top 5

I love to make lists, fav books, bands, songs, movies, comic books and so on.
So now I'm gonna make my top 5 movies from the 1930's

Modern Times, Dir. Charlie Chaplin (1936)

The absolut best Chaplin movie, a beautiful love saga between the blind flower girl and the tramp. He falls inlove with her and tries to help the poor girl and her family, through his rich new friend. I remember the first time I saw it and I was b l o w n away. such a beautiful story.





It Happened One Night, Dir. Frank Capra (1934)

One of the best directors of all time, if I ever feel down or sad or sick, his movies are perfect.. love all his movies. This one is my favorite Capra and it was through this movie I discovered Claudette Colbert. And Clark Gable is as always amazing and this part is no different. He playes an ambitious reporter that by mistake discovers a young socialite woman who's run away from her family who has just pulled her away from a marriage to a young aviator. She's gets on a greyhound bus to hide from Reporters who's looking for a scoop and her father's people who is trying to avoid it. On the bus she meets Clark Gable and he sees a potential goldmine in getting the exclusive story aboout her adventure back to her new husband, she agrees to it in return that he helps her stay hidden. But of course Clark Gables' character falls for her and... yeah well. It's a wonderful love story.

The Thin Man, W.S. Van Dyke (1934)
The first time I saw this movie I laughed sooo hard, William Powell and Myrna Loy are so perfect as the famous hard drinking Private Detective Nick and his wife Nora. Based upon the famous books by the noir writing genius Dashiell Hammet (who also wrote The Maltese Falcon) you know a great mystery is a given. After 4 years away from the job Nick and Nora arrives in New York with their dog Asta and practically stumbles in to mysteries and murder. I just love these Thin Man movies, really. Few of the funnies movies I know! The book too are really entertaining. Simply, an all around feel good movie.





Bringing up Baby, Dir. Howard Hawks (1938)

A great sceewball comedy with the one of the best actresses of all time, Katherine Hepburn and the always great Cary Grant. Grant plays a paleontologist who desperately wants a bone to the collection at the museum where he works and Hepburn plays Susan , an heiress trying to get his attention by forcing him to help her with a cougar called 'baby'. It is such a lovely movie, Grant plays the sweetest guy and I too fall in love with during the movie.






Gone With the Wind, Dir. Victor Fleming (1939)
This next film is essential for my list, it was my absolut first fav movie when I was a kid.
I remember I was about ten or eleven years old and I had already seen it 3-4 times and I was to obssessed to own this movie on VHS (which was the only alternative in 1994) and we were a poor family so us children never just got everything we wanted, but one day I found a coupon in a magazine to buy Gone with the wind for 59 Skr (7-8 dollars) and I was SO unbelievable happy because that was about half what I got in allwowance a month. So I kept that coupon in my wallet for such a long time and finally I could buy it. Old movies have always been my favorites.. when I was nine and I first saw Wizard of OZ and Gone With the wind and now, when I'm 25 it's still 90% of all the movies I see are old classic ones. So I guess that's my Forte.
And yeah, about the movie! It is such a great story, I never read the book but someday I will, I'm really faccinated about the American civil war. It's just one of these movies I will never forget and will always love. A true classic.

Lieutenant Data

Today is saturday, petter and I are gonna have a Star Trek marathon. We have decided to go through the whole the Original series and The Next Generation. But I'm going to sneak in ST Voyager too..


Me and my roomie are watching Supernatural, a real good series, like an X-files Jr!


Yesterday I was out for about an hour at a club... B a d Idea. One week after my back surgery I should have resting. But have been so bored so I really wanted to do something, 40 mins after I left I regreted my decision and went home :) but still fun to do something even though it was just an hour.´

Started to read from the Collection of Solomon Kane by Robert E. Howard.
I love theese old horror/pulp fiction stories and can read the whole night if I could. Really looking forward to the movie that came last year, hope just it's half as good as the stories.

Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Just started reading this genius book by Philip K. Dick. But I have to admit it's sometimes quite hard with the language, since english are my second language i find his writitng sometimes a bit advances, maybe I should read it in Swedish? or maybe I just have to get more in to it.
Three of my all time favorite authors who all wrote sci fi or weird fiction, also all died too young.
-Philip K. Dick genius Sci-fi writer, dies at age 53
-H.P Lovecraft genius horror/fantasy/weird fiction writer, dies at age 46
-Robert E. Howard genius Pulp/fantasy writer, dies at age 30
all too soon

Watching Fringe again..I just L o v e it, and love Olivia Dunham, she's the new Dana Scully!
Joshua Jackson is also frakin great in the series! and not to mention the man playing his father, Walter Bishop.
Gah. no wonder I can't turn it off.

other things I kill my time while I try to heal from the operation are, Blackest night. the new Green Lantern story which include alot of spinoff before And after so I'm trying to collect them all and read them in order.

The Cover art is SO amazing I look forward to it every week.

Hunter

Valentines day is a stupid holiday, it's even stupid if you have someone to share it with. It's not romantic it's just fun for girls who loves roses and teddy bears and I h a t e that cliché romantic stuf.. give me some merch with Battlestar Galactica or something instead and maybe I'll reconsider the value of valentines day.

Wouldn't it be cooler if it was a Pancake-day or a Jean Luc Picard-day? I would SO celebrate those days.

Today me and my roomate were having a Supernatural-marathon. Started watching it from the beginning yesterday and it's really good!
Now I'm almost ready for bed, have been drawing and watching some Twilight Zone and trying NOT to think about my operation in 3 days...hmm. BUt after thursday I will be a FOR real, CYBORG! That's the only cool thing about my stupid fifth back surgery.

This is what I drew today, my version of my favorite painting, The Old Man and the Sea.

Now I'm gonna read some Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Nite!

Kick-Ass

Yeah It's gonna be a real cool movie.

So is The Losers. Only thing is I hate when cool comic books gets adapted to a movie is that it becomes the superhype of the year.

I am listening tireless to Rory Gallagher, he is a true artist. what a voice what a guitar player what a song writer. he's got it all. And he had to die 30 years before his time..

My dog Batman is the greatest animal alive. she has the biggest personality since Malcolm Reynolds. She is a street dog from Malaga, Spain and didn't wave her tail for the first 6 months after I brought her to Sweden. She didn't look anyone in the eyes and she hid under the bed everytime someone raised their voice. Now 4 years later she is the apple of my eye and my trustworthy sidekick. She has learned to how to bark (since she grew up on the street she hung out with cats and never learned dog-skills I guess) She has also learned how to play, just like a cat btw, chasing strings, sneaky jumps on my hands and she sleeps all the time, also like a cat :)

I can't say I have ever met a cooler and funnier or more loyal dog than her.. sure I'm being partial cause she's my dog but still I have heard alot of people say the same thing. My best male friends' mum never liked dogs and didn't allow any animals in their house but now she has her sleeping in their bed. she says the only dog I could see myself with. So yes, I'm proud to be the mum of Batman!

Caoineadh Cú Chulainn

Cúchulainn the son of Lugh, the great hero from Ulster.

Today I have spent the better day in front of the tv..
I have seen
4 episodes of Smallville
1 episode of Sons of Anarchy
3 episodes of Perry Mason
1 episode of Tales from the crypt
1 episode of Star Trek the Next Generation
I feel I have a wisdome tooth on the way, I blame my TVseries day on that.

I have read quite alot today to, as I always do. A lot of articles from around the world, and I got caught in the Taylor Swift debate.. my god. I have heard half a song from her, since she is not very big in Sweden.. and her music is so far from my taste as it goes. She seems very nice a person though. But hell.. a LITTLE overrated I must say.
The most interesting literature I've read today is about Celtic mythology which is always intriguing.
One of the things was about Dagda who's a god in Celtic mythology and are known as "the good god" and "the great father" and he was a leader fo the Tuatha Dé Danann. And the story of him has inspired me to a painting I'm planning on.

There are ALOT of new great things in the Vertigo Universe and I'm gonna list my Top 6.

• Greek Street
• The Unwritten
• The Great Fables Crossovers
• Northlanders
• Demo
• Sweet Tooth

These are (for me) new and I am so excited to start reading! Vertigo happens to be one of the greatest in comicbooks and the list of brilliance that have been spitting out from them are endless. Some of my alltime Vertigo favorites though, are:

• Hellblazer
• Fables
• Saga of the Swamp Thing
• Preacher
• Sandman (ofcorse)
• House of Mystery
• Transmetropolitan
• Y: The last man alive
• Death

Yeah. Vertigo Rules. But with B.P.R.D and Solomon Kane DArk Horse Comics aren't far behind. Neither are Wildstorm with Ex Machina and The Victorian Undead. And DC will always be number 1 because of....everything they ever done! (plus that they own wildstorm and vertigo) ok! I am a comic book nerd.

Time to sleep.

challenge from 5700 A.D.

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition,
and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of imagination.
It is an area we call...The Twilight Zone!

On Raglan Road on a autumn day.

There's an artist whom I love, Louis le Brocquy,

and he draws these amazing oil portraits of authors and other artists.
And authors are the thing that got me stuck on him, he had made portraits of 2 of my favorite Irish authors!
W.B. Yeats, James Joyce and also Samuel Beckett (whom I like but have not read so much from)
And this portrait here is of James Joyce that happens to be a huge literary idol of mine.
Dubliners is one of his most known works, it's a book filled with wonderful short stories out of Dublin
and if you have ever been to Dublin or Ireland you can really recognize
everything he describes about the town of his heart.




The weeks go by so fast, even though I haven't worked for 5 years, I have been on sick leave since my first back surgery in 2005.
I have had alot of people who said they've been jealous of me cause I'm always "free" from work and what not, and sure I can sleep in and do whatever I want all day but try doing that with excruciating pain 24hours a day. And I'm trying to do as much of what I love in my free time, like draw and read.
i even learned how to make cookies :)

I just finished drawing a picture that I'm going to make a series of,

fairy faux pas.