Had a really good time in London. It was like a mini-vacation. I had to have a couple of days with no stress, it did me good! Although after sleeping in a freezing room for three nights and then taking a power walk for several hours just to try and find a bar on a late Monday evening, I of course came home with a cold. Don't really have the strength right now to sum up my trip, so for now... enjoy this beautiful song.
Ananau, ananau nispaniwashkanky
ñuqallapiñam chay ñawiky.
Ananau, ananau nispaniwashkanky
wiñaypaqchum ñuqa qawasqaiky
May runallam kakuchkanky
kaycunallapy waqanaypaq.
Wañuptyqa ñakawanky
munanichu chay pasayta.
What a pain, what a pain, causes what you are telling me.
With your eyes above me.
What a pain, what a pain, causes what you are saying me.
Will I always see you?
What a man do you think I am?
That I cry in this place?
When I die, you would suffer.
But I dont want that to happen.
"While newspapers and television talk about the lives of celebrities, the chief of the Kayapo tribe received the worst news of his life: Dilma, "The new president of Brazil, has given approval to build a huge hydroelectric plant (the third largest in the world). It is the death sentence for all the people near the river because the dam will flood 400,000 hectares of forest. More than 40,000 Indians will have to find another place to live. The natural habitat destruction, deforestation and the disappearance of many species is a fact."
What moves me in my very bowels , making me ashamed of being part of Western culture, is the reaction of the chief of the Kayapo community when he learned of the decision—his gesture of dignity and helplessness before the advance of capitalist progress, modern predatory civilization that does not respect the differences. But we know that a picture is worth a thousand words, showing the reality of the true price of our bourgeois "quality of life". -quote from a member on Facebook
This breaks my heart.
I am so sick and tired of society ruining these people's lives!! It started hundred of years ago and still hasn't stopped. A couple of weeks ago there was some journalist who got really close to an Indian tribe in Peru and they started shooting arrows at him. They are one of the last uncontacted tribes on Earth so the newscasters calls it a "tremendous accomplishment" to get this close to them. Why!? Because you got close to people who wants to be left alone? Get real.
I do what I can to preserve all of the beautiful and natural things that this Earth has provided for us. But these tribes do it all the way. They protect nature with their lives. How can some people be so incredibly disrespectful and greedy that they intrude on these people's lives, just so that they can take pictures of them? Leave them alone. Open your eyes and realize that we should all live after their example. Appreciate the fact that trees gives us the possibility to breathe. Stop cutting them down!
And all of this unnecessary killing of bugs! Our ego tells us that we are the only ones with feelings, that we are the only ones with relationships and families. But I think that if you kill a spider, there IS a relationship that you are ruining. If a fly gets into my house I always do my best to get it out, it's not like the fly knows it's not supposed to be there. I'm not saying that I am braver than anybody else, I can't pick up a spider in my hand and put it outside. But I find other solutions to it than to just run away screaming! Seriously people, think of the advantage you have here. You're huge and the spider is tiny. Just use a paper or whatever to get it out. Just don't kill it. If you just look at a spider web... I mean, that is magnificent to me! Look at a spider web and see what they can do, look at a birds nest and see what that is...
My people, some of them have run away to the hills and have no shelter.
No food, no one knows where they are,
Hear me my chiefs, I am tired.
Play along music is a Swedish web site where you can learn how to play seven different instruments, singing and dance choreographies from teachers with plenty of experience. Through video uploads and sometimes even live webcams you'll be able to learn and to ask questions as you go. Janne Schaffer (one of Sweden's most well known guitar players) and Pontus Norgren (The Poodles, Hammerfall) are two of their guitar teachers and recently they just got a brand new teacher in the form of Ryan Roxie (Alice Cooper, Slash's Snakepit, Casablanca, Roxie77).
There are two different kinds of memberships.
1. Free membership means that you get access to the community, video chat and to the forum.
2. Gold membership gives you access to all of the video lessons and all other perks on the site. Such as feedback from the teachers, playalongs to play along to, new lessons every week, you can also upload your own videos! This costs between 69 SEK/month - 99 SEK/month.
To see a longer introduction of Ryan and of the other teachers click here.
The song "Black Velvet" from Alannah Myles's debut album became a worldwide hit in 1990 and it even won her a Grammy award. By that time, the 32 year old Alannah had already been a songwriter for 23 years! She has since then released four more albums and even competed in Melodifestivalen (Sweden's version of the Eurovision Song Contest) in 2005. In July 2011 Alannah said that after several chiropractic treatments she has suffered from severe spinal nerve damage and is now unable to move her head and neck. But she still does performances and records songs in the studio.
The boy could sing, knew how to move everything
Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for
Black velvet and that little boy smile
Black velvet with that slow southern style
A new religion that'll bring her to your knees
~Black velvet if you please~
Don't really know what to do with myself right now...
I'm at home alone. My sister is visiting her boyfriend in the north of Sweden and my parents are at work. I woke up late because me and Sofie were in school at 2 o clock in the morning, haha. We finally handed in our assignment. It was a blast walking around in school in the middle of the night. Gotta do that again sometime... veeeery SPOOKY!!
So that is done, everything else is done, my plans for London are pretty much done...
The only thing I have on my agenda today is to get some exercise.
I'm starting to accept the fact that I won't be able to go to the Foxey gig in Stockholm. Don't have any money yet so something has got to go. Just sucks that it is a once in a lifetime opportunity. I just want that night to be over so that I can forget the fact that I missed it. But right now my main focuse is London.
Can't wait to see the guys again! Swan, Max, Matt, Frank, Lou, Natasha, Allie and of course Charlotte who I'll be staying at the Bed & Breakfast with. We'll take the days as they come but we do have some plans to meet up before or after the gig and just hang out. Since we all come from different countries we don't get to see each other very often. Gotta take every chance we get! The guys will be playing on Monday and the rest of the time we'll enjoy everything London has to offer!
