The Ranting

Thursday, 16 April 2009

  • Currently
    Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles)
    By Philip Reeve
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    The EPIC booklist of AWESOME

    This year I only have one resolution that really counts. To read these books (preferebly) before I die:

    [*] Mortal Engines by Philip Reeve
    [x] Paper Towns by John Green 5/5
    [x] Roots by Alex Haley 4/5
    [x] Dracula by Bram Stoker 2/5
    [x] Inkdeath by Cornelia Funke 5/5
    [x] Pride and Predjudice by Jane Austen 4/5
    [x] Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger 2/5
    [x] The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (first book) 4/5
    [x] Mig Äger Ingen by Åsa Linderborg 0/5
    [x] Tulip fever by Deborah Moggach 3/5
    [x] An Abundance of Katherines by John Green 5/5
    [ ] In Search of a Lost time by Proust
    [ ] Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events (first book)
    [ ] Punish the Sinners by John Saul
    [ ] The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
    [ ] To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
    [ ] One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
    [ ] A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
    [ ] Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
    [ ] The World According to Garp by John Irving
    [ ] The Cider House Rules by John Irving
    [ ] The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
    [ ] The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    [ ] Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    [ ] The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
    [ ] Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    [ ] Good Omens by Terry Pratchet and Neill Gaiman
    [ ] The Diamond Age by Neil Stephenson
    [ ] Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin
    [ ] A Bad Spell in Yurt by C. Dale Brittian
    [ ] Wicked by Gregory Maguire
    [ ] Its Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
    [ ] Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
    [ ] The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
    [ ] 1984 by George Orwell
    [ ] Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    [ ] The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
    [ ] Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon's
    [ ] Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
    [ ] Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    [ ] The Talisman by Stephen King
    [ ] Breakfast of Champions by Vonnegut
    [ ] Ham on Rye by Bukowski
    [ ] Don't Tell Mom I Work on the Rigs: She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse by Paul Carter
    [ ] Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Wilke
    [ ] The Lord of the Ring's Series by JRR Tolkien
    [ ] The Space Odyssey Series by Arthur C. Clarke
    [ ] Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    [ ] Noughts and crosses by Malorie Blackman
    [ ] Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
    [ ] The Host by Stephenie Meyer
    [ ] The Pact by Jodi Picoult
    [ ] Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
    [ ] Frostbite by Richelle Mead
    [ ] Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
    [ ] Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
    [ ] Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
    [ ] White Oleander by Janet Fitch
    [ ] The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
    [ ] The Mediator series by Meg Cabot
    [ ] A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnely
    [ ] A Certain Slant Of Light by Laura Whitcomb
    [ ] The Crucible by Arthur Miller
    [ ] Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
    [ ] Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
    [ ] P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
    [ ] The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe


    The list is made by pure AWESOME!

Sunday, 15 March 2009

  • Currently
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition
    By Douglas Adams
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    Normally I don't want anything to do with Eurovision Song Contest, but this year I have followed the Swedish Melodifestivalen with excitement. The last time I did so was when my favourite Swedish band The Ark entered and won. It was epic; and this year kind of was too.

    The winner this year was Malena Ernman, a beautiful, extremly talented opera singer that contributed with something different. The equally talented Frederik Kempe wrote the song. I had a major crush on this man when he released Vincero in sweden. Fredrik, I still love you! I will actually watch Eurovision this year, only to support Malena and Fredrik.




    I don't know how I came to love Opera. It creeped up on me like a wonderful surprise.

Saturday, 14 March 2009

  • Currently
    Torchwood - The Complete First Season
    By John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Burn Gorman, Naoko Mori, Gareth David-Lloyd
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    I can't stress this matter enough...


    ... only cool preople crochet.
    The second a human being picks up the hook, a sensation of awesomeness starts to spread through her body. Twirling and jumping over bones and veins the sensation makes its way to the core of awesome we all have inside; it brakes free and we suddenly realise:
    Crochet makes people cool. Only cool people crochet.


    Cupcakes are cool.


    Dogs that crochet are cool.


      Bones are... um... cool... ish.


    Gangsta dogs are cool. Especially gangsta dogs that like crocheted bones.


Friday, 13 March 2009

  • The Band

    The roar of the audience seemed to keep echoing forever. We waited backstage, with smiles etched on our sweaty faces. We were tired, but still had too much energy to relax.

    Elliott turned towards me and violently kissed me on the cheek. I hugged him for a while; thinking that all this was because of him. He was tall and had hair dyed so blond it was white. His eyes were a violent shade of green; with cheekbones only god himself could have made.

    We were the ultimate songwriters; me and him. I would have married him, if it weren't for the fact that he was gay as a meatball and his husband was waiting by the stage.

    Our third member was a quiet girl named Juliet. She was small and petit; almost too skinny. The tabloids screamed “anorexia”; but the fact was she ate more than Elliott and me together. She had learned to laugh the rumours away. The prettiest thing about her was her brown eyes. You could call them whisky-brown, walnut-brown, anything-brown, but absolutely nothing came close to the truth. She was the funniest girl on the planet, once you got to know her.

    As we realised the screaming would never end, we took each others hands and ran back out on stage. Juliet hugged my hand before she took her drumsticks and stretched them into the air with a triumphant scream. She took her place behind the drums and started playing. Elliott took his base and microphone, I took my place beside him with my white fender stratocaster.

    The sound was deafening, and our blood was boiling. The punk-rock-ish sound we were famous for, made the building vibrate wildly.

    “Hello again,” Elliott screamed on the top of his lungs. “We're still Dreamers Disease, and we're still awesome!”




  • the torn out pages are like scars on my heart
    the empty sentences is what makes them
    page by page
    fall apart

    the rhyme-less words destroy everything





  • No matter what


    No matter what, she thinks as she steppes out into her garden, I wont bend under the weight of this world. For I am not like the others. I endure everything. I am not afraid.

    No matter what, she thinks as she takes cover from the rain, I wont bend under the weight of this world.

Saturday, 10 January 2009

  • The Old Lady



    Yesterday I was out walking down town with my headphones on like I always do. Unwritten Law made me sing out loud; with no shame. I picked up a parcel containing a few books and then started to walk back home again. The suddenly an old lady in a wheelchair approached me asking for my name.

    I was really surprised. One: because she was a total stranger. Two: She spoke to me in english (which is not my first language). We started chatting and she asked me about my life. Where I study, what music I like and where I live. She was a nice little lady and I have never had a conversation quite like it before.

    She asked me about my future; what I wanted to be. I told her that I wanted to move to England and study languages. She was amazed by my answer. She didn't say anything for a while, just looked at me like I was the bravest person in the world. And for once in my life I felt proud of myself. I felt like she had brought it out, this sweet little stranger.

    She followed me almost all the way home before we parted. I waved and shouted goodbye until I could no longer see her behind the apartment buildings. My heart fluttered in my chest because of one little lady that I happened to cross paths with a Friday afternoon. It's almost like I met some kind of guardian of mine. And I will not forget her in a long time.

Friday, 09 January 2009

  • NERDFIGHTERS <3



    'Key, so I'm a dedicated nerdfighter and have been for about two years (HOO HAAA!). I live and breath the Ning. And today I received three John Green books! I'm super exited to read them!  Buuut, they have to wait until I've read Pride and Prejudice for school. Blurgh. :( I'm not saying it's a bad book, I want to read John Green now.

    I just felt soo much love when I read this line (line seven):



    Halleluja and bless the nerds.

    Oh, by the way, I got the sad Margo. :)

Thursday, 08 January 2009

  • My Scariest Nightmare - The Uninvited Contest



    Okey, I know you'll laugh you butts of when you read my scariest nightmare. But actually, it was scary. Really.

    I have this "friend" that's been treating me badly for a time. So I decided to avoid her as much as I could until I figured out what to do about her. The simple answer was of course to tell her to go to hell, but I couldn't because I didn't want to hurt her. I didn't want to sink to her level, you know?

    Anyway, I went to sleep that night with lot's of anxiety. I had received a text message from her earlier that day where she asked me if I was avoiding her. I didn't answer. In the dream I suddenly found myself in the middle of town, standing in the square. When I looked around there was a lot of people there and my eyes searched around for her. Somehow I knew she would be there. All of the sudden I saw her and I froze. She looked at me and I panicked. I started to run and hid in a clothing store. I begged the staff to hide me but they refused to. She had turned into some kind of monster with evil eyes and hands with giant claws. And she wanted to catch me.
    I ran and ran all over town but she was always right behind me. I was scared to death.

    When I woke up I still felt that fear. Of her big, giant, huge, claws and red eyes searching for me. I had the dream several nights and ran my heart out. Until the day I decided to tell her the truth. She is no longer my friend and I no longer have the nightmare.

    Happy ending.

      

Tuesday, 06 January 2009

  • 2065 words




    Well I was supposed to write 3000 words, but I didn't quite get that far. I am very satisfied that I wrote so much, because of the fact that I've had a terrible writers block for about three years.

    I have the idea of my novel so clear in my head now. It's like a movie playing over and over. I need to write it down, but to be able to do that I need discipline. And I surely lack it. I'm trying to do some kind of schedule so that the writing becomes a routine. Is that a good idea? I really wonder how published writers, with contracts weighing on their backs, are able to write their stuff without the writers block? I'm like running into the same wall over and over...

    I'm reading Inkdeath, by Cornelia Funke, by the moment and I'm absolutely adoring it. I'm longing for the movie so badly I have to make a fangirl squee sometimes. It kinda scares people when I do that. Holy crap, how much I love the frikkin trailer! I can't believe this movie will be anything less than epic. <3 Now I really need to calm down and read a bit.


    Tea! I need Tea!

Monday, 05 January 2009

  • The Phony: Love


    Is love a fancy or a feeling?

    Have fiction invented love? Is there really a feeling as breath taking as the one we read about, or see in movies? Or is love something we think we feel, because the books say it exists? I have many questions. They can't fit in my head anymore. I just want to blur them out on the pages, but the words don't seem to be enough today either. What's wrong with them? Why do they oppose me? They are supposed to help me now. But they won't.

    I refuse love. I'm shutting it out! I won't let it bother me anymore. If it dares to defy me, I will defy it back. No more words of passion shall affect me. They are just words. The same words that oppose me.

  • When words are not enough


    Death scares me immensely. My stomach turns in fear just by the sight of the letters that spell the word. I can't write about the reason why, because it feels like my heart will break. I can't handle a broken heart right now.

    A friends father died today. Now he's just gone and I can hardly believe it. What can one say to make this any better? My words will only be sound breaking the silence. Nothing else. He has been sick for a while but they found the reason why. I was so happy for him and his family. I thought maybe he'd be able to live a normal life again, without crutches or a wheelchair. He had been sick for so long that his body couldn't handle any more sickness. He died of a cold that turned out to be more severe than they could ever imagine.

    You see death in movies all the time. Read about it. But in times like these you understand how much you distance yourself. Death on a screen is nothing but acting. In a book it's nothing but words. In real life death is pain and emptiness. But you cannot understand it until you've faced it. And facing death leaves deep scars.

  • Currently
    Looking for Alaska
    By John Green
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    422 words


    I have written 422 words on my novel today. It feels crappy. I really want to be a writer but my low self asteem seems to get in the frikkin way all the time. How to fight it? People tend to give me good advices about how to get around the writers block but none of them seem to help. I'm still sitting here analyzing and thinking about how crappy I am at writing. ._. Fuck.

    I'm making a stand against writers block here and now! By tomorrow 18.00 I will have written at least 3000 words! Who's with me?

Friday, 02 January 2009



  • Sometimes I wish I was a little black dog.

  • Currently
    Razorlight
    By Razorlight
    Iin the morning
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    Dear Steven,

    I wish I was normal, as normal being "a healthy person thinking straight", and that I could like you back. You say I turn your body heat up a few degrees, and you talk about fantasies where I get to choose your punishments for being a bad boy, and I'm pretty sure that is some kind of affection in your world. I can't deny that I quite like it. The way you flirt with me.

    I wish I was normal so that I could meet you, face to face, and actually get a real opinion about you. You are just words on a screen. But I'm scared out of my wits, baby. You do that to me. And you get pleasure out of it, I am sure.

    I wish I was braver. So much braver. That I could walk straight and defy the fear that takes me by the throat. I forget how to breath. It's just too hard. And I'm a coward. How do I prevent myself from screwing it all up, Steven? How?

    You'd better forget me, honey. I swear.
    Love,
    Suki

  • A Short Story

    It was a strange thing they met that day. But faith, they reckoned. The boy who had no future and the boy who had no past. What else could they do but complete each other?
    Their future was set in a matter of seconds. Like the stars had alredy decided for them. No rain, no storm, no catastrophy could prevent destiny. And after that day, they slowly begun to understand it.
    The winds were angry and threw the rain on the window panes. The clouds showed their dissaproval with flashing rays of light. The whole world seemed to sing a song of rage tha echoed through the air a thousand times over. Dare to defy me, Destiny whispered.
    What else could they do but to embrace the fact that their unfortunade pasts, and futures, had led them there? What else could they do but accept that good could come from bad? Destiny clearly said so.
    The boy with no past had lost his memory. He knew nothing of his life before, but darkness. A thick unbreachable darkness. His oldest memory now consisted only of a piercing bright light that seemed to cut his mind in thousand fractured pieces. They said he had been dead for ten minutes. And that his memory was lost forever.
    The boy with no future was sick in his heart. It wanted to beat, but it was too tired. Even though it had only been alive for less than seventeen years. Any minute it could give up. There was no future left for him. He was unsaveable.
    When the future died, the past did too. One can not live without the other. That is what destiny has fortold.

Thursday, 01 January 2009

  • Currently
    Before the Fall
    By Tom Schilling, Joachim Bissemeyer, Claudia Michelsen, Martin Goeres, Max Riemelt
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    Yes dear, I believe in homosexuality

    Is there someone else out there looking for signs of homosexuality in every movie you watch? Every book you read? Picture you analyse? I sure hope, but I really don't care. Everyone would be happier if they embraced every part of humanity and didn't convince themselves everything different is bad. I don't care much about gender. I care about finding someone to love. And I'm a fag hag.

    There's a Swedish blog called Sodomi - It's hard to resist that I absolutely adore and fetch all my homo-movies from. They deserve all praise for their hard work!

    I watched Cold Mountain a few days ago. I made a happy dance when I saw that it was on and I immediately did something I hadn't done in a while. I fetched a VHS-tape and recorded the movie. EPIC! It felt a little weird, somehow. But anyway, the movie was as good as I remembered and I cried every time the brilliant Jude Law poured his feelings out on the screen. But I couldn't help to notice the storm of feelings between Ruby (Rene Zellweger) and Ada (Nicole Kidman). Ruby looks at Ada sometimes like her heart is falling apart and there's something there you can't put your finger on. I just want to believe that Ruby feels more than she admits. I recommend the movie so badly! Everyone should watch it, if not only for the hints at lesbianism, but for the wonderful acting and story. 5 stars out of 5 possible.



    Also, as a tip from the guys at sodomi, I watched a movie called Before the fall or Napola. It's about a young boy named Friedrich (Max Riemelt) who is a damn good boxer. He is so good that the school Napola, one of Hitler's schools for the "elite", accepts him as their student. At first Friedrich is proud and hails Hitler happily in his green uniform. But when he meets the quiet boy Albrecht (Tom Schilling) everything changes. Albrecht looks at the violence and blood with despice. He want's to write and change the world with his words. But there is not place fur him at Napola and everyone but Frierich thinks Albrecht is weak. It's a heartbreaking movie and I find myself shaking in fear when I watch how the boys are forced to throw real granades and shoot at judes with sharp ammo as practice. The one thing that keeps me from turning the movie of is the relationship between Friedrich and Albrecht that clearly reaches beyond friendship. There's a scene in the movie where they start fighting and ends up crying and hugging each other on the floor. It feels like someone's tearing your heart out of your chest with a spoon. And to know that this school actually existed doesn't make me feel any better.



    And, I'm a sucker for gossip. There I said it. I admit.
    I especially follow the romance between Lindsey Lohan and Samantha Ronson. It intruiges me badly. Who knows if they really are a couple or not? I don't really care about it, I just like the idea of the troubled Lindsay getting on track after meeting a girl. It's a sweet lovestory. And I'm a sucker for those too. *sigh*



    There have been two lesbian weddings this year in the famous world. Ellen DeGeneres married her girlfriend Portia de Rossi. And they were beautiful.



    And rumors say that the beautiful Cynthia Nixon (from Sex and the city) secretly married her girlfriend Christine Marioni. I feel my heart beating happily for them!



    I choose to believe these rumors beacause they make me happy. If they are false, I intend to pretend I don't know. Well, I think it might be time to stick my head out of the world of lesbian fantasies and go drink some coffie.

    Over and Out
    Suki

  • Currently
    Inkdeath (Inkheart)
    By Cornelia Funke
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      Good Morning Universe, it's thursday January first.



    A year has come and passed since I promised myself that nothing would ever be the same again. I took the pledge under the stars on new year's eve 2007and I have never been so sincere before. The thing is, 2008 turned out to be a year full of change.

    I have been able to go to school and continue my education, something I never thought would happen. I've been able to overcome my fear of crowds and at least it's been easier to fight my perfectionism. That's quite impressive. I have also decided to read french, japanese and signing after my graduation. Because I'm a giant language nerd.

    This year I have only two resolutions:
    One, keep up the good work. Continue fighting for yourself and learn.
    Two, read a lot of books.

    The thing is, I have never been this proud of myself. And I am not afraid to admit it. People should tell themselfs every day that they are brave and wonderful. That they are proud. Because we all struggle and elbow ourself through life and if we don't compliment us, who will?

    I hope all of you learned something new last year and that you will continue learning. I know I will.

    Over and out.
    Suki 





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