Post #102

Having a slow lo-fi monday over here with television personalities on the stereo singing about this girl with the magical ability of stopping traffic... In the media Denmark and Norway is making headlines all over the globe and riots in Gaza after some fucked up "news"paper pulled a stunt on the oh so holy muhammad. The danish news paper invited a handful of artist to draw some pictures of the prophet, wich made some hammock, then this close to fascist christian-fundamentalist "news"paper(they are against abortion, highly pro Israel, and anti anything that does not fit in their very narrow view of the world) publishes the same drawings to provoke. Hopefully the aggression towards norwegians in the middle east will wipe out the paper's own offices and not some of the ideal organisations actually working with aiding civilians in palestine and other arab countries....

Yesterday was a pretty weird one. It started off with a few hours on wow, with øyvind on his laptop, trying to get rid of a slight hangover from saturday. This project seemed pretty easy, so I went off to work at eight, as øyvind flew "home" to sweden. On the stage were susanna & the magical orchestra (pitchfork review). The place was sold out, but as the concert itself was very low at times, it was x-treemly calm. I never thought 160 more or less beerdrinking people could ever be that quiet. But the duo knew how to spellbind the crowd, and managed big time! Kind of strange to be behind the bar not being able to make a sound, or at least trying very hard not to... As the evening continued pretty calm with most regulars and some friends from other bars, I even got offers for two x-tra jobs this summer(!). And I also heard about this insane free concert in a park in Oslo this summer, not revealing anything yet as I'm not sure wether it's official or not; but it will be GRAND:) After that a guy I knew since I was fifthteen makes this hellhole of himself while we try to get him out, so after about a half hour of trying to talk him out we had to call the police. I'm happy he left before they arrived, that could have made things worse, but most certain he wont't remember himself... Anyway, pretty sad stuff...

Some more music for a slack monday;

• shotgun & jaybird; "secret" Lo-fi from smalltown canada...
• eagle*seagull; "death could be at the door" some weird despair from lincoln, nebraska...
  
• north atlantic explorers; "when my ship comes in" Sad, optimistic slowcore...
• duster; "orbitron" from the transmission, flux 7".
• mars accelerator; "failed connection" spacey indie from the late nineties...
• lush; "downer" live in chicago 1992...
• look blue go purple; "100 times" neat indie pop from new zealand.
• my enemy; "khreis" elektro-indie from gothenburg.
• speedmarket avenue; "I can tell by her eyes"
  
• my enemy; "my time coming" and some more of that swedish stuff...
  

Well, it's been...

...a week, and what trouble I might have got into is still a mystery to me... I guess I'll ever know, wich means no worries or a good story to laugh at...

Last week was kind of split; working my boots of, and being a total gamer-geek.

Last friday was the Datarock concert at john dee, as I overslept for the first band, wich was quasimojo, I just managed to get there for Ungdomskulen wich played grand this time. Last time they played, I complained about the songs was abit untight, but now it worked out grand. The sound was too low though, but you can hardly blame the band for that; Bad venue! Datarock was abit low too, but it worked out swell. Huge part of the crowd was strange enough not the usual rock-audience, but rather snobby west end people (the price for playing at blå?), so shitloads of young richman kids in all kinds of bright-colored hoodies, armwrists, and headbands, accompanied by little gum chewing blondes attended the concert. Kind of weird... Anyhow, ketil; good luck on your Japan and Australia tour:)

Saturday I was working as band contact on the Lorraine concert. It was this showcase thingey with shitloads of music-industrypeople. They even flew in 23 guys and girls from bmg/sony in uk to watch it... (Yes I know I'm a hypocrite working with these mean bastards, and even giving them special threatment). The concert went smooth and the place was filled to the brim, hopefully it'll get the band somewhere, which they deserve after years of hard work. I'm not a huge fan of their songs though, as it seems too popish versions of Placebo. Like Placebo meet Kent, wich on the other hand should be well sellable...

Sunday was calm latenight shift with øystein and a really crappy tip...

Monday I overslept working as band contact for ping! As they are very nice people the concert went off like hell; good band, overcrowded and enthusiastic audience, and a mood that went boom:)

After monday I didn't leave the basement untill yesterday! Was online and totally lost in the world of warcraft. After about 18hours online on tuesday, 13 on wednesday, and about 8 yesterday, Øyvind finally came to visit and drag me the hell away from the computer, and out to hit town, wich was kind of nice. Met up with christian, jens, natalie, erlend, miska, and andreas, and loads of others, but suddenly found myself as a total gamer-geek as we suddenly started a discusion on wow. -Alert! -Alert! I'm suddenly turning into this guy who can't seperate my real life and my in-game identity; spookey! Well, perhaps these days I've spend un-drinking is to blame. The weird thing about having white-days (non-alcoholic ones) is that my stamina seems to wither; I've slept about twelve hours(5-6 more than usual), and is fucked up and hung over as hell after a few beers yesterday.... So much for healthy days, hehe!

Some new releases for the day;

• Test icicles; "circle square triangle" from their new "For Screening Purposes Only" album.
• Tarkio with "Tristan and Iselut" , Colin Meloy's (decemberists) college band...
• Robert Pollard; "love is stranger than witchcraft". Ex-Guided by voices frontman's new self titled solo project. Out now with "from a compound eye"
• Rocky votolato; "white daisy passing" Waxwing's frontman with his latest solo-album:"makers"

You should also check out Film School, Love is all, Tortoise/Bonnie price billy, and Portugal, the man' s new albums, but I'm too lazy to link anymore mp3's...

100Nok to the...

...first who can tell me what I did on friday... To be honest I had a blackout after the punk-concerts at the barricade... I woke up pretty early at home, no bruises, no new scares, and not too fucked up nerves... So here's the issue; at work yesterday jens could inform me about this very weird mail he got from me, and asked me what the hell I was doing on friday.

The mail correspondence was like this;
January 13th Jens wrote:
-At rockefeller, Oslo, Norway 1st of may 2006
Calexico AND Iron & wine.
Better find those records and start looking forward to it!

January 14th Rune wrote:
That's so "not" cool:) AAAAA I suddenly know where I am after shitloads of trouble with the cops:)

I can't remember sending this mail or having any trouble with the cops; so if any of you guys know what the fuck happened please let me know... The mail was send at 7.31 am, that is at a time where I thought I was in bed sound asleep... Obvioulsy not, haha:)

Fortune spam.

Well, last weeks my mailbox have been spamed with these extreemely long mails from one sara freder, wanting to sell me a magical picture of herself and shitloads of ways to gain all I want to. Last time I got an astral read she said I would get abit rich on the 5th of january, get richer on the 9th of january, and my life would be turned upside down in a positive direction on friday the 13th. Well, nothing really happened those days; supposedly thats because I made the wrong decisions, but now she can help me do the right one next time. Im so happy to announce that, again, she has started this process all over! She writes;


"I have calculated the most significant DAYS

As I said, your near future is packed with many positive events, so I will only mention the major ones here, the ones you mustn't miss no matter what.

1- Your first positive day is on Thursday, January 26, 2006. Yes, on that very date I foresee an unexpected income. This relatively large amount of money will help you deal with a fair share of your financial problems.
2- Your second positive day is Monday, January 30, 2006, be prepared for some good news concerning your personal life. I envision the return of a person who is very important to you, old friends finding each other again after months of separation. Friends will give you a hand in your problems and enliven your spirit.
3- Your third lucky day, Saturday, February 04, 2006, foretells a very nice gambling pot. I clearly see the number 7 followed by many other numbers. This second unexpected income will be so sizeable it will let you start new projects and see your future from a different angle. Your spirit will literally swell. On the same week, you will make a very interesting acquaintance that will guide you towards a number of considerable financial successes.
4- On Saturday, February 11, 2006, I foresee you thinking about a beautiful trip. I see you accompanied by people you love and who love you back. I see the sun, the sea, and you in the best of shape.
5- Later still, yet another, the third, unexpected income, on Tuesday, February 21, 2006. This time, it's going to be a much bigger amount. I cannot see very clearly but it may turn out to be an inheritance or a deed. This sudden downpour of money will finally have you standing on your own grounds.
6- In the weeks ahead, there is a great event coming up involving your friends and your feelings (I guess you've been waiting a long time for this!). It is on those days that you will make an interesting acquaintance that may very well lead to something important for you - if you act sensibly. You will finally get to accomplish a project that has been aching your heart for many long years.
7- I foresee an extremely positive event about to happen in your life. At the time I am writing these lines, I still don't know what this is about - you will know more when you read the Confidential In-Depth Study of Your FORTUNE (which I am preparing for you as we speak) - but I can tell you it's going to be an extremely pleasant experience...


You'll see for yourself, Rune, this is the truth: your life is just about to become the kind of life where everything goes your way.

This is why, to make sure that you can take full advantage of all these POSITIVE events awaiting you, I have decided to let you have what I have never been allowed to give away before: I will reveal to you ABSOLUTELY FREE and present to you as a confidential GIFT

The Powerful Secret of the WHEEL of FORTUNE

I must tell you that the Powerful Secret of the Wheel of Fortune has come into my possession from an illustrious psychic, who demanded my promise not to reveal it except in cases of extreme emergency. I have seldom shared this marvelous and powerful secret, aside for very special cases. This is the first time I am revealing this secret to an outside person, and it is you, Rune, because I truly believe you deserve it and need it.

This Powerful Secret will teach you how to easily earn large amounts of money regularly. Until today, I have only shared this secret with very few selected people, but today the Powerful Secret of the Wheel of Fortune is going to be yours, Rune."

Damned, I feel lucky, especially to be the first as she never given away this before, and the next because she only did this a few times before.... And she dont wanna give me my gift unless I buy something else from her; wich make me feel even more like her chosen one. But she hits the nail on the trip, as I am in Tromsø on the 11th... Better be sure to handle in the lotteryticket on the 4th, just in case....

Anyhow, datarock is playing on john dee tomorrow, and It's my day off:) So I gotta run down and get myself on the guestlist; in the mean time you can listen to "joe jackson" from Volcano, I' still excited!'s selftitled album from 2004, enjoy:)

Spend the...

...last day laxing in my basement. After work on sunday, and a major fuck up on my behalf (forgot to lock the sundays cash and safe at work!), wich fortunately went well; -Phew! Not a repeatable thing to do. Woke up about seven p.m and finished up Øysteins computer. After some pizza, beers and one and a half hours of cursing and cd-smashing, it was up on foot:) Too lazy to bother anything else I ended up playing wow all night and fell asleep pretty late on tuesday. Not set a foot outside since...

Today I saw this really weird, christian documentary" on the illuminati and 9/11. The "proofs" on the conspiracies was thight enough; but suddenly it turned into like a guide on what to do for christian, american citizens to avoid the new world order, and how to uphold the republic. A pretty weird tuoch of christian/republican moral standards, anti-capitalism, patriotism, and christian love for other christians, merged into a wild anti-bush/anti-fascist/anti-zionist soup... It kind of reminded me of the propaganda movie me and a few friends saw at the scientologists totally wacked out on acid ten years ago (a totally insane experience, and off course we eventually got tossed out). Had to turn of when they started with angels and spirituality on top of everything. After that I watched the entire "kingdom hospital" series. The storyline was kind of different than the danish original, but it was kind of good too. The merge between stephen kings horror touch, and Von trier's humour and sence for absurdities made a pretty good one. But now I'm a sucker for more mysterious horror (I really hate splatter and monster movies, they're just gorey, and not spooky at all...). Well getting readdy for work, and then Øyvind is coming back to town tomorrow...

Hmm, thought I had more in mind, but you'll have to manage with some useless crap for now:P

I seem to have...

...fucked my mobile for the second time in 24 hours. I could not find yesterday untill like early afternoon, wich was ok as I spend the entire morning with the pastels on the stereo fixing Øysteins computer. Then I had it for about half an hour, and its still lost. Maybe time to clean, or just wait for my flatmate to get home, so he can call it up:) Latter one sounds more slack, and therefor suitable for tonight... Heres the pastels with "flightpaths to eachother" and "exotic arcade" from their mobile safari album. Nostalgia from 95...

Hmmm... think its nostalgia days over here, just been listening to the feelies for hours, and just went over to sex pistols "never mind the bollocks". The last one was the first record I bought, to my moms big frustration. After about two weeks of listening to it, of course "anarchy in the uk" and "god save the queen" went over and over again, I went off and got myself a ten cm tall blue razorsharp mohawk. Me and a friend went to my grandfathers boatworkshop and found some stuff for fixing plastic boats, and ironed it into the hair. Very effective as if was immpossible to bend afterwards, only bad thing I remember about it was that it was very difficult to sleep... After two weeks the entire thing just fell down to the side so it had to go away, but the provocative effect remained the same to mom; she was now a very active communist, mothering a twelve year old skinhead:)

After that my taste for music just grew, and I figured I needed money to get punkshirts, records, patches, spraycans, and all the other stuff I really needed, so it was time for a job... After I decided that employment was NOT punk, I started selling some anarchist-papers on the central square in our little town, wich prooved to be a decent income. I made twice as much as my fellow schoolmates who went on paperrounds. After this successful enterprice I could now afford loads of shirts, some decent boots, loads of patches and posters for my room, and not to mention a nosepiercing... The last one was it for my mom; she thought it so horrible that I was not allowed to eat dinner with the rest of the family, wich I at the moment thought grand, as I could then be in my room eating while listening to my slow growing punk-collection. I also found out that since I had some money coming in all the time, I might as well join a squat. So after a week of discussions we broke down the door of an old wooden two storey building in the citycentre. We were five guys aged 14-16 (suicide project#1) all as naive as the others, angry, and restless as hell. After two weeks we got evicted, or more truthful, the house was totally destroyed as we were fucking up the mayday parade. After some hammock with the union, we placed ourselves with six black flags in front of the parade with banners quoting; "free weed for the people" and " all power to noone". The union tops all ran around complaining to the police, wich didnt seem to care about us at all. After shitloads of treaths from my mom, attending the march with her comrades in AKP(m-l), that I would be grounded for eternity and so on, the parade marched to its destination. After marching, and after everybody we could provoke had left, we went back to our newly accuired house just to discover that it was gone. Totally amazed we were standing totally bewildered looking at a sign that mentioned something about a parking lot, and an empty square. Not even a trace of a building there... On the way home to a week being grounded we decided to form a punkband....

Went...

...to the movies with Christian yesterday, and was supposed to watch King Kong. Not that keen I toggled along, but then christian suggested we should see "You me and everyone we know" instead. A fabulous choice!!! For the first time in ages I've been to the cinema without even thinking of a cigarette. The film is about a handful of people touching eachothers life in one way or another for a pretty short period of time, but after five minutes you get the point that this is not the ordinary divorce drama. The dialogs are grand, as well as the casting, and was topped by a totally hillarious net chat between a stranger and a small kid. I laughed myself to tears, and had really trouble stopping. Watch the trailer, but be sure to watch the entire movie as well. When it was over I just wanted to go see it again, one of these movies that really sticks and gives you that nice warm feeling inside:)

Now I'm definently gonna make myself a;" ))<>(( forever." t-shirt...

here I am...

.. trying to get tired at like 05.50 in the morning. Supposed to work tomorrow morning and thats mighty hard to imagine right now. Have just came home from second shift at work, and a pretty exhausting concert with supersilent... The concert itself should not be exhausting, but I was hungover as hell, as I had fernet branca for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and bedtimesnack yesterday...(goddamit, I'll never learn that this is not a very good idea...) The concert was good, but way too much for my fragile posture to handle; my nerves could use a pretty nice tune up and some relly neat singer-songwriter taking care of the tuning... I NEED to sleep!!!

Anyhow in lack of what I really need, I stole this google-need-project from Martins blog; search "(your name) needs" on google... Results;

1. rune needs more drops...
2. rune needs to feed regulary from other sentient beings to stay alive and healthy...
3. rune needs some help to be up to the life that awaits him
4. rune needs a man in a thong
5. rune needs a real name
6. rune needs to be on this list
7. rune needs a grand quest to forfill
8. rune needs to be beefed up abit after the latest change
9. rune need a boyfriend something horrible, oh dear.
10. rune needs a good ladder
11. rune needs to be a challenge
12. rune needs a prachment and a quill
13. rune needs MEM-9890
14. rune needs a single tear and spell power/energy to be activated
15. rune needs to be held in your hand as you speak the magic words
16. rune needs a better angel
17. rune needs a different rear fender
18. rune needs to dispose some other enemies
19. rune needs to spring off for a new digital camera
20. rune needs a new album, even if only a new ep...

Its funny that 10% of the pages first hit, tells me I need a boyfriend(I resume a man in thong is about the same issue...), even more if that about the rear fender accounts for that... Spookey!

Seems like I'm...

...not going to portugal first week of february after, but to tromsø to attend this years by:larm festival. Hopefully we get someone to take over the portugal tickets, or else we've blown 1400Nok as there is no refund on the tickets... Anyhow, as hotels where full booked during the festivities I have to sleep on some strangers coach, but it's located in the city-centre and the guy is supposed to be cool. There's gonna be shitloads of concerts and seminars, and of course some serious drinkin:) Perhaps more fun than that indieclub in Lagos. I also got a request to write reviews for the english version of the daily festival paper, wich sounds cool. I just need to get my hands on a laptop and stay away from good friend fernet branca during the concerts. Gonna be a grand weekend I think:)

White birch's concert on wednesday was great, and the band had borrowed peru you's female singer, wich made it even more worthwhile. Place was stuffed to the brim, as was my brain after some bruichladich and beers. Met up with Erlend and Christian, and collapsed totally shitfaced right after the concert. Check out the mp3's on their homepage.

Yesterday was a double concert with kaospilot(as their website is down, you'll have to manage with the pitchfork review) and Lukestar. Both very different, but very good bands from Oslo. It was sold out today aswell, wich came as a surprise as they are playing at Blitz on saturday. The fact that its january, and this years scholorships wont be around for a week or two made it even more mysterious. It was a nice evening with shitload of familiar faces, and I got almost totally smashed with Christian again:)

Yesterday I also got my hands on built to spill's comming album, and its really great(havent even been named yet) and its supposed to be released sometime during spring. Hopefully followed by a tour to scandinavia:)

Also got my hands on the coming Mogwai album, that one also great! Release date is 24th of january, so the waiting wont be that long....

Well...

...happy new year all! Been in bed since the red wine hit the toilet seat bigtime after some hard struggeling on new years eve. Saw two seasons of simpsons and one season of deadwood. Love the latter one, specially when i'm hung over as a duck...

Today I suddenly got an invite to see "narnia" from blinddategirl, and went there wich was really nice. The movie kind of sucked, but the company turned out grand, and now it turns we're probably meeting up tomorrow when "White birch" is playing at mono. The next date is to watch Lemony snickets"a series of unfourtunate events" at my place on saturday... Don't know where this is heading... Had a great time anyway:)