Um…

I have 349 sek at this store, Bikbok, I never by anything there. It’s from my birthday when I was given a horrible cardigan and returned and got store credit. What should I get? Would you buy at this place?

Brazil

Saw my first Brazilian movie, and liked it! "Ciade de Deus", been wanting to see it from some time and then it was on TV the other day. It’s apparently based on a book, maybe I should read the book? I loved that all of the characters had weird nicknames (maybe because I never have had one?). Favorite character, Bené, the nice gangster. If you have the chance to see it, you should.

Just because

Three more movies

First I saw “O Brother, where art thou?” and it was okay, reminded me a little of “Big Fish” but it’s not a movie I’m likely to ever see again. I wanted to see what happened but then at the end I was like, “So…?”

I hate to see Johnny in bad movies, I don’t like to hear him say cunt. He wasn’t even good in this movie which he usually is even I crappy movies. The best parts of “The Astronaut’s Wife” was when I squinted and pretended it was Mia Farrow and not Charlize Theron. It was quite recently I realized what a beauty she is, Mia that is.

(Mia Farrow)

Then I watched a Danish movie, a thriller called “Murk” and it was like Swedish movies, dull, grey and “real”. There’s a wedding scene and if it had been an American movie it would have been bright and funny, laugher and spontaneous singing but there it was stiff and dull and people were sitting in rows with pieces of paper with the lyrics on singing along looking bored and uncomfortable. The plot was okay but the execution wasn’t.

How cute is this!

She looks like a stewardess or something. I love the suspenders under the corset (at least I think they are under the corset because in the info about the corset I can’t see anything about any suspenders), not sure how comfortable that would be but it’s cute! The corset is from Maya Hansen, more info on this corset here.

Behind the red door

Looks a cute cozy county house in France, bet things are falling off the building if you slam the door too hard or if a truck drives by.

The window shutters and the door seem to be the only thing touched for the last fifty or so years.

Doesn’t look that worn-out and simple from the backyard does it? I love this backyard because of the contrast to the front of the house. A secret little courtyard, how cute is that?

All pictures are from Shootfactory. This house is in La Poste. More pictures here, it’s a real dangerous site because you might be stuck for HOURS

I like!

Not a hundred percent happy about the roof and it’s a little too rustic for me but it’s so adorable! I don’t even mind the fact that the door isn’t center of the house, I’m sort of obsessive about things being symmetrical but here it works anyway. In my head the balcony/porch faces a big glassy lake.

The bushes by the door are a little small; they should get some big rhododendron or yew and get rid of those potted things on the stair.

Found picture here

Tihi!

I was just goofing around and writing down an imaginary tea party with Aimée and it turned in to a story. First draft ready and I’ll clean it up this weekend and maybe I have a story for my story bank. I have to wait awhile and see if I really like it, sometimes a story seem good but when you’ve let it cold a day or so it turns out to be crap.

Imaginary tea party II

I need a place to have the tea party and come up with a menu, oh and a guest list of course. Not too many people. And a date, saturday maybe...? Is this a good mix of people I wonder?

1. Albus Dumbledore
2. Snow White
3. Freddie Mercury
4. Edgar Allan Poe
5. Jane and Edward Rochester
6. Catwoman

Treehouse

I don’t know why but I like small houses like shed and little cottages (like the one in that movie “The Holliday”) and treehouses. But even if I start looking for a treehouse in the area to have tea in, I have no one to keep me company. (I wonder if I could persuade my dad to build me a treehouse even though I’m not twelve?)

Books about treehouses
The treehouse book
Treehouses: The Art and Craft of Living Out on a Limb

Picture found here

10 Places for tea

You can have tea anywhere but some places sounds more interesting than others. The best place I have had tea is sadly my own garden. I hope I’ll be crossing off some of the places on the list real soon. The most important thing when having tea is, of course, good company.

1. Treehouse
2. Cute cottage
3. Dartmoor national park
4. Lighthouse
5. Gazebo or similar during a thunderstorm
6. Tasmania
7. Rowboat
8. Porch
9. The desert
10. Ghost town

Snow!

It snowed a little on… Saturday I believe and then again yesterday. The ground is still warm and the weather isn’t that cold so it melted away fast but still, snow… I don’t like cold weather and ice. And soon it’s December and I haven’t bought a single Christmas present! (Well I have actually bought a little something to three people) I’m already feeling stressed out.

I did buy some cookie cutters though, smaller than I expected but they were cute. A kangaroo, shark, whale, bat, camel, fish, seahorse, giraffe, pear, maple leaf and a moose, who said gingerbread cookies had to be hearts and pigs?

Picture from Formina (where I got my cutters from)

Not a lot of movies lately

Instead I have been watching “Seinfeld” on DVD, I love Kramer. I have a few movies recorded, there was a Danish movie on the other day and I can honestly… no I have seen a Danish movie before… Idioterne by “Lars von Trier” which is one of the weirdest movies I have seen. I don’t know how I managed to see the entire movie, so strange, I saw an interview with Lars and he’s pretty damn weird too. Anyway… soon I’ll start watching some movies again.

Monday November 17

00:46 My internet isn’t working!! What to do?! I have restarted the computer twice and it’s still not working! What if it’s not working tomorrow (today) either? What if I have a whole bunch of great wonderful emails? What if there are some interesting posts at all the different message boards? I’m not sure I can go to sleep before I check my mail and the message boards… Maybe it’s working now… It’s not! What the… ?!

Watch some Supernatural and see if it works later, or go to bed? Watch a little Supernatural and check if the net is worker later. (By the way, the fourth season sucks so far...)

00:54 What the… Now my player isn’t working? God is out to get me! Restarting the computer…

00:57 My player is working, haven’t check the net but I doubt it… hey, the computer just said, “Virus database have been updated”, does that mean I have a connection? (dramatic pause) I have no new messages… My net is back!

01:03 Nothing new anywhere…

01:07 So, should I go to bed or should I watch Supernatural? I don’t know why I pretend to even consider go to bed, I know I’ll stay up…

Writing exercise

For some reason I am under the impression that most people have alter egos, I do, I several. My favorite one is “Shelly” and I really wish I was like her but... Anyway... Take a normal situation, grocery shopping, an hour on a train or similar and write down how your alter ego would act and what he or she would do in situations. What kind of groceries would he/she buy? Will he/she walk there, ride a bike because it’s better for the environment, take the bus or will he/she drive up there in a fabulous red 65 corvette stingray?

How to annoy your neighbors part three

The trumpet is a wonderful instrument which you don’t hear very often, why not change that? Take a trumpet class and practice makes perfect. I love youtube! I have to ask and see if he wants to come and live with me...

How to annoy your neighbors part two

Christmas is upon us so why not spread some love and festivity and put up some decorative lights? More info here

Annoy your neighbors part one

(Sign found here)

Get a neon sign. The best thing would be to buy one and make sure that it’s obscene, impropriate or just scary. But anyone with bright lights will do, make sure they can see it from their bedroom. Call it art if anyone complains.

First out is Norway

Okay, so Mr Third Wheel, there for the comical relief I wonder… “Cold prey”, silly (and not in a good way) and predictable but hopefully not the best thing out of Norway (of course not, Turbonegro and Espen Knutsen are the best things from Norway).

Half way through and I’m really tired of this movie, feels like a 70’s-80’s crap horror. Slow and dull…

I’ve managed to watch 1h and 10min so I should be able to make it through the last 20minutes.

I made it though… by the end of the movie I don’t remember the person’s name… not good. Best part of the movie, the end where they play Turbonegro “All my friends”. Mr Third Wheel is funny at times, silly name Morten Tobias (what’s with Norwegian people and double names?) He looks like a Norwegian stereotype and since we are on that subject, how more Norwegian can you get when you are trying to escape on skis, hilarious. Apparently they made a sequel…

Mr Third Wheel aka Mr Comical Relief aka Morten Tobias played by Rold Krisitian Larsen. The can opener broke, what are the odds of that?

"She's been chopped to pieces!" Mr Positive

Movies from all over the world

I’ll try to see more foreigner films, perhaps try to see one from each country, how many countries are there? I’ve seen movies from, China, Japan, England, America, France, Mexico, New Zealand, Australia, Germany… but I have never seen an Norwegian movie. This has got to change. So, more foreign films on TV please.

(Oops, I lied… Looked around and I have seen at least one Norwegian movie… but still, I should try and see something other than just American and English speaking movies.)

Memoirs of a geisha

My first audio book and I’m not sure I’ll give it another go. To listen to someone reading a story is odd, this one was read by a woman and she would speak with a hoarse voice at times because the character did. Sometimes reading really slow and she put a lot of feelings in things. Sounding mean or angry with there was nothing in the text that said that the person was angry. Story-wise I got a little annoyed with all the similes and such, every other sentence contained some bad poetic description and it was too much.

After I had listen to the book, I saw the movie and there were a lot of changes, some understandable and some just annoying. Since I had “listened” to the book I felt I understood everything that was happening but perhaps it would have been less so if I hadn’t? Love the clothes and the surrounding but the movie was pretty dull. The people I recognized were all Chinese; surely there are some Japanese actresses they could have used? And then there was the language, it was hard to understand what they were saying and again, happy that I had listen to the book so I knew what was going on.

In both the books and the movie the girls virginity was auctioned out and I have always been under the assumption that geishas aren’t prostitutes so I had to check it out and apparently Arthur Golden took that from a similar ceremony held by Oirans.

I should read Mineko Iwasakis “Geisha of gion” instead; perhaps that one will be more accurate?

Christmas wishlist

I never want anything for Christmas, well I do but I don’t make lists because it feels so, I don’t know, more like demands and not wishes. So I end up with a whole bunch of stuff that I don’t want or need so this year I’m thinking about making a wishlist.

CHRISTMASLIST 2009
Gift certificate at Adlibris and/or Bokus
Gift certificate at Sockdreams
Gift certificate at Twilfit
Teacups (you can never have too many teacups)

And this year I will do my very best and make sure I have all of my Christmas shopping done before December, or at least most of it.

Knitting…

Trying to knit my hats but for some reason they don’t turn out the way I want them too. Holes in all the wrong places or I’ve knitted for days with cables and such and then realize that somewhere I messed up and then have to start all over again. Right now I’m knitting without a pattern, let’s see if I can come up with a hat.

This weekend

Watched horror movies, but unfortunately only bad ones, but in my opinion good horror movies are hard to find and I get really scared so perhaps it’s a good idea that most of them are so lame?
First it was “The Fog” the re-make and what the… I hate when there are lose ends in movies and the whole thing about the guy cheating with that Stevie girl, what was that about? But it did look nice on that island, I like picturesque islands and I wouldn’t mind living on one someday.
Then it was “When a stranger calls”, also a re-make and come on… loads of loose ends and no real story. The house was pretty cozy though but far too much wooden panels for my taste.
“When a stranger calls” (1979) Oh my god what a piece of crap… The girls voice is irritating and the whole story is just messy and not at all scary. I understand why they changed a lot when they did the remake; I don’t understand why they called it a remake, why not just take the old story with the creepy phone calls to the babysitter and make a whole new thing? I just don’t understand the logic in horror movies. If I was that Jill chick I would take that shotgun and carry it with me at all times, and I would have all the lights on in the house at all times until the guy was caught.

Pumpkins spotted: 5 (but most of them showed up on Saturday, isn’t that like getting a Christmas tree on Christmas day?)
Trick or treaters spotted: Five (two of them on Saturday)
Trick or treaters knocking on the door: Zero
Christmas lights spotted: Five