Saturday, February 28, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Pirates of the ....
There are court proceedings going on, those responsible for the site the Pirate Bay, with free downloadings, are on trial, and the music industry in its present form is in the process of not being needed anymore. I myself don´t use the PirateBay, but that´s not for moral reasons, has to do with practical things and me not owning an mp3 player or iPod, and the band of my immediate interest keeps all that I need in their homepage, for us to get whenever we need it, for free. :-)
Contributions into this debate, concerning the trial, are to be found all around in mediasphere, and when I read an article on Newsmill I came across this Swedish band. (I´m not sure if it´s possible to translate the Newsmill-posts, it ought to be, it´s a very good article in my opinion) Maybe something to check out! It´s very "synth" ;-)
http://www.auto-auto.se/
and this is link to Newsmill:
http://newsmill.se/artikel/2009/02/18/det-ar-skivobolagen-som-ar-boven-i-dramat
Contributions into this debate, concerning the trial, are to be found all around in mediasphere, and when I read an article on Newsmill I came across this Swedish band. (I´m not sure if it´s possible to translate the Newsmill-posts, it ought to be, it´s a very good article in my opinion) Maybe something to check out! It´s very "synth" ;-)
http://www.auto-auto.se/
and this is link to Newsmill:
http://newsmill.se/artikel/2009/02/18/det-ar-skivobolagen-som-ar-boven-i-dramat
Sunday, February 22, 2009
My wondrous life
There will be a point in life, when emotions beside you in time revolts and bawls loudly, calls upon you to regard yourself in the mirror of the past and ask: Did your life ever come off, what will you do with what´s left of it?
Generally the say is your life is approximately a period of about eighty years to come, so, I would´ve lived half a bottle of it at the age of forty, well ok, fortyfive then. :-) (if not to include the years of childhood too severly)
So. What am I supposed to do with the rest of it, the whimsical thirty years I have left, an inevitable question at this time in my wondrous :-) life.
Generally the say is your life is approximately a period of about eighty years to come, so, I would´ve lived half a bottle of it at the age of forty, well ok, fortyfive then. :-) (if not to include the years of childhood too severly)
So. What am I supposed to do with the rest of it, the whimsical thirty years I have left, an inevitable question at this time in my wondrous :-) life.
Monday, February 16, 2009
just briefly
The book The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz got rewiews in our local newspaper this morning. I´ve tried to find it, for some time, but it isn´t to be found anywhere ... I´ve failed in my search. Now I guess our library will have a request coming up, in close future, from a borrower wondering why this title, in its original language, is not in their collection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junot_D%C3%ADaz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junot_D%C3%ADaz
Sunday, February 15, 2009
short stories
A while ago I wrote an American blog-friend of mine, for some reading ideas in English. As my skills in English aren´t as genuin as those of a native Englishman or American, she had to recommend me something not too complicated but still advanced enough to catch my interest. She actually gave me a good list of titles to go from, but unfortunately only some of them where available here i Norrköping.
The funny thing is, while going through the bookcases at the library I found an English author named Jeanette Winterson, she wrote a book Lighthousekeeping which I enjoyed very much, as a fact I will, in return, recommend it to my American blog-friend, I have a mysterious feeling she will like it.
The story is about life and the stories of life. It deals with movements in within humans, dependent on movement in God´s creation, kind of, telling about a priest loosing his belief in both himself and God when he finds out creation is still going on and will go on forever, and that we may have to deal with a maverick God, as he sees it, who created earth just for fun. There is no stable point to lean on anywhere. One has to find a belief inside oneself to gain strength and self confidence, thus getting tools and ability to deal with life. There is a lot of sea, a lot of light and a lot of darkness in this book, a blind lighthouskeeper and some really sad stories.
Quotation from the book:
"You don´t need to know everything. There is no everything. The stories themselves make the meaning. The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There are no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is in dark."
(For your knowledge miss L, I´ve got Drown by Junot Diaz in my hand and Ender´s game by Card, I will open them this week. I´m still not sure about my wiew concerning Sue Monk Kidd, I´ll get back to you on that. I read the Mermaid´s Chair, but ... well...I don´t know :-S.)
The funny thing is, while going through the bookcases at the library I found an English author named Jeanette Winterson, she wrote a book Lighthousekeeping which I enjoyed very much, as a fact I will, in return, recommend it to my American blog-friend, I have a mysterious feeling she will like it.
The story is about life and the stories of life. It deals with movements in within humans, dependent on movement in God´s creation, kind of, telling about a priest loosing his belief in both himself and God when he finds out creation is still going on and will go on forever, and that we may have to deal with a maverick God, as he sees it, who created earth just for fun. There is no stable point to lean on anywhere. One has to find a belief inside oneself to gain strength and self confidence, thus getting tools and ability to deal with life. There is a lot of sea, a lot of light and a lot of darkness in this book, a blind lighthouskeeper and some really sad stories.
Quotation from the book:
"You don´t need to know everything. There is no everything. The stories themselves make the meaning. The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There are no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is in dark."
(For your knowledge miss L, I´ve got Drown by Junot Diaz in my hand and Ender´s game by Card, I will open them this week. I´m still not sure about my wiew concerning Sue Monk Kidd, I´ll get back to you on that. I read the Mermaid´s Chair, but ... well...I don´t know :-S.)
Monday, February 9, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Come on, you cheeselovers. part 2
Had an extraordinary answer/comment from U.S. on the post "come on, you cheeselovers". Here´s link to it, ´cause it´s far too much to review. ... and it´s funny too :-)
Thanx a very big lot miss L. !!
http://transientfixations.blogspot.com/2009/02/cheesiest.html
Thanx a very big lot miss L. !!
http://transientfixations.blogspot.com/2009/02/cheesiest.html
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