Spicy meatballs and dancing

I've discovered that barbeque-oil is great for frying meatballs. Adds some extra spice.

I'd also like to present one of my favourite clips from the youtube jungle - it's about this guy who attends a wedding after a cold and especially long russian winter, which he mostly spent at home, listening to music - watching mtv, dancing and dancing, one vodka after the other.
Then spring comes and a couple of his friends decide to marry. The russian guy brings every move he's collected during the long winter and discos the night away:



Don't forget to vote on your favourite love song.

In the mood for love

At www.bestsongever.com you can vote for your favourite songs. You can also see which rank your favourite song has and which songs currently hold the lead.

There’s no surprises here. Bohemian Rhapsody is still the best song ever. (The world may tumble and turn but Queen will remain on top). Not that it upsets me. Bohemian Rhapsody is a good, yes, even a great song.

Inspired by all the lists of yesterday and by music in general I thought I’d conduct my own survey on the subject.
In short; Ten songs and since Valentines day is just around the corner I’d thought we’d stick to the subject of Löve.

Vote on your favourite. By February 10th I’ll present the complete list as voted by you.

The nominated songs are:

1. Time after time – Cyndi Lauper
2. You’re All I Need To Get By – Aretha Franklin (link sung by Gladys Knight)
3. The way you look tonight – Tony Bennett
4. Alone – Heart
5. Your Song – Elton John
6. I Think I Love You - David Cassidy
7. Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye
8. Sweet Child O Mine – Guns N’ Roses
9. First Time – Robin Beck
10. Father Figure – George Michael
11. Too Lost In You – Sugababes
12. I Wish U Heaven - Prince
13. In The Deep - Bird York
14. Loosing My Religion - Tori Amos
    

If there’s a great love song you miss among the contestants drop me a line and I just might add it. But please know that I’ve tried to only nominate love songs which celebrate love, not about someone’s lack thereof.

Note to self!

Never forget that strange and miraculous things sometimes happened.



You can read more about the amazing story of Steven Bradbury on wiki, or find out what he's up to now on his homepage.

The post on lists

I've become addicted to "the book of lists".

Over I like lists. It tempts the more organised part of myself in much the same way as I like art. I can't paint, but I admire the work of people who can.

So far my favourite list is 13 animals who've been prosecuted.

I also enjoyed "High Fidelity" (Nick Hornby) much due to all the lists he made.
My favorite list from that book:

Rob's Top Five Bands or Musicians Who Will Have To Be Shot Come the Musical Revolution

1. Simple Minds
2. Michael Bolton
3. U2
4. Bryan Adams
5. Genesis

Birgittas Top Five Bands or Musicians Who Will Have To Be Shot Come the Musical Revolution

1. Per Gessle (of Roxette)
2. Westlife
3. Shaggy
4. The Macarena-chics
5. Aaron Carter

Klara, färdiga!

Me: How old are you?
Klara: 3 years.
Me: Oh.. That means you won't remeber me the next time I see you.
Klara ponders this for a while. Then she says: No, but I remember you now.

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

"I toss and turn on nails..."

That's a line from a Kent song.
That's also how I felt about tonights family dinner...

Other than that Christmas has been fine. Dinner and stuff with my parents and then on the evening I met up with some friends and got completly wasted, as promised and in shame. The next morning I woke up and found bits and pieces of a glass on the floor in my kitchen and the contence of my bag everywhere. I can't remember how I got home.

The day after I watched actors studio with John Cusack.
John ventuerd into the subject of Jung and the shadow-self. Very interesting indeed.
His point was that we humans try all kinds of tricks to hide our most inner self, but as an actor you have to work against that and learn how to feed off your fear from exposing your feelings too much. That's how you get good. And if you're bad it's only becasue of your natural instinct to protect yourself.


I feel this has an important meaning to me,
but the specifics are as of yet un-clear.
In a haze I'm leaving Stockholm
and let the red-lights guide me: