Amigawd!

A number of years ago, I stumbled upon a book with a rather peculiar name: Arven etter Arn (The Legacy of Arn). I had never heard of it before, and had no reference to it whatsoever. I figured I had to read it, since it was more or less named after me. It soon became apparent that the book was no more than the 4th part of a trilogy (!) concerning a swedish Knight Templar that went from Götaland, to Jerusalem, and back again. I aquired all four books, and read them gluttonously. I've read a few books in my days, but these still stand out among the very finest. The story is incredible in all ways, and Jan Guillou is absolutely splendid in sucking the reader away to the faraway struggles of the Crusaders.

The first book is called The Road to Jerusalem and tells of Arn Magnusson's life as a young swedish boy, up until his departure to the holy land.
The second book, entitled The Knight Templar, tells the magnificent story of Arn's career as a 17 years old boy coming to Jerusalem to serve with the Knight Templars to defend the Holy Land.
The third book, named The Kingdom at the End of the Road finally sees Arn back in sweden, and finally together with his beloved Cecilia. The 20 years he has been gone has torn the sweden he knew appart, and he uses what he has learned in the crusades, to try to fix it.

Anyways, a few months back, browsing IMDB (Internet Movie Database) I stumbled upon the makings of a new movie. It would appear one of my favourite literature characters is coming to life. Jan Guillou has, with the help of director Peter Flinth, begun the pre-productive works of making the movie "Arn - Tempelridderen" with a current budget of 250 mill SEK!
WEEEEEE!!!

Part one is to be released around christmas 2007! XD

Some links:
Arn at IMDB
Västergötalands Museum
Arn at Wikipedia

The end of an act

The last week I've had a terrific time with my family, represented this christmas by my parents and my younger sister Marte and my younger brother Eirik. Needless to say I've gained a couple (!) of pounds, and considering my not-so-frequent visits to the gym, I'm guessing they have come to stay ;)

My grandmother was rather blunt when telling me I've gotten fat, almost to the extent of me taking her seriously and considering doing something about it. Almost.

Still I'd suspect not much will change when I get back to my sweet ol'.

Happy new years to everyone. Let's hope it will be better than the last one.

Cheers.

Is this gonna be boring ? Probably...

My life has never been very eventful, but at least I got something else than smoking, sofas and chocolate to talk about now. Not that there's anything wrong with any of those topics, but there is a limit to how exciting they can be in the long run.

Due to my recently illbegotten "job", the new El Schnabo has finally gotten a small boost out from the last years status quo I've been experiencing. It appears it's finally time for me to grow up and get a proper life, even if my own mind is working as hard as it can against this goal.

Even tho I resist as good as I can, people (yes, people) have arranged the following year for me, and made it clear to me that I better follow their wishes (aka commands).
According to this plan, I'm supposed to be fully reinstated in the society by the end of June 2007.

Also, I'm supposed to resume my "music career". What this has to do with anything is beyond me, but at least on that issue, my own wishes are more or less coherent with theirs... :P

I suppose time will tell wether or not this plan of theirs will work out, but I'm gonna give it a shot and maybe, just maybe, it will actually happen this time.

That's all for today.

Gimme a call anytime. I got endless amounts of coffee :)