4 March: Alvar’s correct Song Contest list
The first rounds of the Song Contest are finished and we’ve heard all of this year’s songs. Now it’s time to sort your opinions out, analyze and save your favourites for coming weekends’s final shows. If you like contributions that already been voted out it’s up to you to make them a part of eternity. Alvar has participated in the whole Song Contest tour and has picked out his winners into a compilation CD of his own.
Vi tog ett par timmar med iTunes och han var bergsäker på vilka åtta låtar från årets startfält som platsade på hans samling som logiskt döpts till “Alvars Bästa Melodifestivalskiva”. Jag försökte rucka på några beslut – utmana hans smak – och tom erbjöd mig att köpa fler låtar men fick nobben. Han hade bestämt sig. Efter varje deltävling har jag på hans order skrivit ner favoritlåtarna. Gott folk. Här kommer Alvars lista.
We spent a couple of hours with iTunes and he was sure about which eight songs from this year’s start field who would make it into his compilation, which logically has been named ”Alvar’s Best Song Contest Album”. I tried changing some of his decisions – challenge his taste – and even offered to buy more songs but he turned my offer down. He had made his decision. After every part competition I’ve writte down the favourite songs, on his order. Good people. Here is Alvar’s list.
1. Doctor Doctor Elin Lanto
2. Jag vill om du vågar Pernilla Wahlgren
3. Manboy Eric Saade
4. Kom Timoteij
5. Unstoppable (The Return of Natalie) Ola
6. Singel Frispråkarn
7. Manipulated Hanna Lindblad
8. Hippare Hoppare Andra Generationen & Dogge Doggelito
Every other song in Swedish and every other in English, all according to instruction from my dancing five-year-old. He has already danced to all the songs as a try, also together with a friend one morning this week. I myself wonder why you can’t go to a disco before lunch also as an adult? Alvar’s dad, the self-appointed schllager expert, also proudly noted that his son has musical integrity since only three out of eight favourites made it directly to the finals at Globen.
Furthermore, Andra Generationen wins the prize for this year’s performance. What differentiated this contribution from the others was that Dogge had his foot on the drum that was played on while rapping.
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3 March: Who has more stone – France or Italy?
Alvar got a slingshot from his grandpa who just came back from Thailand. Earlier he also got a hockey-game and a real four-wheel motorcycle from his grandpa. With grandpa Alvar is without limits. He just ran through the falling snow wearing the Swedish Football National Team outfit (including shorts) and a football under his arm for a game with his grandpa before grandma comes home and makes coffee. Alvar is very impressed by his slingshot. Just through looking at it he feels the power of having a weapon in his hand. The rules are clear. You cannot aim at people and only shoot against a specific barrel. Besides, you use a paper bullet or the dog Gizmo’s Frolic food as ammunition. But grandpa has told stories about him mostly shooting with stone in his slingshot when he was little. He practised every day and was very accurate in his aiming.
Alvar and I was away to renew his passport. He wondered why and I explained that soon we will be going off for a horse show in France, near the Italian border.
- Who has most stone – Italy or France? was Alvars question.
- I don’t know, whatever country that’s bigger, I answered boringly adult and laughed superliciously under my breath at my crazy kid.
- But they do have stone, right? continued Alvar.
- I’m sure they have, both of them, I assured him and thought back at one of the French Riviera’s rocky beaches I’ve been to. But without Alvar, so I didn’t quite know why the stone was so important.
Alvar’s mom Malin is often a little bit wiser than I am. When I told her about our conversation she turned to Alvar and asked if he was thinking about bringing his slingshot to France. He answered yes and she said that he absolutely wasn’t allowed to shoot at the horses. He promised only to shoot at the trees surrounding the horse show and not to hit any of the horses. He wouldn’t even miss any trees and accidently hit a horse. Malin and Ed went off to France today. Alvar has already packed his slingshot before leaving next Wednesday.
We, Alvar and I, have yet another Song Contest weekend at home together. Orebro is calling. While awaiting the double battles in the Second Chance, my art exhibition ”This Week’s Ed”, like Ed himself, continue to grow regardless of extern events.
This Week’s Ed, No22. ”Cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I exist).
It’s Wednesday – mini-Saturday” – and time for a mini-party. Let’s get groovy in some quiet fun and games with Bob Geldof’s cool daughter Pixie Lott. Despite the burden of being a celebrity kid she is very talented and receives Brit Awards back home in England. Max the volume and invite someone for a slow dance in her version of King Of Leon’s ”Use Somebody”.
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2 March: Boys, mom and dad are in the magazine, again.
You can’t choose your parents. You kind of end up where your put. With some luch they take care of you. Regardless of luck most of those growing up want parents other than they got. You devote your whole youth to getting as far away from your heritage as possible, and then your old age realizing that you turned out exactly like them. The ones that brought you up. I wonder what our boys will rebel against. What do we do that they already despise? I mean, what could be dorky with such cool parents, or?
Alvar and Ed, I wonder what you will tell us, your friends and think or yourselves about your parent’s public behaviour. Will you dare tell us if you’d be proud of us? Go mom! Nice dad.
I’ve never thought about anyone else in my public life than myself. I’ve done what suited me. Malin and I have sometimes also thought about us (like in the latest issue of magazine ”Kattis & company”), when we haven’t been thinking about ourselves. In public life there are no excuses or chances for retakes, on the contrary there’s always straight up. Of course we’ve won law suits regarding slander, but no-one remember that. Now we are a few extra in the family, demanding thought. Ed and Alvar, you landed with us and these are who we are. We like it a lot. Welcome to our life. One day you may decide for yourselves.
My pitiful defense speach and hope are that whatever you do as a parent you’re embarrassing. Maybe it HAS to be like that in order to achieve friendship in a later stage. Even U2-singer Bono’s children have reason to be embarrassed over their pretentious dad, even though he sings in one of the biggest and best rock bands in the world. What will our kids say about riding and TV? Is there anyone reading this that never thought their parents were embarrassing or believing to be be a parent that never will embarrass their kids? If YES. Give me hope. Otherwise just give me another vitamin kick of life.
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1 March: The welcome committé had snow between their ears.
Drove through thaw from Gothenburg yesterday night. Met our horse statue today on the porch for the first time since the big snow fall. It had snow between it’s ears and seemed happy to once again have it’s nose above the snowy surface.
Peekabo, time to come home now?
I like in between days like this. PJ’s for lunch and a lot of coffee in between. Even Malin almost had the day off. She didn’t have all her horses in the stables – some are on their way home from Gothenburg ans some other are on their was to the French Riviera. Alvar is staying with a friend. Ed is lying singing/rapping with me in the office.
Mature men – Ed in clothes from Juliet and I in a U2 t-shirt from Hard Rock Café.
”I think a lot about childhood since old age doesn’t have much to offer” says Giannis mom to him in the beautiful movie ”August lunch in Rome” which I watched yesterday night (the Olympic Games are over so now everyday is film day). Mother and son live together, they don’t have much mony and therefore let old ladies move in against a small compensation. Most reluctantly in the beginning but the arrangement develops into a small pensionat for older ladies and the joy is high when they discover that life has more to offer if you just participate in it.
Gianni and his ladies.
This day I’ll enjoy participating and being in place. This day is all about jazz. A day like this I think we should listen to Corinne Bailey Rae when she live from Divan du Monde in Paris wonders where we are in the song ”Are You Here”. Are you- here? Are you here right now or somewhere else, and in that case where? Or where should you be instead of being here?
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