ur: det enkla och det ensamma

när man har vuxit upp med våld och sex, det pisset, då ska man sona hela tiden
man ska försaka djävulen och försöka bli god igen
men det orkar jag inte. driva ut djävlar.
jag har bättre saker för mig än att försöka bli vacker
det intresserar mig inte längre eftersom
   1) det är så utmattande och tråkigt
   2) det är omöjligt


Asta Olivia Nordenhof

/Lykke Li

Papaoutai

"Dites-nous, qui donne naissance aux irresponsables? 

[...]

Tout le monde sais comment on fait les bébés

Mais personne sais comment on fait les papas"

Stromae - Papaoutai

Sometimes I feel hopeful for humanity

Wow

James Blake - Voyeur

From his new album to be released April 8th, I CAN'T WAIT.

Wrecking orchestra

Awesome dance performance!

The following words are the lyrics written by my dear friend Emil Erstrand to "White Fox", a song to be released by him and his band Grapell in April. 

So much to fill with something

And little to take of meaning

Study the words of ancient ghosts

Or just get a child

Let’s have a child, you and I

A little kiss behind the pole

A white fox in the snow

When someone held a weapon to your throat

Then I knew what to do

No one knows you like a do

When I put my hands on you

A garden in rain, a garden in rain

The spring fire is tamed

My body behaves in strange ways

I move your hair from your face

No one knows you like I do

When I put my hands on you

So much to say about nothing at all

And so long between the feelings

Study the words of ancient ghosts

Or just get a child

Let’s have a child, you and I

No one scares you like a do

When I put my hands on you

THIS IS SO.... COOL.

Interdependent

Aussi beau

I have finally seen "Paris, je t'aime" which is a series of short films, all shot in Paris and cut into one normal length film. Each one was entertaining but some (below) were slightly more beautiful and very much more touching.




Fauborg Saint-Denis by Tom Tykwer




14eme arrondissement by Alexander Payne




Place Des Fetes by Oliver Schmitz.

Absence

I have scarcely left you 

When you go in me, crystalline,
or trembling,
or uneasy, wounded by me
or overwhelmed with love, as
when your eyes
close upon the gift of life
that without cease I give you.

My love,
we have found each other
thirsty and we havedrunk up all the water and the
blood,
we found each other
hungry
and we bit each other
as fire bites,
leaving wounds in us.

But wait for me,
keep for me your sweetness.
I will give you too
a rose. 

Pablo Neruda

We might be dead by tomorrow

With every little cell in my body, I actually feel like I'm dying when I see this video, because it is so beautiful, so real, so pure, and it visualizes what I think everyone wishes for somewhere well hidden. I'm just blown away by it and the music and lyrics.

 

Chained

I am bursting with anticipation over The xx new album release in September. This song (Chained) has been on constant repeat at my place since the release yesterday. Funny how it co-relates to an experience out of the ordinary, as well in time as in meaning and beauty.

When we were young

Angus Stone - Broken brights

Child

Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing.
I want to fill it with color and ducks,
The zoo of the new

Whose names you meditate
April snowdrop, Indian pipe,
Little

Stalk without wrinkle,
Pool in which images
Should be grand and classical

Not this troublous
Wringing of hands, this dark
Ceiling without a star.

Sylvia Plath

One day on Earth

My best friend shared this video on facebook, and I am blown away.

It is unbelievably amazing.

Pommes et prunes

Last week I visited the museum Jeu de Paume (Concorde) to see their current exhibitions, now consisting of photography by Chinese architect, political activist and photographer Ai Weiwei, deceased French Berenice Abbot and installations by Jimmy Robert. I wasn't as impressed by the actual technical work of Ai Weiwei as I was by his creativity, ideas and willpower and his series of photos of famous places to which he points his middle finger were truly amusing. Abbot's old photos of 1920's NYC and footage of scientific experiments and facts were very interesting to see. Unfortunately the Jimmy Robert's installation did not catch my interest.

Right now, top priority on my "to visit" list of exhibitions is the of Tim Burton at La Cinémathèque Française.

PICS) Ai Weiwei in Beijing, Washington DC, Paris.

BLACK CAB SESSIONS

The concept: a black cab, extremely talented musicians, unplugged.
Here with the young Swedish duo First Aid Kit!

Troubleman

This song is one of those that just makes your chin drop and your mind go mental with amazement over how there are this talented people, walking the surface of the same earth as yourself.

Thank you Richard!