"This Sweet Love"

This weekend I will go see James Yuill. It luvs it!

Yesterday I did something really brave. Unfortunately the result was not what i wished for, but if I had never tried I know it would have bugged me for a looooong time.

These songs keeps me going! (and my friends of course) ^^

May DAY!

Had such a nice weekend:

• Two picnics
• a huge party
• two nights of clubbing
• after party until 7.30
• hung over for two days

I think I might have gained some weight this weekend... hehe!

back in town

nice trip, it was.

WWRJD

So what has happened lately? Well as usual people step on my face again and again. I really don't understand how people in this town think..
Anyway, on Tuesday I had my second last test ever! I think it went fine, or at least I hope so ^^.


Oh and it's Easter again! I think Easter is a quite dull tradition. There is really nothing to do and no special food to eat, except those chocolate eggs, and NO GIFTS! Why can't people buy gifts for Easter?! I miss Christmas.. I guess one can always grow Easter grass!

I'm crossing the sea tomorrow, I'm going to a beautiful country in the west. But don't worry people, I will be back on Tuesday and then I will tell you all about my trip. Exciting!

Now I'm going to eat! bye bye!

This post will be a bit more sentimental than usually.

Maybe I'm afraid of commitment when it comes to romantic relationships. A friend told me so. I guess she is right.

The problem is that I have no one to commit to.. In that way I am kind of lonely. Some day I will find someone. I hope. I can't imagine living on my own forever and ever.

Question: What is worse, someone who is truly alone or someone who is alone in a relationship?

Let's be alone together.

Jesus, what meat do you want to eat?

This week I had a quite peculiar class. We had a quest lecturer who showed us how to use our university's internet based survey-tool. Apparently he worked at the Computing Centre. Well the funny part was when he showed us how to ask different kind of questions using the survey tool. His examples were always about what people want to eat at a barbecue, especially what kind of meat. The whole class was giggling, even the professors. But the lecturer continued by mocking vegetarians and asking what kind of vegetables they would like to grill. This episode took place at my master course seminar.

BTW, this week I had my last normal lecture at my university. Now I only have a seminar per week to attend.

A friend of mine introduced me to this, for me unknown, singer called Zola Jesus. She is from Arizona and sings a pretty dark and gloomy kind of music. She released her first EP at the beginning of this month. I would describe her as a darker version of Florence and the Machine, and since I'm a big fan of Florence I sure like Zola Jesus as well!

Back from London

I had a really good time in London. Me and my friends did all the fun things you are supposed to do in London.

Look what i found today! A granny-dj! pretty cool. :P



Take care!

ちょっと古いけど。。。どうぞ！

Rediscovered a very nice mash-up.

Narcissism & fascism walking hand in hand

Last week I talked to my brother about a phenomenon that has become quite big in resent years. I'm talking about Narcissism. I think it is especially visible here on the internet, or maybe the phenomenon is channelled through the internet.

One example, this site called lookbook.nu. There you are supposed to upload pictures of your style and fashion sense, at the same time as you of course promote yourself.

If people like your pictures they can comment and "Hype" your picture. The more "Hype"'s you get, further up in the list you will move. In this way the members are graded.

This I call Narcissism at it's best, or actually WORST. I can see no depth in this "community" what so ever, can hardy imagine any shallower community. On top of it all, not everyone can join the community, you either have to receive an invite or apply for one. In this way some kind of exclusiveness is upheld.

The main point with fashion is its continuous evolution or metamorphosis. This means that you should always keep up, and those who don't fail, thus creating a strong class structure. Here one can see a strong fascistic tendency that fashion possesses by its mere existence, it is inevitable.

Lookbook.nu is the first nominee for my yearly commodity fetishism award. I wonder if any of the users even think about how they are reduced to objects, (from human to object, it goes so fast!) for the market and the industry. I guess it's called pop culture. ;-) Using this site is a easy way to gain some kind of respect without really doing anything, just upload some pictures and maybe you can gain some respect.

I think sites like this is really a strong indicator of the project of the individual, that characterizes our time.

BTW. tomorrow I'm going to London.

Ice cream

Have you seen this ice cream before? I think it's really quite wonderful. I found it today at my grocery store.

Look at the packaging, cardboard in a marine and tranquil colour. This ice cream symbolises the essence of ice cream, no extra flavour, only the pure, cold taste of vanilla. I think this is a soothing ice cream for this season, since it is cold, white and has a traditional taste, just like this cold traditional winter that we are now experiencing.

Another point that should be made is the fact that as we are living in a time of financial and economic recession, which also reflects in different trends, such as the ice cream market. There for I strongly support vanilla ice cream at this moment, since it symbolizes both tradition and humbleness.

Live well.

Berger ♥ Luckmann

Today my Professor discussed Peter L Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The lecture is supposed to be some kind of discussion between the students and the professor, but as usual all the students, except me ^_^ , sat quietly the whole time. I don't claim that I said a lot, but at least I asked a couple of questions that I thought were relevant.

Anyway.

Berger & Luckmann published a very influential book in 1966, called The Social Construction of Reality. At that time the book was not very well received, as it wasn't perceived as Marxian enough.

Many years later the book was rediscovered and is now seen as one of the founding books of the social constructionism movement. In short B & L mean that there is no difference between real and deceptive knowledge. As you might know, Durkheim said that social facts should be seen as something out side of the individual. According to Weber society should be studied through the intentions of the individuals. B & L ask how a world full human actions can result in a world of social facts. They answer the question by saying that the human consciousness is intentional and that the world consists of a multitude of realities. By comparing our realities with each other, which we do in our everyday life, we construct a inter-subjective reality.

Our professor continued on another specific part of B & L's theory, that of legitimization.
According to B&L there are four kinds of legitimization.

1. Linguistic objectification. To give a phenomenon or matter a name makes it more real and visible.
   
   
2. pre-theoretic knowledge. This can be exemplified by proverbs, values and myths.
   
   
3. Explicit theories. legitimises institutions and such based on theories, E.g. the church.
   
   
4. Symbolic universes. These are what make the world understandable for the individual, although they might not comprehend all the different parts as it at the same time also gives explanations to difficult situations.
   

Well that was this Tuesday.

There is a problem in my town

A couple of days ago i heard that there are plans on building a mosque in my town. Although being a devoted atheist it really doesn't bother me in any way whatsoever.

Today I read an article in Hufvudstadsbladet about the project. It seems like the building will not only be a mosque but also some kind of cultural centre with a library and a restaurant and stuff like that. Seems nice.

What made me quite upset was when I read the comments on the article. Apparently many of the readers of Hufvudstadsbladet are a bunch of idiots. You can "agree" or "disagree" by clicking beside the comments, and it seems like most people agreed with the islamofobic comments..

E.g. one reader comments: "It's over now...This is just the beginning" (my own translation) and he/she continues "apparently one can't draw conclusions from the problems around the world".

First of all I wonder if he/she even read the whole article. There are already small mosques spread throughout the city. Secondly I don't see the connection between a mosque and a failed integration process. And whose fault is that even? The refugee's or the Finnish government's?

Another one comments: "As you do know, many mosques propagate against the western culture." Well I didn't know that. I guess he/she goes to the mosque every Friday.

Many people also express views that we shouldn't allow mosques in our country since one can't, supposedly, build a church in Saudi-Arabia. WTF?! In what way does that have anything to do with a mosque being built here, far far away..?

A politician in my town started a campaign against the mosque but so far only 400-500 people have signed the petition.

I hope the mosque will look something like this!

Birthday!

I had a really really nice birthday party yesterday! OMG! crazy dancing, pictures and posters falling off the wall.. Maybe all this was due to a quite high intake of alcohol. Either way it was really really fun!

I am satisfied.


Today I went to eat at an Indian restaurant with a couple of friends. The food was very good as usual, I LOVE Indian food!

Taking about robots again, I finally found a film I wanted to see for a long time. The film, called Electroma, was made by Daft Punk in 2006. It is a quite poetic and visually very intriguing film about two robots that want to become human.

Crazy robots. Why would any robot want to be human?!
If someone could buy me one of those robots with the silver head i would be very very happy!

Anyway. You can watch the film here.

youth vs. future-stuff

KUDURO

Started preparing for my birthday party that's coming up tomorrow. It's going to be one of those sweet 16 parties, or then maybe not. But I would like to get a car though...

I found a new group today, new to me at least, that seems quite interesting. They play some kind of African electro. Or it's apparently a mix of Angolan dance music Kuduro and electro-beats. And if you don't know where Angola is google it FFS!
Anyway this London based group is called Buraka som Sistema.



Happy go lucky!

Headphones

I bought myself a new pair of headphones today. Walked for over TWO hours, WALKED!, back and forth to the store. This because, I'm again out of money, and the store that was so far away, was the cheapest place where one can buy these..

But I am very satisfied with my new headphones. Now I can use my mp3-player again. An iPod.. I feel kind of stupid owning an iPod, but it seems to be the only mp3-player one can buy to have any kind of street cred. And an iPod these days is any way just a poor man's buy instead of an iPhone.. haha

Baasudee

My birthday is coming up.

Wonder what kind of presents I will get.
I hope I get a robot. Or a robot boyfriend. He would love me forever, or at least until the batteries run out.

I guess I'm not really very appreciative. I have quite a lot really.

Karen O probably has a blast every birthday, I'm sure I will too.