Great live: Elliott Smith - Needle in the Hay

This is one of those times when the live version of the song is just brilliant. Even more brilliant than the already brilliant studio version. I already love this song, but the electric version just blows my mind. On top of everything it's great to see Elliott live and also fun things happen during this performance that they really deal with in a professional, but fun manner. It's not always wise to turn around on stage too much. I'll say it again, just brilliant.

Friday Fun: Scandinavia and the World - webcomic

Awesome Hats by *humon on deviantART

And then it's time for another Friday Fun post! I have been looking forward to this all week, since around last Sunday when my darling showed me this one. It's a webcomic with characters based on all the different countries around the world. Mostly it's seen from a Scandinavian point of view, but there are others from all over the world quite often turning up too. As a Norwegian I laugh my head of and I think the writer has really nailed how the Scandinavian countries relate to each other: The organized Swede, the happy-go-lucky Norwegians, the drunk under the table Danish. Finland and Iceland are very often included too, but remember boys and girls, they are not Scandinavian countries :) Other frequent characters is USA, King EU, Germany and Nazi-Germany. Under you will find some of my favorites, just use the arrows on the top of the page to navigate to the next comic

Direct link to the page.
Some of my favourites:
not-a-yahtzee
nordics-like-fish
mixed-feelings
computer-technician
damn-kids
the-north-sea-lotto
come-and-get-it-big-boy
christmas-traditions
Metal

Friday Fun: Ed Byrne On The Smoking Law

As a smoker I find this clip extremely amusing, I hope you out there who is not smoking also can see the trials and strangeness in the everyday lives of this dying race ;)

Fun: If you've ever known a cat, you will love this - Simon's cat

Photo by: http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk

A while ago I saw my first animatied video with Simon's cat. This was one of the rare times in your life when you see a movie and just can't stop laughing. You just watch it again and again, show it to all your friends and still keep laughing. This is such a great expression of cat behavior, I have never seen anything better. You just keep thinking "Oh yes, this is exactly what cats are like". It's so simple, yet so precise. This is the site of the maker

The first one I saw was about cats trying to wake you up in the morning: Cat-Man-DO



This is the one I watched today about cats wanting to go back inside: Let Me in!



And know I realized that there is even a third one called: TV Dinner About how cats always wanna be a part of whatever you are doing and wants constant attention.