What

"What if your ambition is to get high and watch cartoons?"

I think it's a pomeranian

Official

Here's the official press release:

http://www.solibro.se/pdf/pressrelease_20061123.pdf

Good news for my homies (and my future)

Q-Cells to set up photovoltaic technology jv with Sweden's Solibro AB
(Forbes)

Uppsalaföretag i storaffär

En halv miljard kronor. Det är vad tyska Q-Cells investerar för att starta industriell produktion av Uppsalaföretaget Solibro AB:s solceller. Storaffären blev klar på torsdagen.

(Uppsala Nya Tidning)

Tyskar köper svenska solceller
2006-11-24: TT
Världens näst största tillverkare av solceller, tyska Q-Cells, investerar en halv miljard kronor för att starta industriell produktion av Uppsalaföretaget Solibro AB:s solceller.
(Di.se, DN.se)

Buy junk, sell antiques

- Spotted the line on a book cover "The art of looking sideways -

Tonight I am getting on a plane for Helsinki, Finland. I am to participate in a seminar on PV encapsulation (basically my field of work) tomorrow, and then fly right back home. I feel so businesslike, so adult. I think the seminar will be really interesting, and I've never been in Helsinki, so I hope I get to wander around some tonight and tomorrow before my flight.

Drunk on sleep

I keep listening over and over to the same songs.

I know if I should live one hundred years
I'ld never see another face like yours
On stranger seas or brighter shores
Cos I know
That my love is real

Check out davidgray.com.

www.banksy.co.uk


(Although the site seemed to have some server issues just now)

Will you be my dance partner?

This weekend I went to a ball, yeah a proper one with ballroom dancing and all that jazz. Of course, I'm a lot to shy and don't feel comfortable at all on such a dance floor, so I spent my time chatting and drinking. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. First of all, the Ball was the Norrland Nation Autumn Feast, held traditionally every year, and I was invited in my capacity of Nation Photographer. Basically, there was a long dinner (4-5 hrs) including various speeches, entertainments and singing. No doucht about it, the food was great, the wine was good, and the entertainment was for the most part excellent. Since I consider myself somewhat of a shy person, these kinds of events always fill me with a little dread. Walking around a room, with a bunch of semi-strangers, people that I may recognise, and that recognise me, but whom I feel no kinship with, no confidence in, no love for. Thankfully, I could spend some of my time running around with my camera and feeling that I had a great excuse not to talk to strangers. And then of course, I eventually loosen up and stumble into conversation with people. Met some nice Fins, and we spoke about the importance of Quality, and Experience, things that I feel might be underrated more and more these days. Then I chatted with a true Norrlänning (in spite of the nation title, not all members are from the Motherland up north) instead of dancing (see above, dancing scares me), which was nice. Harcore students stay on to the second dinner, which starts at 2:00 am, with a somewhat less pretentious menu; Pytt i Panna, which is a swedish dish consisting of diced onions, potatoes, sausage, and some other veg like perhaps carrots; anyway all diced and fried together. Sometimes served with a fried egg on top. However, I am not hardcore anymore, so I walked home, escorting a lady on my way (trying to be the gentleman I want to be).
Hmm. I guess I'll post a link when the pictures have been uploaded.
Cha!

The animals were gone

The new Damien Rice album may be slightly uneven. But at the same time, it is partially demonic in its ability to pierce my heart when I listen. For some wonderful reason Damien has chosen to spend quite some time in front of the piano, and many of the songs are more piano-based than guitar based. The album is more introspective, more sad in some places than "O", and more a solo-album than "O", where the band played a great part in the sound of the recording. On "9", mr Rice plays several of the songs completely solo, and this simplicity and rawness makes it all the more worthwhile in the current musical climate. An example is Elephant, where the album version seems even more stripped down than some of the live recordings I've come across. The listener is left with only a guitar and Damiens voice to lean on. Another lovely little detail is that the first song on the album starts with Lisa singing. Even though her presence is not very pronounced on the album as a whole. And last but not least, the lyrics are fresh, Damien finds some new metaphores that have not been written in neon just yet, and writes a world of wood and woodys - of accidental songs and accidental babies.

Somehow I connect Damien to Tiger Lou. Maybe because they're both male, young, solo artists. OR maybe because they're both talanted to the point of genious, phenomenal songwriters who keep things simple and still new. I mean, their music isn't much alike.

Well. just hear it, ok?
Flash Gordon out.

A long day's journey into night

"Who want to see life as it really is, if it can be avoided?"

Beatifully sparse decor. Good acting. Some humor, lots of darkness.

Mary Chrismas

Logistical information.

I will go uppa north on the 21st of december by train. I will be staying, as far as I know, for the entire time in my parents house on the Horny Island. It seems at this point most likely that I will be staying up there until the 1st Jan, when I will descend upon Uppsala yet again.

Party?
People!

Musical parapsychology

1. How are you feeling today?
G.U.B.N.U.F. - Bugge Wesseltoft

2. Will you get far in life?
Marco Polo - Loreena McKennitt

3. How do your friends see you?
Goodnight song - Tears For Fears

4. Will you get married?
You gonna need my help - Muddy Waters

5. What is your life's theme song?
Eminem Freestyle (over WW3 Beat)

6. What is the story of your life?
Working Girl - Jeff Harms

7. What was high school like?
Little Earthquakes (live) - Tori Amos

8. How can you get ahead in life?
Interlude - Muse

9. What is tomorrow going to be like?
the Optimist - Turin Brakes

10. What is the best thing about your friends?
Could Well be in - The Streets

11. What is in store for the next weekend?
Dogs - Pink Floyd

12. What song best describes you?
Cradle and All - Ani Difranco

13. How is your life going?
Hold on - Lou reed

14. What song will play at your funeral?
Hell is round the corner - Tricky (hahaha, didn't cheat, I swear!)

15. How does the world see you?
The one you love - Rufus wainwright

16. Will you have a happy life?
Nixon - Tiger Lou

17. What do your friends really think of you?
time and time again - counting crows

18. What song describes the person you're attracted to?
gratitude - ani difranco

19. What message would you like to tell the next generation?
Second intermission -Ani difranco

20. Do you have a deep dark secret?
Singles party - Greyboy

21. Do people secretly lust after me?
Horses in my dreams - PJ harvey

22. How can I make myself happy?
could well be in - the streets

23. Will I ever have children?
I got you under my skin - Diana Krall

24. What's some good advice for me?
Mr Moon - Jamiroquai

25. How will I be remembered?
No way - Pearl Jam

26. What is my signature dance song?
Wonderwall - Radiohead making fun of oasis