Things I’d wish existed as home delivery (perhaps not around the clock, but definitively late on Saturday nights).

• Pancakes.
• Soup.
• Tea.
• Whisky.
• Library books.
• Cats.
• Freshly baked bread.

Five excellent phrases from Unbunny songs

1. Massachusetts
   it’s the place where i was born
   In a mill town
   n the middle of a storm
   in the statasphere
   there’s a little ball of light
   it comes down into the earth
   when condistions are just right
   (Massachusetts)
2. You could say
   you would say
   I’m like all of these
   decomposing leaves
   dark and heavy
   (I Knock Things I Haven’t Tried)
3. Our lives are measured by the weekends
   said a weatherman to an anchor friend
   Feels like more if it feels like nothing
   and I am predicting rain again
   (Swans Are fainting)
4. I’ve been seen out all alone
   past grocery stores and mobile homes
   beyond the glow of industrial parks
   where laundromats spin broken hearts
   Out among the powerlines
   things don’t always turn out fine
   There’s a message in this nursery rhyme
   (Nightwalking)
5. I am a landscape typist
   when a landscape typist is nothing to even be.
   I’ll strike the ribbon
   with just the perfect keys
   (Landscape Typing)

Things I didn’t get for Christmas

1. Go-cart.
2. Happiness.
3. Indian food.
4. A year of unlimited cheese.
5. World domination.
6. Star Wars LEGO.
7. A Zeiss 100mm lens.

I did however get to pay for a Kiev 60. So 120-film, here I come!I also got food, so not hungry. I crave — and so I shall drink — a Great Divide Hibernation now.

Couches! I have this fear of horses so it’s the one you sleep or watch movies on.

1. Helena’s.
   Spacious, wooden things at the ends and all that. Sure, you need a pillow because the arm-rests are non-sleepable.
2. Aron & Lotta’s.
   Comfortable even when Tesla mjau, bites and jumps around. It’s easy to forgive cats.
3. Kalle’s.
   However, he movied north with one and the other one was stolen as a bed by Fredrik. So both these are pretty much gone. Unless I travel north, which is a possibility.
4. Martin’s.
   BIG! And the best bed-from-a-sofa I’ve slept in. Not even the least wobbly.
5. The one’s in Vårberg right now.
   One, a bed-from-a-sofa is wobbly. It’s not bad, but it’s sort of… Wavy. Two, the second is too hard I think. I like my beds with the right amount of comfort and softness so that I can sleep for ages.

Emelie’s, En Björn’s, Hanna’s and all the others have not been thoroughly sleep-tested. This needs to be done.

What I want for Christmas but probably won’t get

• Quite a few books.
• The Wire Complete Series Box (region one).
• Nikon D700.
• A new wacom board (my current one is from the bronze age: it uses the serial port).
• A Jayne Hat. Because it’s cunning.
• Farscape season four + Peacekeeper Wars (region two).
• A year’s supply of Yerba Mate and a mate gourd.
• Confidence.
• Steel-stringed guitar or mandolin.
• Employment.
• A negative scanner.
• See more friends. As I’m going crazy here.

Have I forgotten something?

Things that happened today:

1. It rained. Chubby rain, didn’t get that soaked.
2. Watched/listened to Freddie Wadling, Anna Ternheim and Thåström all lined up.
   Wadling did a cover on Radiohead’s Creap that was really good, Thåström did Die Mauer about halfly acoustic and an awesome electrified The Haters.
3. Had some kind of drink called Bloodshot. Garlic, vodka and chilli and stuff. It’s like barbecue-sauce except you’d get drunk.

Band/artists I want to see play in a close proximity:

• Ossler
  Again.
• Thea Gilmore
• William Elliott Whitmore
• The Mekons
  Life is not complete until you’ve shouted the opening words of Memphis/Egypt.
• Ted Leo
  He almost played there, ffs!
• The Joy Formidable
• Unbunny
  Do they play much anywhere?
• The Old 97’s
• Sonic Youth
• The Kills
• Laura Veirs
• Versus
  It can happen!
• Bonnie Prince Billy
• Metric
• Pixies
  In a proper setting and not on a festival.
• Blonde Redhead
• Th’ Legendary Shack*shakers
• Jeff Mangum
• The Mountain Goats
• Spacemen 3
  Ok, so there’s no chance in hell they’re reforming but fuck that, my wishlist is mine.

Things that keep my spirit up in this darkest* hour of need:

• Old Dr Who episodes
  Planet of Evil and Pyramids of Mars. Both fun but sadly lacked a bit in seriousness. Perhaps the Android Invasion before I manage to sleep proper.
• Chicken soup
  Cheap from a can.
• The Mighty Boosh
  Live #1. I need to rewatch season one.
• Cookies
  These are mine!
• My supergreen blanket
  Cozy. Soft. Warm.
• Old 97’s records.
  Waiting for Rhetts new solo album.
• Tea.

As you can see, easy to please even when a whiny fucker. Even though I’d rather be in a park getting drunk.

^{*) not really darkest. More like monitor illuminated hour of half-asleepness.}

Unlikley ways of dying that almost occured today

1. Dying from napping.
   I woke up.
2. Killed by bacon.
   Averted with the help of clothes and glasses.
3. The weather that’s probably only about 24 C but still seems too hot.
   Ongoing.
4. Procrastination.
   I need to pack stuff. Haven’t done shit. Stress will be the deadly killer.

Five things to listen to, new and old that is sorted under the letter M (random order)

1. Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s — The Dust of Retreat
2. The Mountain Goats & Kaki King — Black Pear Tree
3. Metric — Fantasies
4. Ingrid Michaelson — Be OK
5. Magnolia Electric Co. — Trials And Errors

Possibly excellent not yet released albums that is sorted under the letter M

1. Rhett Miller — S/T

Five best albums by the Mekons (disqualified from the first list by being too damn good)

1. Rock n’ Roll
2. OOOH!
3. Journey to the end of the night
4. The Curse of the Mekons
5. Fear and whisky

In order to retain my readers here, Fredrik dared me to post som perverseties. Because obviously that’s what people want to read. I’m really not into this “pupblic should get what the public demands” — the public didn’t demand Wonderfalls so clearly they’re insane and stupid and should be prevented to do more cultural damage. But a dare is a dare. So here. Another list.

Friends and their perversities
Tommy. Electrical dongles and nurses.
Ola. Gloryhole cafeterias.
Fredrik. Cheese to grease.
Maria. Ecologically degradables.
Björn. Feedback grooves.
Hanna. Spatulas. On you.
Roger. Beer to fill.
Anosheh. Organized organs and pottery.
Sebbe. Marching dildos.
Helena. Vegetarian.

Not perverts
Me. I just like socks, and scarves, and funny people, and suffers from typornography. This is normal.