Ellis, supposedly semi-autobiographical
And I cried when I watched it.

Air Force One

Question one.. who bores you more Tom Hanks or Harrison Ford?

The Wedding Planner

I think this movie was a huge insperation to the writers of the wedding crashers..

The Black Dahlia

A huger disappointment then the emptiness in Josh Harnetts eyes... and I'm such a Ellroy-fan. :¨(

The Savages

Want a ticket to the greatest movie-experience in 5 years?
Swing by my place in half a year, pay 30 spänn in the door and I'll reserve you a seat.

The Rock

It is a good thing that Sean did all those Bond-films, that way you can spend the time you have while watching this movie coming up with a 100 different reasons why Bond-films are so much better than this flick.

The Virgin Suicides

Everybody said this was supposed to be a good and important movie.
I thought it was too arty-farty and didn't movie me in any other direction besides horizontally.

Memento

Am I drunk?
I don't feel drunk.

QUESTION OF THE DAY:

Who's Blue-Ray and why is he depressed?

Just nu tittar : The Bucket List

Words from MySpace - Blackbirds, Malcolm X and freedom fighting

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.

Here's another has-been at her very best:

Here's a link to what everyone keeps talking about – UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Words from MySpace - Fashion Icons

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.

Just nu lyssnar : Collected Av Massive Attack