The beautiful (and very talented) Linnea Dale has just released her newest single, and I can’t really say anything other than the fact that I am so happy she’s finally back … and that I love her new song. The music video is rad as well.

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Slowly getting back on my feet, as school and health is getting started in the right direction. The last couple of days have been spent alternating between school, books and TV (or TV on the computer), in other words: my social life has been non-existent. But then again, you need to have those periods once in a while to appreciate the greatness of interaction with other human beings.

One (of the many) things I’ve been watching is BBC’s Laughter Therapy. There is really nothing quite like British humor, dry wit is my wit to booth, etc. Someone posted a video of Steve Hughes under one of the articles about “Moccamann-saken” where he talks about being offended, and it’s just hilarious. He also has a beautiful (and very in-your-face) speech about common sense. And then you’ve got the man himself, Michael McIntyre talking about self-combusting appliances, ryanair and nice vacations. Plus my favorite: Dara O’Briain (who takes great pleasure in making fun of his audience). So if you feel like laughing, check it out!

Do you have any comedy favorites?

A little tonsillitis-hiatus while I am trying to avoid being sick for two weeks. I am obviously over-sensitivt to the stuff. Luckily we have a lot of C-vitamin containing liquids on this island, so I’m hoping a vitamin C overdose will help kill this things before I get really sick. I am also sleeping, and staying warm even thought I have a fever and feel like jumping in the ocean every third second.

Catch you on the flip-side!

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.. på Hawaii.

It’s weird how much things from the homeland matters to you when you live on the other side of the world. A little piece of Norway in Hawaii, courtesy of Malin. Chocolate hearts, two 200 gr milk-chocolate bars, diet Mountain Dew and Terkel i Knipe was how I spent my Friday evening. The simple things are often the best things in life.

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Today was that day at the beginning of every semester were you have to get everything that you’ve been pushing away and delayed for forever, done. Bus card, validate student card, order books, set up an appointment with the academic advisor, try (once again) to make the people at the Apple store understand what is wrong with your phone and fix it, buy all the necessities of a normal household, visit the bank to transfer money, etcetera etcetera. Add the fact that I might possibly, in theory, be slightly hung-over, and by that I mean over-sensitive to loud noises and weird smells, and you’ve got yourselves the best darn day I’ve experienced in the last three weeks (notice the sarcasm there).

Solution: Put on a brave face, sunglasses, a new-ish dress and add a large cup of black coffee to the equation and you get through it. Somehow.

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The kind UPS man showed up in the end, ten minutes after I had given up on him. Ten minutes after the sun had set and I was half-way out the door to celebrate a birthday on a balcony with cheesecake and red wine. But then he stood there, right outside my house with a parcel just for me. And now it’s mine. A 15mm fisheye lens from Sigma. Ready for me to explore the world in a 180 degrees. Oh I’m in love. The weather today is a bit too grey for my taste, but here are some test shots I took earlier today:

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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
- Pi Patel on agnostics.

I started reading this books a couple of years back, but for some reason or another (probably school and the presence of other fun novels I just had to read) I never finished it. Picked up a copy the last time I stepped by Barnes&Noble and the last two days have been devoted to the story of the religious Piscine Molitor Patel, known as Pi to avoid the unfortunate slip of tongue that turns Piscine into Pissing and ordinary children into vicious bullies. As the son of a zookeeper in Pondicherry, India, Pi lives a life most children would envy, but that all comes to an abrupt end when he is the victim of a shipwreck. The accident leaves him, an orangoutang, a hyena, a zebra and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker the soul survivors in a small life boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

“Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.”

The novel itself does not devote a lot of time to the whole aspect of survival, the main themes of this fascinating story (“that will make you believe in God”) are spirituality, religion and animal psychology. An obligatory addition to your average “must read”-list.

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Waiting for a belated Christmas present today, which will arrive by way of some nice UPS-person if all goes according to plan. This gift might be my ultimate favorite out of all the things Santa (and other kind people, including my parents) left under the tree back in December. More on that later – hopefully.

It is still roughly ten days till my semester starts, but the island is beginning to come back to life – student style – so I am finally starting to feel un-apathetic again. About high time. Celebrating by listening to the gloriously hippie-esque tones of Jefferson Airplane and eating left-over pizza. The small things in life. <3

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Dia Frampton is my newest musical obsession, her debut album RED has been on repeat on my Spotify for the last three weeks,  and her songs are just so damned addictive. Personal favorites at the moment are “The Broken Ones” and “Don’t Kick The Chair”. Youtube them !

James Dean & Elizabeth Taylor.

Picture from one of my my favorite tumblr-blogs: Awesome people hanging out together. I just can’t stop being fascinated by the way these legends and icons mingled off duty (and on duty). They just look so out-of-this-world, filled with hipster-power.

Sorry for the long break, I’ve been apathetic for the last ten days or so. Daily routine has involved watching TV, reading books on the lanai, an walk every day around sunset, repeat. Good thing school starts in less than two weeks, so I can stop this “I have nothing to do”-routine. I’m bored. Luckily people are coming back now, from vacation that is, so I can be social again.

One of the series I’ve been watching this past week is the British TV-series Misfits, a gritty sci-fi series that combine the best of Skins and Supernatural in one sweet, perverse and very teen-Brit package. Majorly offensive, and super-hilarious, and good enough to win the BAFTA for Best Drama Series last year. Just finished season 2 of the series, and am currently wrestling between a passion for handsome but crazy Nathan, and the strange – but potentially badass – Simon.

Any other Misfits-fans out there?

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Our last days at Turtle Bay the waves became wild and the North Shore became a sweet surfers paradise, and then the oceans got wild and foamy. Beaches were closed off, but everyone flocked to the beach to watch the sea and the few crazy people who tried to ride the waves. The surfer I got was from the day before the storm, trying to make magic happen from nothing at all. But he still made it look good. God, I love this place.

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Can I just have everything. Please. This is just awesome.

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Found this video in my archives from last year’s Hove festival, made by the talented Solveig Selj for OsloNights.no. I miss festival summers. I’m thinking Coachella might sound fun this year, seeing as I’m already on this side of the earth and such. Have any of you been to the Coachella festival?

The music in the video is by Mayflower Madame.