Tag Archives: Varia

After almost forty years in Lund, yours truly last year returned to the town where he was born and bred — Malmö. Taking a stroll in the neighbourhood with the dog further convinced me returning was a good decision …

Still on top after 50 (private)  [embedded content] My dear parents took me to the cinemas to watch this awesome musical back in 1966. I was eight years old — and of course I fell hopelessly in love with Maria. I think I still am …

Thank God Eric Schüldt is back! I dessa tider — när ljudrummet dränks i den kommersiella radions tyckmyckentrutade ordbajseri och fullständigt intetsägande melodifestivalskval — har man ju nästan gett upp. Men det finns ljus i mörkret! I radions P2 går varje lördagmorgon ett vederkvickelsens och den seriösa musikens Lördagsmorgon i P2. Så passa på och börja dagen med en musikalisk örontvätt och rensa hörselgångarna från kvarvarande musikslagg. Här kan man till exempel lyssna på musik av...

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Sherlock Holmes på besök i högskolevärlden På en av landets största högskolor kunde man igår på dess hemsida läsa att “Bra studiemiljö positivt för studieresultatet.” Woah! Vem hade kunnat ana det …

And the waltz goes on  [embedded content] (h/t Jeanette Meyer) Absolutely fabulous!!

I d’pluck a fair rose for my love (private)  [embedded content]

 [embedded content]  [embedded content] The world’s greatest composer of contemporary classical music, Arvo Pärt, was 80 yesterday. A day without listening to his music would be unimaginable.

Keeping one’s distance Only by the recognition of distance in our neighbour is strangeness alleviated: accepted into consciousness. The presumption of undiminished nearness present from the first, however, the flat denial of strangeness, does the other supreme wrong, virtually negates him as a particular human being and therefore the humanity in him, ‘counts him in,’ incorporates him in the inventory of property. Wherever immediateness posits and entrenches itself, the bad mediateness of...

My first love (private)  [embedded content]