Finished reading for my Jules Verne assignment. :)

Can't believe I haven't got around to reading anything by him before, so this was the right subject of choice for me. I was really surprised how much I enjoyed this book! The meaning of "science fiction" suddenly became clear, because that is truly what this is - a fictional story with great focus on the scientific evidence of why it could be true. Wonderful!

The fact that this was written in the 1860's baffles me. Did they know all this stuff back then? Very detailed. To me, who is not exactly educated in geology, this sounds like something that could actually have been published last year about a travel that actually did take place.

In the story, Axel finds himself being dragged along to an adventure when his uncle, Professor Lidenbrock, makes a very special discovery. If he is to believe the rare coded document he has found, there is an underground path which can lead them all the way to the Center of the Earth! Axel doesn't know what to believe, but his uncle is obsessed with the possibility and is already packing for their incredible journey.

It's a shame I got the ending ruined (I had already accidentally seen it on Wikipedia), cause it was an excellent and unexpected ending, which is always a big plus to me. Anyone who likes adventure books and has a slight scientific interest should give Jules Verne a try. I wouldn't mind reading a few of his other books in my free time. :)

This year it wasn't just the living room and the closet that needed spring cleaning, but my MacBook was equally full of winter dust and clutter. Allen helped me out a lot to get it all cleared. (Thank youu!)

So we cleared the desktop, deleted history and temporary files, got rid of clutter in the downloads folder, deleted unneccessary languages and fonts, ran some free cleaning software and heaven knows what else. I cleaned the screen and outside best I could, and cleared some space on the hard drive by moving 12GB worth of original size photos to our external drive.

Feels like new again! Smack me on the fingers if I let it drift and become cluttered, seriously.

More horror, yay!

The Ring is a proper horror classic, and not many good movies like that get sequels that are actually well thought through, entertaining, make sense and even add to the story of the original in a natural way.

The Ring Two is a better sequel than most. I feel closer to the story with this than with the first movie, to be honest. When you're too occupied being confused with all the weird plot, there's not a lot of time left to be scared. In this second movie, we already know what the background is and can focus on what's important.

Aidan becoming "possessed" might seem a bit Exorcist-rip off at first, but it turns out very good and creepy. There's nothing more evil than when it infests the one you love, right? The mother soon gets declared crazy for her behaviour towards her son, which is excellent, very realistic and makes it more scary. Anything that brings you back to reality a little bit is a good thing for a story like this, where the plot could otherwise spiral away so far into unbelieveable that all credibility is lost.

Definitely worth a watch for anyone who ever enjoyed a horror.

I love Russel Brand, seriously. In this recent article on DigitalSpy entitled Russel Brand: 'I didn't break up Oasis' he comes out with this:

"He added: "I don't want to be the Oasis Yoko Ono without even getting to have sex with John Lennon!""

How is that not awesome? This reminded me and Allen how much we miss British TV, so we watched some old videos on youtube, like Russel's first appearance on the Jonathan Ross Show. I love it! There's nothing like watching a person who is obviously intelligent and has an excellent vocabulary, who is using it for nothing but making rude jokes and making people slightly uncomfortable.

More than once he mentions the Finality of Death in a tone of voice that suggests he has completely accepted that life is short and he may as well do what the hell he wants before it's over. What a character, and that's even without mentioning the outfit yet. Give me British TV back!

Been having a lot of fun baking during the weekend. One of the things we made were these awesome Chocolate Chip Cookies. Really great recipe, we only did a couple of changes. We couldn't get the finished chocolate chips here that we could in England, so we hammered regular cooking chocolate into different size pieces with a hammer. 200 grams of light chocolate and 100 grams of white chocolate - glorious!

Don't think I've mentioned my fiancé plays the guitar. But yeah, sometimes I help to make a video when he's recording a demo, it's fun. This Blink 182 cover is his latest one (pretty easy song but I like it all the same), you can find more videos like this on our YouTube account.

Now I need to head for school, better not be late cause we've got a major writing test in Swedish B today. Wish me luck!

Been editing pictures today. Some are on my Flickr now but I'll be uploading most overnight. Looking forward to doing some more time consuming editing next week, using pics from my recent shoot with Elin and Elise.

Above is Allen in a puddle. We had fun. :)

Your average British tv show:
Sid is 17 and has just got together with the girl he likes when she moves to Scotland. When trying to have a video chat with her online, he accidentally sees her getting undressed by some Scottish guy. What Sid doesn't know is the guy is gay and just helping her pick out the sexiest outfit to surprise her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Sid's parents are still married but the mum has left to fuck some German guy. Sid's dad is depressed and having a smoke and a whiskey on the couch when he suddenly dies from a heart attack or something. Sid finds him. He's all alone and doesn't know what to do so he leaves him there and goes to college, no emotion on his face.

Your average American tv show:
Grace is getting ready in her bathroom. She can hear her gay roommate Will dancing around in his own, bigger bathroom. Grace is jealous and shows Will how very small and inconvenient hers is. Will buys new shelves for her. She gets very mad, saying this doesn't solve the problem. Instead, she suggests knocking down the wall to make one big bathroom. Her female friend advices strongly against this, saying they will drive each other crazy with their annoying habits. Grace goes ahead anyway and makes one bathroom. Before long, the two roommates are arguing about leaving hair in the sink and forgetting to put the toilet lid down. Oh no, this is ruining their great friendship! What should they do NOW!?!?

Just saying. Americans always cause a fuss about everything. Just, calm down. It doesn't matter what it is, Christmas, Halloween, Prom night, losing your virginity, getting a zit, it's always a big friggin deal. I couldn't live like that.

Take a chill pill! Anyone agree?

Miles and miles of pipes. This is what we spotted through the trees on a morning walk in the forest the other day. Looked pretty cool, felt weird that all these huge things have been placed right next to our little walking path. Wonder what they're making with them?

Update: Ooo we found out what it was, this is the storage for the massive pipeline they're putting down, that will carry Russian natural gas under the Baltic Sea. Everyone's been going on about it causing a fuss, and here it is. Cool.

 Sunday night we watched The Others. I've only been watching horrors for the past couple of years really, so I'm catching up on a lot of old movies.

I liked this one cause it's a lot like a ghost story you'd tell around a camp fire, but without the cheesiness and the bad ending. Many horrors just go too far, throw in some dead bodies and plenty of pouring blood and maggots and gore and you've got it good and scary... I say nah. This movie has no blood, nothing visually revolting and still made it good.

Instead, it's a pretty beautiful visual experience, great story with a perfect twist, and I loved the performance by Nicole Kidman and Fionnula Flanagan who made it very believeable. This one is great for the slightly squeamish type who feels sick from blood but still wants a good scare. Chick-flick horror, I guess. :)

I sat at the bus stop the other day, trying to ignore a loudly singing drunk passing by. Suddenly he shouted, as if declaring to the world: "Today was a good day! I successfully filed a police report about every single fucker at the Red Cross!"

I'm not quite sure what to make of that. Kinda makes me wonder about the bad days, but I don't think I should ask.

Lent a massive 300 mm zoom lens from school to get some better bird shots, it was fun! Alot easier in one way but pretty hard all the same, ended up working with manual focus which can be a pain if you're off by just a little. Took more than 600 pics on the wednesday so some were bound to be good, right?

See more bird pics with the big zoom in my new flickr set here.

I'm taking literature history right now and for my latest assignment I picked Jules Verne. He's one of them authors you always hear so much about but I never took the time to read anything by him.

So I'm reading A Journey to the Center of the Earth. And I'm really liking it. And then, when I've read almost half way, and is pretty worked up about the plot, I suddenly remember that I've heard how this story ends before. Kinda ruining the surprise. Fail.

No one thinks about warning for spoilers about a book written in the 1860's I guess.

I love stuff like this! Found the picture above in a magazine about home savings, Hemma i HSB Nr 2.2010. The article is about an old man who has collected stamps since 1945. Finally, his wife protested when they couldn't fit the folders in the apartment anymore. So what did they do? They wallpapered the hall with them. More than 13000 stamps from 130 countries, floor to ceiling.

I envy someone who can commit to finishing a project like that. I can't even commit to one blog host, for pete's sake.

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Now I've updated the blog with two new pages, about me and contact, for you folk who are extremely friggin interested.

In school doing Swedish class today, literature history. Gonna start an assignment on Jules Verne, gonna be kinda nice I think. Got some blogs coming up maye later or tomorrow.

Soon time to go to bed, last day of Easter Break so tomorrow it's back to school and work. We've been taking a lot of walks for bird pictures this weekend, it's been pretty fun and some turned out real nice. Now I'm tired. Night!

(see more bird pics in a set on flickr here.)

Yeah I'm bored of tumblr now, it wasn't the best blog host. Plus Allen is totally making me jealous with his new domain so... real shocker, I'm copying him. Sue me. :)

Time to start fresh, I need to keep a personal blog apart from the Swedish one I have. Sometimes things need to come out in English.

Now, time to pimp out the blog.