Magnus 35th and Bryan Adams

 It started with a - oh, why not, it could be fun... - idea. Bryan Adams in Budokan on Magnus b-day. It was fun though, but lots of songs sounds kind of the same. Makes me wonder how many unhappy (or happy) love affairs Mr Adams have had. And for those of you who ever have wonder how old he was Summer of '69 - he was 11.5 years old... Which brings us to the next hit song...."Baby you're all that I want, When you're lyin' here in my arms, I'm finding it hard to believe, ... you're 11(and a half)". He played that one too, and Budokan was so quite, I could have easily have screamed it out load... b-day boy was.... DON'T DO IT.... he was probably right...

Then Dilerium Cafe in Akasaka...

Monday Eve in Ebisu

A Few Days in Sweden

The week before this, I got sent home to Sweden for a few days for work. But with evenings free, I had a few hours   for non-work. Tuesday evening was spent with Mr Waite at Stortorget, together with a few beers, some food and chatting. 

Wednesday evening, I was invited to Martin's friend Mathias place, and got to meet his GF Helen too. Very nice Colombian food; rice, avocado, sausages (martin took mine, got extra avocado as compensation) kidney beans and chicken spiced up with coriander and ground cumin. There were some GH playing too. We had some questions about the lingering x-mas tree, but decided that it soon can be turned into an Easter decoration with some 

Thursday eve, worked late (-ish) then basically jet-lag crashed in my flat. But Friday evening, the last i had in Sweden. Went up to Billeberga, and luckily little Aron was still up. Here he is trying to open is gift. 

What ever might it be?

Then Sara demo:ed the harmonica, Melvin the dog did not appreciate at all. Jumped up and grabbed it (you could say bite, but hey he got no other means, than using his teeth). 

Aron did not bite, he just wanted to play a while...

Not everyone appreciate technology (or it could be that it is a old iPad); Aron prefers to build towers with beer cans instead. 

Then Saturday morning breakfast, with Aron, Daddy, Mother, Sara and Johan. Yes there was newly baked breakfast rolls too. 

Then a few hours later, plane was over booked so I got upgraded without having to use any mileage points. (Burn after reading on the little telly if you wonder.)

Dinner with the Verification Crew

Hey, My Winter Zombie Land

Stop the Snow

Irving Penn and Issey Miyake at 21 21 design

Like the building, but not convinced of it as a gallery, too dark, too many narrow corridors. The exhibition was about the collaboration between Miyake and Penn. The clothes and the photos of them, didn't do that much for me. Penn's close up photos of plants, made me want to get a macro lens and a kick ass flash. 

Sant Pau - Spancy Fancy

It was raining "slud" and it was pretty windy too, but me and the Magnus went to Nihonbashi anyway for some really nice Spanish food. Here you can see one of the dishes, cheeses with their contrasts. And, also for the first time in my life, I tried foie gras, I managed to swallow it, but did not enjoy at all. I do not understand what the fuzz is about, nor do I want to find out. Foie gras, do we need it? NO!

The lighting wasn't the best for a non-flash photo, but he could have looked slightly more happy, it would have helped. 

One of the desserts, - small alien head (the Spanish menu should have said something like "cabecita de extraterrestre", it didn't. )

Sante, Rocky & Mange in Shibuya

Only 2 of them made the photo. 

X-mas Is Over

But blue diodes still look pretty...

Finding New Places in Shibuya

Craftshead, a bar/resturant with big selection of micro-brewery beer, was the destination, but on the way over there we stumbled across a super hip eyeglass store. Here Magnus explains the problem with his astigmatism problem. 

Interior = super hip.

Then at Craftshead, very nice beer as staff. 

Post-Cabaret Barfly and then some

After an cabaret at JzBrat in Shibuya, and  fun after show chatting with the artists, I decided to be do the adult thing (not coming along to Roppongi) and watch Barfly while someone else was coding. 

Egg Benedict at Glorious Chain Cafe for brunch today. 

Then went past the grocery store and picked up a little bit of spring. 

A beer (Cider) in Akasaka

Only 8 min away with the "newly" discovered Chiyoda-line, so why not meet up with 2 of Tokyo's nicest gals after work on a Friday eve. 2 drinks, lots of talking, lots of laughing... yes and Diana tried Irish Cider for the first time.  

Art District and the not so great wall

Yes, this is another wall... not sure if I can see the other brick in it. 

Lots of things to see in the art district; and here I thought they had put all their artists in jail... 

Inverted  Matryoshka?

Colourful and cute... sometimes all that is needed. 

Concrete and steel wires...

Made me think of Copenhagen, creative, worn down, but super hip... and I bet it would have been super nice if it were 25C instead of  -5C and freakin' Mongolian winds.... 

Golden boomerang Pegasus? 

You should, keep your dinosaurs caged up... several movies have shown us this... 

Beijing Cutie Pie 2

It was windy, it was cold, it was new years, it was nice company (mizzy & the christersson's), it was sleeping until noon, it was brunching, it was a good few days in the northern capital. 

Beijing Cutie Pie

Mr Max got happy when I showed up on New Year's eve. Got to see all his new Lego and other cool stuff. 

The chocolate cake was good too; espresso and champagnes were not bad either. Veggie lasagna was main dish, good stuff. 

I got in depth presentation of Titanic facts too - the whole audio visual thing, plus a paper model too. 

And then when midnight was approaching, energy was no more...