en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/ Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 Thu, 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 60 http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal The Last.fm journal for katjaelina. Last.fm journals are a place to talk about all things music. http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2008/04/26/21lr8_ok%2C_this_is_how_it_works... Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:53:59 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2008/04/26/21lr8_ok%2C_this_is_how_it_works... a troubled night like this, I should listen to Regina Spektor more. I shouldn't just let the songs pass me by, I should really breathe them like air and make them a part of my system. I should listen to On the Radio,
this is how it works:
you're young until you're not
you love until you don't
you try until you can't
you laugh until you cry
you cry until you laugh
and everyone must breathe
until their dying breath

no, this is how it works:
you peer inside yourself
you take the things you like
and try to love the things you took
and then you take that love you made
and stick it into some
someone else's heart
pumping someone else's blood
and walking arm in arm
you hope it don't get harmed
but even if it does
you'll just do it all again

the thing, to hope it don't get harmed, but even if it does you'll just do it all again. that's the hard part. that's what I need to weld into my head. that's why I have it on repeat. a playlist with two songs, On the Radio and Blue Motorbike again and again and again, until I'll finally get it, and be able to sleep without nightmares.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2008/04/25/21lmj_cause_i_like_the_sense_of_falling Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:45:57 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2008/04/25/21lmj_cause_i_like_the_sense_of_falling it's just so ...


I'm speechless. if my life was a movie, and in that movie I was lying on my bed, just as I am now, and the camera was spinning slowly around the room, out the window, resting on the tiny small white spring flowers in the trees outside my window just for a moment, and then leaving for the sky making Stockholm turn into the milkyway. if my life was that movie, then Blue Motorbike would be its soundtrack.

and you'd better hold on tight, cause I like the sense of falling, and I like the sense of you.

it just makes it ... feel OK ... to be, kind of ... in love.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2008/04/21/21ljv_m%C3%A4_luulin_l%C3%B6yt%C3%A4neeni_oman_mussukkain Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:03:45 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2008/04/21/21ljv_m%C3%A4_luulin_l%C3%B6yt%C3%A4neeni_oman_mussukkain the sun shines and it's spring for real now. it isn't as if I haven't listened to music since that Feist concert last fall. I just haven't felt like writing about it. I haven't really felt like doing anything. and I've been listening to Frédéric Chopin, Ane Brun and Norah Jones - the first for when I long for quiet, the second for when I feel melancholic and the last when I really need something to soothe my heart. but now the sun is back and maybe I'll go out exploring new songs. it feels like time.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/10/03/21lhg_now_it_won%27t_take_long_to_fall Wed, 3 Oct 2007 20:48:04 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/10/03/21lhg_now_it_won%27t_take_long_to_fall Yesterday, I saw Tue 2 Oct – Feist, Bob Wiseman. It was good. There's not much more to say. Feist's voice is so thin, so fragile, so beautiful. And when she sang Let It Die she broke my heart, just to heal it again when I got out in the fresh autumn air and the smell of fallen leaves.

The sadest part of a broken heart isn't the ending so much as the start. The tragedy starts from the very first spark, loosing your head for the sake of your heart.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/09/17/21le1_your_flaming_feet_are_burning_up_the_street Mon, 17 Sep 2007 23:41:18 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/09/17/21le1_your_flaming_feet_are_burning_up_the_street this last month I've been listening a lot to Bob Dylan. his music is of a kind that I always come back to. months, almost years, can pass without me listening at all to him. but then something happens, I'm scrolling through my MP3-player and am in a special mood, the folder with Bob Dylan comes up and I think: why not? and then I'm stuck, for weeks, intensly listening to Bob, his lyrics and guitar, the harmonica. he is such a poet. his words never stop to fascinate, intrigue me.

now I'm listening to Another Side of Bob Dylan. I've never listened to it before. I don't know why. but now I know what I've missed. oh, it's so beautiful. so calm and thoughtful. exactly what I need right now. and My Back Pages, it's such a beautiful song.

it's far too late, soon late will turn into early and with a glass of white wine I'm listening to Bob Dylan.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/09/07/21laf_it_is_a_strange_time_in_my_life Fri, 7 Sep 2007 21:10:35 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/09/07/21laf_it_is_a_strange_time_in_my_life I don't have a job and I shouldn't buy anything, but I just couldn't resist. I bought Jens Lekman's new album. I heard an interview with him on the radio and then just had to. I borrowed mom's bus card, took the tube in to the city and bought Night Falls Over Kortedala.

It sound's like Jens. It really does. But at the same time it doesn't. It's as if it's lighter. His music used to make me melancholic, it was something in his voice. But this just makes me so happy. As if there's a little change in his manner of singing. A little more piano. A little more soul-like. I can't get enough. I just want to listen to it over and over again. I just love Kanske är jag kär i dig. I don't regret a second buying this CD. It'll make my fall.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/05/29/21l7f_don%27t_you_leave_me_in_the_dark Tue, 29 May 2007 19:39:53 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/05/29/21l7f_don%27t_you_leave_me_in_the_dark Isn't Josh Ritter just wonderful? I think he's just wonderful.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/05/23/21l5p_sleepless_nights_of_may Wed, 23 May 2007 22:16:28 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/05/23/21l5p_sleepless_nights_of_may I can't concentrate. I really can't. I won't be able to sleep. So I listen to Regina Spektor. She sings: This is how it works - you're young until you're not, you love until you don't, you try until you can't, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh, and everyone must breathe until their dying breath. I think she's understood something that I haven't. Yet. But still, it's comforting listening to her.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/04/18/21l3x_and_she_sang_to_my_wounded_soul_ Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:02:15 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/04/18/21l3x_and_she_sang_to_my_wounded_soul_ yesterday, I went to a concert with my dad. it was at Stampen, an old jazz club in a cellar in the Old Town. when my dad was young, he used to go there. all kinds of memories came to him as he climbed down the stairs. and now he was there with me, his 19-year-old daughter who had talked him into seeing Nina Ramsby & Martin Hederos live.
they had a people's park theme this night at Stampen. people's parks where a place where youth went to meet each other, dance, play games, drink beer and fight, mainly during the 30's, 40's and 50's, in Sweden. they had decorated the cellar and sold hot dogs and buns in the bar. but I wondered if not the audience had dressed up to fit into the theme aswell. it seemed as if the cellar was full of back slincks and checked shirts à la the 50's.

when Nina Ramsby walked on stage, she had a checked shirt too. and there was something with her, maybe her posture or her crew cut, that made her remind me of my Swedish teacher from junior high, Magdalena. Magdalena is the best teacher I've ever had, and with someone so much alike her on stage I suddenly felt calm. and then she started singing. her voice didn't fit at all with her quite rough appearence. it was fragile and warm and with just a tiny little bit of gruffness. she sang with such concentration and presence that it felt as if she composed the songs right then and there, felt every little word that she sang. but just the moment when the last tune had become silent, she smiled and thanked and made us laugh with a few, well chosen words.
the songs were mainly more or less traditional Swedish folk songs, with a delicate and very simple jazz piano accompaniment. I love the way jazz pianists play their instrument. not at all the classical strict way that my former piano teacher wanted me to sit, with straight back and high chin. Martin Hederos sat hunched over the keys and carefully caressed the music out of the piano. it always makes me spellbound. I love watching musicians play. it's like the ultimate concentration, pianists and violinists and guitarists. it always makes me so fascinated.

it was the perfect way to end a very hectic day. a brake from all the stress and pressure I'm feeling now, just before all my last exams. it was something beautiful that I will carry with me, in my heart, and remember for a long time.]]> http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/04/13/21kyv_if_you_ever_change_your_mind Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:55:41 +0000 http://www.last.fm/user/katjaelina/journal/2007/04/13/21kyv_if_you_ever_change_your_mind now my mp3-player is broken again. god, I hate this dependence on stuff that I've created. I want to go out to the lovely sunshine and listen to Ane Brun, Tingsek and Feist, but I can't. They're on my mp3-player, on my computer, and the only thing I can listen to now is my old walkman for tapes. I'll have to record some new mix tapes. but by the time I'm done, the sun will probably be gone behind thick clouds. today is not a good day.]]>