Alexander Skarsgård XVI

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I think we all need to have an international pow-wow and sing a few verses of Kumbaya. ;)
It seems like we are all saying the same thing in differing ways. I like a good, passionate debate as much as the next person, and tomorrow it might be me going against the grain of the conversation. Its the way the thread rolls.

Yay, though I walk through the valley of snark
I will fear no sofa king ban
For thou is a forum of free speech (with mild moderation)
My opinion and emoticons shall comfort me.

Praise Lilith (and excuse the blasphemy)

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Of course! And just for a giggle, and off-topic: The Movies do "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot". :D





These made me :D been a while since i have done that... Thanks Free:flowers:


To all those that have celebrated birthdays...happy belated tidings, hope you all had great days.

As usual thanks everybody for all the pics and whatnots.
 
I think we all need to have an international pow-wow and sing a few verses of Kumbaya. ;)
It seems like we are all saying the same thing in differing ways. I like a good, passionate debate as much as the next person, and tomorrow it might be me going against the grain of the conversation. Its the way the thread rolls.

Yay, though I walk through the valley of snark
I will fear no sofa king ban
For thou is a forum of free speech (with mild moderation)
My opinion and emoticons shall comfort me.

Praise Lilith (and excuse the blasphemy)

source: spuffyfeels.tumblr.com

:lolots::lolots:Can the church say AMEN and Hallelujah for the chorus?!

Free, I like this idea of an international pow-wow and singing Kumbaya. Of course, mojitos and margaritas will have to be involved :graucho:. Oops! Sounds sacrilegious huh? Oh well :shame::angel::drinks:



:laugh:

Don't forget mojitos and chocolate!

:giggles: Now that's what I'm talking about :tup:

Of course! And just for a giggle, and off-topic: The Movies do "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-A-Lot". :D



:lolots: Too funny!
 
Hi y’all I'm back and as I promised to Zola, here comes my report.

Well, you might already know all the general informations about Way Out West/Göteborg, but anyway.....
The festival is located at Slottskogen (= Castle Forest), which is a Park in the midst of the city, just a 30 minutes walk or 10 minutes tram ride away from central station.
The Park is very nice and attractive throughout the year with many ponds, step hills and a 3,5km hiking loop. It is municipal driven, got a Zoo without any fees, where kids are allowed to pet pigs and goats and one can ride Gotland Ponys. Beside this there are many nice cafès and restaurants, a natural history museum and an observatory.

WOW started Thursday but I had to work and was only able to attend on Friday and Saturday. So I missed Florence + the Machine live but watched them via free live stream.:happydance:

In opposite to Coachella where you can party all weekend 24/7 and even sleep on the festival grounds WOW got a curfew. The gates opened at noon. and closed at 01.00a.m. and there is no camping ground but a good hostel (it was sold out though). But the tourist office had special packages for travel + hotel + festival.
I was there with 3 of my cousins and 3 college friends (my maternal family is swedish, originally from Västervik/Småland, which is 275km/170miles south of Stockholm, just a stone's throw away from the village of Vimmerby where Astrid Lindgren's Emil/Michel of Lönneberga lived) and we stayed at the beautiful Clarison Post Hotel at Drottningtorget (= Queen's square) with a stunning rooftop outdoor pool. :cool:

The daily ticket was 950 SEK = 115,50€ = 141,50US$ and the 3-day-ticket was 1895 SEK = 230,40€ = 282,20 US$ - which is not a bargain but worth it because it worked also as voucher for Stay Out West (the city’s rock clubs, nightclubs, churches, theaters and cultural centers showcased both breaking and more established acts as part of the festival’s club concept).
These club thing was cool but the majority of clubs were pretty small, with a capacity for about only 300 people. We tried to see Ingrid and Chromatic a band from Portland/Oregon but didn't get in because it was tooo crowded. But we had some fun hanging out at the side walk in front of the club chatting with other WOWers.

Another difference to other festivals is the fact that one is only allowed to drink alcohol within one of the four bar areas. You don't see people standing in the crowds drinking or walking around with beer (but good swedish tap water as much as you like for free). So there are no folks totally waisted and bumped – this happens afterwards in the clubs. :graucho: ;)

Even the ambiance in general is different compared to other festivals I've been to.
The audience is more relaxed and calm. They're dressed like hipsters and standing or sitting in small groups at the lawn listening to the music – it's more like a picknick atmosphere.
No stage diving, no pogo dancing but very chilled, beautiful people.;)


Friday was my day! :yahoo:
At 13.00p.m. there was a pre-screening of Snabba Cash 2 - it was sold out, of course. We stopped by the cinema on our way to the park but it was so crowed that we didn't get a chance to see anything nor anyone.
All my favorite bands (beside Florence + the Machine) played throughout the day. It stared with the two lovely girls of First Aid Kid, then Wilco, Billy Brag, Feist, Blur and Bon Iver.
Between the gigs we'd hang out at a beer garden at one of the bar areas and it was my turn to get some drinks. So I went to the beer shack but there was a hose (like a green garden hose) laying in the grass and I stumbled upon it (not because I was drunken but because it was as green as the grass!) and havered into a guy (jeans, tee, sunglasses, black hat; tall + slender = average swede) standing at the shack counter in front of me. I apologized instantly but he was cool about it and said, exactly the same happened to him just a moment before but he wasn't as lucky as I've been because there was no one standing in front of him to softens his fall, so he havered into the counter which hurt him. I answered that I've been twice as lucky because he was standing there and it happened not on my way back so I didn't spill any drinks. We laughed about it and he went away. After I was back at my friends, they all went “OMG!” because it took a while that I'd realize that this guy was Joel Kinnaman – epic facepalm.:shame:
And then we partied at Storan's Club with Zero Boys +John Maus and a new awesome band called Out Of Vogue. I really had a major blast!


Saturday was a bit low.
We were wiped out (well, yes that happens when one is not twenty-something anymore but at the end of her dirty thirties) and slept in and took it slow. We strolled from stage to stage, had some picknicks......well, to be correct I should say, we mostly laid on the lawn near the stages, listened to the music, had a nap or two and in the evening we enjoyed the rooftop pool + bar at our hotel. :D

This was my fifth WOW and the third in a row and I like the fact that WOW is not just a festival for Scandinavians only anymore. But more and more european fans are come up north. This year a german ferry line had a special offer, a overnight ride from Kiel/Germany to Göteborg plus a wild party on board, arriving Göteborg in the early morning, taking a sight seeing tour, attending the festival and taking the night ferry back home for just about 149,-€ (which is a real bargain).


On Sunday one of my cousins and me took the red eye flight to Stockholm and I'd stay with her 'till today. She lives on Södermalm, but at the north eastern part of the island (Stigberget), which is facing Djurgården (the amusement park Gröna Lund). It's about 1km/0.5mile away from the center where the Skarsgård family resides. We were out and about Söder the last two days but we weren't lucky to see any of them. But my cousins neighbor told us, that Stellan is in town and Alex isn't the only one with a South Stockholm t-shirt anymore but Bill is wearing one nowadays too.
 
Friday was my day! :yahoo:
At 13.00p.m. there was a pre-screening of Snabba Cash 2 - it was sold out, of course. We stopped by the cinema on our way to the park but it was so crowed that we didn't get a chance to see anything nor anyone.
All my favorite bands (beside Florence + the Machine) played throughout the day. It stared with the two lovely girls of First Aid Kid, then Wilco, Billy Brag, Feist, Blur and Bon Iver.
Between the gigs we'd hang out at a beer garden at one of the bar areas and it was my turn to get some drinks. So I went to the beer shack but there was a hose (like a green garden hose) laying in the grass and I stumbled upon it (not because I was drunken but because it was as green as the grass!) and havered into a guy (jeans, tee, sunglasses, black hat; tall + slender = average swede) standing at the shack counter in front of me. I apologized instantly but he was cool about it and said, exactly the same happened to him just a moment before but he wasn't as lucky as I've been because there was no one standing in front of him to softens his fall, so he havered into the counter which hurt him. I answered that I've been twice as lucky because he was standing there and it happened not on my way back so I didn't spill any drinks. We laughed about it and he went away. After I was back at my friends, they all went “OMG!” because it took a while that I'd realize that this guy was Joel Kinnaman – epic facepalm.:shame:
And then we partied at Storan's Club with Zero Boys +John Maus and a new awesome band called Out Of Vogue. I really had a major blast!
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Thanks for the report :smile1:. WOW! KAYLEIGH, it sounds like you had an awesome time! :yahoo:I just gotta' know...how did you maintain your calm when you saw Joel Kinnaman?! Lawd have mercy! Like white on rice, I would have been all over him! :graucho::drool::sweatdrop::faint::giggles: Glad you had fun :tup:
 
Thanks for the report :smile1:. WOW! KAYLEIGH, it sounds like you had an awesome time! :yahoo:I just gotta' know...how did you maintain your calm when you saw Joel Kinnaman?! Lawd have mercy! Like white on rice, I would have been all over him! :graucho::drool::sweatdrop::faint::giggles: Glad you had fun :tup:
honestly I didn't realize that it was him.
well, wow is not coachella. there is no celeb fashion parade nor bunches of paps. of course there is a vip area but outside of that the celebs go almost ninja.
I'm not that into Joel, even though I like his movies. so I wouldn't even recognize his voice if he would give me a call right now. he was dressed like a regular dude at wow. jeans, tee and because of the black hat I couldn't see any hair :shrugs:
he was not on my mind as I went to the beer shack, I was thinking about who takes what and how do I manage to carry 7 drinks. so, in that moment - and it was only a moment and not endless minutes - he was just an ordinary guy to me, no diffent from any other guy at the festival.
it was as I got back to my friends, that they told me this was Joel. if I would have known that it was him, I would have asked him for a pic or at least smelled him or whatever ;)
all I remember is that he is pretty slender and relaxed. :shrugs:


I not even saw Fares and Mathias, even though everyone said that they where in town. :sad:
 
honestly I didn't realize that it was him.
well, wow is not coachella. there is no celeb fashion parade nor bunches of paps. of course there is a vip area but outside of that the celebs go almost ninja.
I'm not that into Joel, even though I like his movies. so I wouldn't even recognize his voice if he would give me a call right now. he was dressed like a regular dude at wow. jeans, tee and because of the black hat I couldn't see any hair :shrugs:
he was not on my mind as I went to the beer shack, I was thinking about who takes what and how do I manage to carry 7 drinks. so, in that moment - and it was only a moment and not endless minutes - he was just an ordinary guy to me, no diffent from any other guy at the festival.
it was as I got back to my friends, that they told me this was Joel. if I would have known that it was him, I would have asked him for a pic or at least smelled him or whatever ;)
all I remember is that he is pretty slender and relaxed. :shrugs:


I not even saw Fares and Mathias, even though everyone said that they where in town. :sad:

Ahhhhh, I see :thinkin:. I don't think I could contain myself. I find Joel to be quite sexy :graucho:.

I like that WOW isn't a fashion show for the stars and that there aren't any (many) paps around. KB must have hated it when she went with Askars. :p
 
I threatened the IKEA flat packs with my Danish ancestry and it worked. Praise the scary vikings! :D


:giggles: Hmmm, thinks :thinkin: - No, no Danish ancestry, but I've watched the original Danish 'The Killing' (1&2 and 'Borgen' with subtitles, obviously - otherwise I would've had no idea :smile1:), so does that count? ;)



I really hope that he's able to work out his schedule so he can go to to at least one festival (I'm presuming that TIFF would be easier).


TIFF, oh I really hope so too :smile1: but not sure that interview from last year can ever be beaten :p although Askars, please feel free to give it your best shot ;)



Hi y’all I'm back.......
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honestly I didn't realize that it was him.
well, wow is not coachella. all I remember is that he is pretty slender and relaxed. :shrugs:
I not even saw Fares and Mathias, even though everyone said that they where in town. :sad:


Oh Kayleigh :smooch: thank you so much for taking the time to post such an interesting and atmospheric report. I almost felt I was there with you. The whole weekend sounds idyllic and so glad you and your companions enjoyed it. :D (Oh no, now I feel kinda bad 'cos you put together two fun and detailed posts, and I reply in like two sentences :hrmm: but I am truly pleased you had such a great time :smile1: and thank you again :hugs:

Loved the way you casually mentioned falling :giggles: into Joel ;) Hey gurl there's a time for playing it cool ;) I agree with Mik :ghi5: I would have been all over JK like a bad rash :giggles:



Ahhhhh, I see :thinkin:. I don't think I could contain myself. I find Joel to be quite sexy :graucho:.

I like that WOW isn't a fashion show for the stars and that there aren't any (many) paps around. KB must have hated it when she went with Askars. :p


Oh Mik :hugs:I think Joel is very sexy, from the very first time I saw him with Askars when I thought, 'wow, who is that?' I guess if I want to say more I should run on over to the JK thread :smile1: but, for me, it's always going to be Alex :p No contest :D

And yeah, I think it was obvious that KB hated it in so many ways. WOW is definitely not Coachella ;)
 
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Since we're quiet...here are the recaps for True Blood S5E10, "Gone, Gone, Gone"...very nice to note that the reviews are overwhelmingly positive as we approach the end of the season.

Collider "Slow clap for True Blood, which after a few very rocky episodes has righted the ship"
http://collider.com/true-blood-recap-gone-gone-gone/188601/

Huffington Post "I am so relieved that "True Blood" has finally hit its stride"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joey-deangelis/true-blood-recap-fading-a_b_1772106.html

Television Without Pity "Episode Report Card: Grade A+"
http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show/true-blood/gone-gone-gone.php

TVline (Michael Ausiello)
http://tvline.com/2012/08/12/true-blood-recap-there-will-be-lots-of-blood/

Io9 (with Meredith Woerner's pro's and cons) "True Blood breaks our heart into a pile of gooey vampire pudding"
http://io9.com/5934432/true-blood-breaks-our-heart-into-a-pile-of-gooey-vampire-pudding
 
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:giggles: Hmmm, thinks :thinkin: - No, no Danish ancestry, but I've watched the original Danish 'The Killing' (1&2 and 'Borgen' with subtitles, obviously - otherwise I would've had no idea :smile1:), so does that count? ;)






TIFF, oh I really hope so too :smile1: but not sure that interview from last year can ever be beaten :p although Askars, please feel free to give it your best shot ;)








Oh Kayleigh :smooch: thank you so much for taking the time to post such an interesting and atmospheric report. I almost felt I was there with you. The whole weekend sounds idyllic and so glad you and your companions enjoyed it. :D (Oh no, now I feel kinda bad 'cos you put together two fun and detailed posts, and I reply in like two sentences :hrmm: but I am truly pleased you had such a great time :smile1: and thank you again :hugs:

Loved the way you casually mentioned falling :giggles: into Joel ;) Hey gurl there's a time for playing it cool ;) I agree with Mik :ghi5: I would have been all over JK like a bad rash :giggles:






Oh Mik :hugs:I think Joel is very sexy, from the very first time I saw him with Askars when I thought, 'wow, who is that?' I guess if I want to say more I should run on over to the JK thread :smile1: but, for me, it's always going to be Alex :p No contest :D

And yeah, I think it was obvious that KB hated it in so many ways. WOW is definitely not Coachella ;)

Of course we agree on Joel...we are JMTs :giggles::ghi5:. :hugs:

I totally agree. I saw Joel and he immediately peaked my interest :graucho:. I don't usually go for what I perceive to be bad boys, but Joel seemed to have this quiet cool about him plus he was easy on the eyes :graucho:.

KB definitely hated WOW :p. Remember, that was the venue where she and Askars argued and she told him to go "blank" himself. KB must have looked around, didn't see any paps and said, "Oh helllllll to tha' no"! :laugh:
 
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