Keep your head up

Promise

Days like these, when the temperature is around 30° C, I miss my beautiful Stockholm and it's surrounding sea. Classes are now over, exams are waiting. Tonight I'm going to see Ben Howard, who has been singing me to sleep for the past 8 months or so. It will be magical.

When we were young

Angus Stone - Broken brights

26°

Tuning in for a quick "I'm alive" post. I've just been in over my head with things to do lately. Will be back soon with words and pictures. Until then, enjoy this classic:

"Who am I?"

I took a long walk tonight
stepping slowly down the streets of Paris.
Somehow I felt blind
because nothing I could see was anything at all.

I thought of sleeping on a bench
to substantiate and justify
my constant feeling of being homeless
my everlasting search for shelter
in places
and faces.

Even a child who plays hide and seek
would want to stop playing after some time
if (s)he couldn’t find the other kids.
And anyone laying a puzzle
would be puzzled themselves
if they couldn’t find that last missing piece.

I am too,
tired.
And,
I am too,
missing.


There is an expression
"so far, so good"
but I'd rather say
"so far, so bad"
though I keep my words in my mouth
because nobody likes an ungrateful, whiny bitch.

So instead,
I want to thank all the people in my life
for they have contributed to my death
And I'm hoping for resurrection
like the one Jesus supposedly had
but I don't think it's going to come
because I can't perform miracles.

PICS) Jannis jamming in my room

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.

Faces

I don't really know where I lost myself
so there's no point in going backwards
and trying to find a trace of the old me.
Instead
I have created a collection of faces
identities
personalities
new "me"s.

I like to call it "the masterpiece"
and
myself, "the megamind"
as in that cartoon movie,
with that evil guy who has a giant head
and who tries to take over a whole city.

One face for every occasion.
My collection is expanding,
right now I'm working on accessories,
like
feelings
and thoughts
and other things in that category,
called "indefinable".

It's rather popular, I must say.
So far I have only received compliments,
people don't bother
trying to figure you out
if you pretend like you're not at all complicated
and actually happy
and sociable
because they have no idea
that your imagining how to kill them
behind that charming smile
of whichever face you're wearing at that particular moment.
And then
how to kill yourself.

So tonight I'm wearing "exciting"
which is a mix between "interesting",
"outgoing" and "mysterious".
Unfortunately,
I had worse luck trying to create its accessories
such as the feelings,
all I accomplished was "apathetic"
but I like challenges
so it will be an interesting evening.

Wish me luck.

L'oiseau libre

This sunny yet rainy day in Paris was spent with a couple of friends, we visited the museum Cité de la Musique to see their Bob Dylan exhibition. It was nice! I'm a big fan of Bob Dylan but I really don't have so much more to say about the exhibition since it didn't consist of much that I haven't seen or heard before.

PICS) Bob Dylan by Kramer

"Just maybe, I'll come home"

PICS) Snapshots from everyday life in Paris

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!

"If you're always hiding, no one will find you."
Maël Coillard