Swedish Movies, part 2

January 12'th, I posted a list of four Swedish movies we'd seen. Since then, we've seen three more. The first, Ett Öga Rött which means "One Eye Red," was simply excellent, especially in these days where immigration issues are in the headlines. It's about a Moroccan family that immigrants to Sweden and encounters some "issues." It's also about reconciling your past with your future.

The second is called Blåbärskriget which means "The Blueberry Wars." This may be even better than Ett Öga Rött! It's a tale of multi-cultural scamming in a Swedish wilderness town and it all started (and ended) over blueberries.

We also saw Nina Frisk, the story of a beautiful airline assistant and dysfunctional her family. It's a worthy movie but the previous two are my picks as "best."

Note, however, that these movies only got around 5 stars out of 10 on www.imdb.com. Maybe I'm too excited by the Swedish style of movie which is new to me?

3 of photos published!

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Schmap published two of my photos and one of J's in their latest Stockholm tourist guide: Vasastaden, Brunnsviken Bay, and the Sweden House. The Brunnsviken Bay one was taken by J.

See if you can find them using the widget below to brouse their web site. Hints: use the pull down menus to select sets of photos. For example, the Vasastaden photo is under "Neighborhood Guide." The map will have small markers which you can click on. Note: they found these photos by searching Flickr.

A Skirt, photos sets, and Facebook

My wife told me she'd seen a male construction worker in a skirt and I thought she was somehow mistaken but noooo. Check it out here.


Also, some of you have not been keeping up with my Flickr pictures (over 1500 now) so I made a set of my last 100 and a set of my 48 most interesting as determined by Flickr, which is determined by Flickr's interestingness measure.

Btw, I'm on Facebook now. I finally caved in to the pressure....anyway it is useful for some thing. I've ranked a lot of Stockholm restaurants there, for example.