Shoko or Apolo?

Ok, yesterday.. Very random night.

Josephine and Carro went to a pre party in Barceloneta. But Anna and I had to work till nine (she at Transcom, me at Multi) so I didn't get home until ten. We knew that we wouldn't make it to Barceloneta before Johannas fashion event started at Shoko. So Anna and I decided that we would meet on the way to the club. We drank some cava and then went in to the club. Shoko is down by the beach with all the other tourist clubs, which we never go to. They remind us to much of Café Opera in Sthlm.

When we got in the only thing you saw were shirts and suits. Long time no see.

So Anna and I took a cab from there to Manolo, suuuuper dressed up. (As u can see in my previous post..). Which was much appriciated by Winkle. But Anna and I still wanted to go out clubbing so we dragged Charles, Colm, Dallas and Chris to Apolo. And it is a very rare sight to see these guys go out dancing. But god damn it, I had so much fun!! Hope they did too though...

There were also some cool graffiti event going on. Two teams (from Barcelona and Dublin) stood on the stage and graffitid (?) over two separate walls. When they were done the crowd got to cheer for whoever they wanted to win. Guess who won?

Barcelona to the left and Dublin to the right. And yes, Barca won.

Poor Colm who is an Irish native.

ChrisChris

Dallas from Iowa

Charles & Colm. He just got back to Barca after three months in Dubai and Ireland. Great to have him baaaack.

Anna's looking mighty fine.

Message to Anna

Anna, this is what I'm wearing tonight:

Must be the most dressed up I've been since I came here.

Hola, que tal? Me llamo Astrid.

More updates will come shortly. I'm at work right now, trying to sell broadbands and stuff.

Got some freakishly great news today though! My parents are coming in the beginning of May! Hells yeah!

Tonight, we're all going to Shoko for a little fashion event. I hope some jewelry will come my way.

Heeeey girls

Happy birthday Camilla! I'm celebrating with u but in Barcelona. I miss you girls!

I am never going to see him again

FiberFib + Line-Ups

To many awesome line-ups for this years festivals.

Here's one just outside of Barcelona, Fib Heineken. 15-18 July. Could I be so spoiled to get to see Prodigy in Barcelona again?

Yes? No? Yes? No?

Then we of course have Peace & Love in Borlänge, Sweden 28 June - 3 July.

The artists who are performing there are insanely good. Way better than last year.

Jay-Z, to start with. Then there's Mando Diao, The Hives, Robyn, Wolfmother, Shout Out Louds, Ale Möller Band, Ane Brun, Kings of Convenience, Markus Krunegård.

Just to mention a few..

And I wouldn't want to bail on Sthlm Jazz Fest (10-12 June) after have spent 4 years (or maybe more?) in a row there.

Visitors

Got some good looking visitors today:

Ryan and Gonza

and Alexander & Karan

Carolina Leijonhufvud

CONGRATS MY DEAR FRIEND & ROOMIE!

We got her a piercing as a gift so we're all

gonna go to the studio on thursday to watch her suffer! ;)

Man On Wire

I saw this documentary today. It made me feel nausious and made me wonder how this man sees a human life? Is it a tribute to the indelible/unstoppable human spirit or is it just extremely kreepy and foolish? Really freaky stuff this guy is pulling. He says:

"If I die, what a beautiful death".

Walking across the WTC on a wire.

It won an Acadamy Award 2008 for Best Documentary.

Vans

We're going to this Skate movie premiere from Vans at Apolo tonight. Could be fun. For sure.

Btw!

Got so happy todaaay cause I got a comment from Helena saying she wanted updates on le blog!

Weehoo! :D

Multipartner

Today was my first day at Multipartner! And I got a really good impression of it. Fun people in the group I started with, and we got a great introduction. This week will be mostly about how you sell the product and so on.

And that's nice because Karan and Alexander is in town for a week so i get to hang out with them!

Sunday at Macba

The sun is back! Hurrah.

We spent our sunday at Macba and Josephine (the basterd) get's a tan way faster than the rest of us.

Clairy!

Clara came here this monday to visit us on her way home to Sweden from Columbia.

Greeat to have her back for a couple of days. We of course had to take her to Nasty Monday's which was also the first time for Johanna.

Whose Line Is It Anyway

Improv show with Drew Carey that is just hysterical. It aired from 1998 to 2003.

To sum up

Yes, the Oscars. I watched it. But not the whole thing. Not because I didn't want to but because some frickin "copywright infringement" sign showed up on the website (justin.tv) I was streaming the Oscars live from. And you know when this little sign showed up? At around 5.30 in the morning. When Kate Winslet just was about to announce the winner of Best Actor in a Leading Role. It was not easy to go to sleep after that failure. Epic fail.

So I missed out on the heaviest awards; Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Directing and Best Picture.

That is not ok. S**t.

Well, well. I love that the indie movie kicked the blockbusters ass.

Snow??

THIS IS NOT OK

Best short

Best short film: Logorama

Best speech so far aswell.

And the only Swedish nomination for Best Live Action Short did not win unfortunately.

But Paul Ottosson from Skåne was there as a sound ambassadeur and won the two categories he was nominated in! Sound Mixing and Sound Editing for The Hurt Locker.

Ben Stiller, great as a presenter for Best Make-up, dressed as an Avatar.

Whooopa

For 20 minutes I thought that I wouldn't get to see it because it turned out that the website I founf only covered the Red Carpet.

But FINALLY I found a legit website that streams the entire show live. But I had to buy a pro account! Shit. But I only bought for one day so it was "only" 3.99 dollars. Omg.

Dresses

Favourite dresses so far;

Sandra Bullock and Meryl Streep

I'm a nerd btw.

The Oscars!

Watching the Oscar Red Carpet. The award show starts in 10 minutes! Yaaaay!

Too bad Anita had to leave our Skype session. My dear friend from Cali and I were skyping with each other from different parts of Barcelona, watching the Oscars on a live streaming website. But she had to go to bed.. Well, I've been looking forward to this since last year and I will make it!

Yesterday

Yesterday was a really fun day! We made even more cup cakes because we thought we were going to Winkle's but that never happened. Anita & Danielle from L.A. came over and they told us that all the clubs there closes at 2! What's up with that? Anyways, lovely girls!

Then we went to Oviso where I met Erik who works in the bar there who

I hadn't seen in a loong time.

Then Flavour Black and I ran (yes we ran) to our apartment just so we could have dibs on the music. Then the rest showed up and we found a use for the cupcakes.

Skyped with my dear friend Tobias Bergquist today! That was fun!

And I also talked to Carolina who told me that she's been banned from Spy Bar! Her favourite spot! She apparently called the bouncer fat. Hahaha! Awesome, it was about time someone told those idiot bouncers in Stockholm something real.

Lucky her she's coming back to Barcelona tomorrow. And Clara is coming on monday!!

Right now Johanna and I are laying in separate beds sending YouTube clips to each other.

Good times.

But I do have some obligations today: To watch Invictus & Crazy Heart because it's only 1 day 7 hours 38 minutes and 09 seconds til the Oscars. One small problem though, I don't know where I can watch it. Got to figure that one out.

One of my favourites...

...is this website. It's truly magical.

When you get in to the castle then press the biblioteket button. There you can read about trivia and the history behind many of the greatest movies of all time.

Jobjobijobjob

I got a job today! Multipartner, starting on the 15th!

We did it!

We actually made brownies! But Winkle never showed. :(

Anna and her room mates brother Elias did though.

Message to Carolina

Can you buy this for me and bring it back to Barca?

Got some baking to do

It's raining today! And I have a cold. Nooo! Amanda and I are thinking about baking something good. Or the thing is, we have too because Winkle said he was gonna stop by after he'd done some business (huh?). And I said something like; "Amanda's gonna bake a cake so you can maybe have a piece..". Just so we wouldn't sound so boring, just sitting inside the whole day. Now we have to bake. God damn it.

Straaawberries

Bought these today. 1 euro.

Manolo

Johanna and I went to Manolo yesterday. Before 12 so it was happy hour. 2 for 1. Didn't end well..

Pretty hungover today. But something good came out of the night cause I met a cute guy from England. His grandfather was from Sierra Leone, pretty cool. Too many boys in this town.

Best friends

My best friends and a trio since Marbella 2007.

Camilla and Erika you're the baddest asses i know (as Winkle would put it). So get them over here!

How To Make It In America

A brand new series on HBO. Watched the third episode today. It's brilliant.

Internet facts

Cool video that I found on Hampus blog. You should check out his blog, it's epic. As he would describe it.

A picture is worth more than a thousand words

Jacob Sibirzeff

My very dear friend Jacob, who I met here in Barcelona, is auditioning for the dance ensamble in We Will Rock You, the swedish canvas, tomorrow. He just found out that he has to sing on the audition aswell and he is nervous as shit. And it's not the easiest song, it's I Want To Break Free by Queen.

In two weeks he's actually having another audition. And it's not every other dancer who gets an audition toooooooooo Moulin Rouge. IN PARIS! I'm so proud of him. Hope it all goes well..

Here is a clip that I found on YouTube from 2007. (It's him to the right.) Talented basterd.

Gonzalo

Here he is; our good friend Gonzalo. All the guys in the apartment joined the skyping session with my parents. I also got a chance to skype with my awesome friend Axel Diurson! I love this!