…is awesome!
Zorro…
January 20th, 2010Happy new year!
January 5th, 2010
Head Porter Online Store goes international!
November 9th, 2009
Just realized today that Head Porter’s online store (that until now was only for the japanese market) has opened its virtual doors for international customers. Beautiful bags and cases for everyone!
Head Porter Plus.
November 2nd, 2009I’ve found my new winter jacket! Tweed and down!
Now I just need to decide which colorway…
2009: A great year for hip-hop!
October 23rd, 2009Thanks to my pal Jesper I’ve avoided sleeping on some great releases this year. When listening to the new M.O.P. and Raekwon I can’t help to think 2009 will be remembered as a great year for hip-hop, and as the year when the old dogs reclaimed the scene from the kids.
Some essential rap albums 2009:
Raekwon – “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt II”
Stand out track: ”Gihad”
M.O.P. – “Foundation”
Stand out tracks: “Crazy” & “Blow The Horns”
Mos Def – “The Ecstatic”
Stand out tracks: “Auditorium” & “Pretty Dancer”
DOOM – “Born like this”
Stand out track: “Absolutely”
New arrivals from Japan.
September 11th, 2009This book is actually quite fun. Hiroshi Fujiwara has got some nice stuff, that’s for sure. It covers everything from his Patek Philippes to his favourite rubber bands.
The parts about Eric Clapton are interesting! It almost seems a bit romantic the way he describes how they went to Hermès to order two guitar cases together, and how Eric special ordered an all black guitar from Martin & Co with the initials “EC & HF” on it.
…and the latest Honeyee magazine with Hiroki Nakamura on the cover:
Out in the woods.
August 31st, 2009
Me and my friend Brun where out in the woods searching for golden chanterelles yesterday. It was such a great autumn day. First, we rode our bicycles out to Nacka nature reserve. No luck there though, so we continued out to Älta, where I scored some records and a Sartre book (La Nausée) at a flea market. I love when it’s obvious that you are the first person to go through a crate of records at a private estate flea market: All the good stuff is still there!
In the end, we didn’t find that many chanterelles. Allthough more than are depicted here:
The few we found, however, tasted heavenly fried in butter with some salt and pepper.
And oh boy, there were lots and lots of lingonberries to be found (we didn’t pick any though)
…and blueberries. Yum!
Brun.
Man tänker sitt, Supreme!
August 28th, 2009Really good stuff is coming from Supreme this fall/winter of 2009. Like these jackets:
On another note: (Good) Swedish film seems to be on the rise thanks to Fredrik Wenzel and Henrik Hellström. One of the men behind the very good “Farväl Falkenberg” has, together with Hellström, done it again according to DN’s reviewer Helena Lindblad. I’ve yet to see it, but when I do I will definitely post a review – it’s been a long time since I was this excited about a Swedish film!
The Quiet Nights Orchestra
August 12th, 2009I arrived late at the gig tonight, so I missed a couple of songs. The Quiet Nights Orchestra were playing at the legendary jazz club Fasching here in Stockholm. My old friend Peter is the leader of the band and plays the trombone.
All I have to say is: hot damn! Amazing jazz, nice atmosphere and a couple of Mariestads – the evening couldn’t have been much better. Well, I was kind of disappointed that the singer of the band, Sofie, didn’t recognize me even though we went to high school together. Maybe it was my mustache and ball cap that kept her from recognizing me? To comfort myself I picked up their 12-inch release on Japanese label P-Vine – as well as their full length “Chapter One” on CD – at a friend discount.
I didn’t have a camera with me, so some videos from their release party at Berns will have to suffice. (A party I missed for reasons unknown.)
Bittersweet perfection
August 7th, 2009歩いても 歩いても, or “Still Walking”, is almost poetry. The plainness and realism really struck a chord in me. I saw it yesterday at Victoria and – apart from the cinema’s air conditioning being broken which resulted in me, Niklas and Fredrik looking like we came out from an aerobics class afterwards – I was blown away (although in a very slow paced way)!
