Ilha do Sal...

photo: A. Amorim

Midnight in Paris....

Gil and Adriana (Owen Wilson / Marion Cotillard) have just landed in La Belle Époque..

Honesty, I could take a seat on that time machine....dreamy and pleasant - and Madame Cotillard is just superb.

"A morte de Carlos Gardel"....

Carlos Malvarez and Celia Williams

A very good film by Solveig Nordlund, about a devastating reality that harvested so many young lives in four decades, here

After a book by António Lobo Antunes, who I presume once lived in this house in Benfica where a few scenes were recorded.

Alghero....

Landsarkivet....

2012, by Ulla Antonsson, White Arkitekter

At the left the extension from the 1970's....

Porto Ferro....

View towards Porto Ferro....

(click to enlarge)

Contrasts of Sassari....

Porticciolo....

Unknown....

..oil on canvas for a few crowns at ebbe & haldis

"Any Human Heart"....

 Matthew Macfadyen, Jim Broadbent and Sam Claflin

This dramatization of the extraordinary life of writer Logan Mountstuart is better than good. British acting and entertainment at its best....and life is indeed a fantastic journey.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/any-human-heart

To all....

..my 4121422 readers....a much better New Year !

Musically...?

Coldplay at "Where The Action Is"

Bill Wyman`s Rythm Kings

Brian Ferry

of Chords

Johnossi

Ringo Starr

The Serenades

Paolo Nutini

Brandon Flowers

Glasvegas

Coldplay

Europe

Dan Reed

Hoola Bandola Band

Robyn

Thåström

Prince

Pulp

Eldkvarn

The Soundtrack of Our Lives

The Ark

Howard Jones

Håkan Hellström

Deep Purple

..not a bad year !

Haga Trätoffelfabrik AB....

 

This shop is like going right into the 1940's....amazing. At Haga Nygata, Göteborg

Gillblads....

Korsgatan, Göteborg

Christmas at Liseberg....

Göteborg

Not bad....for December !

Göteborg, Åvägen

Butterick`s....

Göteborg, Korsgatan

Stora Teatern....

Göteborg, Avenyn

Deep Purple at Scandinavium....

 Scandinavium, December 10, 2011

Well.... “Made in Japan” was one of the first albums in my music collection. Deep Purple 40 years later....is just 40 years too late. Despite the energy provided by the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt and the fact that these guys are great musicians, this concert was a nostalgic trip to nowhere. Ian Gillam`s voice is just a shadow of the past, and sometimes he tends to sing dreadfully "inwards". I am glad he did not sing one of all time better rock songs; "Child in Time". Best in show...."Smoke on the water" ! 
One of the better ways to kill a rock concert is to have a seated audience....congratulations Live Nation. 

Ian Paice, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Steve Morse, Don Airey