Ok, so I havent blogged in a month...

It´s been a busy month... went to Sweden. Flew back to Park City, drove to Lake Tahoe and tomorrow I´m driving all my stuff to my San Diego storage unit.

Here are some pics from my Sweden trip:


Chillin at Kales house in San Diego the day before my flight. The route (might have metioned it earlier) was not fun.
Salt Lake City - Phoenix - San Diego - sleep at Kales (and shop electronics for the family) - San Diego - Washington DC - Munich - Stockholm - Skelleftea - Lulea via Taxi.




More relaxing at Kales.




I hate this. I just wanna fast forward 20 hours and be home.




This is the best part about flying. Lots of legroom and people who smell like sausage. Add kids who scream for 5 hours and a 1.5 hour delay and you have a party.





I´m not a big fan of airports that allow smoking. Here´s a sweet smoking area in the airport in Munich.




United Airlines thought it would be a good idea to sit in Washington DC for an extra 90 minutes before taking off. That resulted in me missing the flight from Munich to Stockholm. And there weren´t any flight from Stockholm to any of the three airports in northern Sweden that day. So I was told to stay in Munich for 22 hours before I could go home. Just what I needed. But the experienced traveller I am I figured out some loop holes and made it to my parents that evening. I think the poor girls name was Regina Velt, she was on the phone for a solid two hours trying to figure my route out.




After standing at the Lufthansa counter for 2.5 hours I barely made the flight to Stockholm. Good thing I forgot my 500 GB hard drive at the security checkpoint (I figured that out in Stockholm 3 hours later). After 20 phonecalls to people who doesn´t speak any english I found it! My friend David from Muinch was kind enought to swing by the lost and found office and Fed Ex it to Park City. Danke.




Sweet scandinavian skies.





I forgot how much I like SAS. Look at my food plate. Although all airlines do suck from time to time, this one SAS flight was pretty awesome.





Baileys, Tony Hawk video game and swedish speaking people around me. I felt great.




Why is this bimbo in the papers. This is the first thing I read when I get on the plane to Stockholm.
Can´t someone stop this woman? We don´t need to know anything about this so called person.





Denmark to the left, Sweden to the right.





I couldn´t get a flight to Lulea that day, but I managed to get one to Skelleftea and I also talked my way into a taxi to Lulea. It was only 230 euros. I brought Stina along too, so that was nice.





Raindeer jerky, are you kidding me! The best ever. If there´s one thing raindeers are good for it´s eating them. Not walking on our highways like the lapplanders make then do. I hate raindeers. Almost killed me a few years ago and the fucking lapplander (owner) tried to scam the government for a few extra bucks claiming the raindeers had some reflecting vest on them! I almost died and this dude wants to make another 1000 €.
Anyway, got a little sidetracked there...





This is how you make coffee. Quite the contrast from my Starbucks cups.









Hekla getting in her cage for another road trip.




View of eastern Skelleftea.










Hanna, Anna, me and Stina before going out on easter saturday.




This place has a sweet view. Would be sweet to have a pad there.
















Had this thing that grew under my ear when I had the neckbrace on.. the public doctor said it was an infection and that there was no stress. Good thing I have private health insurance (yes, you need that un Sweden if you don´t mind waiting three months for treatment). The second doctor was more concered and within one day that had put all kinds of needles and stuff into my "thing". After x-rays they knew it was a tumor :(
I had to leave for work in Lake Tahoe, which the doctor didn´t think was sucha great idea, but what are you gonna do?
After a week in the US the results came back and they showed that it was a "good" tumor. They kind of knew that from the
x-rays too, but it still felt good to know. So I need to take it out pretty soon, within a few weeks preferably.
After 30 I guess you just start falling apart... broken neck and a tumor within one month of turning 30... lame.



I´ll post some more in a few days. Got to pack a bunch now, looooong drive tomorrow. Damn, I want to go outside. It´s like 25 celcius outside. and I´m on the comp.. and packing...

Oh just got invited to a bbq in SLC, a great excuse not to pack...

Piece / Pierre

More southern California

So there weren´t any hotels (under 200$ a night) in Burbank where I had the filmtransfers. So I stayed at Hjalle´s in Manhattan Beach. At night it´s only a 25 min drive, compared to 45-80 min during the day.

Remember to check me out on Jay Leno on Kanal 5 in Sweden at 1 in the morning fri/sat. I´m in the front the very first 10 sec, in the black hat and grey striped sweater.

My nack has been ok. Took of the brace last thursday. So I´ve only been using it when I´m driving. Whiplash probably wouldn´t be that sweet right now.

On saturday me and Hjalle went out with 4 finns and some local girls. Leland has been working at some bars in Hollywood, so we stoked to hang with her. If anyone thought Stockholm was hard to get into for 6 dudes in baggy clothes on a saturday you haven´t tried LA...

We left early though because Hjalle and Jussi T were going to Big Bear to snowboard at 6 in the morning.

Sunday was rest-the-neck.day.

Monday was kind of the same.

Watched a documentary called "Who Killed The Electric Car". It was pretty good, a little slow at times, but worth watching.
www.apple.com/trailers/sony/whokilledtheelectriccar/trailer

The day after I started to make my way down to Carlsbad and DC. I had to look for some stuff in my storage unit too.
I found half the stuff I expected to find there... so some shit is lost, bummer.

I hung out with Coco the pudel and rested for another two days before I headed back to Park City Utah, where I am at the moment.


I´ve been thinking about coming to Sweden for a week or so to rest but tickets are super expensive... they get cheaper after the 5th, but that´s kinda late.

Hopefully I´ll find something tomorrow. I want to eat some Palt and Frasses burgers. I want to throw sticks to Hekla and maybe play with the owner too.

My friend Renee Renee had a baby, Era, this week too. Concratulations Re Re and Shar!











Dropped by a Star Wars exhibit before I drove down to San Diego, fun.






May the force be with you / Pierre

La week

So I´ve been transfering some 16mm film / Super 8 film the past 2 days.

Teh doctors also told be to stop using the neckbrace. Well, use it less I guess. The muscles need to move around I guess. My head is still stiff, but it was the doctors orders. No lifting or carrying for at least a month though :(

When I wasn´t doing that I was doing this:

Checked out some blu-ray films at the Sony store. Pretty crisp quality.

Found this sweet Adidas thing in swedish colors. Almost bought it, but xxl is a little too big.

The studio I sit in and transfer footage.

Hjalle wanted to grab some food last night, so we stopped at Jack In The Box. It was in a ghetto area, weird people there. Like this old woman sleeping in a corner at 23.00.
I ate Mc Donalds (angus burger) and Taco Bell ealier that day. Eating for 10$ a day in LA is pretty good, I´m a cheap date.

Went to the WESC store today. They were nice enough to give me some sweet striped shirts.

Found some sweet Air Max sneakers, but they were kinda wild.

Here are some $ 4.500 shoes...

Lots of shoes. This was only a fraction though.

So across the street from where I work they record the Jay Leno show. And I had a few hours to kill so I got in line and got to sit in the front row of the crowd. They make all the people in the front go up and give high 5´s to Jay at the very begining of the show. So look for me in Sweden next friday (it already aired here yesterday). I´m the dude in a black hat and grey / white striped sweater.


My "work" is at the glass house in the background.



Funny mailbox.

This was a rare moment. The three movies I made from 2001-2003 in my hand at the same time. A trilogy box would be nice.

Shopping.

View from Hjalle´s driveway.

Drove around the freeways in Burbank / Hollywood. Look where I ended up.

LA.



Beach at Hjalle´s.

A Mercedes McLaren outside of the WESC store. It´s a nice fast car.



This is the mini-ramp at a skate shop called Brooklyn Projects in Hollywood. The people who work there have nice cars...

GPS navigation has changed my life. It helps when you have a broken neck and you´re in LA traffic. But I had Hjalle drive me around all day.

Hjalle´s view this morning. Cloudy and cold...

Neck x-ray

Pretty funny sign at the hospital. Welcome to our hospital, you may not get treatment here. Bye! Ha ha.


If you look right above the arrow you can see my fracture. It´s gonna heal like that I guess... they said it´s not going to be a problem, so I trust them.





Going to LA tomorrow morning for three filmtranfers.. 5 hours on thursday and 8 hours on friday evening... That´s a lot of watching.

Good knight / P W