Is It Too Much To Ask?

I'm moving soon. With one big desire in my head, I draw a circle, enclosing all the possible locations I can cycle commute to work, and that way get in shape, save money, and reduce my carbon footprint. Is it too much to ask?

Noisettes Live

It was surprisingly amazing a few days ago in Koko, Camden. This is a picture one of my friends I was with took, we were in the second row, and the singer was soooo beautiful. Very dynamic and entertaining gig. Click here to see more photos.

Surprise for our housemate

Catching Up

I don't have a better explanation for my long absence, except that I didn't feel like blogging, and for some reason distanced myself from my creative internet activities, and rather resort to consuming web activities. I have more home-time lately, and consequently spend considerably more time online, and I really started to miss blogging.

So to quickly catch up with what I've been impressed with during this time of absence, let me present you with some (mostly very geeky) photos:

Boston Big Dig is a gorgeous example of what difference a thought-out city planning and urbanism can do:

Black Eyed Peas and their "Boom Boom Pow" is a huge hit, and I got infected with the video and sound. Getting over it by now though.

Fool's Day prank, which I fell for and thought it's amazing. World's first flying hotel! (shamed)

Very enjoyable movie, I love it, but even more so it's soundtrack, which is very different to what I usually listen to - it might become my gateway album to modern jazz and such.

How can I post anything after such long time, without including some skyscraper. Well I can't! The spectacular, unbelievably tall Burj Dubai is about to be overshadowed by another mammoth project in the same city. It's called Nakheel Harbour Tower, and it's gonna be !!1400!! meters tall - almost 4x WTC or 2x Burj Dubai.

The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing up to 140,000 permanent residents. Build it in my lifetime please.

Apparently the next big thing in home design - Office Pod, home office-cubicle for the garden. SO cute I want one.

I joined Star Trek Mania, the movie is a very cool, fresh and a successful reset of the franchise. Don't even get me started on Chris Pine ...

Okay, this is weird, but I have a thing for elegant traffic solutions like this. It's the most elegant highway junction I've ever seen. Situated in Bergen, Norway.

Saint Etienne don't have one song, that I could particularly expose, but their greatest hits album as a whole is as nice as a road trip across Spain at summer with friends, in a convertible.

Speaking of Spain - this is one of only handful real IMAX cinemas in the world, and the architecture is stunning! Located in Valencia, Spain, the Hemispheric is a part of the "City of the Arts and the Sciences".

The new model of Boeing's biggest airliner 747 "Jumbo Jet" is the biggest yet. I just love its design, it looks much prettier than "fatter" european Airbus A380.

So much for now, more to come soon. Thank you for visiting again.

How to become a lesser geek

I could probably write a book about that. Back in my old days I would be spending my whole days on the computer, starting with morning coffee, then using it at work, and after that surfing and watching movies and tv shows at home. My lifestyle changed dramatically in the last five months, and as I just recently realized, my computer habits changed as well. It doesn't mean that I'm not spending almost every moment in virtual world whenever I'm at home, the thing is that this really is not that often. And when I am, I just wanna surf a little and watch something, or maybe not even that, because it's already too late.
I guess I'm trying to explain why I'm not taking such great care of this blog as I used to. Here are the reasons, and recipee on how to become a lesser geek:

- Get a very low-tech job, where u can't use your computer, but rather actual papers and stuff.
- Buy a mobile broadband usb dongle from the suckiest provider, and don't have broadband internet.
- Don't have a proper table and chair in your room.
- Don't have any time to relax and chill with your laptop.
- Don't have any money to keep upgrading your hardware.

Another Anniversary, Another Apology

This is 201st post on this blog. I'm sorry I haven't kept busier lately, but I think I have a few good reasons. First one is Christmas and new year's crazy partying, which lasted for more than a week, and it was a real hell-raising, as one of my London friends would say. After that I went back to my routine, except I was constantly tired, and I think that could be psychological, since I was again feeling a bit lonely, after my friends, who were visiting during the holidays, left in early January. I just now came back from visiting my home country for the first time since I moved to London, and that was surreal, intense, and a lot of fun, so posting had to wait until now.
I just want to let you know, that the blog did not die, and I am still very much looking forward to post things that I came up with in time of absence.

Fabulousness is starting!

I demand more freedom!!!

I don't usually get too much into politics or activism, but lately I am getting honestly annoyed by the laws, and by all the bullshit that is going on. First, and the hardest thing that I had to deal with is the fact that I am gay. I came out at a very young age, it was a hard era of my life, but am so proud of myself that I did it, and not live a lie, especially because I was growing up in a small village is Slovenia, and there weren't a lot of liberal people. Go me!
The thing that I think was progressively discriminated during the last years, and that I want to talk about in this post, is marijuana. If there is justice to be made, law should either prohibit alcohol, or legalize weed, because alcohol is MUCH stronger, aggressive, and potentially dangerous drug. I don't want to advocate being high all the time, but personally - it's much bigger deal to get drunk then to get wasted. I found this very interesting blog, which got me thinking, and realize once again how my life is controlled by conservative, church going FUCKS, that can't mind their own fucking business, and think that their believe is ultimately and absolutely the right one for all people.

History of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:

• Racism
  
• Fear
• Protection of corporate profits
• Ignorant, incompetent, and/or corrupt legislators
• Personal career advancement and greed

As I learned, an article from the 1934 magazine goes:

Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.

So fucking what? I would like to believe, that we are past all that, and that all people can ask that, but same twisted shit is still happening in stupid, stupid, stupid minds of billions on this planet. Look at that:

Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915.

Grrrrr, another religious repression. I would just like to shake and slap all this puppets of corrupt church leaders.

Recently added to the list of the great church successes: Proposition 8 in California. Wow, you gotta love them.

Please go, and read the article.

I feel that this blog is becoming more personal, especially with all new stuff that are going on around me as well as inside my head. I think I might be growing, but there is still a long way to go for me to become a truly mature person, as I realized just today. The big problem is, I think, the fact, that I still haven't completely decided what kind of life I want for myself in the future. There are ideas, but I will have to pick one, because if I don't, my life will ramble without a definitive route, and I might not like where it leads me. It is kind of similar to my two sub-personalities, which are this fierce & all fabulous diva, and a hopeless hippie just wanted to be loved and to have a roof above his head. When I think about the future of my life I can see me as a geeky, fit urbanism student, a hard working music producer, maybe a website developer with my own projects, or a ferosh drag queen. The cool thing is that all that is possible, but there isn't really room for more than one life. So what is going to happen? I think I'll stay on the safe side, on a career wagon if you'd like, simply because I'm too spoiled to ever give up my gadgets, and ... well I don't really have anything else of value. But when I think about my youth, and how quickly will go away, I get scared the same way I did when I decided to move to London. It's this not-living-my-life-at-the-fullest-extent fear, which forces me not only to change my living environment, but also my attitudes toward "weird", free thinking, open minded people. I have to constantly remind myself, that life can be WHATEVER I want it to be. Besides, I still have this weird obsession with celebrity, for which one shouldn't be ordinary. So do I dare to explode my weirdness all around, and just don't care, or am I stuck in the system of "climbing the latter"? It's not that I'm missing courage, it's just that I don't know which way to take, and when I walk on one possible route, I'm going further away from all others. Splitting point is coming soon!

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I want to be a topic itself.

One of my best internet ideas was to create this blog. I can't explain what I'm getting out of it, but it's very complimenting. The number of visitors is growing and growing, and what surprised me the most, was the fact that even when I couldn't post a lot, You were still coming to the blog. I want to thank you for that, because I am truly honored. Now I feel like sharing with you, so I'm presenting the visitors statistics, for you to see what happened since I left Slovenia, and started my life in London. The green line represents the last month before I left, and the blue one is for the first month since I've been here. Click for the full size.

Visits per day:


Visitors' statistics:


Visitors' languages:

It was a good idea to write in English after all. Plus my written English actually improved in the last years because of it. It's not perfect yet, I know, but compared to the first posts it evolved.

Visitors' locations:


How did visitors came to the site:
Images are obviously a big part of the popularity. Let's not forget my sweet Lucy, who's blog is a big hit, and consequently attracts visitors to mine.


Visitors' operating systems:

First post on this blog was posted on 6th December 2005, and that makes it almost three years old. I should throw a big party, and maybe I will. This is how it all started at my parent's house one weekend.

I still don't have internet access

This is getting very annoying. I'm waiting for the guy to come and install broadband in our house, and he have one more day left to show up. I can't operate without internet, it's like I'm missing an arm, and broadband is especially needed now, because I want to keep contact with friends back in Slovenia. I also feel very sorry for this blog, but I just can't post much at this time.
Other than that, things are going fine. I got a job at HMV, finally got my own room in a house with cool flatshares, now I only need new friends. But the sad thing is, that they will never be able to replace those I left behind. Please people, visit me, I have a place to stay.

I love this blog

Seriously, I do, and I just realized this a few days ago, when I was feeling bad for not posting anything for such long time, and then went to see what was the last thing I posted. I was back in Slovenia when I did it, and though that's only a week ago, I feel like it happened in a completely different time and place.
Anyway, the reason for scarce posts is, like I informed you before, that I moved to London, and am trying to make it here. So I'm running around, looking for jobs, and meeting people. Besides I don't have my own place yet, so I don't really have the means to be a real blogger right now.
I'm optimistic, and am sure I'll settle just fine, and then I'll be able to further nurture my love for this piece of internet.

Will the big wall stop me, or am I too cool for that?

As you know, I'm moving to London on Saturday ... or at least I hope I do. Like so many times before, things went horribly wrong just before my departure, and so my bellowed iPhone was stolen, probably by a "friend", and I lost my passport, and don't have any other form of ID. I'm gonna try to fix the latter today, and hope for the police to solve the first one until I leave. Besides all that I decided to quit smoking yesterday, and it doesn't really add to my calmness :) Life is always building me walls when I want to raise the bar, and right now my brain feels like this:

What The Fuck Happened In London?!

Gallery of the first 100 photos from our recent vacation in London is here. Much more photos + video to follow.