This and that

[frualeydis]

The trim I had intended to edge the applique with was to broad and too loosely woven so it looked really bad when I tried sewing it to one of the motifs. So I have to buy some other braid, I might even end up having to use black soutach braid, but I really wanted something else. Since it's 12th night almost no shops are open so that will have to wait at least until tomorrow.

So I have started putting trim on my light purple 1130s dress instead. If I just get a better scan of the pictures that are my sources (a german manuscript of the legend of St. Lucy) I might get a new dress up in the Costume Gallery this weekend.
Right now I'm going to take sewing break and play some Caesar III, which I haven't done for a year or so.

I'm getting more ill again, I just slept between ten and one for no apparent reason since I had slept at least eight hours during the night. I also feel like I have a temperature. And tomorrow my vacation is over and I have lots of work to do.

Last weekend was 80s weekend on MTV Nordic so we watched some old videos with the kids, who like to see what was popular when Rickard and I were teenagers. When they showed Van Halen with "Jump" I told them how much I had liked that song (and David Lee Roth) and then Rickard tells me he also liked it, but in Aztec Camera's acoustic version. I didn't even know that version existed and had never heard Aztec Camera, even though I had read about them in the 80s (Rickard and I had very different musical taste in the 80s, at least the earlier 80s). So he got inspired and dug out his old records, which inspired me to play some of my records too, so for now it's only vinyl in our home. We started the day with the Toy Dolls ("Dig that groove baby" and "A far out disc") and just now my husband started playing Bauhaus. Or record player, which was bought cheaply at the end of the 80s, is really getting bad though and can give up any minute. Now we have to save money for the birth so we can't get a new record player now and getting one cheap is considerably more difficult now that there isn't a big market for them anymore. Well, we'll solve that problem when we have to.

Now, off to imperial Rome!

Comments

[guyelfkin.livejournal.com]

Get well soon!

Teddy

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

so that is why I suddenly liked more of the music on MTV than what I use to...

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

YAY!Another Bauhaus fan. My favorite bauhaus album from "the day" was "the Sky's gone out". Now I am almost 36 yrs old & still can't give up my Batcave music. Nice to know there is someone in Sweden afflicted as well-Ysabelot

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to disappoint you, it's my husband who's the Bauhaus fan. I had heard _of_ them, but never heard them until today I think. My records from the time include such various things as a lot of Iron Maiden and some other british Heavy Metal, the Pouges, the musical "Hair", the Toy Dolls and some swedish punk. I didn't have that many records though, because we were three girls who used to make tapes from each others records and I didn't have a record player, just a tape recorder. In the early 80s it was all heavy metal for me and in the later 80s I wasn't really into music, I liked it, but I was more into politics. Stupid really, there are so many bands I never saw in concert and now they have broken up, died or whatever. My husband has seen both the Pouges and the Stone Roses. But I have seen Toy Dolls more times than him. And we both got to see the Church last spring.

Eva

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I love the Church. Also The Smiths, New order/Joy division. It seems to my boy friend & i that sweden is the place to be for music. 3 of our favorite bands are Garmarna & Komeda & The Cardigans. What do we get? Jay-Ze & 50 cent !!!!-YC

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

The Church are touring the US in March. Tour dates can be seen here (http://www.spinartrecords.com/content.php?p=tour).
They will tour Europe in April, but I have no idea if they will play in Gothenburg and if that will be before the baby has arrived.
If you have the chance you should go and see them, last year's concert was wonderful. "Magician among the spirits" was both meditative and ecstatic at the same time, I felt like when I enter a light trance.
Oh, I hope they play in Gothenburg, before the end of april.

Eva

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I live in Seattle & they are not coming (big pout), however I am very pleased indeed that they are still together & making new music-YC

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

They say on that site that they play in Seattle on the 22 of march, at a place called "Crocodile", are you sure they're not coming?

[pandorasbox.livejournal.com]

I see it now. The crodile is a wonderful club that has been around sice the old grunge days. It is a bout 5 minutes from my house. Thank you so much for your info. I will definately get tickets-YC

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Great!

Eva