Worst lot of entries in (at least) 20 years… I televoted (once) for Lithuania…sue me, but I enjoyed the silver man the best…but any other year he would have been in my meh pile. After hearing the Swedish […]

I’ve never owned a band T-shirt. Never saw any merch I liked by any artist I loved. Also wasn’t keen on the idea of band T-shirts. I did however buy a ton of badges as a teen, the front of my jacket was full of […]

Hang in there Niall! I’m full of admiration for the way you and Janet handle this fight. Dressing up smartly, enjoying your gourmet meals, making the best of here and now and planning for life after chemo. And […]

Well, thank you all for the suggestions regarding Shostakovich. Truth be told I think I got my composers mixed up and didn’t expect the misery I got! I grew up listening to a LOT of classical music, both recorded […]

April was another weird, stressful month. Every time I thought that the following week would be calm and appointment-free, some pressing engagement suddenly made its way into my calendar. All of my personal plans […]

Oh, it is of course Gymnopédie No 1.

I first became aware of Satie’s music as a pre-teen, back in the days of radio plays and weekly radio readings of novels; one of his saddest and most beautiful pieces was the theme music to one such novel serial […]

Hmm, I’ve never considered Värmländska to be difficult to understand, but I guess even in Värmland there must be different local versions of the dialect, and some of them might be worse than the ones I’ve he […]

What a lovely break from being a patient 24-7…glad you had such a great time. I’ve received two phone calls from doctors “just to check if everything’s fine” in my lifetime. Both times I was so shocked and […]

Why not Hall of Fame for Billy? At least his music is music that I want to listen to, which is more than I can say about most of the others…I find that the older I get, the less time I have for dull music! […]

I do, but rarely of people anymore. That was fun when I was young, always meeting lots of new friends and doing wild things in strange locations – I quit photographing people when I noticed that it was always the […]

Hooray! And here’s to science, and all of its improvements!

Good luck with the appointments rally ahead! It’s dangerous to read your diary entries when I’m hungry…it’s past midnight here and I’m ready to have a big homecooked dinner NOW. I had to break into a bag of […]

@SteveT, if I remember correctly (can’t check due to the computer situation; not giving me access to my music library at the moment) I had the same experience with Courtney Barnett – I haven’t heard Country […]

It’s called “Egen ingång” and although I wouldn’t put it in Ekman’s top ten, I was pleasantly surprised by it. Not least because it’s a fairly late one (1956).

OK, so this will be notes for both February and March, as I wasn’t in the right head space to write anything last month. I’ll try to be fairly brief, but it’s not a sport I excell in, so…sorry in advance! […]

Freewheelin’ for me. It was the first one of his I fell in love with, and nothing beats your first love.

Not even Superman could go through a tough cancer treatment without ever having a moment of despair – you’re doing great most of the time and the occasional blip when you’re tired and feeling nauseous is perfectly […]

I’m the ultimate night owl…during the weeks I tend to go to bed at 05 or 06:00, sleep until 11 or 12 (I don’t start work until 14 or 15:00) – six hours of sleep is enough for me, five’s OK too, but 7 hours is […]

I went to mine, but only because my old BF begged me to come as she didn’t want to go alone. I hated school and was indifferent to most people in my class, and I wasn’t curious at all to know what had become of […]