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Jessica

Cornflake S. Pecially

About Me

I have nothing interesting to say.have a field day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/burntnorton

My Interests

Fondue Parties, Germany's Most Disturbing Home Videos, Gael, Sverige, Infernal Beasts, Communist China, Full-Frontal Nudity, Billy Corgan's bald head, Mediocrity, Little Fascist Panties, Feel-Good Paedophilia, Dreadful Medieval Polyphony, The Black Death, History, Disrobics, the Catholic Church, the Early Nineties.

I'd like to meet:

The ghost I love the most

Music:

Spiritualized, Simon & Garfunkel, Klaus Nomi, Dungen, Jose Gonzalez, Erlend Øye, the Stone Roses, Kraftwerk, Smashing Pumpkins, Cornelius, Kanye West, My Bloody Valentine, Van Dyke Parks, Current 93, Flaming Lips, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Pearl Jam, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Tortoise, Leonard Cohen, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, the Lemonheads, Stevie Wonder, the Verve, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Zero 7

Movies:

400 Blows, Fanny och Alexander, Mitt Liv Som Hund, Full Metal Jacket, Wayne's World, Die Blechtrommel, The Seventh Seal (it's so serious, it's seriously funny).

Television:

Fox News, the Philadelphia news show with the rap jingle, Munich's hit comedy series "Who Are You To Accuse Me?"

Books:

Four Quartets, Der Sandmann, As I Lay Dying, City of Glass, PARADISE LOST and other heavily moralistic epics involving fire and brimstone, Phenomenology of Spirit, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, White Noise, Lolita. Invisible Man. Canterbury Tales (hah...no, seriously). Jude the Obscure. Lots of Thomas Hardy for that matter. Also, Salman Rushdie seems incapable of writing a mediocre book.

Heroes:

Ezra Pound, Fidel Castro, Henrik Ibsen, your mom

My Blog

I Love Badminton

After years of neglecting actual sports (Dodgeball hardly counts, does it?), I took up Badminton at Victoriastadion here in Lund and have since been a bonafide Badminton enthusiast. As my friend (and ...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 23 May 2006 06:24:00 PST

Germany vs. Finland

In lieu of my last blog, I thought I'd also point out that Dschingis Khan (a Germanization of you guessed it, Ghengis Khan) might actually give Armi and Danny a run for their money. Click here or fore...
Posted by Jessica on Tue, 09 May 2006 04:07:00 PST

Nude photos of me

...and by "Nude photos of me" I mean "Finnish 80's Pop Video." I challenge you to watch this with a poker face. That means you, Ellie. Best choreography EVER!Klick! Me! Now! Or! Forever! Be! Sorry!Bac...
Posted by Jessica on Mon, 08 May 2006 03:34:00 PST

Refresh my memory, eh?

I've been out of the country for too long. I realized this while browsing through my old roommate, Ellie's flickr account and happened upon some old U.S. slang we used to use, like "struggies". I talk...
Posted by Jessica on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:30:00 PST

Internationella kvinnodagen and the boyfriend

My boyfriend has me trumped on feminist-friendly holidays. Yesterday he came home and had a bunch of tulips behind his back (which of course reminded me of this weekend's trip to Amsterdam and by prox...
Posted by Jessica on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:52:00 PST

Yeah you bleed just to know you're alive

Joy is laughing hysterically in solitude while the guy who lives in the next apartment blasts that Goo Goo Dolls song
Posted by Jessica on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:00:00 PST

and the sun pours down like honey

If you walk around Lund on Valentine's day you'll be struck by all the men in somber grey outfits clutching identical tubes of roses. You can tell they're all from the same hole-in-the-wall florist be...
Posted by Jessica on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 04:46:00 PST

My first illness

So, this seems to be the month for firsts: I have now moved onto my first real cold here. I didn't go to class today which makes me feel rather guilty. However, Anders is here making me food, showing ...
Posted by Jessica on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 09:09:00 PST

hej svejs leverpastej

Check out my first Lund bike injury on my flickr account!
Posted by Jessica on Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:03:00 PST

Baby Patrol

So, I was out at my local Lutheran church for a christening and lo and behold...I run into a certain friend of mine (let's call her Mathilda) who was there, christening her baby...which I didn't know...
Posted by Jessica on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:28:00 PST