making a big big big order from Adlibris.se since I'm rich now, books and comic books.

One of the coolest ones are Green Arrow Year One written by Andy Diggle who also wrote The Losers.

It has a real cool cover.

Tonight we're going to Munken where our friends are DJ:ing. but first I have to get my eyes open and get to the shower...easier said than done let me tell ya when you're this tired.

munken

fod coma. is that an international affliction or is it just me, zelda and ricke?
Man o man....We are stuck in the couch. don't think we're ever getting up.

Tynneson

What a day.
Me, Zelda, Ricke, Jossan and Calle went on a roadtrip to flea markets around Östergötland.
The first stop we made was at Fornåsa where I made such a jackpot in the book department!
My biggest joys in life is when (just wanna say first, I have a HUGE list of books I want on my fav book website and it just keeps getting longer and new prices are high when you want like 30 at a time) ... So, My biggest joys in life is when I fins one of these books in a second hand store or in a flea market. Specially when it's in English. Want to all my books on my list that are written my an English author in his/hers native language. What would Graham Greene or W. Somerset Maugham be in Swedish translation? butchered!
My point of all that was that today was a jackpot in that department! Found Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Guy De Maupassant's Bel Ami, George Orwell's Animal Farm and W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage!
And all those books are on my Must-Buy, Must-Read lists and now I found them, inexpensive, old, worn out and wonderful.
I also found the autobiography o Charlie Chaplin, A joseph Conrad book, another Maugham, a Graham Greene one and the complete poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Yes, I put everyone to sleep in the car when I showed my findings..
sometimes I am very lonely in my passions.

convoy

To see the world in a grain of sand.. That's how my favorite William Blake Poem starts. William Blake has from the very beginning captured me, both his poems and his artwork. The first thing I ever read of him was Tyger, tyger, Which is according to me his most famous work.

Tyger Tyger, burning bright
in the forests of the night
what immortal hand or eye
could frame thy fearful symmetry?

I have been on the hunt for a complete collection of both his poems and artwork but it is easier said than done.
Blake was not very popular in his time, he criticized the Church and he was against enforced chastity and loveless marriages. He preached "free love" and he defended the right of self-fulfillment for women. He was according to some a forerunner of modern anarchism, so is his fellow English man Willam Godwin. Godwin is an author that recently caught my eye. He wrote a book in 1794 called "Things as they are; or The adventures of Caleb Williams" that I have just ordered and I am dying to read it! Godwin had just as Blake a controversial view on things, he is considered the first proponent of anarchism and was married to the famous feminist Mary Wollstonecraft. And is of course the father or Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft.

Other than my obsession of political English authors and poets I have 3 new ink-additions on my body. I have finally got an Favorite-author-tattoo! An Owl Sitting on a pile of six books and reading a seventh.
It was a real nuisance of picking out only seven.. But my final list was
Robert E. Howard
George Orwell
Howard P. Lovecraft
Robert Louis Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
Edgar Allen Ppoe
Arthur Conan Doyle

I had three more I sooo wanted on my pile, Bram Stoker, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Philip K. Dick
but the good thing there is room to pile some more books in the future.
in two weeks I'm getting Swamp Thing...woh! Always wanted that too.
The reason why I didn't get William Blake a spot in my book pile is that he is a poet and I want someday a whole poem of his tattooed in somewhere. And if I started with one poet I want all my favorite poets, Byron, Yeats, Kipling, Moore..and the list is endless.


To see a world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-Blake

That's what I want

Deckster

I know I'm about 5 seasons after the Dexter phenomena but I am finally on board! and I'm loving it..
As it happens I just read a book that reminded me of Dexters personality alot, Graham Greenes classic Brighton Rock from 1938.
The main character Pinkie is a seventeen year old boy who after his boss gets killed takes over the mob and faces the harsch reality in the gangster world. The thing that connect Dexter and Pinkie is very distinct, the lack of emotions and the intimacy problems, neither Dexter nor Pinkie can be with a woman and do everything to avoid it. Dexter finally do it with his girlsfriend and Pinkie to but only because this girl is a witness and he marries her for the law that says that a wife can't testify against her own husband. So Dexter and pinkie have big differences to, Pinkie is vicious, confused and paranoid and Dexter is not. But still interesteing that I read that book at the same time I started watching Dexter and that scene where Dexter in his mind explains why he can't get close to a woman is almost the same as the scene with pinkie.
Anyhow...it's a really great book! read it!
Coming as a movie in fall to, Helen Mirren are playing a part so I have high hopes! and I really hope they make pinkie as disturb he is in the book.. he has no feelings whatsoever for that girl and find her annoying and pathetic, he is sometimes even disgusted of her. Graham Greene, what a writer!





Now it's time to start reading a book I've been waiting to read a loooong time.


Stephen King here I come!