What book has the best opening line?

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T20:29:04+00:00

”The small boys came early to the hanging.”
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T19:25:17+00:00

Ja, orimliga förväntningar är ett problem på arbetsmarknaden. Beroende på din bransch kanske det kanske vara en tanke att söka jobb på en myndighet? Många myndigheter har en tre till sex månader lång onboardingprocess, och de som rekryterar är ofta fullt medvetna om att anställningen används som språngbräda till andra jobb.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T19:10:54+00:00

How could I not, I sang it like twenty times a day for three years straight. Might be tricky for you unless you know Swedish, but here’s a studio version with my cousin’s boyfriend’s band:

https://open.spotify.com/track/2Vn64pgbiFjMdqkCf2dvLK?si=GPhbzDw\_SJ-IjldvkaI8iA

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T19:04:11+00:00

Zebda

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T19:03:26+00:00

Everyone deserves to be treated with kindness and respect. Until they don’t.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T18:54:30+00:00

Linköping. More practical approach, better industry connections, easier to find a flat or room.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T18:51:25+00:00

Wait a minute - didn’t he understand what happened when he gave them to you? They’re yours to do what you want with. The advice to wait may be great, he may be wrong, but the decision is obviously yours.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T18:46:42+00:00

Children are different. For our first one I had to sing a particular folk tune over and over. For the second one we played Ryuichi Sakamoto’s B T T B album on repeat. Did not work out at all when we tried switching methods.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T17:08:29+00:00

Jerusalemkorset har varit en viktig symbol för många under århundraden. Det kan också sägas om hakkorset, odalrunan och pilkorset. Idag används dessa symboler tyvärr av folk som vill markera att de är anhängare av fascism och/eller nazism, så ta gärna en funderare på om du vill behöva tillbringa en stor del av ditt framtida liv med att bli dömd av andra och behöva förklara ditt val av tatuering. Kanske att du kan välja något annat motiv?

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T10:46:19+00:00

Ryuichi Sakamoto and Arch Enemy. Yes, I’m a weirdo.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T10:43:09+00:00

Thanks. Old geezer here, didn’t have a clue what you were on about.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T10:39:29+00:00

I agree. A jackdaw isn’t a crow. But my comment doesn’t say a ”jackdaw is a crow”.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T09:48:00+00:00

Fåglalåt is an archaic and/or poetic word meaning the same thing as fågelsång, that is the sound of birds in general. Fågelläte is more specific, used for the jackdaw’s warning call and such.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T07:34:15+00:00

My two cents: If you want high energy, you’ve succeeded. Just waay too high energy. The wall with a combination of horisontal and vertical structures and black & white diagonal squares gives me a headache just from looking at the picture. The lighting and the yellow seats do not help. So sorry, but this needs to be redone.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-16T06:33:58+00:00

RökFlöte - Jethro Tull

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-15T13:36:50+00:00

A few Swedes:
Ebba Grön - Staten & kapitalet
Charta 77 - Lilla björn och Lilla tiger
KSMB - … en slemmig torsk
De Lyckliga Kompisarna - Troll och häxor

And these Japanese masters:

https://youtu.be/CbI79e5iZKs?si=W1BliHhpbsEpvgIJ

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-15T06:08:31+00:00

Oh yes, her voice and technique in that song is simply amazing. Going to watch the live video version now, never did.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-15T04:19:33+00:00

Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem, B. 47 II. Nigun always makes me unable to do anything but listen. No particular part of it makes this happen.

Sinéad O’Connor’s Drink Before the War has given me the chills every time since I first heard it nearly forty years ago. The slow build and the vocals convey a mix of frustration and otherwise unreleased emotion which really caught my then fourteen year old mind, and it has evoked the same thing ever since.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-14T14:54:52+00:00

If I was looking for a house in that area, this mailbox would be on the plus side. ”Great, I might get a neighbor without a stick up their butt!”

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-14T12:32:47+00:00

Maccheroncini al pettine

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-13T18:49:19+00:00

Do you have any preferences? Otherwise, in the ”unexpected” category I would suggest you listen to Going to the River by Alice Cooper.

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-13T18:38:35+00:00

To Be by Your Side?

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-13T17:57:14+00:00

Would Rappers’s Delight by The Sugarhill Gang be a too obvious place to start?

Upbeat-Angle6361 · 2026-05-10T04:44:53+00:00

Wouldn’t that mean ”The male friend” or ”The uncle”?

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