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Michael Jackson passed away Thursday, June 25th.
He will be rememberd as an entertainer like none other, and for creating the soundtrack for whole lives, all around the world.
Many rumors have been going around both about his life, and his death. None of us knew him, therefore none of us can judge him.
Let him be rememberd for his music, and his talent. Michael Jackson will allways be an icon.
Michael Jackson was a star on stage, he was,
a legend.....

 

 

Let's just do a random example "No offence, but you're not exacly the sweetest person I know" that is a nice example, to be fair, but still.. Since when did people start to think that as long as you say "No offence" in the beginning of a sentence, it makes it ok? What are you? Fucking stupid? No offence doesn't make what you have to say nice, or even slightly ok.. It's like people think that putting that first makes what you have to say helpfull in a way, and people say shit they wouldn't norrmally say.. No offence, is offensive, what, you don't see that I can see that's what you actually mean? No offense doesn't help antything.. If you can't say stuff in an honest way, without putting that first, then just don't say it...

 

From the other side of the world

xoxo

Ok, so yesterday Norway got a new marital law.
The law has three major parts
- Gay couples have the right to get married married, and have the same rights as straight couples
- Lesbian couples now have the same rights to artificial insimination as straight couples
- Gay couples have the same adoption rights as straight couples

I think it's great, it gives gay people the same rights as straight people,
and that is the way it allways should have been, but it's so good that this has finally happened..

A big day for Norway..

the Heroin Diaries came in the mail yesterday, it was about fucking time! I ordered it like 2 months ago, and now it got here..
I took it out of the packaging, and made this face :-O
The cover art on this book is just, amazingly good. It's so grotesque, yet oh so amazing.. the title stands out of the cover and it's just incredible.. The whole book is like book mashed with art.. All the pages are glossed ald filled with different little drawings and artwork.. I am amazed, the illustrator did an AMAZING job.. I started it last night, and so far I am impressed with the honesty of the book, and how it is written.. I better get my read on..
great job Nikki Sixx

Next up on readers list: Russell Brand: My Booky Wook

You know, cause space can't make a sound, so it was basically "a big...... silence"

I felt so smart when i thought that one out

Why yes, it's my 18th birthday today *takes a small bow*
Being 18 here means, driving, drinkin, smoking and getting into a smaller amount of clubs and bars..
For me it means getting into shows and having fun with my friends.. I don't drink, smoke or drive (I should probably have some driving lessions soon)
SO, today was pretty good, it's thursday so the level of fun is alittle lower than if it was a friday, but it's fine with me..
There was practically no people at school today, so the exitement wasn't too high, but I did get a halfway song, and alot of people to tell me a happy birthday.. Best part was lunch, when my friend had baked me cookies with a pirate candle, and I got a guide book to London (it will come in handy, since my brother got me a trip to London for my birthday)
It made my day, cookieees :P
Kind of a bummer that half my class was out for their internships or math exams (it will all be made ok tomorrow i think)
Met my bff to get my birthday present, soap bubbles and a little jewlery box, she's awsome..

Doing a small celebration with one of my friends who hasn't turned 18 yet tomorrow, just a mellow fun birthday thing before a somewhat big night out on saturday with other friends.. Seing as I turn 18 pretty early, it won't be that many, cause people can't get in :P

Now i'm starting the countdown for my London trip with my brother next week, yes I know, he spoils me rotten..

Happy birthday to me
- Silje

I never make much of April fools, for one, I can't really lie, and when I do, I do it very badly... Therefore I just strole along, and I doubt pretty much anything anyone has to say to me (sucks when people are actually serious) So today I was just walking around being normal, not thinking anyone would actually pull a good one on me, oh I failed my friend, I failed..
This is what happened:

A guy in my class was just surfing around the internet, and then he made this face :-O
He turned his mac around showing the title on a newspaper saying "Student at *insert school name* hacks into school network and makes it crash, whole school is affected"
I thought, well fine, no big deal right, it's my school and probably not that big of a deal, untuill i started reading..
It continued to say that it was my grade, and someone who study the same thing I do who did it, and that the principal was pissed, and it was going to affect all the students (we got scared, cause we all have our own mac, and they might take it away or something)
Then it said that they hadn't catched the guy who did it yet, but they have his nickname, (and here's the scary part)
I just looked at the nickname and knew it was a guy in my class, we all got stunned, we didn't want to be involved in all that, and thought he would get in deep shit over it, and they would ask all the students about it.. and then a couple minutes passed, and I heard "I can't bellieve you thought it was true!!" he fooled me, the fucker got me so bad..
Lession of the day:
NEVER TRUST ANYONE WITH PHOTOSHOP AND A GENIUS MIND!

-Silje

So now that the new Panic At The Disco album is out, let's have a little review, shall we?

To be honest, the first time I listened to the new album I wasn't too impressed, it sounded alittle too mellow and too leaned back to be the Panic I used to know, but I didn't stop listening to it, i decided to give it a chance, and boy am I glad I did. After listening to it a few times it started to grow on me, and as it grew I liked it more and more.. It's a new sound for them, but I think that they finally came into their own in this album. Sure they are going to lose a few fans over the fact that it sounds so different, but I don't think it's anything they can't handle. But, they really grew into themselves as a band on this record, every song is well put together, with a mellow sound that is just easy to listen to.. I love music that is easy to listen to, it's music you can have on and it won't hurt your ears in any form (not that i'm not a metal lover, I really am) but I love an album you can listen to without really thinking about it.. They took away the electronica on this record, and I think it suits them perfectly, they didn't need it on this one, they did it on the old one, and now it was time to move on.. Sure the album reminds me of The Beatles, but all musicians steal and are inspired by each other, so who really cares? Anyway, it's a really good album, it's so well put together, and the vocal performances (now by both Brendon and Ryan) where outstanding, you can clearly hear they have taken vocal lessions and gotten to know their voices..

It's an awsome album, even though it might have to grow on you.. It sounds amazing, and if you think they lost their sound, yuo're wrong, I think they finally found it.. Good job guys, you should be proud..

-Love from the other side of the globe

Silje

Just cause I choose not to look like a barbie doll and wear bright pink and sprayed on jeans doesn't give you the reason or right to stare me down like i'm some sort of social outcast.. Yes I wear black clothes, my hair is short AND i'm a girl...




Get over it

The news of the passing of Heath Ledger is flying across the world, and it is a true tragedy.
Heath Ledger was truly one of the great actors of our generation, he was barely getting started..
Heath won the world over with his part in the heartbreaking movie "Brokeback Mountain"
He was just at the starting of his career as an older actor, stepping away from the so called "teenage" scene

The world lost a great one, his passing is a huge shock and has not yet sunk in..

Let us hope he is in a better place now.

I function in two ways, either i'm happy, not stressed and generally happy with life... Or... I'm stressed, tired, angry, pissy, and generaly unhappy with life... Right now i'm stuck inbetween the two, i'm fine with being stressed in periods, it's just the way things are.. But I hate being in the middle, it makes me put stuff off, I know I have something due in about a week, yet i keep putting it off, cause i have like one other thing to do.. It makes me moody to have a weird amount of time to do something, I hate that.. Either i have to know that i NEED to get that done, or have next to nothing to do.. I'm not good with what is inbetween, i'll take 2 stressfull weeks over this feeling any day.. My mom thinks i'm depressed cause I stay at school for 2 hours to get stuff done, and cause i am dead beat tired when i get home..
Give me stress, or give me nothing.. Halfway isn't doing it for me..

-love form the other side of the globe
Silje

I remember being 14, everyone just started trying stuff out, drinking, smoking and everything.. I never did, no one got it.. When you're 14 (or older) and take a stand not to do that, no one will understand you.. How can you not drink? it's just the coolest thing ever, you know.. Why won't you smoke? Just try? Taking a stand and saying no thank you isn't the coolest thing you do at 14, but I did it.. No one got it, and I was boring for it.. (in alot of peoples minds) Once you get older, and the whole "cool" factor is out of that people start to respect you for it.. It just needs to get over that stage of drinking being cool.. Saying no wasn't hard for me, cause I had no desire to start.. It was no inner fight in saying no, it came naturally.. Now it's all about mutual respect.. If you take the choice to drink, I am fine with that, and I have taken mine, and you need to be fine with that too.. Not drinking, it's not boring, it does not make me a boring person.. I can go to parties, I do whatever everyone else does.. I just bring my own bottles and have a very close eye on my glass..  At 14, it might not be the coolest choice to make, but as i got just alittle older, I have gotten that it was the right one..i don't want to do something that I have no desire to do at all... But, just cause I don't drink, don't think i'll be the one to make sure everyone is ok, you're responsible for your own actions...

Alot of people think about their own litte uniqueness.. we all try to stand out in this world, but I have news for you.. You are not as special as you think you are.. You're allways told, (i get told in class) that you need to think new, be creative, be special.. Thing is, your idea/opinion/whatever isn't so unique... When you are able to think it, chance is, alot of other people have or will too.. If you're still reading, you might be shocked, but let me just tell you, it's not a bad thing.. Why do you think add people can make a wonderfull campaign for a brand, a band have success, or someones idea being picked up.. because people agree, people relate to what is happening.. Your thought of something isn't unique, and it can't really be.. If we all had new ideas and had something that no one thought about, no one would probably succeed, you need someone to agree and relate..
So take your lack of uniqueness, and make something of yourself..

Love from the other side of the globe
-Silje

I am pretty sleep deprived right now.. I usually never sleep more than 4 hours a night, 4 hours would be alot for me, I can't sleep much more if i want to get up in the morning.. Last night i slept for an hour and half, usually that would be fine, but since I am allready compleatly knocked out, I am now officially in Zombie mode, I don't feel good, I am about to fall asleep and i can't really focus on anything.. It is sooo much fun..
Anyways.. I have a weird sleep pattern, I don't sleep at night, I usually get about 2 hours of sleep when i get home in the afternoon.. If i don't sleep then, i'm not sleeping that day, no matter what I still can't sleep at night.
I am a night person, I do everything at night, i function the best after 11..
Enough for today, none of this made sense..

-Love from the other side of the globe
Silje

It's just such a degrading word.. It means putting yourself down on the social rank.. I don't like it..
We all have talents in different things, we're all good at something.. Using the word fan is weird, i don't like it.. I don't like using the word, it just seems so degrading, i don't know.. It might sounds compleatly weird, and odd and every other synonym for it, but i just think it's so "uncool" to put yourself under someone like that.. But then again, the word fan can mean i admire who they are etc, and what they do, but I think it's a negative word..
I think calling other people fans to are weird, but that's just me...

I wish we could find some word that just mean, hey dude, i like what you do, you're really good.. and not something like: you're so much better than me, oh man you're just amazing huh..

That all made no sense huh...

I just got done editing my tv-feature for our school project.. I'm so tired.. Imagine being stuck inside a very small room with no windows, all you have is two huge screens, a chair and two other people, and you are stuck in there for about 12 hours a day... At the end of the day, everyone else went home, we staid ti'll the school closed at night... you get tired, angry, grumpu, hungry and every other y-ending word (other than sexy)

But... now it is fnished, it took 4 weeks, a cuntless number of hours, and a gigantic consumtion of Fanta to get 2 minutes and 10 seconds of film done... But, i am pleased with the result, from 3 graphic arts students that is.. 3 graphic students making a film, not the best, but we rocked it at the end..

Special huge thanks to Justin Lanning

Love from the other side of the globe
- Silje

The new Cobra record is out, I haven't gotten my copy yet, cause I has to order it from Sweden, yeah that is how much this country sucks ass... I have to admit, i had to run over to fbrplus to listen to it.. I'm sorry, but I couldn't wait for it... And what do I think? It is a goddamn catchy and a fucking good record.. Some have said it's not as "dancy" as the last one, but that only mean you have listened to it wrong.. Here is the way to do it:
-Put your plugs, earphones, speakers whatever in, turn up the volume all the way
-Then start at the top and rock your way to the end!
Volume is the key here people!

Anyways, the record is damn good..

- Love from the other side of the globe
Silje


ps: Nice pants Gabe

You know you're stressed when you don't even have the time to stop for a minute to eat lunch, when two bites gets you through the day, and leave you with a headache at the end.. Scary to step on the scale, and see a number alot smaller then before, and i never even wanted it to go down..

That is what stress can do to you, my mom keeps telling me to calm down, and not to have such high goals for myself, not to hunt for the perfect. But it is just the kind of person that I am, I can't stop trying to reach for perfect, It's not like me to relax, and not care. I need to reach for the very best, to be on top.. But then I stop caring about myself, and my own body, in the search of the A.

If I could just find some middle way, somewhere inbetween, where i can relax, take the time to eat, sleep and take care of myself, and get the grade I want.. A good grade doesn't come easy for me, i have to work to get them.. I have to work to get on top.. I worked my ass off for three years to get into the school i am in right now, 10th grade, was all school no play.. I needed to get into the school i am in, i needed to reach my goal, i couldn't let myself down, and i made it, i made it into the school I am in now, failure was not even an option. And i need to work hard to stay here.. Next year, there are 15 spots, for the whole city, for what I want to study, this year, once again is alot of work, allmost no play..

I promised myself to take time off, to relax, and calm down from time to time. Hang with my friends, and do art that makes ME happy, and not to search for the best grade. I work for what i get, i reach the goals i set for myself, it is just who i am.. But right now, i wish i didn't care.. this week, is my week off, one week of fall break, to cool it down.. Yet work on my project, i can't bellieve myself.. I need to calm it this week, to make it ti'll christmas.... All this work better be worth it in the long run..

Love from the other side of the globe...
- Silje

Don't you think I have the illustrator files, and .raw files for everything I post on here? seriously, don't even try it, i've said it before, i will find you, I have ears all over the place, I will get you... If you have something of mine, take it down, if it is not credited to me.. And for you stupid person whom put it on the cobra starship contest, take it down, and i mean that NOW.. Don't think you can win with someone elses design... That being said, if you do want to post some of my things, credit me, and it's fine, if you don't, I'll track you down... Thank you, and bye

I have allways wanted to take a year somewhere else, preferably in the US, simply because that might be the place where i could have the most opertunities, in the education I want to.. The problem is, I don't think there is a place for me to go, where I can get the education I need, cause they don't have the same educational program as we do... The thing that might be the most problematic, is the fact that all the people i have talked to whom has taken a year in high school have had to take the year over once they got home, cause they had not learned what they needed to, to go up a grade when coming home... It shocked me alittle when i heard it, cause one girl said, that there was no chance she could go up, she had to take the year over because she had not learned nearly enough.. Now that is kind of weird, now isn't it? I guess our educational system is good, cause she went from being a B, C student to going down getting straight A's.. But still, it would be alot of fun to get away, do a year somewhere else, get my english better, get new friends, and see more of the world. . I would have yo save up though, cause i can't get a job on a student visum (now THAT is stupid) The media education I am getting now, with over 25 hours a week of media classes, it would never work, cause it does not work like that.. I would want to go down after i'm finished with school, and do my internship time down there, working with something like graphic arts, or publicety, since that is what i do now (for those who don't know allready, that is what i do) Or just move down when my eduaction is compleatly over, and I start working for real, long time goal. I don't know how big of a market there is for me up here, I might have to go over there to make it.. Do i have the balls to do so? I don't know, leave my family friends, and everything i have ever known.. Right now, i am not ready, right now, that would scare the living shit out of me.. But, in the future, it might be my goal, i've wanted it for a while.. I just hope it happens some time, and that my nationality and language barrier doesn't get in the way..
Would I stand a chance? Could I make it?

Love from the other side of the globe
-Sil-J