Perhaps a bit too much and too up-close for the user info page, so...

( Hi. )

So there.

Tags: intro
The Song: Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

I'll get back to the more exciting news (bought a Nord electro 3) in a short while - i.e. some time between the weekend and tomorrow. But for now, I'd like y'all to have a listen to this most beautiful song (shame about the vid though) :

Tags: music, td
I saw him at: OMT 14, 0508
I remember: Awake, yet barely
The Song: Tangerine Dream - Beach Theme

I'm gonna discuss the most clichéd, hotly debated and - oddly enough - still one of the most unstable political minefields of a topic this side of the Middle East, and has held this distinction since the 1960s.

( That's right, I'm taking a stance on abortion. )

...and John Hughes died yesterday. What's with this summer and dying childhood heroes?

Tags: politics, rambling
I saw him at: OMT14, 0508
I remember: contemplative
The Song: Alan Parsons Project - Dancing on a Highwire

I'm going to tell you about the Ultravox concert once I'm done with obligs and shiet, but first: This link may or may not work for you, but it's supposed to show the Norwegian prime minister Jens Stoltenberg on his laptop during the national party meeting thingy.

Apparently, he's twittering.

I am not making this up.

For some reason or other, I had a momentary fit of laughter when I saw the picture. It's like having your parents on Facebook without the mandatory embarassment. And yes, apparently Stoltenberg is on Facebook for real. It's an obvious marketing strategy, but it's so ridiculously out there I'll gladly take a fall for it :D

Tags: hilar, jensegutt, norway, tvtropes, uvox
I saw him at: OMT14, 0508
I remember: Oblig? What oblig?
The Song: Ultravox - Rage in Eden

Well, after living alone for barely six weeks, my bedsit looks like it's been Blitzed. On my desk is a pizza roller in a stack of three pot-noodle boxes, a cereal bowl - used, empty lager cans (Pilsner Urquell) and soft drink bottles big and small literally everywhere.

But give me a stable 'Net connection and Dali's Car on the record player, and I'm happy as a pig in his own shite.

Otherwise, I've decided to make myself proper food every day this week. Today: Penne Rigate with chicken and tomato sauce. I can has kitshun skillz!

Next week, it's off to Istanbul. EXCITEMENT.

Tags: being a pig, food, living alone, travel
I saw him at: OMT14, 0508
I remember: content
The Song: Dali's Car - His Box

Yep, I'm back, stop the applause, you're embarassing me...

Anyway, for those of you who know me well (or have spent more than 5 minutes in my vicinity), it's not really a surprise that I am a hobby musician/singer-songwriter/producer/engineer. And the most recent fruits of this project is this.

Zoh, there is a link. Clicky-click. And comment! You are my audience, and I live and breathe for feedback.

Tags: music, nemesis kane, self-whoring, song
I saw him at: broom cupboard w/ bed
I remember: Moozik, yah.
The Song: my own

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 56.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

The existentialist Albert Camus (1913-60) famously claimed that the only real philosophical question was wherther or not life was worth living, a question Metallica raises again and again. Even posing this question sets one apart from the crowd, for it shows that one will not simply assume life has a value. For the existentialists, the idea that the world - that life - has some definitive meaning for all time is merely wishful thinking. If we are honest with ourselves, the existentialists contend, we must acknowledge that the world is absurd: that it exists, and that there is no reason for its existence; that it demands to be understood, but that it cannot be.
To add insult to injury (or perhaps injury to insult?), if we do manage to find some meager meaning in this absurd world, it will be wiped away by our deaths - and death is inevitable. So, here is the absurd in a nutshell: we find ourselves existing in a world we did not ask to be in. We are forced to deal with this world - to attempt to find meaning in it.

BONUS: The end of the paragraph
But ultimately it doesn't matter if we do or do not find meaning. We will die all the same.


An excerpt of the book on my makeshift nightstand: Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery. Edited by William Irvin, the excerpt (the opening of the second part of an essay on the existentialistic aspect of Metallica) is written by J. Jeremy Wisnewski.

And yes - it was the closest book. The only other object resembling one was the Operation manual for Cubase 4, a 676-page mammoth you could probably kill a mid-sized horse with. And that book doesn't have sentences in it.

Tags: books, meme, music
The Song: Axel H. - Doctor Who Theme

Sarah Palin? You hearing this, Mama?



Oh, and ( New Rule... (courtesy of Bill Maher) )

Tags: politics, us election '08, youtube

I love these. Nicked from riddled and lotiel_vanya.

Go over to Wikipedia and enter your birth date. Then pick 3 events, 2 births, and 1 holiday that occurred on your birthday.

Events:
1789 - The first American novel, The Power of Sympathy or the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth, is printed in Boston, Massachusetts.
1793 - After being found guilty of treason by the French Convention, Louis XVI of France was executed by the guillotine.
1899 - Opel manufactured its first automobile.
1924 - Vladimir Lenin dies; a lengthy power struggle emerges between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin begins, culminating to the latter's consolidation of power c. 1928.
1925 - Albania declares itself a republic.
1977 - President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all American Vietnam War draft evaders, some of whom had emigrated to Canada.
2008 - Black Monday in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall, European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks drop as much as 15%.

Births:
1829 - King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway (d. 1907)
1885 - Umberto Nobile, Italian politician (d. 1978)
1940 - Jack Nicklaus, American golfer
1942 - Edwin Starr, American singer (d. 2003)
1955 - Jeff Koons, American artist
2004 - Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway

Holidays:
Flag Day - Quebec
Wellington Anniversary - New Zealand


As well, I don't really care about the number of facts. My birthday is an official flag day in Norway, though - royal B-day, woo!

Tags: meme, wikipedia
I saw him at: home
I remember: calm
The Song: Alan Parsons Project - Where's the Walrus?

Saw Blade Runner: The Final Cut today. The added gore was gratuitous, but they made up for it by being much more clever about the Replicant-Deckard theorem. Still every bit as awesome as ever. George Lucas has a lot to learn about the term "Director's Cut", and Sir Ridley should be schooling him.

On another note, ( I realised something today... )

A long post, and something of a comeback here. The post is open for discussion if you think I was too off-topic. I'll probably regret this tomorrow anyway.

Tags: asshattery, norway, rant
I saw him at: Home
I remember: contemplative
The Song: Alan Parson's Project - Damned if I Do