Fangs and Bangs

VA CAT ION

2010-06-15T19:36:00.001+02:00

June playlist.

New old blog

2010-06-15T19:24:00.002+02:00

Go here instead: http://genius-next-door.blogspot.com/

Räv

2010-04-29T22:02:00.001+02:00

April sun

2010-04-16T22:55:00.001+02:00

JT and Anna (in my scarf and sunglasses + JT’s mum’s jacket)

Me (we played cards!) and Anna’s jeans and JT’s converse.

I had a really awesome afternoon/evening at some friends. We played cards, took photos and saw the ash cloud (at least I like to think we saw it). I think JT has got the rest of the photos.

Sandro Del Prete

2010-04-12T21:18:00.001+02:00

I love Sandro del Prete’s images.

New shoes

2010-04-12T21:13:00.001+02:00

I went to one of the downtown thrift stores today with one goal on my mind: to buy a new pair of braces/suspenders. Unfourtunately, all they had were these really small and silly ones for five-year-olds. But I did find something, anyway. A cute pair of ballerinas with bows on them.

Expectations

2010-04-11T18:30:00.001+02:00

I dyed my hair today (out of boredom). It’s dark red/brown now, and I love it.

Started painting on a tote bag yesterday aswell.

PS. This song is really good.

Nowhere boy

2010-04-09T22:47:00.001+02:00

I saw Nowhere boy this tuesday. It didn’t really meet my expectations (which were quite high), but still it was really good.Although it kind of left me wondering how it really was, and how it really happened, I think the movie was a bit romanticized.

I’ve also watched 7 episodes of Skins season 4, I’ve only got the last one left!I’m saving it for tomorrow though...I hate the fact that I already know that it will end sadly.

...

2010-04-09T09:27:00.001+02:00

Picture from April last year.

jkrhjkhes

2010-04-03T23:17:00.001+02:00

"Jesus is alive" in russian. I have some awesome relatives, they’re incredibly creative and nice. They showed up with a cake yesterday.

Happy easter!

E18

2010-03-28T21:30:00.001+02:00

I wanted to post the pictures from Jalouse magazine (the march issue), but I didn’t find them on the internet nor got the scanner to work. But I found these on AnOther magazines page. She’s so cool.

My pokemon bring all the nerds to the yard, and they’re like "wanna trade cards?"

2010-03-28T21:17:00.001+02:00

Facebook groups rule

Two random (old) sunglasses from my closet

I love sunglasses! They can make you look sixties cool or um, futuristic scary in an instant. And they’re usually very cheap.

Le message

2010-03-24T21:58:00.001+01:00

Studied some french earlier this afternoon (as well as having a coffee (tea) with a friend, running, working and finishing extremely loud and incredibly close). Found this poem in my text book:

La porte que quelqu’un a ouverte
La porte que quelqu’un a refermée
La chaise où quelqu’un s’est assis
Le chat que quelqu’un a caressé
Le fruit que quelqu’un a mordu
La lettre que quelqu’un a lue
La chaise que quelqu’un a renversée
La porte que quelqu’un a ouverte
La route où quelqu’un court encore
Le bois que quelqu’un traverse
La rivière où quelqu’un se jette
L’hôpital où quelqu’un est mort.

The door that someone opened
The door that someone closed
The chair on which someone sat
The cat that someone petted
The fruit that someone bit into
The letter that someone read
The chair that someone tipped over
The door that someone opened
The road that someone ran down
The woods that someone crossed
The river in which someone jumped
The hospital where someone died.

(stole the translation from here)

It gave me heavy boots, to quote oskar schell. So now I’m playing animals by miike snow very loudly.

Wild world

2010-03-22T21:41:00.001+01:00

The final scene of Skins season one (when they start singing) is pretty fantastic. I had forgotten about it until I watched it again a few weeks ago.

There wasn’t any version available to put here (e4 seems to have blocked that function)...So link.

Polkadot dress

2010-03-21T18:56:00.001+01:00

Are there any readers? Well, whatever, I’ll just keep posting. Soooo, I spent a few hours yesterday+today sewing this dress (which in fact isn’t a dress , it’s a skirt and a top). Polka dots is my new thing, I got a scarf from J with polka dots for my birthday (the 12th of march, same as liza minelli and pete doherty), and i’ve got a bow/hair clip thing with polka dots on as well. I have a feeling that it will not end there...

Well, I’ve always loved Minnie Mouse.:)

Nay.

2010-03-01T22:05:00.001+01:00

They canceled the almost all the buses again today. The bus i usually go with was canceled, but i was really lucky and could catch another one (after waiting for a long, long time).Yay. I thought the snow was melting. It’s definetely back again.

I’ve been sewing again.

a skirt. the pattern is really great, maybe i’ll get a proper picture to show you.

paris

2010-02-27T22:05:00.001+01:00

From niotillfem !

I want to go to paris again. Last time I was there I was 11 and didn’t speak a single word in french (well except maybe "bonjour" and "merci beaucoup", the latter always made me crack up since it sounds like "merci pucko", thank you moron, with a little bit of imagination), and I wasn’t really interested in the same things as now.

I am going to the south of france this summer on a language trip, maybe paris will be my destination on some journey after that? I definitely want to go after seeing Niotillfem’s clip.

Play again and again and again

2010-02-25T22:27:00.001+01:00

Almost 70 cm snow outside. It’s the most I’ve seen around here...It’s sick! Unfourtunately, it fucks everything up.Poor Anna had to walk home from town (ca 8 km that is) last saturday when they canceled the busses. Well, at least people got use for their thigh high boots at last.

Listen:

and you’ve got the faith that i could bring paradise

2010-02-16T21:19:00.001+01:00

The xx and La roux are comming to way out west! I’m thrilled.

Fettisdagen/Mardi gras/Shrove tuesday

2010-02-16T17:28:00.001+01:00

My school had a prom(or more like a dance, it wasn’t very big) yesterday for all year nines. It was really fun and I danced a lot, which I can feel in my legs today.

The best thing about the dance was probably the fact that we didn’t have any real lessons yesterday, only dance lessons from 9.00-10.30.

I left town with a few friends and went to Norrköping.It’s just 30 minutes away, and although a little bit smaller than where we live still a great place especially since we can take the commuter train for free with our school bus cards.I had a great time.

I bought the dress for the prom there (from H&M):

H&M are always reliable.

Hope you have a great shrove tuesday today, I’m going to eat my semla (my dictionary wants to call it a shrovetide bun, but i suggest you google it if you want to know what it is) real soon.

Oh, take me back to the start

2010-02-13T00:26:00.001+01:00

I wish that i was a more simple person sometimes. Like, that i would feel more like all other people around me feel about some things..

I want to go back to London! I’ve started to grow found of the idea of moving there in the second or third year of gymnasium...Though it might get tough to get really good grades then.

But it would be really really cool. And I can read the same courses as at home.

Death and all his friends.

2010-02-11T21:08:00.001+01:00

R.I.P alexander mc queen.

I want to grow a beard and join the circus.

2010-02-10T21:23:00.001+01:00

I found a pair of tartan patterned trousers today at Monki’s super sale. Some web cam pictures:

lol, my arm looks huge on the last picture.

the pattern doesn’t show, but it’s really pretty: purple, fuchsia, black and mustard. That’s pretty much my favourite colours.

Feels a bit ironic to buy spring trousers when it’s snowing even more outside.

great song:

james dean...

2010-02-08T21:33:00.001+01:00

would have been 79 years old today if he was still alive. (feels like i write a lot about dead old men).

So in the last bit of my post I won’t.

Tomorrow, I have a 2 hour long (?) test during my lie-in. And then I have 90 minutes of social studies, 90 minutes of french and then, last lesson, art.

Can’t we just delay tomorrow?

oh anthonio

2010-02-07T21:49:00.001+01:00

music

arctic monkeys shirt

my hair has gotten very long. which everyone tells me all the time, in a really surprised way. Although, I do feel like cutting my hair like this:

But maybe that can wait for a while.It is fun to have long hair, especially when you’ve never had it this long before.

perfect trousers.

2010-02-07T20:17:00.001+01:00

from Hoy Fashion

What a great pair of trousers! (No, I will not use the word pants, which I saw stockholm streetstyle do.)Time to go shopping or something? Or raiding grandma’s closet?

Why can’t guys around here dress like that?

R.I.P JD Salinger

2010-01-28T23:38:00.001+01:00

So sad:(

PS. This article is really good: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/books/29salinger.html?pagewanted=1&hp

PPS. Read the Catcher in the Rye! It’s awesome.

So wake up, or wake up alone.

2010-01-28T19:41:00.004+01:00

Old pictures from Barcelona and London. My older brother is moving to New York in September. I'm seriously jealous. I also want to move to New York! Duhh... I've got some new pictures too, but they're still in my camera. It's easy to get lazy when there's loads and loads of snow outside your window... /I

Bananas of the world, UNITE!

2010-01-24T21:35:00.006+01:00

Now I’m going to read in my really cool guide book to New York from the seventies that I bought yesterday for 5 SEK (like 50 cent).

run run run

2010-01-22T22:39:00.002+01:00

sucky picture... whatevs.

shirt, Weekday. Dress, Koola Anna. Hat, grandma's old. I'm thinking about what book I'm going to (re)read for english. I have to decide by monday, and since i'm going to present this book i want it to be reeeeaaally good so that i can stand in front of the class telling them passionately about how good it was. I've been thinking about "Incredibly loud and extremely close" (by Jonathan Safran Foer), "Special topics in Calamaty Physics" (by Marisha Pessl, I've already read it once in swedish and thought it was brilliant) or maybe "the Catcher in the Rye" (J.D Salinger, already read it and liked it alot).

Hmm.. I have to go to the library tomorrow and decide. Maybe I'll just follow my gut feeling and randomly chose one. That way I usually end up with great books...

It’s a cool cover.

Lol.

2010-01-20T22:23:00.001+01:00

I forgot I took this photo a few days ago. It’s a small part of my travel card collection (ok, the Gröna Lund card doesn’t really belong there, it’s for a tivoli). I always collect these kinds of things. I think it’s fun to find old brochures of places I’ve been to or cinema and theatre tickets. OK, I guess I save a lot of other stuff too, like old news papers in languages I don’t even speak. Lol.

Andy Warhol also collected loads of stuff :-). I visited his museum in Pittsburgh two years ago where they showed pretty much everything he collected. That was pretty cool.

Fade to grey

2010-01-20T21:44:00.001+01:00

I can’t think of anything to write right now.

....

2010-01-19T19:10:00.002+01:00

Since school started (11th), this is what I've been doing:

* Working out (running, going to the gym), I have a school project for PE where you have to write down how much you've excercised every day, and since I want to impress (and score a good grade) I've been working out a lot last few weeks

* Done other schoolworks

* Watched "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus" (I sat and tried to interpret everything which somehow made it even better), "Rebel without a cause", "Sophies world" and more.

* Gone to a party last friday

* Painted and sewn. Might post pictures when I've finished, if it turns out good.

Might as well...

2010-01-11T22:03:00.001+01:00

...post something Ray Johnson did.

MACBA.

2010-01-11T21:47:00.003+01:00

Boring picture, I know, but I just wanted to post something dark and something of MACBA (the museum of modern arts in barcelona). It's great, loads of cool people hang out in front of it and the art is kind of cool (Ray Johnson!) and they've got an awesome bookstore. Soooo...if you're going to Barcelona, go to MACBA!

Kent

2010-01-10T14:47:00.002+01:00

Johanna and I are going to see them live soon <3

I want to go places.

2010-01-09T22:34:00.005+01:00

Stockholm and Barcelona x 2 Brr...We had -20 degrees this morning. And it's probably getting colder. Sometimes I just hate this country... /I

pola(d)roid

2010-01-06T22:39:00.005+01:00

Poladroid is very fun, although I want the real thing. /I

Grandma's hat

2010-01-06T13:26:00.003+01:00

I like this hat. /I

Bow

2010-01-06T13:17:00.003+01:00

In Barcelona I visited Montjuïc one day and afterwards I went down with the funicolare where I saw a girl with a bow in her hair. I've always had a thing for bows, they're really cute. I went to Accessorize afterwards and bought one. /I

Barcelona

2010-01-05T11:07:00.006+01:00

Barri Gotic, El Raval, Montjuïc, Maremagnum. Barcelona is so lively and beautiful...I love it. I could start taking catalan or spanish just so that I could move there (and make myself understood, english and french doesn't always work there I realized). I've got loads of more pictures, I even emptied my memory card hehe. /Isabella

Playing.

2009-12-28T12:13:00.004+01:00

GBG

2009-12-28T12:03:00.005+01:00

I went to Göteborg last weekend. I had a great time, Göteborg is one of my favourite Scandinavian towns (not that I have a list or anything...). I like it there. /Isabella

House of snow

2009-12-28T11:55:00.004+01:00

Finally a white christmas! I built a snow house with my brothers, which you can see on the picture. I've also spent a lot of time indoors watching Grey's anatomy, Skins, and much more... In two days I'm going to Barcelona to celebrate new year's eve. :-) /Isabella

Rockin'

2009-12-27T12:48:00.001+01:00

Was lookin through my pics and found these of Anna and Issa from a great afternoon in October.

Johanna

kind of beautiful.

2009-12-06T13:13:00.001+01:00

Even though the dark is depressing and cold,

it's kind of pretty.

Johanna

Anna

2009-12-06T13:06:00.001+01:00

Was at a concert of Anna Ternheim a couple of weeks ago. She rocks!

Johanna

music makes the world go round.

2009-12-06T13:02:00.001+01:00

For all you Spotify lovers:

My list: http://open.spotify.com/user/m_lindsten/playlist/10jIXOLSQopFqX4GXiChBv

Issa's list: http://open.spotify.com/user/izziegirl/playlist/3NOUeEsJMQSgkkhbhVn5o0

Some other lists:

http://open.spotify.com/user/fr%c3%a5mind%c3%a4r/playlist/6eP4Z98PHp9VbykdrFFMh7

http://open.spotify.com/user/m_lindsten/playlist/00CcY8HthnC8AnxT3PASpf

http://open.spotify.com/user/m_lindsten/playlist/1k3NXKUigiJEEyHXXOWc0f

http://open.spotify.com/user/m_lindsten/playlist/2U22iwAS85RNvrCDNHjEqO

Albums I want for Xmas:

Those Dancing Days, In Our Space Hero Suits

Deathcab for Cutie, Plans

Tegan and Sara, So Jealous

City and Colour, Bring Me Your Love

La Roux, La Roux

Empire of the Sun, Walking on a Dream

XOXO /Johanna

Last coupla day's movies

2009-11-26T20:18:00.004+01:00

The movies I've watched the last three days: Les diaboliques, Rain Man, A clockwork orange. Lovefilm is awesome :)

il fait beau

2009-11-07T16:24:00.006+01:00

Old pictures Today I went downtown with a few friends to check out an exhibition where the college/high school (swe. gymnasium)schools promoted them self. We have to apply to "gymnasium" (or eng. college or am. the last 3 years of high school) in february. Afterwards I went to Lagerhause where 2 of my friends wanted to buy "Father's day"'s-gifts and well, also did so. Right now I'm listening to Casiokids.

500 days of autumn.

2009-11-01T13:48:00.009+01:00

So, in Stockholm I bought a new ("Norwegian")sweater. There's something about norwegian-styled sweaters that I've always loved. Therefore, it was very fun to walk into Beyond Retro (well, it's always fun to go in there)where they seemed to have zillions of hot norwegian sweaters. Louise, Hannah (which I was there with)and tried on loads of them, and it was very fun. The one I bought: Yes, I had to do the thumb-up pose. Some idyllic (and very bright, sorry)pictures from a norwegian knitting magazine: Very fashion-forward. Hehe,I spent most of this week at my grandmother's, and well, what we talked about the most might have been knitting. I got the knitting magazine from her (patterns are featured, I might knit one on my own). Also, right now I'm watching O.C season 4 (I started season 1 june this year, like 5 years behind, I knoooow, but it wasn't until then that I was convinced about how good it is) even though it isn't very exciting. But Summer's clothes make it worth it. I love her hippie look that features some very great cardigans. /Bella

Fog.

2009-10-21T18:40:00.007+02:00

This is what I had to cope with this morning. I like fog, everything looks more mystic and beautiful. I know none of us have updated the blog for almost a month, none us takes it very seriously. But we might update soon again, who knows? (though I'll be staying at my grandma's place in Stockholm without internet next week, so it will not be me...) Some pictures from my 'pretty pictures'- folder on my computer: Sorry, I just randomly save pretty pictures on my computer (for inspiration), and I don't really know wherefrom I've taken these...The second picture is called something with 'polish girl', I think that was the photographer's alias on flicker. The last image is from Skins via Skinny.

Scandinavian summer

2009-09-23T17:50:00.009+02:00

Some pictures (all taken by me, except the last one) from my (awesome!) summer. They're all from different places around in Scandinavia (you might spot the new opera house in Oslo, and Holmenkollen, also in Oslo, and a big statue hand from Millesgården in Stockholm)... /Isabella

The beginning.

2009-09-22T16:36:00.001+02:00

From top: Shirt - Johannas brothers..; Belt - Second-hand; Skirt - GinaTricot

Shirt - Beyond Retro; Top - Indiska; Jeans - JC

Top - Jackpot

This is what we wore today.

The end.

Fugle..Lasagne?

2009-09-21T20:50:00.006+02:00

1. Me (with Beyond retro dress in the background) 2. Postcards from friends, and the Munch museum in Oslo - these are all going to get put on the wall..sometime...when i find some space... 3. Drawing I did a coupla' weeks a go, i think I'm gonna add some background 4. Started this yesterday. 5. Found this on one of my pages.. Just some doodle.. 6. Also gonna add some background and colour...Started this one two nights ago. By the way, I want to buy myself a parkas. I've already found one at H&M. It's made of organic cotton and costs about $ 30, but i'm not sure if I can survive the looong Swedish winter in it, so I'm not sure if it's worth it... /Isabella

Swedish autumn

2009-09-18T17:44:00.002+02:00

From top: Scarf - Gudrun Sjödén (gift); Hoodie - H&M; Top - Monki; Shoes - Ofiice

So.. Issa + me x time = a LOT of fotos.

These are just some of the pics we took an afternoon a couple of weeks ago when we were supposed to be working on our science essay.. The ones with issa on them (except for the one at the bottom) are foted by me and the rest by issa. C ya!

/Johanna

Today's song.

2009-09-13T10:53:00.003+02:00

Link!Some good background music when studying. /Isabella

A/LOVE/STORY

2009-09-05T23:35:00.006+02:00

I think they're having a party a few houses away, but I'm staying in with a cold watching movies and drinking tea. I just watched this one, "En kärlekshistoria" ("A Swedish lovestory" it's called in english, which somehow sounds a bit wrong...the greece name is even worse). It's a really beautiful movie.

/ Isabella

A bad omen?

2009-09-04T14:13:00.001+02:00

Was watching the intro to some show called True Blood at this blog and the I saw this. A bit comical. Good thing that none of us are very religious. Maybe we should rename the blog to just Bangs ?

Way out... west!

2009-09-03T18:06:00.007+02:00

Timo Räsinän, Lykke Li & Robyn, Arctic Monkeys, Robyn, Anna

A few weeks ago, we (all of us 5 writers of this blog) went to Way Out West. Here are some pictures from day one, when we saw Timo Räisinän, Robyn (and Lykke Li who came as a guest and sang "I want to break free" with Robyn, and it was really amazing) and Arctic Monkeys. We also saw Bon Iver, Beirut and Röyksopp (or well, I,Isabella, was the only one who went to Röyksopp, the other four went to Glasvegas). I have unfourtunately not got any photos from the second day, when we saw Jenny Wilson (she's really cool), Vampire Weekend (very good), Florence Valentine (which were AWESOME!, though everyone might not agree...hahah), Basement Jaxx (also amazing), Lily Allen (it was really fun to have seen her, I've listened to her since I was like 11 or 12) and Teddybears (which performed their megahits and well, ended the festival in an awesome way, and got everyone dancing like crazy). Way Out West was awesome!

Rockin'

2009-09-02T20:14:00.001+02:00

From top: Glasses - Lindex; Shirt - H&M; Belt - Vintage; Skirt - H&M

Linnea as a rock chick. Or rocker. Or whatevs.

Cinderella and the pauper.

2009-09-02T20:10:00.001+02:00

From top: White top - GinaTricot; Corset - H&M; Skirt - Lindex

Blue beret - H&M; Checkered shirt - Vintage (Johannas mom's); Striped shirt - Sandströms; Pants - Ellos

Another extension of the fairytale theme, which Anna came with the idea to because she said she had the perfect outfit for Cinderella which you can see at the top here. Linnea went as the pauper (you get to pick from which fairytale).

yell OW!

2009-09-02T19:54:00.001+02:00

From top: Beret - H&M; Yellow top - Topshop; Suspendors - ?; Jeans - Monki; Shoes - DinSko

Isabella: "Ow!"

H&M

2009-08-29T17:34:00.001+02:00

From top: Dress - H&M; Shoes - Converse

We ♥ H&M

Little Red Riding Beret.

2009-08-26T23:03:00.001+02:00

From top: Beret - H&M; Black top - rabalder; Red cardigen - Vintage; Skirt - ?; Shoes - Vintage

So, I also wanted to do the fairy tale theme like Isabella, so I was Little Red Riding Hood. Though I skipped the hood because the only red hood we had was my old one that isn’t very pretty.So I took my beret that I bought in like the 6th grade (and still use) and voila! So I was testing the color balance function in Photoshop and got a little carried away. The top one is the original editing and then you’ve got yellow, green and blue. My personal favourite is the green one. A nice contrast to the red cardigan. //Johanna

Black, white & red.

2009-08-26T22:46:00.001+02:00

From top: White top - Gina Tricot; Belt - ?; Skirt - Hand made by Isabella; Hand muff (or whatever you call em’) - H&M;;; Dress - H&M; Shoes - Converse;

Theme: Rock Chick. Or something like that. Even though you don’t see the clothes very well, especially not on Isabella, I think these are some very cool pics. As you may see me and Isabella spiced em’ up a bit in Photoshop and now Anna and Isabella both have red skin and black hair. Nice ;) //Johanna

Goldy locks

2009-08-26T22:12:00.001+02:00

From top: Dress - Monki; Teddy - Johanna’s; Socks - ?;

So we did this fairy tale theme and Isabella decieded to be Goldilocks. So on with the cutest and girliest dress we could find and out with the curling iron. Sadly, my curling iron isn’t the best so you’ll just have to imagine the locks yourself. //Johanna

Secretariesecrets.

2009-08-24T17:42:00.001+02:00

From top: Blouse, old one from Gina Tricot, belt, vintage, skirt, vintage, shoes, DinSko.

Jacket, vintage, white top, JC, skirt, Gina Tricot, belt, vintage, shoes, vintage.

Blouse, H&M, skirt, H&M.

Jacket, Vila, white top Gina Tricot, skirt, Gina Tricot.

We had some fun and dressed up as secretaries (Anna's (bottom right) favourite thing to do?) some weeks ago. Here are the pictures. By the way, some of the vintage pieces (the pink skirt and jacket)are Johanna's (third from top) grandma's old clothes.They're kind of fun to find and wear :)

Numberone.

2009-08-20T19:43:00.000+02:00

Welcome to our blog! Let's introduce ourselfs shortly; There are five of us writing this blog (right now it's me, Isabella typing, I'm the one to the right), which is gonna be pretty fun, since we all share the same passion for fashion. Yeah, I know it rhymes. Whatevs, we'll be updating soon. See ya!