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:)

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:)