my, oh my...

...The record and movie gigants pumps up; hopefully its bound to explode... After EU is issueing new anti-terror laws, the entertainment industries starts lobby for extended use of surveilance of their own consumers to keep them in business; Read this from BBC today, this is too fucking far to go... How is the industry gonna use this? Use intelegence resources to find out if some 14 year old girl "stole" "their" britney album, then use military and police to put her in guantanamo? That would probably teach her to spend her meager pocketmoney on their products! Or is it gonna be like sony and universal is going to get their own surveilance personel ? And after theyve discovered an "act of terror" against their internal economy, whos gonna follow this up? The police? Special task forces? That would certainly be great for our everyday security according to ordinary crimefighting! Or do they visualize them selves with their very own special task force put high above the general law? That would be really "swell" according to privacy policies! Who could imagine that the wicked world of orwells "1984" was to be run by entertainment corporations... Well to qoute the article;

"If they cannot come up with a business model which allows them to make profits without criminalising their customers, trampling over our civil liberties or installing malware on our computers then they do not deserve to stay in business..."

Eating breakfast...

...and trying to cope after meeting my big brother for the first time in months; hes been working on the local theater back in Mo i Rana. It got abit soaked, but it was nice to see him again:) But he is thinking of moving there permanently, wich is kind of sad; the distance(1000km, that would be the same as he was moving to somewhere like the northern part of Italy...) and the fact that Mo i Rana is the hellhole where I grew up and wish to forget exists... It used to be this dump of an industrial small-town, built on war-gainings from the ww2(yeah, thats where the old messerschmidt and vw factories ended) untill the government decided to put all the industry down , all at the same time. Over the night the "city" became a dunghole of unemployees and social cases; untill they made papershufflers of most of the population and put all the mean offices (all my evil mail comes from here) and the national library there... They also kept people employed by building lots of highways(!) in a community of about 25-30000 people, lol... I also met Mette again, wich was kind of funny as she was to babysit my brothers kid last time we went on a drunkard spree:) Also met lots of the regulars, and this very nice girl, Liv, wich was modelling for me acouple of years ago. Then it all went blury... Nice evening:)

Anyhow, Wolf Parade delivered grand on saturday:) But Christian insisted on vorspiel, so we got pretty drunk... Luckily he was the first to black out so now I'm able to invent stories to make his drunken nerves totally highwired:)

Sunday was slack; totally hung over I fell asleep at eigth or something watching "lost in translation". I think its perfect for a hungoverday, its so slow and murrays insomnia makes him as bad shaped as one self feel on a day like this. "Dead man" is also perfect for this scenario:) I LOVE that movie!!! Woke up at 3.00AM, and couldnt sleep anymore even though I tried really hard:( Ended up with playing wow, wtaching "closer" and "Frk. Sverige" and lots and lots of carnivale, before meeting my brother...

Tonight is the zoom-06 finals part one and Im supposed to judge... Have heard all the bands, but as Im not very into any of them its gonna be a hard decission, think I have to get really focused and stay away from the bar to make up my mind...

One good thing from the weekend though; Autolux:) I "discovered" this fantastic band on friday and its been on the stereo since then. Heres a little something for yah; "Blanket" from their new album "future perfect". Heres also a video thingey from their website:) Time to black out, just to make it real! Wooohooo!!!

The riots...

...of france reaches Oslo:) In the news today several papers could report of three cars lit up in suburbian Oslo... A week ago two cars where set on fire in the inner citys west-end. The revolt seems to be spreading across europe... Dont have time to write that much now, but check out setchy thoughts for some eyewitness reports and some decent oppinions...

And for ale; heres your surfs up!, from Ungdomskulen...

Woohhaa!

Still alive and kicking, though somewhat less hard... To summarize last week; lots of work, lots of concerts, lots of beer, and less sleep.

Thursday 10th; Was working during the night, as French Kissers where playing, or rather trided to play agig, while monodelica was spinning the decks. Everything that could go wrong went straight to hell! Lots of incidents; thefts, people causing troble, the power went off after the band peformed three songs, and came back so the band could finish up with one more. Great band, Norwegian electronica in french:) After some fights, an old un veteran with total paranoia went postal, and some incident with one of our regulars, miss hellish had lost her purse. So we had to listen to her whineing for an hour after closing time... I fist helped her bloc her creditcard, cellphone, and the opportunity to get a cab. After that I told her that she ought to report it to the police in order to get the insurance money to get a new cellphone; Then, really polite, I told her that we needed to finish up work, as we didnt want to stay there the entire morning. This turned me into a hell of a cynical bastard with no empathy at all, and the other guys at work was even worse. God I love when beeing helpfull makes you the target of the violateds anger....

Friday 11th;Was working the entire night, wich actually past by pretty slack; the place was stuffed but no stress in the bar, and no, nada, nothing trouble:) We didnt even have to throw out anybody at all!!! The scottish band The Very was playing; it was perfect for the evening; staright forward punk rock at its best!

Saturday 12th;Woke up totally hung over, and managed to swap my shift. Totally happy and planning to win the lottery, I had to go to work myself not a million richer....

Sunday 13th; Elias Jung was playing, and the day started up pretty early as I was band contact. The guys from Tromsø, seemed pretty nice and the gig went smooth. Here they are with "silence, come please me" and "brother, you're dear" Nice evening, and I managed to do some "decent" drinking as well:)

Monday 14th; I was working as band contact for white lord jesus. The band was one of the first goth bands from norway, and consists of Tristan Christ (Arvid Skancke-Knutsen), one of our regulars, and Tognazzi (Thomas Robsahm). This was the first time the band has played live in 20 years, so after the longest soundcheck ever, the band delivered a great concert and managed to get a lot more people than expected. Karl Petter also came by to watch the show and have a few beers. Then we got haunted by two very annoying guys from the southern part of norway(aka the bible belt...shrug!). We managed to get pretty pissed, but I had to leave kp alone, as these guys got too annoying.... Sorry about that one:P

Tuesday 15th; was Delawares showcase for BMG. Some misscomunications resulted in some vile janitors furious anger upon my very person.... This ended up with threats of 25grand in fines for violating the agreement with the landlord (oh yeah, lets lynch him! He owns like half the town, and is not an ideal worker if you get the drift...). Things seemed to settle and everybody was eternally happy after the gig(at least throughout the evening...). Except for some janitor who didnt answer his phone...

Wednesday 16th; was pretty eventful, first I was opening the bar, then there was litterature evening with five authors, and then King Midas prez; this english berliner known as Casa electro nova, total entertainer; if he had been a tv-shop host Ild probably buy everything they had to offer.... Spooky but really fun:) After that I got abit tipsy, and managed somewhat to make out with blind-dategirl, again.... Not very clever I guess...

Thursday 17th; The unbelievable thing finally happened; A day off!!! I slept for hours, saw lots of futurama, and played wow, and banged my head against the wall with anxiety after the blind-dategirl incident...

Today, friday 18th; Started out with a wake up to a call from Øyvind, who is staying for the weekend:) Started to clean up some of the mess I made throughout the week... Shit, gotta do some laundry, cut my hair and shave, then it would probably be smart to toss myself in the washing machine as well.... Anyhow; working tonight, and then theres this Wolf parade gig at garage tomorrow:) Its gonna be swell! I also got a phone from work asking me to sit in the "Zoom 2006" jury in runars place for mono; you can listen to the finalists on this page:)

Dead as a duck!!!

Been really fucked up today. Øyvind came to town yesterday; had to end up insanely drunk on nachspiel at my place... Think I managed to swallow half a whinebottle after not managing to speak; so today has been serioulsy slack;

1. managed to use like three hours of moaning untill I actually got out of bed, while Øyvind sat online on wow..
2. read an e-mail, and answering some phone from christian about how fucked up I looked yesterday, and confirming that I actually was alive:)
3. Got a visit from Lasse Spang, wich was short but rather nice
4. taken this quiz about seduction abilities; wich turned out pretty good(at least for my ego today...)

   Your Seduction Style: Au Natural

   You rank up there with your seduction skills, though you might not know it. That's because you're a natural at seduction. You don't realize your power! The root of your natural seduction power: your innocence and optimism. You're the type of person who happily plays around and creates a unique little world. Little do you know that your personal paradise is so appealing that it sucks people in. You find joy in everything - so is it any surprise that people find joy in you? You bring back the inner child in everyone you meet with your sincere and spontaneous ways. Your childlike (but not childish) behavior also inspires others to care for you. As a result, those who you befriend and date tend to be incredibly loyal to you.

   What Kind of Seducer Are You?
   
   
5. now Im eating meat(!), and its pretty grose.... But it is totally necesary to get fit for tonights shift at work.... And Im not looking forward to that!

Last week have been rather eventful, On Friday I worked late, saturday was the most boring day ever; where the hell does all the nice people disappear and who the swaps them with the evil wicked weekend-crowd. Was all over the city, but there where noone I knew(or none I wanted to hang out with...), so I ended up with reading a book, and left for home pretty early. Sunday was better, as I went for a few beers back at work with Mathias, lots of familiar faces again... Børge even pointed me out as this girls dream-man; This was kind of funny cause I discovered, after Mathias had just explained how I would look in huge leather boots and a bikini, that they were laughing at me, but after the reason why they were giggeling became known it felt abit more comfy:)
Monday till today have been soaking. I havent seen the daylight, but insane amounts of bottle-bottoms, I even went on a shopping frenzy, and eaten almost nothing. Today I woke up with the crazy idea of having a "white"-month, but as the shape settled the month turned into a week, and now it have become a day.... Still not learning from my mistakes:)

Really tired...

...after some more meetings with bestfriend beer. Yesterday was a presentation of this years dugnad-festival. We saw pics from northern parts of uganda, where people have been living up to 12 years in refugee camps. After that girl from saskatoon played a very good concert followed by a pretty good one from napoo. Met Sakkari and played around with his homemade synthesizers, great geekish fun! Ended up at mono after that and cant remember walking home; again....

Anyhow found this nice album from "you say party! we say die!" Here with some "midnight snack". Well, gotta do laundry and repair yesterdays shape:)

been working...

...and working and working since thursday. Thursday eve was grand, totally stuffed and shitloads of tip:) Friday was nice and saturday was hellish; everything that could possibly ever go wrong went even worse... The evening was so fucked up that Im going to forget it, so no blathering or rumours for you! Sunday was swell:) I worked as band contact for the akron/family. The guys in the band were a dream to work with; really nice people and professional as hell. The concert was grand as they played relly great and almost for two hours. Got goosebumps all over several times. The live gig sounded like sonic youth meets low and joins forces with flaming lips:) Its doomed to be good!!! After the concert I got drunk with the band and some guys from work. Heres like an hour long session from WNYC studios, enjoy:) On monday I was opening the bar and working as band contact for vishnu, a pretty good rock band from Tromsø(northern norway). The evening turned out great as the akron/familiy guys hung around most of the day, and night... So I managed to have a few beers with them and marianne from work. As everything totally went more and more blury, I think I got into this biteing-competition with marianne, so theres is a slight pain in my upperarm, and some decend marks of her theeth... Yesterday was pretty slack; We had this lecture on reggae music and its origin, our sound technician even tried to name me "reggae-rune"; Ill get my vengeance; "puke"/"pule"/"pedo"/etc-petter... Remeber that youve got a broken rib!!!

As for other events this week; Why? is releasing their first album on the fourth:) It sounds like a merge of indie and hip hop. This does not sound as a grand idea, but it actually works out great. Heres "crushed bones" from their coming album "elephant eyelash"....