listed

end of year. must make lists.

top 5 times of day 2005:

evening
afternoon
night
morning
that time just before lunch after one too many coffees on an empty stomach

top 5 currencies i used in 2005:

south african rand
swedish krona
euro
danish krone
us dollar

top 5 albums you bought in 2005 and i feel sorry for you, yet amused as well:

coldplay: x&y
black eyed peas: monkey business
james blunt: back to bedlam
u2: vertigo
foo fighters: in your honor

top 5 weathers of 2005:

first snowfall
rainy morning gray
generic sunshine
autumn crispy
ridicilous impenetrable darkness at 15:38 (now)

top 5 albums i bought in 2005 so you can feel sorry for me too, and quite amused:

1. lcd soundsystem
2. antony & the johnsons: i am a bird now
3. quasimoto: the further adventures of lord quas
4. feist: let it die
5. my morning jacket: z

there must have been something better, but i seem to have misplaced it. that lcd soundsystem album is pretty good though.

trial by trial

let mr. pinter explain a few things

a long sustained tone

there's this nagging feeling of disappointment when something unique and relevant is replaced by the conventional. old is good. old new is good too. new is very good. but new old is just pointless. oh and new new is just sparkling.

gesture of help

i need a hand and you need a hand. more hands, please, sir.

soothing beans

nothing to say. i just love this picture. what are the first three questions you ask yourself when you see it? i wish that was my dad in it. it was taken the year i was born. or at least an uncle or something.

say it to my face

late summer rain and sonny rollins circa 1957 seems to be an unbeatable combination. like warm summer nights and blackstar's "respiration". or coffee and pablo casals. or saturday mornings and prince.

home sweet home

you know why stockholm is a real city, and helsinki just a collection of old buildings and overpriced retail? stockholm has a Footlocker. granted, stockholm is so expensive you start thinking you're in a season ending episode of punk'd and they've gone around and changed all the price tags in the whole city, but still.

sam & dave

last night we saw this woman spray something on the lawn in front of our house from a can. was she trying to fix the color or the volume? suburban imperfections drive me crazy too.

isn't it funny how you see your feet a lot more in the summer? by end of june you're pretty much reacquinted again.

who is who

i'm trying to find a job.

summer in helsinki bears freakish resemblence to the winter in cape town.

and what is this? Burger porn?

what our lions are doing this winter

”you soon forget whether you read it or dreamt it” is the best thing I've heard someone say of a book in a while.

elsewhere, what these websites do is dilute hate and love into universal average indifference. it is a beautiful machine designed to destroy passion. and extremely useful for people like me with no taste. or opinions. i love the phrase universal acclaim.

but luckily there still is real love around.

Good Morning

and then there was me.