Record heat (so now I'm blogging because I cannot sleep)

It is now after midnight, Tuesday morning, and it is impossible to sleep because of the heat. So therefore I blog a bit. First about the weather and then a lot of small things, so I’ll  have something to do.


Today has been kinda decent, but yesterday, it was unbearably hot here! And now people in Sweden/Norway certainly think badly about me for that, because I know you had a frost and the fall has arrived there. But what does it help me?
Yesterday it was around 40 degrees C (90F) most of the day, and no wind. The little wind that was there was also hot, so it made it worse.

Americans were also complaining. Not even the most seasoned Californians could stand it.

In Los Angeles, they beat the heat record of 113 degrees Fahrenhei.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/27/local/la-me-hottest-ever-20100928

In the photo/Photoshop class Digital Imaging, we were to make an image of any work of Maggie Taylor, who makes photo illustrations. Here you can see what I accomplished with the help of Chris, who was the model.

The original:


My work:



I bought a girl magazine and a men's magazine today. For the mass communication class tomorrow, we will have to bring different ads, good and bad, and discuss them. I did not have any good papers here, and even worse ads. So I went down to the 7-Eleven and looked through a bunch of different magazines. The most fun and different ads, I found in the papers M and GQ. M is not as in Sweden, a magazine for 50 + women, but girls aged 9-17 years, and 99% is about Justin Bieber. It also included a poster of him. Yikes. GQ is just all about advertising, often very good looking ads. In some it was even with perfume, folded in some way in a sticky part of the hand, oh I cannot explain.


To sit and watch funny pictures on the web is fun when you're bored. Here comes the Iraqi Batman:




We have today discussed the Challenger accident in English 120. For today, we read about how Reagan's speechwriters were working that day, and we have read the speech. Today we saw footage from Reagan when he read it, and news. Very strong stuff. Also interesting debates in class.

I bought a big giant container with apple juice today. Just thought you wanted to know. For those of you who enjoy food blogs, I can also say that I ate tuna salad for dinner.

Tasted something really good today when me and Lauren were at Starbucks. Chocholate Chip Coffee-based Frappucino. OMG, how good it was. Cold and tasty, like milkshake, but it was coffee, but cold with pieces of chocolate. Yum! Those I will have a lot of in the future.

I have been stuck for a humor group on YouTube. The Key of Awesome gang from Barley Political. They do parodies of pop-culture phenomenon, and has done several parodies of music videos. There are three videos that I've looked at I don’t know how many times. There are parodies of:

Ke$ha's Tik Tok (here Tik Tok / Glitter Puke)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7n8GqewJ2M
Ke$ha is really my homegirl since the performance at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, but this is really funny.

Katy Perry's California Gurls (the parody has the same name)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_stcgW8E4o
The song is a travesty of both Perry's song and how California girls can be (though I must say that most people have some of the sides from both songs. Sure, some to be superficial, but often they are very kind and nice and good looking)

Lady GaGa Bad Romance (Here, a duet between "Lady Gaga" and "Lord Gaga")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWxTGJ3TK1U
The song is not the same as the original song, just inspired by, but the parody is more about the video and Gaga's odd personality.


Now you've got a lot of nonsense written in this blog. What should I do now? After I put up this post and I will probably continue to check out YouTube. Fell yesterday for a bunch of old nostalgia. So in conclusion, you will here get a clip of the intro to the most frightening child program that was available when I was little: Ika on the screen. It's so psychedelic, scary, weird colors, mystical dances, strange creatures, a skeleton named Åke and a super fuzzy mime from Halmstad as a host. All of my generation says they were afraid of this when they were little, but all have as much fun to see it now. So. Enjoy!