I love amusement parks, I love roller coasters and Stockholm has both and good ones!
I went to this amusement park: Gröna Lund in Stockholm Sweden, yesterday. I didn’t want to rise my hopes up, knowing that Swedes are pretty conservative and kind of shy… in a way (believe me, I have been here for a while!). But I rushed my judgment. Not only the park was full of people, even though it was a rainy day, but I realized that when they want to have fun, they go for it with no restrain! Check “Insane” one of the roller coaster of the park and its main attraction these days! The ride doesn’t last long and I think it’s for the best! See it for yourselves
Needless to say, I had crazy fun, wouldn’t have you?
If you love animals like I do, this Academy Award winner documentary is a “must”. When I finished watching it I couldn’t believe how far human stupidity and omnipotence go… It’s a shame that some people is so blinded by the concept of intelligence that they forget to apply it…
And “The Cove” it’s only one example of this strange “superior” behavior that some human beings have…
Watch it, shed some tears if you feel like (I did!) but then do something to help this or other causes. It doesn’t take much… maybe a sing up in some website… perhaps a small $$ collaboration… everything helps!
Here is a petition to stop the cruelty shown in the documentary, so if you are interested, just sign it!
Remember the interesting animated video (N.I.B.) I recently released? Well, Its director, Tom Weston is a multi-skilled character and I didn’t even know!
I was at home last week, when someone rang the door and drop a package before I could see who it was… The messenger wasn’t important in that case, but what the box contained was! Two books autographed by the writer: Tom Weston! I was gladly surprised, because I didn’t know he was also a writer (I must admit that Nordic King was the one in direct contact with Tom). So I did some research and I found out that this man is a talented and hardworking man.
Here is his BIO (for more info you can go to his site):
“Originally from England, Tom now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
Before turning his hand to fiction, Tom had a successful career as the CEO of a
consulting company, conference speaker and writer of industry articles and business books.
But determining that the business world lacked a sense of humor, Tom decided to hand in his jacket and tie and instead turned to the world of literature.
His novel, First Night, set in Boston during the New Year’s Eve festival, introduced the unlikely heroines, Alex and Jackie, and the ghost of a 17th century Puritan named Sarah Pemberton. First Night won an Honorable Mention in the Middle-Grade/Young Adult category, in the Writers Digest 17th Annual International Self-Published Book Awards.
The sequel to First Night, called the Elf of Luxembourg, was publshed in January, 2010. As with First Night, The Elf of Luxembourg is also a supernatural mystery, with a blend of humor and history that has become Tom’s trademark.
Tom is currently working on Book 3 of the Alex and Jackie Adventures, and is researching the background material for the story, which will be set in Ireland.
Tom has also written the screenplay, Fission, based on the true story of scientist, Lisa Meitner, and the race for the atomic bomb, and which was named a finalist at the London Independent Film Festival”
"First Night" by Tom Weston
"The Elf of Luxemburg" by Tom Weston
I haven’t read the books so far due to my lack of time! But I will and I will let you know what I think about them
I was interviewed by Fernando and Federico, the creators of a cool new Argentinian blog about electronic music: I-BEAT . They state they are the first ones on develop such a thematic blog about Argentinian electronic music.
You will find articles about everything related to the genre, not only artists! Here is a brief description of how they came up with such idea and what is their work about:
“Ibeat was born when we, Federico and Nando, friends, found out that there was not a magazine or site specialized in Argentinian electronic music.
” – The first idea was to create a kind of digital magazine, with issues like software, hardware, events, interviews and more. Then we realized that it was a difficult job, so we started our work as a blog instead.
” – Our goal is to give information about electronic music from all around the globe, but specially from Argentina.
” – We write an amount of 45 post per month about new hardware and software, releases, events, producers, Djs and live shows.
“The blog was targeted on Spanish readers first, but due to the increasing amount of visitors from all over the world we have just started a new site, which includes most of the posts but this time in English.”
So check the blog out and as I always say, take your own conclusions!
No, my interview is not there yet, but soon it will be! so I’ll let you know
Very interest chart campaign generated in Facebook. It will basically place 40 bands that are not released by the big labels into the mainstream charts from UK.
Congrats, Ricky Martin… we all knew about this, but your confirmation shows that you stand for your own choices and decisions and that is admirable (even tough if it took you a while)!
And here, “Private Emotion”, one of your videos (which I really like) with Meja, a great talented and famous Swedish artist:
My grandma used to call me my little “Alice” making reference to the character of the story… I never asked her why though. Maybe because of me having a great imagination… or because I always seemed to be lost in a fantasy land…? I don’t know. I guess I could ask her, but I rather keep the mystery…
Anyway, when I heard about the release of Tim Burton’s movie, “Alice in Wonderland” of course I couldn’t hold myself! I had to watch it and I did. In 3D of course
Here is how I look on those 3D glasses, by the way
As you know, one of the parties where I played last time I was in London, was organized by Electroqueer blog or EQ. The blog is wonderful, full of news, releases and articles about the electronic-pop music world (I highly recommend it). Raj Rudolph is one of the responsibles of the blog. A really hard worker that loves what he does (if you start following the blog, you will understand why). I can tell that he is always looking for new ways to improve his work and please EQ followers and what he has done recently proves my point. Check it out, a new blog to download free electro-pop music (with the permission of the artists, of course)!
Whenever I go to another city, I feel like a small kid. I want to see, touch, buy, experience EVERYTHING!!!! And London fulfills that perfectly. It’s never enough time though because I am not a simple tourist, I work my ass off rehearsing and preparing the last details of the gigs I have and that leaves not much room for the rest… Nevertheless and between shows I managed to do some shopping and I went to see a MUSICAAAAAAL!!! Yes! I did and it was fantastic! Nordic King’s choice and a good one! We went with a mutual friend and the 3 of us laughed so much!!! Here some pictures of the play. Oh, and the musical was Avenue Q, in case you want to see it
This new start of the year was completely different from me. Instead of the usual sun and warmth from Argentina, I went to Ã…re, Sweden, right to the snow and coldness to celebrate with with my Nordic King and some friends the upcoming 2010.
Words are not enough to describe the beauty I’ve seen there and the fear I have had in the immensity mountains. The landscape was overwhelming. So I better show you some pictures instead!
From the bus, arriving to Ã…re, Sweden
Going doooooooooooown!
After a long day of skiing in Ã…re, Sweden
I hope that you all have had amazing celebrations and I wish all your dreams come true in this 2010 (but don’t forget you are direct responsible of that! ).
I am going on a ski trip to Ã…re, Sweden, to celebrate new years! isn’t it great? Only 2 days left and I will be there! Between the balance of the whole 2009 and the new projects for 2010, I will be up high ruling the mountain with my skills… To be honest, I have skied only once and it was long long ago, so wish me luck! hehe
I will go with my Nordic King, of course and 8 more friends, so it will be fun.
And I will charge my batteries for the beginning of 2010 that already seems to be very busy (I will be traveling to London in the 1st week of January among other stuff).
Hey friends! You can find my Christmas package with free songs for downloading in EQ music blog as well… and once you are there, I recommend that you navigate through the posts and articles. I know you’ll love this blog as much as I do . It’s filled with music news, videos and lots of reviews, so don’t miss it.
PARIS: a blue illuminated Eiffel Tower in the background…Â Cool electronic sounds and a big audience watching dozens of half naked girls on luxury chariots in a very fancy parade! That was the Sonia Rykiel presentation of her new underwear collection for H&M!!!
How can a girl like me concentrate in work with such a big thing going on???
My Achilles heel in no other than shoes and underwear! HOW can H&M sabotage my work in such a way ???
Well, as a good shopaholic I am waiting for the release of Sonia Rykiel‘s underwear collection, here in Stockholm, so wish me luck, coz there will be blood among the other shopaholics
So forgive me for this parenthesis in the music and let’s go back to work!
Music everywhere in this wonderful Nordic land! Metal, pop, hip-hop, electROCKnica wherever I go (this last one, of course! )
I was about to kick serious ass in my gym but before I needed to nourish my superpowers with a decent salad, so I headed down to the commercial center close home. Kista gallerian. It was crowded as hell, so I focused my sight and I discovered the reason. There was an enormous banner announcing the opening of the new area of Kista Gallerian. And they were celebrating it with a concert! This concert reunited a lot of Swedish artist that have participated in a tv show called körslaget.
Unfortunately I couldn’t stay (my spoiled body was asking for pain!) but I had the pleasure of meeting 2 colleagues of mine. I have talked about one of them before, Rigo. The other one was Joacim Cans, frontman and singer of a metal band called HammerFall.
Fortunately Nordic king (who was the one to enlighten part of my life with me his metal fixation) was there with me so he took a picture of us!
