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:)

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"....

Woke...

...up pretty early, as it was pretty cold, even inside. The first snow came yesterday... But then the temrature fell and made everything cold and wet;( I really hate that... Anyhow went to garage to see Andrew Bird with Mathias and Lise and some friends of theirs. The support, crooked fingers, was pretty boring in my opinion... A Nick Drakeish bob dylan singing pretty uninteresting songs...
But Andrew bird was much better, alone on stage with a violin, guitar, a xylophone, and his whistling. He used the violin to loop up the rythm and then to make the melody, a then he sang and played guitar and xylophone while whisteling on top of that. Heres "the happy birthdaysong" from this years album "Andrew Bird And the Mysterious Production of Egg".

damned...

...my computer is filled to the brim:( So no new music for some days, or rather untill I manage to get a new harddisc... Happy news about that is my plan to build a "jukebox" out of an old radio and an old computer becomes more urgent, and closer to reality. I never understood why computers have to be so ugly... But this new project would fit right into my home:) My present computer is buildt inside an old wooden beercase, and it looks much better than any other caseing ive seen:)

Last days been abit wet... Pouring water outside, and pouring beer inside... Friday was supposed to be work night, but it never really came that much visitors, so I walked of at one'o'clock and then managed to get pissed pretty quick, went home around six, only to be woken up by a very drunk Lena escaping her maternal duties... As I was dead broke on saturday(yes, I managed to litteraly throw away all my money while cleaning up in my pockets) Tage came by, wich was really nice as he has relocated himself to copenhagen. After some show of with world of warcraft, we strolled down to mono, where everything merged into a blury soup of ...uh, I dont remember.

Woke up this morning to beer and noodle breakfast, finding that Lena was still on the run... Anyhow been playing computergames, listening to "commander venus", Oberst connor(bright eyes,Desaparecidos),Tim Kasher (Slowdown Virginia, Cursive), Todd Baechle (The Faint)& Robb Nansel (Saddle Creek)college band all day. Lyrics screams of fourteen year old love problems, but I think its really cool listening to connors voice before he got to the age changing his voice... Here is "its fun to grow arnamental peppers" and "do you feel at home?" from their first album "do you feel at home?"

Been touring...

with the jam! project again... This time we were denied on the schools of sandefjord, but we managed to join forces with a youth centre in town. This time the kids where a bit older, though fewer, so they managed to make some relly neat thingeys:) Also went to check out the city by night a couple of times. Dont know how the weekends are, but weekdays isnt much to brag about. The local heroes at the "cheap" hotelbar seemed to be the only one frequenting the bars;
Everyday scenario at the hotel bar;

• 1 ex-un soldier, huge muscular guy with scars and all...
• 1 macedonian with both a gambling problem and problems communicating with everything female, or close to female
  
• 1 totally smashed woman having problems with the macedonian guy and the old grumpy bartender, who told her to shut up all the time
• 2-3 hotelguests

We also visited a couple of other places; the promenade wich was a really neat place, but the barmaid seemed abit overentusiastic and even said thank you with a huge grin as I told her to put my beer on øyvinds tab... At the 1. floor we where alowed to pay like 8.50 euros for a glas of beer and about 5 for a hot chocolate, and watch the smashing barmaid play with the latte-machine... On top of this we met this guy who tried really hard to be a fag, but he had been unsucessfull to this point, the next night we met him on a time-travel-back-to-the-eighties kind of place. Eye of the tiger on the deck and this could-be-the-hero-in-a-bon-jovi-video-guy behind the bar...

But at last, at home with shitloads of unanswered messages of every kind... Dont know if I like this modern age...hmm...dreaming about time travel. With a boozefactory, the hooverdam, and all the music I could stuff in my head a travel back to the stone ages sounds like a grand vacation...