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joel+leyla

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About Me

Tokyo & Kyoto april 2007!30 y.o architect/25 y.o liberal arts student. living in stockholm, dreaming of NYC, heading to cuba this summer. obsessed with our apartment due to a lack of urban stimulation: a widespread deficiency in our hometown, often resulting in this fixation for home styling, a term and practice that we entirely despise, yet are entirely preoccupied with.

My Interests

yoga, art, food, cities, holidays, being lazy, window shopping for expensive furniture/antiques/objects... Neue National Galerie

I'd like to meet:

cubans! tips, connexions, anyone? Archigram Home Tokyo - missing it always. Family album

Music:

we both like a lot of contemporary electro and pop/rock, like the strokes, albert hammond jr, ratatat, nouvelle vague, the go! team, babyshambles, bright eyes, johnossi, laakso, le sport, white stripes, bonnie prince billy. joel grew up in the 90's so he can't really let go of blind melon and pearl jam. leyla loves american 60's and 70's and brittish 80's (dylan, kristofferson, neil young, joni mitchell, joplin, cohen, the band, velvet underground, the cure, the jesus and mary chain etc) we can also agree on interpol, springsteen, bowie, chopin and piaff. and the pixies! and I can't beleive we almost forgot elton john! Lewerentz blomsterkiosk

Movies:

we just saw Naked Lunch... HOLY F***!!! very disturbing movie, recommended though. leylas favorite nostalgia trips are The Big Blue and Dirty Dancing. other all time movie favorites are Dr Strangelove, Talk To Her and Fear and Loating in Las Vegas. and anything by/with Herzog/Kinski. joels favorites include Hurly Burly, Two Girls and a Guy and Fear and Loating in Las Vegas. another mututal darling-movie is The Beat That My Heart Skipped. oh yeah, and sofia coppola and miyazaki! holy jesus, how does one pick favorite movies?! there are too many, we feel so guilty about all the ones we haven't mentioned... a truly impossible task. Villa Savoy

Television:

DEXTER! an evil pleasure - we're so hooked! kill me now (and I will die happy). Dexter

Books:

Dostoyevsky is probably the only writer we can agree on at the moment. joel is very much into those male mythical figures: Hemingway, Bukowski, Bret Easton Ellis, Michel Houllebecq, William Burroghs, Hunter S. Thompson and, frankly, Dan Brown. leyla is a self confessed japanophile when it comes to litterature: Haruki Murakami, Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata, David Mitchell. other favorites are Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Louise Erdrich, Philip K. Dick. Murcia Town Hall

Heroes:

Hunter S. Thompson + the postmodern essay generator - powered by the dada engine: www.elsewhere.org/pomo (just hit refresh for an endless supply of lovely nonsense). And kittens. Hunter Kitten Another kitten Corey Feldman

My Blog

stockholm/tokyo

so wierd being back home again... after 3 weeks of crazy awesome fun with my crew in tokyo, I have to instantly get back into straight-yoga-study mode. which is a very nice mode to be in, it's just th...
Posted by joel+leyla on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:43:00 PST

YES

Yes yes yes! I can't believe it - sunny blue skies and dry streets - it's ridiculous that these simple things can make a person so happy! this is life - it's coming back guys! cause, like my african d...
Posted by joel+leyla on Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:27:00 PST

Sound removal

I've been sick for days and for a while there I completely lost my voice  I mean completely and totally gone! As if someone pressed MUTE  I couldn't even produce any sound when I sneezed. ...
Posted by joel+leyla on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:11:00 PST

pretextual nihilsm

the dada engine came up with the discipline of "pretextual nihilism" and, after last weekend, I think I might understand what it means. for the second time in just a few months my computer kidna...
Posted by joel+leyla on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 04:15:00 PST

no. 1

ok, so here goes... I spent all morning fixing up our myspace (it's leyla writing), joel hasn't even seen it yet. i hope he approves of what I have written about him. i really should be studying ...
Posted by joel+leyla on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:49:00 PST