At last...

...the last workingday this year! Yesterday went boom, and there were shitloads to do at work, but the tip was grand:) Hopefully tonight will be calm. And then Im not working untill the fifth of january:) Hopefully Ill get to do some drawing and relax abit...

I was planning to go to svening to celebrate newyearseve but itll only be too much fuzz to get there as it is located about four hours outside Oslo. So Ill eat dinner(breakfast) at Mathias, and then head for Hjelmsgate 3. Think that will be swell as well:)

Anyhow; Happy New Year to all off you!!!

An evening...

...with Magnet ought to be a pretty calm afair, but with too much whiskey and gingerale inside it can get pretty exhausting... I managed to get late for the concert as it started ten sharp, but what I saw was great, Even Johansen spellbinded the audience with his sad songs and showing of his skills as a natural born entertainer. Mood was really good, and the audience even worked as a choir, with the headlight on the dylan cover "lay, lady, lay". After the concert I hung out with some guys from work trying to avoid this really insistant girl who never seemed to give up... So after four -no, I dont wanna spend the night at your place, she finally called it a draw... After shitloads of drinking I finally managed to get home and have wine nachspiel alone. The place looked like a dunghole afterwards, and sad part is I cant remember if it was any fun, lol...

Yesterday was pretty weird at work, with nerves strung as hell from yesterdays escapades, I'm surprised I made it through the evening... Highlight was me being called "hore"(whore) by a very little blonde girl who tried to enter behind the bar to ask me if this illegal club, "nirvana", was open. After tossing her out from behind the bar, I had to admit I didnt know if nirvana was open. Dont know if I became a whore for not nowing or for not letting her walk behind the bar... Anyhow, after this little conversation the girl turned around and mumbled; -hore!

Well, its cleaning up the mess and then head for work again.... Meanwhile today's titletrack is the wrens with "this boy is exhausted" from their "the meadowlands" album...

This all year...

...festival team is touring portugal, or rather southern portugal, algarve in february:) Gonna be swell to escape king winter for a week. First plan was mexico, but tickets got fucked, then we planned to go to istanbul, and suddenly ended up in algarve... Not as hot as mexico, but then I'm not very found of bathing anyway... The plan for this travel was mainly to have a goal to get me through evil wicked winter, and escape the "routines" here at home. Only thing planned so far is "bad moon rising", a grunge and indie club in lagos, else is for chance to decide...

Christmas past by pretty calm, in fact I didnt get out of bed at all on the 24th. Just saw loads of movies, 2 seasons simpsons, a bottle of wine and some cheese sandwiches... It's the fisrt time i've celebrated x-mas all by my self, wich was better than i imagined even without all the food and presents. I was invited to three places, but didnt bother either of them. Think this might be my new tradition:)

Last night I was out with Erlend, I started pretty early with an irish coffee, then over on beer and then shitloads of bruichladich(yummy!). This led to me being shitfaced about elleven and home in bed before midnight...

Magnet's playing tonight, hopefully that will be calmer...

Somewhat...

...alive, but not kicking; wel not that much... Yesterday was pretty long, working both as band contact and late shift in the bar. Point Shirley, a pretty good electro/rock band(check out the audio on their page), was playing a good gig. Only thing was the mood in the audience was abit slack. Dont know if that was because the band started late, or if people are generally tired from x-mas stress and the fact that it was the darkest day of the year... Anyhow sun has "turned", and lighter days ahead:)

The gig with johnny and einar went well, and a really calm and nice evening. You should check out number seven delis website and watch their latest musicvideo; its really sweet:)

Today its meeting up with erlend for some relationshipchattin, and then cato salsa experience is playing at work...

Weeeee!

Yesterday was swell! Datarock delivered grand!! Woke up abit tired after work and a bottle of wine as sleeping medication... Abit hung over I ran around with posters, but after a few fernets it got better...

When I came back to work, the place was crowded with familiar faces, and also old friends from my schooldays. Perhaps abit too much at the very same moment. But very nice indeed:)

First band off was ungdomskulen, they played well, but I was alittle disappionted; The songs had shitloads of cool parts and very nice noise parts, but they didnt hang together tight enough. After that datarock entered the stage, with the entire ungdomskulen, kjetil møster on a sax, ++ Totally they were eight guys on the satge(band is usually no more than three...) having an insane jam on the stage. Everything went kaa-boom and the place was boiling!! Afterwards I had some beers with some old friends, and managed to spend some time with ketil....

Today I woke up and went to work as band contact for Johnny(johnny hide, number seven deli) and einar(jim Stärk). After some dining to fix the shape, I went and did all my x-mas shopping in 30mins(!). New personal record on that matter.

Then to top all I got a phone from runar telling me that band of horses coming album was waitng at mono!!!! I've tried to get hold of that one for a long time, and voila:D Smootchas all over!!!!

zap!!!

Another week has alreaddy past, and no updates; where the hell did the time go? Well, mista speedking started out the week with the x-mas party with the job... And suddenly its sunday:O (or monday morning for the normally employed)

Its not as bad as it sounds, yes; I managed to get home from the party during the night, and no; I havent been hiding in the basement since...

The party itself was really cozy and pretty uneventful according to rumours and embarrasing moments... Only thing worth mentioning is that for once the vegetarian food was better, and more exclusive than the meat-eaters got, second; øystein in mariannes skirt, but, alas, I cant remember....

Tuesday, I got stuck in the world of warcraft, raiding three dungeons in a row before I got uneasy and out of cigarettes and went to bed...

Wednesday; too out of it to cope, I went to town, but got fucked pretty early and went home:(

Thursday I missed a debate at mono with this swedish artist who tries to create his own nation on swedish territory, and has just written this book on how to become an artist in three days, after the debate it was working, and a pretty nice concert mix with first the cheaters and then block 5. First was pretty plain garage rock and the second was a bit tortoiseish. So me and runar discussed to make this concept concert series with band s that shouldnt fit together, but does anyhow. Just to force the stuck up guys to listen to something great that they else would miss the grand world of good music...

Friday was worknight again, with the indication starting pretty early. Wasn't starting to work before eleven so I went down to oles new pub "taxi" and had a glass of beer with øyvind, ingrid, martin and loads of guys from the Jam! project. As they were going to "the thing" gig at blå, I went for dinner and then to watch the concert. It was abit disappointing as there were rumours that they had changed their name to "betles" and had become christian fundamentalists... Never trust a good rumour!!!

Saturday I was bandcontact for a musicschool showcase; It was five different constalations of pupils, wich were pretty good technically on their instruments. Only thing is it lacked each pupils joy of performing, and desire to express themselves. It had no nerve, and the thing that hit me is that they were training mere studiomusicians, no soul and no statement, just pure technicallities... After that I got totally smashed with Terje, as we started on more fernet branca than any of us could, and also should, get fit with. At around one-thirty I had to call it a draw, and Ive heard in the aftermath that this was clever as the bartenders were discussing denying both me and terje more to drink:)

Sunday night was really slow; but we managed to gain a good tip, even though the shape was at discussion throughout the entire evening....

Tomorrow(or rather today) is gonna be swell; Datarock and Ungdomskulen is playing at mono. Its gonna be grand; I get to see Ketil again, drink with the band and get paid as a band contact at the same time:) Best job in the world:P

Oh...

...just discovered that it was a week since Ive written here... The entire week has past by like a speedtrain, and suddenly I discovered it was gone. hmm, evil wicked time....
Sunday was calm, just laxed at home and ended up with a few beers with betales and jens at work. Monday was working night, tuesday I cant remember, wednesday was jam! at deichmanske/mir for immigrant kids, thursday was both jam! and working late, friday was oversleeping for jam!, then get øyvind by for the weekend and gt to lvl 60 at wow, then working late and meeting blinddategirl and nachspiel on top of that... Today is Runars birthday, I'm supposed to win the lottery again and then off to work.... Phew! that should summarize it...

On monday we're having christmas party at work, it's abit scary as there is a rumor that we are going to have a lecture on whiskey before the party starts. Last time we had wine and booze tasting it went totally wild. Situation at 16.00;

• me, totally smashed, trying to escape to get some sleep
• joachim trying to prevent me by chasing me topless in circles in and out of the bar and backyard, untill we toppled a table including spilling some guests coffee...
• when I finally managed to escape to the backstage for some sleep, I was woken up by the boss as the entire board was supposed to have a meeting there(say hello to the new bartender:)

So Ive got to be careful on that whiskey! Anyhow, after that we've having this resturant for ourselves, also with free bar; spooky as hell:)

I also prmised viking and dcver to post a pic of my computer; well here it is....

Seems like...

...my sleepingpattern (if you can call it that) is back to normal. Last two days I think Ive slept like 20hours. At last!!! Been working the entire weekend, wich was really hard as I slept nada. Even had to drink loads of battery to keep me going. I really hate that; battery tastes like shit! Anyhow; its jam!-week, so i'm gonna fuck up my sleep, again, as Im supposed to get up before the birds untill friday....

First off for the bad news, chan marshals, aka cat power coming album was a total disappointment:( It seems as she is trying to hit a wider audience with some blues thingey wich not only destroys her previous original approach to twisted tones, and sad atmospheres; the most mainstream songs only sounds weird with her very special voice... Exceptions are "where is my love" and "hate", wich,at least, does not sound like an overpolished production. In total the album sounds like something joan osborne, or likewise, would have cooked together back in 96 to reach the a-lists on mainstream radiostations....

Good news is that I caught a rumor that High water marks have finished recording their second album; so now I'm only waiting for release dates:) Meanwhile enjoy Film school. Here with "harmed", and "he's a deep deep lake" from their selftitled album.

Ale, this ones for you:)

-The only nudie pic of me on the web:) enjoy:D

take this....

...and show it!!! Well, mista drink too much have had a pause from the bottle:) Thats right! The conclusion is ; NEVER again!!! The not-drinking-me showed himself to be this really boring, tv-watching, anti-social, un-creative, lazy, initiativeless noob... So, after concidering the pluses and minuses this guy made a healthy (and democratic[trainspotting]) decision to get back on the bottle. Thats probably the most creative thing this not-drinking-me could think of... It already feels better with a breakfast beer, and that fernet branca bottle øyvind forgot last week is gonna meet its destiny when a too soaked me gets his ass home from town later tonight. First Im gonna get some work for the jam! thingey at deichmanske done...

To summarize the last week;
Tuesday; was in the jury for zoom, watched three pretty good concerts, and it showed that I was the only one in the jury capeable of handling anything that differed from ordinary rock'n'roll(abit not true, but anyway; jury was much more mainstream minded than I had thought in the first place...)

Wednesday; opened at work, not to hung over as I was pretty careful on the drinking last night... Then it was back to garage to watch the last bands on zoom and then decide the winner... The winners were heroes for zeroes and the fernets(no, I did not vote for the last one:P) The hard thing about this was that each city has its vote, and its two clubs involved in Oslo, so me and pete from garage had to compromize big time to get our voting done...

Thursday; first day off the bottle... Insomniac-me saw "white noise", "the grudge", "fire walk with me", "frøken sverige", "king arthur", "mullholland drive", "sanger från 2. våningen", "tank girl", and "a series of unfortunate events" based on lemony snickets book. Still could not sleep...

Friday; Working late, as I was really tired after not sleeping the hours crawled by insanely slow... Felt like someone put on a ten seconds delay on my thinkin-circuits...

Saturday; Still not much sleep, and unwinnig the lottery:( Øyvind came by, and stayed over, wich off course ended in some drinking... Finally able to sleep for at least five hours... Woke up and played alittle wow.... Then still insanely tired I worked late night shift again...

Sunday; Slept about four hours, played alot of wow and then went to work to get cigarettes and a beer...

Monday; Slept six hours, I accuse the three beers for that one...

Tuesday; Uneventful and boring.... got to lvl58 on wow...

Yesterday; worked the early shift, and then attended the alarm-kickoff at work... Met up with Fredrick witch I havent seen in yonks, met this nice grafitiartist/indie-loving girl; a rare combination:) After that I hooked up with Christian, and saw serena maneesh playing a too short concert... Good one but only 20mins:( As we got pretty drunk, blinddate-girl arrived with some friends of hers... Fortunately it didnt end up in any making out this time:) so no drunkard anxiety for me today:)