here we go again

So then i`m back,
just like that,
whether you are back or not we`ll have to see,

this time it`s all about music,
my search for the ultimate song, album, band, sleeve etc. has never been more intense than lately,
yes so intense that it`s only fair that i share it with you so you don`t have to do the same mistakes that i do,
and to my self so the madness can come out in the open, and help me remember my mistakes and maybe surface the unconscious reasons for what easily can turn in to my life long search for happiness in a cardboard box full of old LP`s in a flee marked far away from home.

Join me for the ride,

yours

T.

low-fi close to none-fi

I dropped by a record store i usually don`t believe in on Saturday, and was amazed by the music played over the stereo and i just had to ask,
Blank Dogs was the answer and the guy behind the counter was so satisfied with me noticing that he gave me the cd that he burned for the occasion; working on Saturday.
i found it funny that he wanted to give it to me instead of having me buying the music of downloading it from itunes, but he told me that Blank Dogs (apparently a onemanband) made all his music available on his page probably to justify the extremely limited releases on LP and Cassette (MC).

Blank Dogs brings me back to the late 90s
i was on of those low-fi guys that believed that rock and pop music is about the melody and not the quality of the recording, spinning my Dipsomanic LPs every weekend for my Dream Theater friends...

Enjoy the man`s blog and music,

best wishes,

herr w

have spacesuit, will travel.

Me and Hilla are having a psych-out period here, listening to Motorpsycho`s Trust us, records from the Pebbles series and the newly discovered Warlocks.
Warlocks was due to Oslo Jazz festival the only rock event when me and my Finish guest hit the town last week, but what an event, sweet noise-rock-psych.

so that should be enough psych for us all but oh no not for my daughter; while on the floor, a far more normal place for a baby than for her father to be, she likes to "read" her favorite book, ironically a book without a single word but full of rather psychedelic of flowers.

These flowers are suppose to help her brain develop, perception, and all the others.
As far as i can see she likes the two-colored stuff b&w, but when she is bored with that there is more to come, both what colors and shapes concern.

Guns `n Roses have done it again

Don`t know about you but it ain`t the first time G`nR does it for me,
since i discovered the EP* Gnr Lies i have preety much followed them in whatever direction, as i have come to realize all to uncritically.
Coz this time Guns is not doing it for me musically; it`s reading Mick Walls unauthorized Axl Rose biography that have led me to a loooooooong sought after reading kick.
So from now on this post will be about everything but Gnr, sorry, more on them later... maybe.


I have written about piles here before and as you all know ; most piles can be figured out, all but one: the ever growing pile of books one is suppose to read. guess i speak for all of my readers.
With this new found urge to read i hope i can make it shrink.

What`s piling?

Mark Haddon`s A Spot of Bother is, i loved his first novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and after starting his new book many times this must be it. I also loved Nicole Krausses History of Love, and want to read her Man walks in to a room.

Kjell Westö`s Where We Once Went is one i can`t wait to finish, i have read half way through.

Michael Ende`s is also piling, after seeing Momo, or the strange story of the time-thieves and the child who brought the stolen time back to the people with Johannes some years ago it freaked me, and some weeks ago Reeta got the book for me.

Not much left of Thomas Moore`s Lalla Rookh, i chose to read only the Paradise and the Peri part since Schumann used it for his oratorium with the same name.

Bob Dylan`s Tarantula...? Anyone?

More Finnish; Tove Jansson`s Trollwinter and Kari Hotakainen`s På Hjemmefronten will both help my understand Finland?

Haruki Murakami is a author many of my best friends tell me to read, J. M. Coetzee is also much talked about among my friends at the moment, and his Waiting for the Barbarians is waiting for me along with Murakami`s Norwegian Wood.

My Mom got me The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova for x-mas, hope i will have read it before next x-mas.

And then at last, I`m reading Pierra Bourdieu`s Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, I have only read here and there but this time i`m reading it all.

i`ve come to realize that this pile is hopeless, will i get to the bottom before more books are added to the pile?

you all know the answer to that question.

* once and for all it stands for Extended Play.

not a big fan

... no I`m not,
it is just too much with this heat,
but we do have a big fan, and it has kept the whole family alive till now,
so lets hope it will keep us through this day, 29th which is thought to be the
warmest during this heatwave.

I have made some new friends that i suggest you visit now that there is so little
activity here for obvious reasons.

Meet;

K and ottAr ,
they publish indie cartoons (wow that sounded cool) at Kertuun,

then there is Miki who tries to keep her self and the family busy in the north of Norway.

Room boy is still in his room,
is he grounded? does he suffer from spacephobia?
oh no, he gets around, and amazes whenever he updates,
and i guess that goes for all of you on my list.

see you around,

baby i love your way

A NEW PERSON MOVED IN WITH US TODAY, AND SHE HAS NO PLANS ON MOVE ANYTIME SOON,
SHE DIDN`T BRING ANYTHING,
SHE DON`T KNOW ABOUT KITTENS YET,
THE SMELL OF OLD BOOKS,
OR SNOW,

BUT AFTER GETTING TO KNOW HER OVER 3DAYS I KNOW THAT SHE LIKES
-SLEEP
-FOOD
-SKIN CONTACT
- WARM WATER

HER NAME IS HILLA,

write me for pictures

last post as ... find out in the post

enjoying life in our new apartment, nice one with space for 2 becoming 3,

i went away, or my inspiration, creativity ,and sense of space and time went away,
but after a couple of looooong weeks underground i`m back at writing here,

summer or something that reminds everybody of summer hit oslo 2weeks ago, whether its nice may weather disguised as summer, or the real thing we`ll see.

since last time;

i`ve started to play snooker, table tennis, seen Einstürtzende Neubauten, move in to the abow mentioned apartment, this place got a fireplace which i believe will play a major part in the battle
between the words our child will chose to be its first.
i think its going to be like the "cave babies" FIRE, or ILD (n) or TULI(fi) and how cool isn`t that.

now i have to go get married,

so this was the last post from unmarried terje,