Collection of....

.... the silliest Muppet music
I found some clips from the muppet show
For those of you with a great love for surrealism this will be a hit
Hope you will enjoy!
- Aasa
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Mahna Mahna
This one is an old time classic. I have to warn you though, if you listen to
this you will go around singing it the rest of the day (possably the week)



Huga Wuga
Some great old time surrealsm


Beaker singing "Feelings" in his own unique way



I want a monster to be my friend
Banned song, never got sent....
And yes - I do want a monster to be my friend ;-)


And then just a last one that wasnt a song, but still, norwegians
are known to make fun of the swedes, so I couldnt help it
Swedish Chef makes donuts

Natten / The night

The Night

Night is not meant
just for resting your mind so happily still;
it is there
for your will
and the thoughts of your wandering fire

This night
is not just a glittering star,
It's the sum of life and of all we are

Do not sleep!
Night is meant for those
who can wake and see
At night life is born, and all things come to be,
but sleep is just grim Death’s shadow

Morning air like froth on a wave unfolds.
And the day has gentle and warmfull bliss
Evening peacefull is

But night, and night only eternity holds

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Natten

Natten er til
ikke bare for glemselens ro.
Den er til
for din tro
og din tankes flakkende ild-

Natten her
er ikke bare et stjernevær.
Den er summen av livet og alt som er!

Ikke sov!
Natten er til for den som
våker og ser.
Det er om natten at livet skaper
og allting skjer,
men søvnen er dødens
efteraper.

Morgenens luft er som bølgeskum.
Dagen har varme å gledes ved.
Kvelden har fred.
Men bare natten har verdensrom!

~ Andre Bjerke

Jabberwocky

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!'

He took his vorpal sword in hand:

Long time the manxome foe he sought--

So rested he by the Tumtum tree,

And stood awhile in thought.

And as in uffish thought he stood,

The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,

And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through

The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!

He left it dead, and with its head

He went galumphing back.

'And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Come to my arms, my beamish boy!

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'

He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

On request

My address:
Aasa Bergem
C/Carabassa 3, 1:2
08002 Barcelona

PS:
For those of you who doesnt know what that means,
it is pumpkin street in spanish (Carabassa)





















Pinhole photo from Pumpkin street, Barcelona
© Aasa Bergem 08

The Brain Test

Aasa, you are Balanced-brained

That means you are able to draw on the strengths of both the right and left hemispheres of your brain, depending upon a given situation.

When you need to explain a complicated process to someone, or plan a detailed vacation, the left hemisphere of your brain, which is responsible for your ability to solve problems logically, might kick in. But if you were critiquing an art opening or coming up with an original way to file papers, the right side of your brain, which is responsible for noticing subtle details in things, might take over.

While many people have clearly dominant left- or right-brained tendencies, you are able to draw on skills from both hemispheres of your brain. This rare combination makes you a very creative and flexible thinker.

The down side to being balanced-brained is that you may sometimes feel paralyzed by indecision when the two hemispheres of your brain are competing to solve a problem in their own unique ways.


Take the Brain test

Your silence

It is your silence daddy, I find it again and again. It is almost strange how it appears. Do I create it around me, in the men I get know?
Your silence returns to me, like a boomerang through time, and hits me right in the stomach, in the heart. And what can I do against your silence daddy? Your coldness?
Just wait? Let it flow over me like a surprising wave of salt water, that fills my nose and mouth until it feels like I am going to drown?

I live in a world filled with butterflies. My world is beautiful daddy, it has a sun, that is brilliantly shining, I hide under giant mushrooms, make little passages inside the trees and sleep in soft moss. I love life, I love the beauty of it.
But your silence shutters my world, breaks it like a thin leaf of paper in your fist. And take with it the air I breathe, until I am slowly strangled in your world of rejection. Until it is not your world anymore, it is mine.
And it is not you who is coming anymore, it is people with different faces. They come with your silence, your unavailability, and pour it over me like pieces of broken glass.
Leave me alone...let me play in the hundred meter long grass, and hide under the colorful mushrooms.
That is where I belong, not under your shattering silence.

Leave me alone
I wont seek you anymore

I promise
to try

I let you go now, I set you free from my heart

HUG A NORWEGIAN DAY

"Don't you forget about the norwegians, that would be the last thing you would want to do. besides they're like the best huggers in the world!"

Start Time:	Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 12:00am
End Time:	Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 12:00am
Location:	everywhere

thnx for the tip Rahul ;-)

Good times

This is a photo series taken by a very good friend of mine
of me and a classmate a couple of years ago
Check out her website

Copyright Tale Fjellanger

The Where Should YOU Travel Test
Your Score Extreme, Japan
You scored 74% culture, 61% social, 63% activity, and 69% adventure!

You want it all.

The great thing is, in the Land of the Rising Sun, you can HAVE it all.

Japan has a rich culture that goes back thousands of years. But did you know that along with enriching your mind, you can also get your adrenaline going? How about climbing Mount Fuji, sea kayaking around the Noto Peninsula, surfing, diving, rafting, paragilding, horseback riding or cycling among unique scenery and terrain. If you go in a group, this will give you a great chance to form relationships easily with others on the tour and having more friends around will make the whole experience all the more rewarding and memorable. You can then balance out your adventures with some Japanese theatre or exploring the exciting markets and city streets. You may have never considered such a destination, but maybe you have learned something

Ready for the trees

I am so sick of all this crap
money
cars
pavement
unnatural life
blah blah blah blah
shopping
being pretty
being smart
being cool
being popular
having a career
games
inhonesty
unloving behavour
insincerity
competition
being the best one
it is just bullshit
BULLSHIT!!!!

So, I have a plan now
I am going back to Norway in June
I will sell ALL my shit, most of the clotes, furniture, cds and all kinda of blah
I will move into the treehouse village in the forest
and be a bloody cave woman

There is nothing more that matters to me anymore than loving, open, honest people
and the wind in the trees
and the sunshine through my window
and my own freedom and aliveness
and the rest of the bullshit people think matters can just stick a carrot up its ass

Aasa

I forgot to say.......

Happy new year!
It is a little late, I know
But isn´t time relative anyway? ;-)
Besides, I wanted to show these photos I took,
which I think came out pretty cool
Hurray!
~ Aasa

Funny test

This test is based on the Briggs Meyers temperamental test, which again is based on Jungian psychology. Of course this is a popular playful and quite unserious version of it, but still fun
Try t out and tell me what you get
:)
~ Aasa

ENFP (Extroverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Perceptive)

Your type is known as the Champion type, which is part of the larger group called idealists. Nothing occurs that does not have some deep and ethical significance in your eyes. You see life as an exciting drama. You are very charismatic, yet tend to be too harsh on yourself for not being as genuine as you think you should be. 3% of the population shares your type.
As a romantic partner, you need to talk about what is going on in your life. You are a strong supporter for your partner's efforts to grow and change and be happy. You need to feel that same support from your partner. Expressive, optimistic, and curious, you are eager to enjoy new experiences with your partner, whom you wish to be your confidant and soul mate, as well as play mate. You are uncomfortable sharing negative emotion, though, and tend to withdraw from confrontation and process your feelings privately. You feel most loved when your partner appreciates your creativity, accepts your uniqueness, and sees you as the compassionate person you are. You need to hear your partner tell you how much you mean to them and would love if they did thoughtful spontaneous things to demonstrate it.
Your group summary: idealists (NF)
Your type summary: ENFP

HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:):):):)

Homecountry illusions

It is so strange.....I seem to loose a piece of who I really am every time I go to Norway.
I never discover it before I am in an other country again.
Then it is like I slowly wake up and all the thoughts I had in Norway were dreams.
It is not even like waking up from a dream, it is like stepping out of a nightmare, only you thought your nightmare was real and what you wanted. Norway makes me scared, small, controlling, unfree and afraid of life.
And getting out of there makes me see again that life is beautiful, that things are only frightening if you choose that perspective, that life is free and full of mysteries and lovely, lovely things.

And then it freaks me out a little that reality can be that twisted, just how you created it.

Weird, weird, weird.
Anybody else every had it like that about their "home"?
~ Åsa

Talking about illusions - I took this photo from the balcony of my mothers house in Norway
Anybody who knows what that weird black thing on the cloud is?

Philosophical Mood

"Answers arise when there are no more questions."
"There is no meaning in life, except the meaning you put into it"
~ Aasa ;-)


"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within." -Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle."
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
-"Sister" Elizabeth Kenny


"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."
-Walt Whitman

"Heaven will be inherited by every man
who has heaven in his soul."
-Henry Ward Beecher

"What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth.
This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth.
All things are connected like the blood that unites us all.
Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
-Chief Seattle

"Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
-Albert Einstein

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself
and know that everything in life has a purpose."
-Elisabeth Kübler-Ross



"Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them."
-David Hume

"The whole of life, from the moment you are born
to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln

"You are the people who are shaping a better world.
One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion."
-Dalai Lama

"For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God,
not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition?
Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'?
Heaven is neither a place nor a time."
-Florence Nightingale

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense."
-Buddha

"If something comes to life in others because of you,
then you have made an approach to immortality."
-Norman Cousins

"God is the friend of silence.
See how nature-trees, flowers, grass-grows in silence;
see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...
We need silence to be able to touch souls."
-Mother Teresa

"Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
-Emily Dickinson




"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
-Henry Vandyke

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
-Kahlil Gibran

"Time is
Too slow for those who Wait,
Too swift for those who Fear,
Too long for those who Grieve,
Too short for those who Rejoice,
But for those who Love
Time is not."
-Henry Vandyke

"Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe,
so no thought or action is without its effects,
present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt."
-Norman Cousins


"Peace cannot be kept by force.
It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein

Just.....

..... a little message
from a blog girlie
that has been silent for quite a while

Life is good
Keep passing the open windows
Fly like a colibri

~ Aasa

Norway melancholia

I am back in Barcelona
I always feel a little melancholic to leave Norway, my friends, family and all
but it is good to be back in this city, which is so pulsing and full of life.
Every time it feels like waking up from a silent, calm, sweet dream,
which Norway softly wraps me into


Will post some Norway photos as soon as I have them processed
Hugs to you all and sorry for leaving this blog so silent for so long

~ Aasa

Xmas

Merry merry and all that
:-)

The night is dark in Spain and the rain is pouring down
I sip a little of the atmosphere into my veins
and then I will slumber
softly
Goodnight to all of you night owls out there
You are my friends in spirit

~ Åsa

New Photos

Happy for feedback of any kind
positive as negative
suggestions for improvement always welcome!

See them in larger formats

~ Aasa

Please respect that this is my profession and I need to live from it,
so don´t steal any copies. If you are interested in buying a print you can talk with me