Music: Ja, Dä Ä Dä!

Ja dä ä dä!* by Pugh Rogefeld was one of the first important Swedish records with Swedish rock music performed in Swedish.

Psychedelic Cinnamon: Pugh Rogefeldt - Ja, Dä Ä Dä! - 1969





* means yes it is but with a "speech-like" spelling

Photo: Gérard Laurenceau



Black and white photography by Gérard Laurenceau

Via Las Insólitas Aventuras de Pez

Stuff: Combo Non-Grata

APA, ARG, BAJ, CUC, CUK, DUM, DYR, ETA, ETT, FAN, FEG, FEL, FEM, FES, FET, FNL, FUC, FUL, GAM, GAS, GAY, GET, GEY, GLO, GOM, GUB, GUC, GUD, GUK, HAL, HAN, HAO, HAR, HAS, HAT, HER, HES, HET, HJO, HKH, HMO, HOM, HON, HOR, HOT, HRA, HUD, HUK, HUS, HUT, JUG, JUK, JUO, JUR, KDS, KUC, KUF, KUG, KUK, KYK, LAM, LAT, LEM, LOJ, KKK, LSD, LUS, LUZ, MAD, MAO, MAS, MEN, MES, MLB, KUF, MUS, MUT, NAZ, NEJ, NJA, NOS, NRP, NUP, NYP, NYS, OND, OOO, ORA, ORM, OST, OXE, PAJ, PAP, PES, PKK, PLO, PNS, PRO, PUB, PUC, PUK, PYS, RAS, REA, ROM, RPS, RUG, RUK, RUS, SAB, SAC, SAF, SAP, SAT, SEG, SEK, SEX, SJU, SOP, SOS, SPY, SSU, SUG, SUP, SUR, SWE, SYF, TAJ, TBC, TOA, TOK, TYP, TOT, TRE, UCK, USH, UFF, UPA, USA, UFO, WAM, WAR, WTC, WWW, XTC, XTZ, XXL, XXX.

The Swedish license plates look like this: "ABC 123" but certain combinations of letters has been removed from public use. For some the reasons are very understandable even for a non-Swede and some are not very obvious at all...

From SVT via STA TIO NSV AKT

Exhibition: Pastille Boxes



At Kulturhuset in Stockholm there's an exhibition of candy pastille boxes from the 50s to the 80s. Most are Swedish (and Finnish) so it's a nostalgic experience, if you are too, revisiting long lost lables. Many are classics, though, and still in production. And many are really pretty to watch. Or funny.

Here's the collector's site and there's a book too ("The Pastille Boxes of the Childhood").

On the subject from I like (repost)

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History: Brazil goes Åtvidaberg

It's the summer of 1966. The Brazilian national football team has been invited to the Swedish town of Åtvidaberg by the AB Facit company, at the time a large successful producer of calculators and typewriters. It is all a part of the Brazilian team's training program for the World Cup in England later in the summer. They have just played a training game against Åtvidaberg FF and now it's relaxation and party time. Singer Lill Lindfors is entertaining, Pelé, guys in viking helmets are there and meat is being grilled over the Churasqueiras...





















View the clip

Via Josephzohn gås blogger

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Info: Musselsoppans Vänner updated

Martin Klasch's image dump blog - Musselsoppans Vänner - has been updated with 57 (I think) new (old) images. I hope you will enjoy them. They are all "stolen" from around the web. I wish I could give due credit to all the sites/blogs from where I got them but it wouldn't be the simple image dumping it's meant to be if I did that. I hope noone gets sore.

Here a few of the sources for today's batch:
BibliOdyssey
Agence Eureka
Ultra Swank

!WOm!WAm!
Random Things
Fun All Around
A Sampler of Things
If Charlie Parker was...
Mod*mom

Thank you and to all the rest!

Stuff: Petterson?

Just play it.

Fetish: Women doing things to men



















"...the dropping of the Atomic Bomb in 1945, which radiated a sexual energy across the planet, changing the media projection of WOmen to hyper-erotic levels, at first embodied by Marilyn Monroe and fully fleshed out through the 60s..."

"...and the Dream Girl transforms into The Dominatrix...Sex transmogrifies from Simple Pleasure to Kinky Death, the Playboy Bunny becomes a SlayGirl, and the 19Sexties explore The Dream Girl as The Angel of Death..."

!WOm!WAm! Probably NSFW



Thanks to Mod*Mom

Art & Illustration: Mark Ulriksen

Mark Ulriksen

Via Smidigt.se












"Dog Show"
New Yorker cover

Art: More Decollages



I recently posted decollages made from movie posters and dear Fede of El Burlador was kind enough to show me to this Flickr-link of other decollages: GrafficHavoc

What is decollage?

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Movies: Freaks



Tod Browning's classic cult movie Freaks from 1932 has been made available at Google Video! Who has done such a good deed? Go and ask Bibi and also find the Google Video link there! (Don't miss Häxan either. But the conscious reader knows I have already mentioned this)

Photo: Vintage Balloon Parade

"...from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York. The marquee on the movie theater is showing Divorce in the Family with Jackie Cooper which would date the photos to around 1932." From Swapatorium.


Via PCL LinkDump

VM-guld!

That means World Cup Gold!

"Sweden became the first country to win both the world and Olympic titles in the same year with their impressive victory in Riga, Latvia." BBC News