Everyone’s favorite Swedish twee-popster Jens Lekman is currently cut off from the outside world because he contracted the H1N1 virus, also known as the swine flu in popular parlance, during a recent trip to South America. However, he seems to be doing just fine.

Here’s what ole Leky had to say about the ordeal on his blog:

I picked home one last souvenir from South America, it’s called the H1N1 virus. Wrongfully known as the Swineflue.

I was crossing the Atlantic when things started getting really bad, the fever was hallucinogenic and shaking me like a leaf and I grabbed the sleeve of the Air France steward. “I’m not feeling well, I should see a doctor” I said and the reply came as a brilliant mix of death anxiety and french rudeness: “Uh, yes… Terminal D… go there maybe… when we land”. After that the stewards and stewardesses took long detours. A ring of empty seats formed around me. Peoples eyes were kind but determined, they read “Poor you, I really wish you all the best but if you come near me or my kid I will have to stab you with this plastic fork”. I got up and went to the bathroom where I fainted.

Now I’m in quarantine for ten days. I can see the summer through my window and it’s just perfect. Summer is always best through a window.

2 Responses to “Jens Lekman Gets Swine Flu, Isn’t Dead”

1. On 06/30/09 10:59 PM, ryan. said:

   

   man. couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.

2. On 07/1/09 11:10 AM, cool dude said:

   

   The good always suffer worse than the bad.. *sigh*..

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