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Tuesday, May 13th, 2003
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3:15 pm - Another year, another birthday
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So I turn 25 today. Birthdays were much cooler when I was a kid. It was the greatest day of the year! I still remember wearing a bright orange cardboard crown decorated with my name, animal stickers and glitter sprinkled on the side. And who can forget the hot-dog eating, soda drinking and stuffing your face with candy-orgies? And then there was the opening of the presents....
Today, I'm not particularily happy, but I'm not sad either. I just feel kind of empty. I'm 25, and I don't feel like I've accomplished anything significant. I want to crawl under my duvet and come out when the world is sunny and uncomplicated again.
Ok, so I shouldn't be complaining. There are people out there who are worse off than me.
The life of a sad, sad man
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| Monday, May 12th, 2003
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10:59 pm - Spring blues
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It's nearly mid-May, but it's still cold outside. As I walked through the rain-drenched streets to go to school earlier, I was wearing my white and blue wool hat. It's May for god's sake! This is so depressing! It's like we had a couple of sunny days in April, and now we're being punished for it.
All I want to to is to throw logs in the fireplace, crawl under my duvet, listen to Chet Baker and read a nice book. Hm. Sounds nice. I'll head home and do just that.
God works in mysterious ways, and I don't like it.
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| Monday, April 28th, 2003
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5:30 pm - Back to school
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So I got back from sunny Spain on saturday. It was raining in Bergen when we arrived. Apparently, the weather had been brilliant the whole week we were in Spain. It started raining when we got back. Ain't that typical.
School started again today, and we're doing a project where we're working with different concepts of 'home', and how you define what you call 'home'. It's all very intellectual and artsy fartsy, but also quite challenging and interesting.
Hm. What a nice attitude I've got. Looks like I'm becoming a good art studen after all.
Note to self: Finish the roll of film in the camera and have it developed at the lab at school, think about doing a family portrait of Anders' family, stop worrying about the future, stop talking loudly to myself on the bus. People might think I'm nuts.
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| Friday, April 11th, 2003
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4:35 pm - Staying in is the new going out
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It's friday. Staying in is the new going out. It feels nice not being on my way somewhere. Tonight I'll just stay in and lounge.
I'm already looking forward to watching 'Idol', that sick yet strangely addictive programme where wannabes sing sappy pop songs and wait to be discovered so they can get a record deal and become famous.
I went through some of my old stuff earlier, and I found so many weird things. If I was sane, I would have thrown them away, and grown up, but I'm not that sane, so I made an alter instead. This is what my alter looks like:
Ps, has anyone ever accidentally typed 'livjournal.com'? I have.
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| Thursday, April 10th, 2003
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11:12 pm - Påske, schmåske
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Tre ting som gjør meg glad akkurat nå:
1) Jeg og Gerda har fått tak i billige syden billetter. Vi reiser om 9 dager. Det blir sol, bading, bøker, søvnige turistbyer utenfor sesongen, og kanskje til og med en paraplydrink eller to. Syden er et stort land. Vi skal til en av de festligste øyene, nemlig Mallorca. Det blir deilig å ikke måtte late som om man er kulturell. Her blir man hentet på flyplassen av en skandinavisk-snakkende guide, og kjørt til hotellet. Charterturer utenfor sesongen er litt undervurderte tror jeg.
2) Flytter til byen i mai. Da jeg var innom leiligheten (som jeg skal dele med en tidligere fotostudent, fikk jeg vite at det står en stor seng, en fin kommode og et tv med video på rommet jeg skal ha. Får låne disse tingene på ubestemt tid. Hater å flytte på store ting, så det var et stort pluss! Litt vemodig blir det jo å forlate forstaden...nå blir liksom 'suburbanboy' nicket mitt litt misvisende. Ja, ja. En gang forstadsgutt, alltid forstadsgutt.
3) Det er påske! Ferie! Midt oppe i påskefeiringen, vil jeg bare minne alle på om at man ikke må glemme påskens budskap! Folk feirer og tar ferie uten at de tenker på HVORFOR påsken er en høytid. Det erger meg.
Alle burde bli minnet på om at man feirer påsken fordi påskekyllingen døde (og gjennoppstod) for at vi mennesker skulle få det bra. Men så kom den onde påskeharen og ville stanse påskekyllingen fra å reise opp til himmelen. Haren ville drepe kyllingen på fjellet (derfor drar man til fjells) men kyllingen gjemte seg i et påskeegg. (derfor fyller man idag egget med godterier for å si takk til påskeegget som gjemte kyllingen)
God påske!
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| Thursday, March 27th, 2003
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10:55 am - Meat Schmeat
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Sometimes I wonder if I should stop eating meat. I know that too much meat isn´t good for you, and yes, I read the book ´My year of meat´, which didn´t exactly glorify the meat industry.
My only problem is that it´s so good! For instance: how can i stop indulging myself with bacon?! Yesterday, me and Runar were having pesto pasta with bacon. It was so delicious. Runar loves bacon too. I am sure that when he says I look good, sometimes he just sees me as a big piece of juicy and crispy bacon. I guess that would explain his occasional drooling.
Luckily, there are other meat lovers out there too. Just look at Homer from the Simpsons:
Homer: Are you saying you're never gonna eat any animals again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No!
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No!
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, all those come from the same animal!
Homer: Heh heh heh...Oooh...yeah...right, Lisa. A wonderful...magical animal.
current mood:  hungry
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| Tuesday, March 25th, 2003
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9:11 pm - Talk to her
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That friendly looking, chubby guy Pedro Almodovar sure is one great director. I watched his lates flick 'Talk to her' for the second time on DVD this afternoon while I was skipping school. Everything about this film is brilliant. The story, the actors, the music, the colours, the locations and the editing.
I downloaded some music from this film and his previous film, 'All about my mother'. I listened to it on the bus from suburbia to town and imagined that I was in an Almodovar film. Then suddenly I was in town. I realised that I don't know any trannies, ex-porn stars, pregnant nuns or anyone in a coma. The Almodovar film I'm in is pretty boring.
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| Tuesday, March 18th, 2003
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9:13 am - Isn't it ironic?
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For my short film project at school, I had this wonderful idea. I was going to make this thing about highschool love, about innocence in a cruel world, and how friendship can turn sour. It was meant to be sincere and heartfelt. For once, no irony and sarcasm.
So I spend lots of time filming, and eventually, I have all the scenes I need. Then I watch the scenes on the monitor, and I realise.....it isn't going to work. It's just too funny! It doesn't look sincere or heartfelt. It just looks ridiculous!
The project has to be finished within a week. What am I going to do?!
I've decided to make an sarcastic, political comment on the Iraq crisis. Goodbye sincerity. Hello irony.
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| Wednesday, March 12th, 2003
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11:23 pm - Jeg fant, jeg fant!
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I wanted to include some images of the film for my last entry, so I typed in 'The Hours' in Altavista's image search.
These are some of the images that came up. It made me think how great the internet is!
It's just like a bottomless pit of weird, funny, sad, interesting and great things.
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12:56 pm - The hours meg her, og the hours meg der
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Funny,I thought I would like a movie like 'The hours'. It had nice costumes, and there was lots of drama. That's stuff I like!
But maybe there was just TOO much drama. (I'd never thought I'd ever write such a sentence!) And that super-dramatic music! What was that all about?! It was great for maybe 15 minutes, but after a while I was going 'enough already!'. Ok, so the beginning needed the dramatic music, seeing that Virginia drowned herself, but when they put the dramatic music over all the mundane scenes, it was just too much! There's something wrong when a line like 'Let's make daddy a birthay cake' is accompanied by dramatic and scary music.
Anders, the big feminist loved the film. So did Runar and Sun Heidi. Luckily Eduardo shared my views. Thank god! Otherwise I would have felt like I was dumb to not comprehend such a critically acclaimed film. And Eduardo is a Wittgenstein expert. So he's got brains!
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| Tuesday, March 11th, 2003
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4:48 pm - Young and stupid
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It's great being young and stupid, but also kind of sad. Just look at me. I've had a great time so far. I can get stoned for a week if I want. And artistic integrity? Yeah, I got tons of that stuff. And your student loan? Bills? Who gives a shit about those things? Ah, isn't it great being young, stupid, and sometimes, on a good day maybeeven kinda cute?
But then the sad bit comes in. No longer so young. Just stupid. Artistic integrity? Hah! Since when did that put food on the table?
Wishes for the future:
1) Not having to sell my soul to advertising
2) Let me still get stoned mid-week if I want to
3) Never catch me using coasters
4) I want some money without having to sell out.
5) On a good day I want to be cute AND stupid. Not just stupid.
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| Monday, March 10th, 2003
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11:05 am - A brand new week
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Another Monday, another week. For once I don't have the Monday blues. Got up early with an eerie feeling of incredible enthusiasm, left foggy suburbia and headed for town.
I listened to a new minidisc on the bus. Downloaded some new songs last week. I know the internet can be a force for great evil, but luckily it is a force for great good too! It's great being able to download tons of songs that you would never actually spend money on buying, like trashy songs from the 80's and early 90's. I never realised Madonnas 'Material girl' was so incredibly cool! The beginning of that song is funky! Someone should do a remix with just the first bit. And check out the stills from the video. That Madonna! So cheeky! So shameless!
Just had my first sigarette in days, and I got a really nice nicotine rush. Felt kinda stoned for a couple of minutes (without feeling incredibly hungry and wanting to stuff my face)
This week:
- Write synopsis for the short film I'm making for the digital project at school (All I know so far is that I'm using music by Peace Burial at Sea)
- Finish the application form for a possible exchange next year to either Barcelona or London
- Watch 'The Hours' with Runar and Anders
- Start taking pictures of my nice granny and her belongings for a grandma photo project
- Update the 'news' section, upload the angel pics of Karen along with some new portraits of Lars and Anders on my website
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