"Words Are Not Enough" with Steps

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Song of Today: "Words Are Not Enough" with Steps

"Let's Twist Again" with Chubby Checker

I had to write something about the Danish Eurovision songs…
…and not my favorite ones through the years (which by the way are Tommy Seebach' "Disco Tango" (1979), Gry's "Kloden Drejer" (1983), Hot Eyes' (who dominated the 80's with three entries) "Det' Lige Det (1984), Birthe Kajær's (dansbandish and so corny you have to love it) "Vi Maler Byen Rød" (1989), and Aud Wilken's "Fra Mols til Skagen" (1995)) but something completely different:

When I was living in Gothenburg and shared a room at the office with E-man and D-man we discovered that every morning – and I’m really not kidding now…ten fingers up to God….ask the E and the D – at 8.45 AM the same radio station was playing the same song: The Danish Eurovision entry from last year; Jakob Sveistrup's "Talking to You". It is not that usual that radio stations play Eurovision songs…at least not Danish ones…and not one year after the contest. I guess it is not that usual that the Danish ESC songs are some sort of reggae, either. Very weird – but in the end it got kinda funny, E-man being a great Dane and all…

Well, this year the Danish returns. Not with a reggae – no, that’s soooo last year in Denmark. This time they return (directly in the final since Jakob succeeded last year) with – a TWIST! Yep, that’s right. Sidsel Ben Semmane will sing the ugly child between an Avril Lavigne song and Chubby Checker’s "Let's Twist Again"…and it is not completely impossible that "Twist of Love" will succeed (it might be the Olsen Brothers of 2006) – or at least be played every day at 8.45 AM next October in a room close to Lindholmspiren.

Now I'm flying (HELP!!) to London.
The blog will be on paper for some days and will return when I reach a computer.
Kisses.

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Song of Today: "Let's Twist Again" with Chubby Checker

"What a Piece of Work Is Man" from Hair

I know I promised to write something about Denmarks contributions to Eurovision Song Contest today, but I guess I'll have to save that for tomorrow...
The reason?
MQ - who filles Stockholm with posters like these...
How am I supposed to think about danish schlager then?

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Song of Today: "What a Piece of Work Is Man" from Hair

"Life of Riley" with The Lightening Seeds

Well this is supposed to be a blog about music, so here are the three songs that made my morning a little bit brighter when they turned up on my iPod:

"Love U More" with Steps – I never found out if this is a cover or not. I guess it is since they never released it as a single (and Steps released almost everything as singles), but it is still one of their best efforts. Beautiful and different.

"Life of Riley" with The Lightening Seeds – always reminds me of when I’ve just moved from that dreadful apartment in the city and out to Kålltorp and loved living by my self for the first time ever. I remember it was January when I got this song by F1, and that I was walking in a snowy Björkekärr and loved every bit of it. And despite the snow it always gives me feelings of spring.

"Hold that Sucker Down" with The O.T Quartet – The ultimate dance song. The ultimate gay anthem. Feels London and Cyberdog although it has no real connection, and of course it is always reminding me of "Queers as Folk" (the UK version) and me and Ulle-Gulle seeing these episodes over and over again on Kristinelundsgatan…and me and Lisa seeing all of them in one day forcing her to rush to a cab to catch a plane back to London since we HAD to see all the episodes before she went back.

There you go. Three tunes that lighten up my day. And then the one that turned up and brought me back to real life again:

"A Different Corner" with George Michael – Still one of the most beautiful ballads ever written. Still one of the saddest songs there is. Damn you, George!

By the way; tomorrow I think I will write something about Danish Eurovision entries... Got inspired by E-man commenting Carola and remembered "the song that never went away"...and soon there will be a new one. =)

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Song of Today: "Life of Riley" with The Lightening Seeds

"This Woman" with Anna Sahlene

This woman…

This woman is a living time bomb…
Every time she opens her mouth it might explode with another classic statement. Not so much her opinion about gay-people which I actually might understand (my God, she’s a fanatic Christian…her opinion is almost unprejudiced if you compare it to Åke Green and his people). No, I’m more afraid she will loose all our future votes from every (partly)Islamic European country, or – even worse - start something larger than the Mohammad-drawings upon her home country.

And that "Jesus is God" part?? Where did that come from? Is he? When did he take over from his father? Does Carola know anything we don't know? Or has she founded her own religion? Or does she just suck in English? I guess nobody knows but our own, newly refreshed, little schlager-angel.

I believe people didn’t know what they sent to Greece last Saturday…
…but at least it will be more exciting (on every level) that last year when we sent a Ken-doll with a stupid show-number.

By the way. Keep commenting. It was nice!

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Song of Today: "This Woman" with Anna Sahlene

"Talk" with Coldplay

Talk people, talk!

I know for a fact that people read what I write in this blog, because people gives me comments from time to time – but never in the talkback…
Well, Catenacci has done it sometimes…and Sis. Maybe F2 and FF.
But otherwise you are TOO QUIET folks!

You don’t have to write in English! (I just keep doing it to improve my language skills, and to differ it from my other blog)
You don’t have to write much!
You can be anonymous!

You just press comments and leave a (guess, what?) a comment!!!
In Swedish. Or English. Or whatever.
Let’s test it, shall we???
Right now!
I dare you!!

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Song of Today: "Talk" with Coldplay

"Jag Hatar att Jag Älskar Dig. Och Jag Älskar Dig så Mycket att Jag Hatar Mig" with Håkan Hellström

I’ve got heterosexual people indignant when I’ve said I love music with Kylie, and I’ve got homosexual people mad over that I worship the music by Kent…
...but nobody I listen to makes people mad like Mr Håkan Hellström.
Irrespective of sexuality.
I really don’t get it… He’s just another singer.
Sometimes he makes crappy music, and sometimes he makes wonderful songs like his latest single. It’s the song of today and it is a beautiful song with lots of emotions and a superb lyric.
How can you hate this if you like music?
Because he doesn’t sing every note correctly (I can’t even tell if he doesn’t, but that’s the argument people often use)?
Well, I rather listen to this song 24/7 than one song by Il Divo.

Even if they get every tune right.

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Song of Today: "Jag Hatar att Jag Älskar Dig. Och Jag Älskar Dig så Mycket att Jag Hatar Mig" with Håkan Hellström

"Laffy Taffy" with D4L

Friday. Pay-day. Sunny. Everything’s quite nice.
But I’m really not in the mood for the weekly music chart, so I’ll skip it for this week...

I have to admit that the thing is that I’m in some sort of musical vacuum after Melodifestivalen.
While I’m a little tired of the songs, I still listen to some of them…but I mostly listen to the Morrissey-album…and I can’t fill the list completely with the Moz, can I?
So, there you have it.
But some musical tips anyway:
"That's The Way My Heart Goes" with Marie Serneholt is so much better in the extended version.
I love "We're So Loud" with Dub Sweden every time I hear it on the radio, but it’s not a song I wan’t to buy or download…
…in opposite to "Bold As Love" with Whyte Seeds which I would really like on my iPod.
But "Love Generation" with Bob Sinclar & Gary Pine is really, really starting to get tired now. I almost turn of the radio when it comes on...and then…
…this weeks BIG WARNING:
"Laffy Taffy" with D4L

I HATE THAT F*CKING SONG.
It makes me itch.
A disease disguised as a song.

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Song of Today: "Laffy Taffy" with D4L

"The Model" with Kraftwerk

A few words regarding the Swedish version of ANTM (America’s Next Top Model)…

Stop whining!
My god, if you are going to be a model you MIGHT have known from the start that people will ask you to take your clothes off, to look sexy, to put things on yourself that you don’t like…don’t you think??
If you look at the original show (with the fabulous Tyra Banks), now at its s sixth cycle, it is a completely different show with a completely different type of girls.
The American girls believe in themselves, are tuff as hell, have a clear goal to win the contest, and are willing to do anything to beat all the others in the competition. And most importantly – they know what profession they want, they know what it means, and they are proud of wanting that.
In Sweden modeling is considered so shallow it seems like you can’t (even as a contestant in a show called Top Model) completely confess that you want to do that as a profession.
Strange.
But well…I still watch it so what can I say.
It still is reality-TV at its best.

Freja or Sabina have to win the Swedish version.
The American one is always harder (and when I tried to find out the name for my guess I’m unwillingly stumbled across last nights looser…damn…I wanted to see the episode first!!) but I’ll go for Mollie Sue, right now.

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Song of Today: "The Model" with Kraftwerk

"20Hz" with Covenant

I guess I have never been less prepared to go to London than I am for the trip next week - I haven’t even managed to build up some fear of the flying yet - but damn how much I need it and how I’m starting to look forward to it!!
The shopping at Covent Garden and Oxford Street (Urban Outfitters, River Island, TopMan, FCUK, Next) and the beers (my goal is to have a pint at at least five pubs I never been to and five pubs I’ve already been to)!
If I can get some sun also (it doesn’t look good right now…they’re down to 5 degrees Celsius this week) and a calm flight I would be the happiest man alive.

To prepare myself I figured out some sort of checklist of "How to make yourself believe you’re already in London while being in Stockholm":

* Look at the left instead of the right while crossing a street
Check! But I can tell you it is smart to check one extra time to the right also.

* Go by the subway and call it "The Tube" - while trying to feel a lot more claustrophobic and afraid of single bags.
Check! At least the tube part. There’s just too much space in the Stockholm subway to get that "if something happens and we stop I’ll die"-feeling.

* Say "Excuse me!" to everyone you bump into at the commuter train.
Not done! That’s not applicable in Sweden. You have to be impolite and growl – otherwise people will think you’re crazy.

* Have a pint of ale for lunch.
Not done! They don’t serve beer by the micros in the lunchroom here…and drinking by yourself is just too sad.

* Walk into Åhléns Odenplan with Covenants "20Hz" on very loud volume in your iPod – it almost makes you feel like you’re at Cyberdog in Camden.
Check! This was actually done spontaneous and got the whole pro-London feeling starting.

OK. Now I’m read!
Counting down: 8 day’s to go!

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Song of Today: "20Hz" with Covenant

"Scandal" with Queen

Today the Swedish foreign minister left her ministerial post after a year filled with scandals. She actually broke some kind of awkward record, since she already had left her post as minister of justice some years ago after another scandal…
…she also happened to leave her post the day after the last episode of the TV-series "Kronprinsessan" was sent on Swedish television - a series about a female politician who is forced to leave her post as minister of environmental issues after some scandals.
The thing is that in the series we actually feel for the minister and we think she is innocent and a victim for conspiring colleagues and the evil press…
You just have to wonder if Laila was hoping to get some spin-off sympathy from TV, while choosing today for her departure…or if it just was a freaky coincidence.
I’ll guess we'll never know.

The question now is who is to follow Laila, since Bosse Ringström - who was elected as her temporary substitute - might be the only persons aligned with more scandals than Laila herself…

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Song of Today: "Scandal" with Queen

"Equinox (Part I)" with Jean Michel Jarre

Today night and day are of the same length, and we’re entering the brighter half of the year here in Sweden, when the days will be longer than the nights.
We call it "Vårdagjämning", but it in English it is called "Vernal equinox", which sounds more cool, mythical and fairytale:ish.
At the same time the Iranians are celebrating New Years Eve (or Norouz), so Happy New Year to all of you! I always forgot what year you have, but I think I read somewhere today that it is 1385?

Well, I guess it feels more like New Years Eve than something that should have to do with spring right now if you look outside the window, though…

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Song of Today: "Equinox (Part I)" with Jean Michel Jarre

"Kall som Is" with Gemini

My god, this train is freezing cold. I can hardly write since my fingers feels like little ice sticks. Outside the window it is snow, snow and more snow…
It felt like springtime in Gothenburg earlier today and I actually had to take off my gloves and open up my jacket on my way to FF (saw last weeks ANTM…what terrific reality TV that is. Gotta love it!), but now when we’re getting close to Stockholm all those signs seem to have disappeared.

Damn, can this winter just go away?

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Song of Today: "Kall som Is" with Gemini

"Evighet" with Carola

Well...

Melodifestivalen 2006 is over.
It seems like it has been going on forever (i Evighet…hö hö hö) and the first quarter final (when Fredrik visited Stockholm and we saw it at Sis’ and ate pizza and took a cab to Lino afterwards) seems like ages ago.
All these songs and all these shows and all these Saturdays in front of the TV…
…just to finally crown the song everybody knew from the start would win.
*sigh*

But at least it was a grandiose party while watching it!

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Evighet" with Carola

"Under Your Spell" with Evan

Another trainish Friday!
Tuff tuff tuff tuff *getting sick of the X2000 movements* tuff tuff tuff tuuuut!

Another chart dominated by Melodifestivalen, and I put Evan as the song of the day since he has two new songs on this list (November Rain is the second track on his single) and I want to save the three songs at the top for an eventual victory tomorrow.
Morrissy manages to get a song on this week’s chart (he's actually the only one, together with PSB, on the chart with a song with no connection to MF or ESC at all) since his new album is great, and in this ballad he is almost (finally) coming out as gay.

01/NE/01/01/Carola - Evighet
02/01/01/02/BWO - Temple of Love
03/NE/03/01/Rednex - Mama Take Me Home
04/04/03/03/Kate Ryan - Je T'ador (Extended Version)
05/NE/05/01/Evan - Under Your Spell
06/02/02/02/Sugababes - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
07/NE/07/01/Pet Shop Boys - I'm with Stupid
08/NE/08/01/Sandra Dahlberg - Jag Tar Det Jag Vill Ha
09/NE/09/01/Morrissey - Dear God Please Help Me
10/NE/10/01/Evan - November Rain

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Under Your Spell" with Evan

"1 Life" with Xandee

Scariest thing this morning: I finally saw the strange lady living in the apartment under me…and she looked like PURE evil. Really! She looked like some old witch right out of and old fairytale. My god. I will continue watching TV with earphones for I while, I can promise you…
SCARY!

Someone who never look anything like evil is E-man (Damn, I miss my old room at work in Gothenburg) who against his will has turned out to be something of a supermodel in the yearly economical report from our company.
Funny as hell - but it’s a fab photo, isn’t it?

Right now on P4 Melodifestivalen fabulous little web-radio when you want MORE Melodifestivalen to get the mood up for Saturday): 1 Life with Xandee - the song whose chorus sounds almost exactly like BWO's Temple of Love.
If there was a chance BWO could win on Saturday, it had been interesting to see if they had had a better destiny than poor Xandee. She turned out to be number 21…

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Song of Today: "1 Life" with Xandee

"I’m with Stupid" with Pet Shop Boys

Sometimes I wonder what I do in this new work place (and in this town by the way, but that vary from day to day so I shouldn't go into that anymore today).

I've been here for 1½ weeks and I still haven't got my own work account… I have no specific work assignments, and nobody seems to even notice me (or at least they are doing their best trying to avoid me…today two people turned around without even saying hello or good morning tome when the realized that my colleague (who usually is sitting next to me) was home sick.

At least I got a suitable song for my day from Johan-the-Great, which I have wanted to hear for some time now: The new PSB-single!

Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid
Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid
Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid
Oh-oh, I'm with Stupid

Is stupid really stupid
or a different kind of smart?
That's how you stole my heart
I'm with Stupid

What can I say? It's very PetShopBoys:ish in a Heart/Actually kind a way. It is SO retro and SO 80’s that it is hard to believe if you don't hear it. I feel like I am 15 again, listening to Tracks with Kaj Kindwall… It's very hard to say if it's a chart topper here in Sweden, but it might have a really good chance on my personal chart…and I think it will have lots of airplay at the radio stations.

Grade: I'll give it 7 shoulder-puffs out of 10.

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Song of Today: "I'm with Stupid" with Pet Shop Boys

"Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play" with Ryan Adams

Yesterday was a mile stone in my TV-watching career…
I only had time to watch ONE show before I went to bed…and I chose Grey’s Anatomy over Desperate Housewives. My former favorite show has officially become so blunt that I now can wait some days to see a new episode (this wasn’t an option last year, when I often downloaded the show during the morning and watched it through lunchtime, eating in front of my computer), and the doctors in Seattle have taken the number one spot instead.

But now to something completely different, namely THIS!
Cate Blanchett will reprise her Academy Award nominated role as Queen Elizabeth in "Elizabeth - The Golden Age"…a movie that must be the LEAST expected sequel ever to be green lighted. Shekhar Kapur will once again direct, and Geoffrey Rush will also return.

Not that I complain – I adore the first movie, and maybe Cate will get her (Best Actress) Oscar (which Gwyneth stole) this time around – but doesn’t it smell a bit desperate and strange?
I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Song of Today: "Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play" with Ryan Adams

"Too Tired" with Gary Moore

I'm sorry, but I'm really too tired to write something tonight.

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Song of Today: "Too Tired" with Gary Moore

"Faller Du så Faller Jag " with Patrik Isaksson

The weekend has been extremely exhausting… I can’t remember the last time I got this little sleep…but it has been loads of fun, and I’ve met all the people I set out to meet; FF, Johan, A&A, QX-Ronny, Sis, Javve, Ante, Vetlanda-Lena, Malus…well I guess the only one I missed was Elsa, but I hope to catch her next week at my schlagerparty!
…and talking about schlager; now it is finally settled which nine songs that will try to knock Carola from her on forehand given victory in Melodifestivalen 2006.
I will try to guess the final order of the songs – even though it is almost impossible…and has nothing to do with my own test – here, with reservation for future changes before next Saturday:

1. Carola – Evighet
2. BWO – Temple of Love
3. Andres Johnsson – Sing for Me
4. Rednex – Mama Won’t You Take Me Home
5. The Poodles – One Night of Passion
6. Linda Bengtzing – Jag Ljuger Så Bra
7. Björn Kjellman – Älska Livet
8. Magnus Carlsson – Lev Livet
9. Magnus Bäcklund – In the Name of Love
10. Kikki Danielsson – Idag&Imorgon

For the song of today I’ve picked the song that almost made it…the number eleven of the 32. Sorry Patrick…better luck next time…and I guess it’s still a radio hit…at least at "Lugna Favoriter".

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Song of Today: "Faller Du så Faller Jag " with Patrik Isaksson

"Jag Tar Vad Jag Vill Ha" with Sandra Dahlberg

Once again Melodifestivalen was struck by "The Curse of Placement No5" and one of the best songs of the evening (and of the contest by the way...love the whip-sounds) was left out of Globen and The Second Chance - talk about a let down after a previous great evening (we had great seats and Carola made the ice-barn rumble)!
First Sonya, then Jessica, and now Sandra Dahlberg…can’t believe it.
At least you’re the song of the day, Sandra!

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Jag Tar Vad Jag Vill Ha" with Sandra Dahlberg

"I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" with Sugababes

Another Friday – another train ride! …and another chart!
On our way (me & Sis) to Gothenburg for Melodifestivalen tomorrow, and the quarter final expected to be the best of them all.
I sincerely hope so since I get tired very quick of the songs we’ve seen qualify for the Globe until now…last weeks number one and two have already left this chart…and been replaced by some others.
BWO is of course at the number one spot…I’ve had that song on repeat since last Saturday. Carola really have to impress me tomorrow if I should abandon this song as this years favorite. The number two spot is less expected. It is a very unnecessary cover of the mega-hit from Artic Monkeys (which I adore…and has it even left the charts yet?)…but since it is the Sugababes (with the new girl singing) doing it, and since it’s extremely fitting to their Bangles-like treatment I have to adore it…and it also makes it the song of today!

This Week/Last Week/Peak/Weeks on Chart/Artist - Song

01/NE/01/01/BWO - Temple of Love
02/NE/02/01/Sugababes - I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor
03/NE/03/01/Jessica Andersson - Kalla Nätter
04/03/03/02/Kate Ryan - Je T'ador
05/NE/05/01/Kayo - Innaan Natten är Över
06/05/05/02/Andreas Mattsson - You're Never Lonley When the Band Plays
07/06/03/04/Black Eyed Peas – Pump It
08/07/07/03/Rhianna - SOS (Rescue Me)
09/04/01/04/The Knife - Marble House
10/07/04/03/Andreas Johnson - Sing for Me

Keep readin’.
Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor" with Sugababes

"Funny Little Frog" with Belle&Sebastian

Snippets of a day:

FF and Haggan (my party patrol) have booked tickets to visit me in Stockholm in April!! Fun, fun, fun! Hopefully we can initiate the balcony then…

It’s so cold outside you can hardly believe it. I read in today's paper that yesterday where the coldest in Gothenburg since 1888, and here in Stockholm there are icicles larger than everything I ever seen (ice-ways) dangling from the roof-tops threatening to fall down and kill you any minute. Going to the gym in the morning is actually an equivalent to bungee-jumping nowadays! Another effect from this long-lasting-never-going-to-stop-winter is that my headphones (to my iPod) gets so stiff in the cold that I hardly can hear the music through the sound it produces by itself when it rubs against my jacket…

Today is the radio show host(ess) Annika Lantz birthday. But it is also the birthday of Malus-Tobbe. Congratulations man! My god, what would I give to be 21 again… =P

Melodifestivalen this Saturday seems to be the best of the four quarter finals, so I'm really glad that our tickets are for that one. It will be fun to drink some wine with the Sis on X2000 tomorrow, and meet some friends in Gothenburg this weekend. Why is it only Thursday?

Another fun thing shall be meeting P&S on PS tonight.

Song of today then… Hmm. I guess I choose a song I love right now - but which I haven't got in my iPod (Why? Mental note: Have to fix that) – so I just shine up every time I catch it on P3. (It is also a song in the category "I should save this for later if I blog about XX (in this case frogs) sometimes"…but f*ck that.)

Keep readin'.
Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Funny Little Frog" with Belle&Sebastian

"Independent Woman Part 1" with Destiny's Child

As a follow-up to yesterday’s blog, the bird flu virus reached my home town Karlskrona this morning. I really don’t know what to ad to that statement, but I guess it missed Melodifestivalen with about a week, and that this might be what FINALLY gets rid of the bloody chickens living at my parent’s neighbors (which totally sabotages my sleep when I’m visiting…the chickens that is…not the neighbors themselves) as my sister’s boyfriend cleverly mailed.

From chickens to something completely different – today is the national women’s day!
I will salute that with some celebrations of the women in my life (if you’re missing from the list, think you deserve to be on it, and read this blog – just use the talkback).

My mom (who might the one least worried about what happened to her this Saturday), my sis (who gets me up in the morning and forces me to the gym at 6.30 a.m. nowadays), Moa & Hilda (my two favorite party girlfriends), Ulrika (and I guess I can’t count Elsa as a women already…but she might be on of my favorite females anyway) & Kristin (the once who where thrown in for free when they got hooked up with my pals), Sanna (old friendship never dies), Nadine (the girl who always find herself alone with the gay guys), Lisa & Ulle (the girls who disappeared to be mums), Sara - who I earlier found out might be as depressed as I am today - & Eeva (fab colleagues), and many, many more like Jenny, Lena (schlager on Saturday!), Eva, Ida, Sara, Castro-Cattis… I guess I could go on forever.

OK. Love ya. Hip hip hurray to you girls! Or what do you say today? Burn your bras? Equal salary for equal work? Respect? Either way: Keep up the good work being you!

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Independent Woman Part 1" with Destiny's Child

"A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off" with Magnetic Fields

Today I finally managed to buy some frozen chicken fillets.
It might not seem to be such a difficult task, but I actually went to three different grocery stores yesterday and they where all sold out of frozen chicken.
They had fresh fillets, but since I’m such a stingy fellow I preferred frozen, and then there where no poultry to be seen…and I guess there’s only one question to be asked:

Are people THAT scared of the bird flu virus, that they are actually hamstring chicken that where frozen before the break-out here in Sweden?
Strange.

Keep readin’.
Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "A Chicken with Its Head Cut Off" with Magnetic Fields

"Crash! Boom! Bang!" with Roxette

I guess it is easy to forget right now that Crash is a very good movie, that it was one of the best I saw last year, and that I gave it a 9 out of 10 as a grade…
…because just now I’m so utterly disappointed at the Oscars (and God do I regret staying up all night…and I will regret it more in a few hours when I’m off for my new work) and that they where the ONLY award in the whole year that didn’t have the guts to give Brokeback Mountain their Best Picture Award….
…and really folks – that’s the only award that really counts.
I would like to be able to say that it has some sort of homophobic motif…but since Philip Seymore Hoffman won (playing the very, very, VERY gay Capote) I guess it is not that easy.
Maybe it is just that the Academy have more in common with racial issues in the town they all live in, in opposite to gay cowboys in the mountains.
I really don’t know.
But I feel robbed and very, very sad today.
As (I guess) very many gay men around the world.

Keep readin’.
Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Crash! Boom! Bang!" with Roxette

"Long Night" with The Corrs

It’s Oscarsnight tonight!
…and since I don’t know when I should be at work tomorrow I have decided to keep up my ten year tradition and see it through this night (it’s on between 2 and 5.30 a.m. here in Sweden).
So, who will win? Well, here are my predictions in the main categories!

Best Film: Brokeback Mountain
Best Direction: Ang Lee
Best Male Lead: Philip Seymore Hoffman (but I’d preferred Heath)
Best Female Lead: Reese Witherspoon
Best Male Supporting: George Clooney (but of course I root for Jake)
Best Female Supporting: Rachel Weisz (but it could as easily go to Amy Adams or Michelle Williams)
Best Screenplay: Brokeback Mountain (adapted) and Crash (original)

I also hope for Brokeback Mountain in Cinematography and Score, and for Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (but Wallace&Gromit will of course take home the golden man) for Best Animated…and hopefully Best Documentary won’t go to the penguins…and Dolly will get one for her song in Transamerica.

It will be a fun, long night!

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Long Night" with The Corrs

"Mixed Emotions" with Rolling Stones

Strange day. Many mixed emotions.
My mum got sick at the restaurant when we where celebrating my father. She turned white and passed out. A bit chaotic (and we still don’t know what happened) you might say. I hope she just had had to little to eat all day, and that it is nothing serious.
At the same time I got to know that BWO hade dominated Melodifestivalen, and that The Poodles hade made a sensational advancement to the final (which actually generated a small amount of money to me, since I had betted on that combination) with them.

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Mixed Emotions" with Rolling Stones

"Idag & Imorgon" with Kikki Danielsson

Today I’m going to meet my best friend Daniel (who’s coming up to Stockholm from Paris) and tag along with him to two different parties with his friends.
Tomorrow I’m going to celebrate my fathers 60th birthday at a restaurant here in Stockholm.

Today it’s my last day at my work at Telefonplan
Tomorrow I will start missing the company of my lovely colleagues there, and start worrying about Monday and the new assignment (I still hasn’t got the slightest idea of when I’m supposed to be there…).

Today I’m going to drink alcohol.
Tomorrow also. I HAVE to have a white period soon. Very soon.

Today I’m going to put Kikki and her classic schlager at the top of my chart (since it has made me happy in some kind of retro-way all week on the tube).
Tomorrow I hope BWO will rock Melodifestivalen with the winner of this year…

This Week/Last Week/Peak/Weeks on Chart/Artist - Song

01/NE/01/01/Kikki - Idag & Imorgon
02/NE/02/01/Magnus Carlsson - Lev Livet
03/02/02/02/Kate Ryan - Je T'adore
04/01/01/03/The Knife - Marble House
05/NE/05/01/Andreas Mattsson - You're Never Lonley When the Band Plays
06/03/03/03/Black Eyed Peas – Pump It
07/04/04/02/Andreas Johnson - Sing for Me
08/07/07/02/Rhianna - SOS (Rescue Me)
09/05/05/02/Linda Bengtzing - Jag Ljuger Så Bra
10/08/06/03/The Knife – Neverland

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "Idag & Imorgon" with Kikki Danielsson

"You're Never Lonely When the Band Plays" with Andreas Mattsson

Yesterday FF bought the new CD by Andreas Mattsson from Popsicle. He loved it and sent me some songs. I’m not ready to give a final review yet, but I like it…even if it feels a bit too sad for me right now (I really live with Melodifestivalen 24/7)…and I for every song to take off and become a "Popsicle britpopy thingie".
The song of today is the fabulous single from the album "The Lawlessness of the Ruling Classes".

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "You're Never Lonely When the Band Plays" with Andreas Mattsson

"On Again…Off Again" with Julie & Ludwig

The most scary quota of the week must be this one (and I really don’t bother to translate it, since if you’re not Swedish you really don’t wanna know) which I found in "Blekinge Läns Tidning" (the biggest newspaper in my hometown Karlskrona (the host of Melodifestivalen part 3 this Saturday). It is about one of the songs sung by "Elysion" (who??):

"Han beskriver Elysions schlagerlåt som en blandning av "Fantomen på operan", Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Il Divo och signaturmelodin till Turin-OS."

Oh. My. God.
If you’ve seen Eurovision Song Contest the recent years, one song springs into your mind right away… Malta 2004!! The song of today.

It might be an interesting Melodifestival in Karlskrona this weekend.

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Tomorrow’s a new day and a new song.

Song of Today: "On Again…Off Again" with Julie & Ludwig