Erika's World

Hi! Lets see if I can do a quick post now because I have to leave soon because of work (which is not as boring or as hard as I thought). I work as biografansvarig (how should we translate that, maybe to theater coordinator - yeah I think that is what it actually says that on the staff passes but I haven't got mine yet so I am not actually sure) at Stockholm International Film Festival. Basically I am the boos. My job is to oversee everything and make sure that everything runs smoothly and that the films start on time. I also get to present the films, which is kind of scary because I have a teeny tiny bit of stage fright. Yeah it's a curse. So yesterday I watched to films while I was working. Foxcatcher  and The Captive . Well, I didn't watch the whole of Foxcatcher  since I had to help the ladies at the cash register, plus we were really short on time between  Foxcatcher  and The Captive so I had to go and make sure that the movie wouldn't be that much late. I work...

OMG, hi guys! How are you? I am good. Been baking all day. Well, most of the day anyway. Cinnamon buns, because it's the Cinnamon Bun Day and regular bread. LOL. Baker Babe, that's me. Hahahahaha. I told you guys that it was going to be a good weekend! Like today I have been baking all day. Fun fun (also a little bit exhausting). And tomorrow I am going to be an extra in this cute cool little film. It's not going to be shown in the theaters. It's just a film for educational purposes. I don't know how to put it really, but it's an informational educational film. (LOL that sounds weird, like I just made up my own word. Hahahaha.) That's going to be fun. It's going to be a long day, but I my call time isn't until 10:45 AM which mean I don't have to be up super early. LOL. I wouldn't be up now if I had to be up super early tomorrow morning. I was watching TV earlier and I saw that Flight on TV tomorrow. I got so excited that I screamed! I lov...

Hi guys. Another film night. Hmm. I have been watching a lot of films lately. I mean there is so much good on TV here in Sweden (can you hear the irony in what I did just write). No there is rarely anything good on TV in this country. That's why I have been watching a lot of films lately. I think that I am going to start watching Sherlock . I haven't seen it but there is a lot of fuss about that show. I wanna see for myself if it's as good as people say. Well, I'll do that tomorrow. Viaplay has the first season. Have you seen Sherlock ? Is it anything that you would recommend? I mean it has Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman and those are not bad actors. I'll give it a chance. I really don't know what to tell you guys. My life isn't that exciting these days. I am sorry. I have like one thing that I am looking forward to and that is in like two and a half weeks. The RIX FM Festival. Ella and Rixton. Yup. Only reason that I am going. I have been waiting...

Friday night. I have no life. Well, well. I feel like I have no life. I am so bored. I am just sitting here and waiting for Modern Family , 'cause as usual there is nothing good on TV. Oh my god, I just realized that it got to seem like all I do is watch TV, besides working at McDonalds. Yeah, what an exciting life I do have. LOLL. It's not as boring as it's sounds when you put it like that. I enjoy watching TV. Hahahaha, yeah, I mean like that's the reason most people who watch TV so yeah I need to find a better argument. LOL. I feel like that is a lot of me, like TV and movie. I have always been interested in that. Instead now I am "stuck" working at McDonalds. I used the "" to slightly ironic, I am not stuck working there, I choose to take that job. Anyway. Like sometimes I feel like I want a job with more regular and "normal" (meaning like from 8 AM to 4 PM) hours. I mean McDonalds are a little more here and there, you never work true s...

Hi guys! What's hatnin'? I am good. I have been working today. It was alright but it's like school. I mean you know at the end of the day when you during you last class all you do is look at the watch because you're getting impatient because you want to go home because have been in school all day. It was like that today, towards the end of the day I kept staring at my watch and just getting impatient with every little thing. Plus todays shoot went overtime, surprise surprise. I mean when it comes to TV and film never count on anything to run according to the schedule. When I got out of the shower this morning and saw all of the snow, I just screamed and my mom was like "What is it now?" And I warned her not to look outside, but she did and she was like "I am going back to bed now." Hahahaha. I didn't have to work today I would have stayed home all day and watched movies. OMG, it was like the perfect day for that today. A friend at work told me ...

I am a good hard working girl. I am. You know that I complained about having to read two chapters in my film history book for Monday. Yeah, well I read on my way to school, during my lunch hour and on my way home, that means that I only have nine pages left to read which I can just finish on Sunday because I ain't doing no homework tomorrow. Woop, woop. Hahaha. Anyway it feels nice to not have so much left to read. That way I can relax a little more this weekend and not feel pressured about having to do homework. I am looking at job on arbetsförmedlingen's website. Just for fun I check out what kinds of job they are offering abroad. In the UK then because, I mean it is a huge benefit you you know the language of the country that you're working in. Or what do you say? LOL. Most of it is just nanny/ au pair work. It sounds okay but involves kids and being responsible for someone else's child. It's not that I think that I can't do it it's more that I don...

Hi guys! I think that my bad habit from USA has followed me to Sweden. Hahaha. I think I fell asleep during class yesterday. Gosh what is happening to me?! It was a dark movie theater and a not so interesting movie. I was leaning on my bag and all of the sudden it was that boring music and closing credit (it was n Chinese so I really have no idea) and people were leaving. Ooops! Hihihi. But in the United States people couldn't really blame me. Well, I think so because I went up at 5:30 AM so that I could make it to my 8 AM class (keeping mind that it to me about 45 minutes to get to school). You know what? It takes me longer to get to school here in Sweden that it did in SB. WTF?! Like, "Hello, dude!" Like right now I am not like "Yeah!" about school but maybe it's like Sara said that once you get to know people it will be a lot more fun. I met this one girl today who has a friend at NYU and an other friend or maybe it was her friends' friend who goes ...

Exhausted is the word Madam! Exhausted! Damn I am so freaking tired that I am dozing off in class and that is not like me. I might be bored but I never doze off. I never did that in Sweden but I guess that's what three months of school does to you. It's good that I sit in the back in two of my classes (the ones that I tend to doze off in). Well, in my Introduction To Film class I always sit in the las row (or the second last) and when we watch a movie the lights are off so I don't think that my professor notices. Hehehe, as for my Intermediate Acting class - well - there are only two rows and so the is a slight (uhm, much bigger) chance that my professor notices. In the class we are about 20 students and in my Introduction To Film class we're about 160 people so, yeah. This morning when I woke up all I thought was "Screw this, I want to go home!". I was tired and, yeah, as I said I was really exhausted. I just really wanted to go back to bed while I was in t...

So. I don't know I thought I owed you a post today. I feel like people at home are going to leave me angry voicemail's otherwise (you know who you are, feel threatened). So, that bitch of a FS 101 professor that I have seems to be less and less of a bitch after all. He was more laid back today. Here wore a t-shirt (yes, I know bitches can wear t-shirts too but you had to be there on Monday and today to know what I am talking about or maybe you just had to be me). LOL. Anyway, that thing that made him slightly less bitchier/ took away his bitch label was that he let us leave earlier, at about 3:50 PM instead of 5:05 PM. Haha, that is so me. If you are a professor who are reading this and you know that you might have me as a student in the future and you want to get on my good side here are some easy tips for you: Let me leave early everyday (Don't ever make me feel like I came to your class for nothing. So when I say "early" don't let me leave after 5 minut...

OMG! I survived my first day of college. Not that it was particularly hard or anything, I just made it through my first day. I made it in time (YEAH!), to every class. I didn't have any problem finding any of the classrooms. Good for me! LOL. OMG, you know what? Of course you don't unless you actually where there when it happened. Hahaha. I have a bitch of a professor in Introduction to Film. Double u tee eff?! Yeah, I am like what yo' problem old dude. Nah, he's actually not that bad. It's just that he doesn't allow computers in his class. I had to turn mine off. I am like what? Ever heard about a year called 2012? Let us enjoy it before  the world ends on December 21st. Okay?! So we're on the same page now?! Aha, thought so. As I was turning mine off I flipped it so that screen was just a little bit open because the computer wasn't really turned off yet. Just because of that he looked at me and said (but he was talking to the entire class or at leas...

Today at school we had to watch this boring movie with Johnny Depp and Sarah Jessica Parker, Ed Wood . It was black and with and frankly I don't care about Ed Wood. I mean our teacher could just have mentioned that he is the worst dierector of all times. That would have been enough. Maybe he could have shown us a clip on youtube NOT the whole damn movie! Blä! I hate when a teacher make us watch a boring movie.           The teacher I have for film studies doesn't make us watch boring movies that often. He shows movies that I have never seen before that are kind of okay. The first lesson he we got to watch Bröllopsfotografen - a Swedish movie by some guy whos surname Malmros or something like that - and I thought it was okay. I often dont like Swedish movies. your writer, Erika

Yesterday I finished Wings . It's a book by Aprilynne Pike and it's rumoured to be made into a motion picture. Miley Cyrus is rumoured to play Laurel - the main character. Anyway the book is amazing! I love it! I told Linda about it today and she said that if it becomes a motion picture she definetly wants to see it. Lets just hope so. your writer, Erika

Today at 4:10 PM it's a film on Kanal5 called Penelope starring Christina Ricci. I wanted to see it when it came out in the US (that was like four years ago). Here the trailer your writer, Erika

I have been in the studio all day. My partner and I (we thought a group) put our minds togther and came up with an idea. Next monday we are going to shoot it. Then we really need our third group member. Otherwise we have to ask our teacher or some one in our class to be in it. If none want to be in short film we have to make a new storyboard. I don't want to do that because we didn't get an approval from our teacher on our first one. That was because my partner didn't make such a good one. I know we are a group but I don't like to write down everything. your writer, Erika