Steph: Summer pictures

This summer holiday was not any different than all the other holidays. What I mean is that the camera was used as much as always.

Stephanie

Stephanie's hand bag

Stephanie's hippie dress

Sun's retro sunglasses

Stephanie's retro ray ban sunglasses

Sun's belt

Sun's retro shoes

Sun

Sun

Stephanie

Stephanie

Steph: Autom and winter

One, two, three and the cold winter arrived to Bergen. Not any snow, just rain, rain, rain. With all of this rain, I can’t stop thinking of the summer, with the sun (and of course with you Sun), the travelling and the lazy days.

In my autumn break went to Croatia to visit my family with my dad (who by the way is Croatian) and I have to say, I’ve never been so excited to go to the beach and sunbathing as I was then. Probably because the weather in Norway was so cold and depressing! I spent my first three days in Dubrovnik with my dad. It was so chill, with the sun and with the lovely atmosphere in the old town. After three days we took the airplane to Zagreb (the main capital in Croatia) where my big brother Dino and my baka Ana (Grandmother Ana) were waiting for us with a tons of delicious food and drinks (as always). We spent the rest of the holyday in Zagreb, visiting friends and
family.

Stephanie dining out the first evning.

In Dubrovnik

A cruse boat almost as big as the town

My mafia dad

Stari Grad

Family

New sport stadium they are building on baka Anas old garden

Baka Ana, Dad and me

Drinking coffe at the mall

In the old part of Zagreb

The smalest street in Zagreb

!!!!

Steph, I think it's definetely time we got together again!

there is so much to do, especially if we're going to London this spring;)

And you neeed to post those photos we took this summer!

I'm working on dad letting me move to Bergen next year, but I must admit he seems sceptical...

But just think how much fun it would be if we lived in the same town! We could finally get all our plans going, and instead of burning of all that money on calling each other, we could actually talk face to face:D

I miss you so much Steph, and I should really come visit you sometime before christmas! Maybe we could celebrate new years together this year as well?

until then, enjoy th Young Brother Boys' last song at http://www.myspace.com/theyoungbrotherboys

Sun: Why the HELL wasn't I there!?!?!

Just popped in to add a little video of the Kooks playing "Victoria" with Ray Davies....

It kind of hurts to watch as I wasn't there, and might never get the chance to see something like this, but here it goes:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41236985

Got damn it!

Sun:to promote my new blog:D

Just a little note to ptomote my new blog:)
It's called Sunni's Afternoon, and yes, I know it's kind of tacky, but it was there, it was available and it was relevant, and I serioulsy couldn't help it!
but here's the link anyways:
www.sunnisafternoon.blogspot.com
hope you'll visit it sometime!

Sun: Depressed!

You know when we went to Øya, how our ears would really be ringing when we came home after the concerts, 'cause the silence was...well, too loud?
That's how I feel now!!
Suddenly I'm alone! I'm not about to watch "just one more" episode of Sex and the City, or the Simpsons with you. I'm not about to stand in front of the mirror with you for half an hour, getting ready for bed, and I'm not going to wake up tomorrow and know that you'll be up in about another hour.
Yes, I'm aware that this is starting to sound like a cheezy declaration of love from me to you Steph, so that's why I'm stopping at this;) hehe
Anyway, It's really sad comming home to an almost empty house, with mum and dad out of town, and no one to keep me company.
Tomorrow I'll hopefully meet Maddie and Maggie(Magnus:p) though, so I won't die of lack of social life.
And then, the day after that I'll meet up with Anje, and we'll be getting ready for our first day at Videregående(college/high school).
Can't believe I'm really on my way into a new era now, and starting this Monday!!
Until then I'll just sit back and admire my new clothes:
two pairs of pants, one grey pair with a really high waist, and a white pair, 'cause on the bonus material on the "Quadrophenia" dvd (Yes, I've gone through it...) someone said that White jeans were really Mod...I think.... if not, it doesn't matter 'cause they're still really cool!
I also bought a shirt/blouse. Very nice:p
Starting to notice my typing isn't that good now, 'cause I'm really tired, so I'll leave it at that and say good night for now!

And Steph: You MUST get those pictures we took on here;) Some of them anyway;)

Sun: Patiently practicing her guitar...

I can't believe it, but I've been in all day!

I've been lying around, surfing on Psycho-Jello(Love it!) and finally gotten around to learn some guitar...

I've actually managed to do Lola almost perfectly:) But there has been a lot of swearing during the process...

Yesterday I went down to Grunerløkka with Maddie to hang around, and I ended up buying this fantastic vintage purse/handbag from the 30's! Plus a couple of earrings.

After that we went up to Maddie's attic to visit her sofa. She found it out on the street, and we're planing to have it in our apartment together.

We also had the pleasure of finding that someone had been smoking weed in her sofa. Very nice.

Anyway, will post some pictures of the sofa and the purse, just not yet:p

Steph will be here about 11:) Back to my guitar now...

Sun: Ray Davies concert!

So, here's something I've been annoyed about for a long time:

Madonna released her new album ages ago now, but still there are lots of posters up everywhere promoting it. (News travels slowly to Norway:p) And I was sitting on the tube just recently, looking up at one of those posters.

Here it its:

So, we all recognize the cover, with her in a sado-like outfit...

I couldn't help thinking: Madonna...You're 50-something! Do you REALLY think the world wants to be staring at your crotch whenever they sit down on a bus,tube train etc.!?

I mean, it's really cool that she can still produce (though crappy) music at her age, but come on!

It's just NOT sexy anymore! I say grow up and make some mature music and album covers. Maybe look back at your previous work, even that was more sensible than this "oh-my-god-I-don't-want-to-get-old"-shit!

Aaanyways... Back to the topic;):

As I've written earlier, I was to to go to a Ray Davies (of the Kinks) concert with my dad on Saturday (2nd).

The concert was held at Notodden Blues Festival (Which is maybe even duller than it sounds...), and when we got there an hour early, some blues/country/rock band was playing.

The place was packed with these really tacky people. Middle-aged men and women dressed as 1999-teenagers, with a beer in one hand and a cowboyhat. So I though: "Well this will be fun..." and waited for the band on stage to finish ruining Hendrix's "Voodoo Child".

I've got to admit, I wasn't expecting much from Ray Davies' performance either, 'cause old pop stars with an ongoing solo-career, have a tendency of beeing grumpy and too caught up with precent projects, but still, I was looking forward to it.

When the band on stage had finished, a lot of the tacky people started leaving, and we got to move closer to the stage. So we waited for another hour, while more and more people arrived.

Then this girl, my age, with spiky black hair and kind of Punk/Rock-like clothes, appeared next to me and started talking to an older guy. I think she had been working in one of the stands there, and was going to check out the concert, cause she had never heard of Ray Davies, or even the Kinks.

And so, negative-me, thought: "If you look like that, and have never heard of the godfathers of punk, you trying to hard to be something you're not..."

And then finally Ray Davies entered the stage.

He looked really good, and started of with "Where Have All The Good Times Gone", which was fantastic!

(The girl next to me, actually reached her hand up in a satan-sign during the song...tacky...)

After that he kept on delivering great Kinks songs, and a couple of his solo songs, which were actually quite good!

He kept making jokes through the whole concert, and during his extra-number, "Low Budget", when the audience was singing along eagerly he said: "You don't even know what that means, I've heard about your oil-money" (or something like that), and they all laughed, 'cause I think they got a little embarassed by it,(I know I was) 'cause he was right.

He sang "Sunny Afternoon", "You Really Got Me", "Dead end Street"(Which I sang along to shamelesly, because of my school performance:p) "All Day and All Of The Night" and many more. He also did the intro to "Lola", but said:"That's old, we won't do that.." And started on another song instead. I was very disappointed, 'cause "Lola" is one of my favourite songs...

Then after the "Low Budget"-extra number, he told us the performance was over and walked of stage with his band. We all thought that was the end, and a lot of people started walking towards the entrance.

But then the whole band came in again, and guess wich song they played??

Of course they played "Lola", which was maybe the best of all the performances!

So the concert really got me out of my "Hope I die before I get old"-attitude, 'cause if I can be as vital and well and sporty when I'm 64, well...I can't wait!

So conclusion is: the concert was definetly worth it, and I'm really sad you weren't there with me Steph! I'm sure you'd enjoy it!

Peace out!

Reports on the concert: (all in Norwegian, sorry)

http://www.ta.no/pulsen/festivaler/article3699283.ece (gave him a five)

http://www.bluesfest.no/program2008/artister/1209205109

http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001080070074&tag=item&words=ray%3Bdavies (also gave him a five)

http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001080070075&tag=item&words=ray%3Bdavies

Sun: Roadtrip!

I've just come home from the longest roadtrip I've ever been on!

First it was all the driving in England (Liverpool-London-Dymchurch-Brighton-Lewes-London), and then when I came home I went for a little drove with my whole family and Maddie(Sandefjord-Kristiandsand-Stavanger-Bergen)

So Maddie and I (and my whole family) drove for about 3 hours to "Kristiansand dyrepark" (zoo) where we got to meet Kaptein Sabeltann(Captain Sabletooth) and Kasper and Jesper and Jonatan (from a Norwegian childrens book) and, well, we had a swell time! After that we stayed in a camping site with a BUNCH of tourists staying there as well:p

That's Kaptein Sabeltann's friend Langemann (Longman:p), our secret crush:p

This is Jesper and Jonatan, two out of three notorious villains in Kardemommeby:p The two guys insisted on taking their picture with us. here with Madeleine.

Nice chaps eh?

At the Amusement park.

The next day we drove for another four hours to Stavanger, where my aunt Birgit lives. It was really nice, and Maddie and I watched VH1 Old School the whole evening while babysitting.

Early the next morning my little brother (bless his soul...) woke me up by sqeezing a rubber tarantella in my face. I screamed louder than I've ever screamed at nine am! Then I saw my dad standing there with a bloody camera laughing his head of.

Ola misses you aight!

Anyway, we arrived at Raknes where my father's family comes from, later that evening, and went out in the boat. It was pouring with rain, and I got to steer the boat:D I'm really good at it now!

I'm going to jump to the next morning when Maddie and I went for a long walk up Tirevoldsfjellet. It took us about three hours more than expected, and I totally lost our way in the end, but finally we came out somewhere that I recognised:p We ended up spending an hour just picking blueberries, and then we got an angry call from dad asking where the hell we'd gone off to. But we sorted it out, and dad wasn't angry with me for too long:p

Very much in fashion.

I think it was the day after that we went to bergen and hung around with Magnus and his friends.

It was really nice, and we were aquainted with an old man who calls himself The King, and is really in to Rock 'n Roll, and claims he knew John Lennon, and that Lennon himself played with him in Berlin in his confirmation suit. I was on the verge of believing him, until he started talking about God and Jesus and asked us to name one of the big Rock 'n Roll stars that didn't belive in the Lord... I suggested John Lennon, whom he claimed to know so well, but he just ignored me.

Another thing he told us is that he once threw Keith Richards in the showers... I wouldn't blame him if it was true, I think he'd need one.

One of the next days I took the boat with Maddie and my ten-year-old cousin Mathias, and we drove(?) over to Hosanger to collect my jeans and shoes at Steph's place (thank you by the way). we also popped by Magnus' place.

After that I lost my Ray Bans in the water, but managed to get them up again later that evening:p.

we went home to prepare for the big "Løefest"(Barn party...yes...) witch was quite nice. We had a great time, and Magnus brought his friend Sigbjørn and his brother Åsmund.

On our way to the beach;) And Steph, you're familiar with the games:p

Don't ask...

I swear this was part of the games!

See, this was really nice, except Magnus (who's supposed to be the guitar genius in my life) could hardly play any of the songs I could sing!

"I only know the songs of my own band!" he kept saying... what a hunk, huh?

Anyway, we got to slightly hum our way through Cream's "White Room", and sing "With a Little Help From My Friends", "House of the Rising Sun" and a couple of other songs.

I'll make a song book with guitar chords 'till next time!

I'll make a big leap in time, about a week, to the big mountain walk I went on yesterday.

Once again we drove for a while to Sogn og Fjordane, where my stepmother's family comes from.

Here are some pictures from the trip:

"Jesus sees all" -Well, why doesn't he do something about it then?

My brothers posing for the camera...

so I'm exhausted today, wondering if I should go out in the boiling-like weather (27 degrees celsius, and yes, I know it might not be much for the rest of the world, but for little Norway it's a lot), or just stay in... I think I'll stay in...wait 'till I get some answers from my friends, and maybe watch a video with someone... We'll see.

Toodles for now, and I'll be back with some more interesting things to talk about next time;)

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