[Bus towards Livigno?]
This bus crawls at an infinitely low speed towards the centre of Stockholm. Finally - it is winter. Although it doesnt matter much to me - being an office worker. Comes saturday, comes Italy. A wonderful break in everyday life approaching with hopes of sunny weather and not too much of that adriatic breeze that made summer in Rimini endurable. And good skiing - not to mention food and wine. Fantastic!
The
Moonbrother has finally made it to the web. Two songs added -
300 years of waiting - the first one I made last august and
To touch the face of God that was completed just recently. The latter featuring Ronald Reagan speeches. Moonbrother will be my forum for flowing music with only spoken words. I think. Anyway - I am glad to have reached a new period of my life when I actually complete things like this.
Concannon Chardonnay 2003 is the best white wine of 2004 - at least for us.... Some 90 units of our swedish currency may seem a bit expensive but is well spent money.
Floorball may seem to be an unnecessary invention given the vast number of ball sports with some decent history. Nevertheless an entire body may ache after playing it for 90 minutes (own experience). It is for obvious reasons some swedes call this game by the name "sweat bandy".
How would one then sum up last (?!) years Stockholmian Film Festival? It was nice to be there at all which was thanks to being between jobs. It was sad to only be able to see 9 movies out of how many? It was happiness to be able to see as much as 9 movies. Of the movies I experienced, Baytong was the most positive surprise. We only went to it because there were no other film of the first day that we just had to see. Furthermore, there were no disappointments what so ever. Each one of the 9 were great.
[McLachlan on the way to Vasteras]
The sun is shining, we are sitting in Huey, our corolla, heading for Västerås where we will visit relatives. McLachlan in the stereo, flowing sweet surrender.
Everything is now shadowed by that huge tsunami wave of asia. Strangely - it is the single event killing most swedes since the
battle of Poltava in 1709. It will surely leave a traumatic trace in this distant country - just imagine what it must be like in Indonesia and Sri Lanka.... No words can describe any of this.
Here we go again - over one month since the last post to this site. This may be due to the fact that I started working for Swedish software house Mogul the 1st of December. My mind has been elsewhere. It has been a pleasant and tiresome experience this far. Getting into a team with highperformers running at extraterrestial speed towards a deadline and still making a contribution is self-assuring but tiresome. Having worked with the swedish tax authorities for 4 years - the contrast in speed is obvious as well as the professionalism of the team. Suddenly everyone is interested in delivering software as fast and good as possible. Well that is heaven for a software developer.
Well, well. I was supposed to write about the two last movies of the Stockholm Film Festival. The first one was
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
(A Very Long Engagement) by
Jean-Pierre Jeunet with
Audrey Tautou as Mathilde, a young woman waiting for the return of her boyfriend that went into the first world war and never came back. She feels inside that he is not dead and pursues every little glimpse of hope there is. An immensely beautiful film set in France at the beginning of the last century.
The second film was
Innocence (Ghost in the Shell 2) by Japanese anime director
Mamoru Ishii. A future Japan that is pictured with immense detail and a distinct mystic feeling. The story itself is philosophical though filled with action. A beautiful film that makes we wanna see the first one soon.
