Coachella - Set Times

The Coachella - Set Times are up & I already have a number of conflicting shows on the Friday, the day I'm most excited for.

Franz Ferdinand and Crystal Castles are playing at the exact the same time, White Lies (my new favorite band) start playing 15 minutes after The Ting Tings (who I missed at Ultra,) while Leonard Cohen's set overlaps with Ghostland Observatory. I guess I'll have to go to All Points West Festival to catch them, The Ting Tings & Crystal Castles, since I'm probably going to stay for all of FF & LC's sets.

Hoping to make it in time to catch Liars, but will am just hoping to make it to the venue for Paolo Nutini.

By Day 3 I'll probably have festival dimentia so I haven't really looked at the set times (or at Saturday's too thouroughly) but the game plan is be there for Lykke Li or bust, since she's THE act I (& probably thousands of others) are most pumped to see. Hopefully I'll be able to catch Friendly Fires too, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs will be better than they were 3 years ago, but I'm saving myself for a beautiful young woman from Sweden, PB & J and The Kills.

"Hey shut the fuck up boy, you are starting to piss me off..."

The Swedish kick continues!I just happened to find this song by Peter, Bjorn and John out of nowhere, but it's mildly addictive. And I also want to thank Sarah Odio for informing me about the Swedish Lunar Lander and House Building Mission...it's as if she were encouraging me to move to Sweden and eventually the moon!

"Hey (Shut the Fuck Up Boy!)"

I am totally and utterly obsessed with Sweden

So much so I'm tempted to go to IKEA to munch on meatballs and meander through the massive edifice. I've had a fascination and appreciation for all Nordic countries since elementary school thanks to Marcus Christensen, but Alexander Skarsgard helped kick my interest into all things Swedish into high gear this summer, as did this Wall Street Journal Travel article from not too long ago. Prior to me fully immersing myself into all things Swedish, all I knew about Sweden was that I'm not really a fan of their fish, it was synonymous with IKEA, Alfred Nobel- creator of The Nobel Prizes was from there, they gave the world ACNE Jeans, ABBA & Peter,Bjorn & John are the only musical acts I can think of from there, I'll sadly never go to Valhalla, they have Ice Hotels like in "Die Another Day" and Stockholm Syndrome wasn't something I wanted.

Alexander Skarsgard

Don't know much about Sweden? Well Wikipedia of course offers the basic historical and factual information on the third largest country (by area) in Western Europe, while The Gateway to Sweden lists so much information, I could barely scratch the surface, and Visit Sweden offers everything a tourist could need. It's also at the center of space tourism in Europe and some of the best stargazing on the planet. If/when I finally go there I'll make sure to post and take plenty of pictures and hopefully come back.

Alfred Nobel

ABBA

Ice Hotel

The view of Northern Lights in Kiruna