Fantastisk bok!!

Jeg begynte å lese en helt genial bok i dag. Hentet den på biblioteket i ettermiddag og har allerede lest nesten halve. Den er temmelig lettlest. :-) Jeg leste om denne boka i en avis eller noe og bestemte meg med en gang for å lese den. Reserverte den på biblioteket og har gledet meg skikkelig til å få tak i den. I dag var altså dagen.

Boka er Folkelesnad av Agnes Ravatn. Den handler om ukeblader. Ravatn har lest en masse ukeblader og skrevet en bok om dem. Det høres kanskje kjedelig ut, men det er det overhodet ikke, det er kjempemorsomt. Fy pokker så mange iddioter det finnes rundt i landet her. Ikke bare her, selvfølgelig, overalt, men denne boka handler altså om norske ukeblader og tullingene som leser dem. En veldig velskrevet og veldig morsom bok. Les og le!

Med utgangspunkt i bokas femte kapittel, Sex, sjølvmord og juleøl. Mannfolkblad har jeg også googlet litt i kveld og lest en dårlig og en god anmeldelse av en skikkelig møkkabok. Dårlig her - verdt å lese for kommentarfeltets skyld - og god her. Verdt å lese. :-)

Keanupic of the month

The other day I was googling some pictures because of an ATC that I was making ... the letter P in the Movies A-Z ATC series on Swap-Bot, for which I of course chose The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. I came across this picture, from a press conference in Berlin. What a wonderful shot. I'd never seen this before. I love it. :-)

Oh, and congratulations to any Swedes reading this! Hope you all had a great day! :-)

Wedding photos

So, the wedding went off without a hitch yesterday in the most perfect summer weather you can imagine. Everything went perfectly, it really couldn't have been better. A wonderful day. Of course I took umpteen pictures. Crazy but true: My parents got back this morning from their trip to Africa. I was still at their house (had actually only just woken up ;-) so I got to see the various souvenirs they'd bought, and a bunch of presents for me too, and all the pictures they'd taken. Of course there were quite a lot of them ... and some were really great, I may post some of them later ... but still, in my world, astonishingly few. My father bought a new camera especially for this trip, with a 16gb memory card. They were in Africa for two whole weeks, they went to three national parks and the island of Zanzibar. And he has taken about 470 pictures. :-o

I took 522 pictures yesterday. o_O

But of course I had to take as many as I possibly could because this was a once in a lifetime chance ... ! I mean, who can argue with that. And whatever the occasion, I like to take a lot of pictures, because you never can tell which shots will be good, so it's best to take lots and lots and be sure to end up with some that are really good. That's my policy. It's rarely steered me wrong. And it worked out very well this time too. ;-)

Some glimpses of this very special day ...

Tanumine was so busy that she hardly had time to be nervous. Look how beautiful she was!

And how happy ... ! :-D

As well she should be, of course. :-)

The photo session was at Asker Museum. I'd never been there before (shocking, I know! I'm appalled at myself!) but it's soo beautiful there. And especially in this amazing weather.


The dinner was absolutely delicious. Maybe especially the dessert. ;-) It tasted yummy, but it also looked so fantastic. Strawberry soup ... ! :-D

I was totally happy too of course. Just to see them get married and celebrate it with them was wonderful, but also that everything went so perfectly that it really couldn't have been better.

All in all a perfect day. Everyone agreed. :-)

Congratulations!!!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Umpteen congratulations to Tanumine and B. on their wedding day today!! I hope you'll have a wonderful day and a fantastic life together. And an amazing honeymoon in the Dominican Republic ... !! :-D

Send me a turtle postcard, pretty please ... !! ;-)

Wedding tomorrow!!

Not mine, but Tanumine's. Whee! How fantastic is that. I'm so happy for her. I'm at my parents' house tonight, it's so much more convenient since the wedding is in the local church out here and Tanumine is at her parents' house, which is what, a fifteen minutes' walk from our house? Since I'm the maid of honor I will be following her around all day tomorrow, starting at the hairdresser's at 9am, so it's just so much easier to be here already and not have to get out here from the wrong side of Oslo early tomorrow. So much less stressful. It's really weird to be here all alone though. My parents aren't here, they're in Africa. I want to say Zanzibar right now? So I have the house all to myself, which I haven't had for I don't know how many years. It's kind of fun actually. I've only been here a couple of hours, and already I've managed to create a very noticeable mess in the living room, kitchen and bathroom. Yay me! :-D

Lilacs in bloom

A couple more pictures from my new camera. These are some closeups of one of the lilacs that grow outside my building. I love lilacs ... they smell so wonderful and they are such a beautiful sign of summer. The dark purple ones are my favorites, but sadly they are by far the rarest around here. I'm lucky enough to have one pretty close though. :-)

Pointless flashback

I'm not a fan of remakes, and I am so seriously an anti-fan of this particular remake, but of course I will have to see it. Partly because it is what it is (and partly because I won't be able to bitch about it properly if I haven't seen it) and partly, of course, because of who's in it. Christopher Plummer is in it. I LOVE Christopher Plummer. I cannot miss Christopher Plummer.

And I'm sure he'll be wonderful, he's always wonderful, but generally speaking I'm pretty sure The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo will be a pointless flashback. The team behind it are saying that they haven't tried to create an English-language remake of the original movie, they've tried to stick to the book. Like the original movie did. o_O Which of course to a large extent explains why, as far as the trailer goes, the only difference worth mentioning seems to be the actors. Who in any case can hardly be seen since the entire trailer consists of extremely brief images spliced together to create the impression of an extremely fast paced action thriller.

However, if the movie really is anything like the book, it'll be a slightly overlong and rather slow moving psychological thriller where you really need to pay attention to every spoken line, of which there will be a great many. Some moviegoers may find themselves disappointed. >:-)

The trailer is relatively intriguing, but I really wonder how I would perceive it if I knew nothing of the Millennium trilogy. It doesn't really indicate that there's much of a plot to this. There's an extreme amount of action, but what the hell is going on? I sure can't tell you based on this trailer.

I also really don't like the ending with the GIANT BLOCK LETTERS telling us all HOW TOTALLY AWESOME this is going to be. So typically Hollywood ... forcefeeding us what we're supposed to think, and just making it so glaringly obvious what they're trying to get at. How about letting the audience make up its own mind? Nope, that's not the American way.

But hey, I'm not like that, I'm going to let you guys make up your own minds. ;-) This is the first official trailer for the first American Millennium movie. What's the point?

Widescreen here.