Thursday, December 20, 2007

Finding peace in old videos.


you heard me right,
first soundgarden`s Black hole sun, and now Smashing Pumpkin`s bullet with butterfly wings,
the heydays of angry American men.

tried to take a picture i could post here tonight but as you might have seen my photos are crappy and it`s for a reason, i`m not a photographer,

...now anouk is on with her Nobodys wife, was she dutch?


no i`m not a photographer and i never will be, and i hate when people say that "everybody can learn to draw", i can`t draw and i never will be able to,

now cardigans are on with my favorite game, and i just realized what is that i like about nina; her cheekbones.

wanted to post a picture that said something about how cold it was even stopping to take it, but failed.

now muse are on, super massive black hole...sun?

Saturday, December 08, 2007

some sacrifices

i caved and got hold of a tv, i traded it for 3liters of wine, the wine was payed with the 30silver coins i got from selling a Burzum record on ebay so in many ways i replaced the devil with Satan.
i caved because of the ski jumping, and the discovery of the Bundesliga matches on sport1, so now i`m sacrificing my preciouses time to this satanbox everyday only to keep my mind from worrying about other things.

motorspycho played in Oslo
and i was of course there but won`t be next year, coz i did not only pay the evening with my money but also with my hearing. I was so loud and crappy sound that i don`t know where so start. They played only bad songs and and that despite the fact that they have a lot of good ones to take from, (ok there were a few good ons, but that did not add up for the sound and the loose of my hearing. i left my first Motorpsycho concert in 1995, and i left my last in 2007.

i bought a new pen to day and that made me happy. now i`m writing xmas cards with it.

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Rastlaus kjærleik

last night my girl woke me and asked me if i was very sad, and i ask why and then she told me that she really didn`t know that i felt like the way i had put in my blog.
i realized that she was talking in her sleep and soon she went back there leaving me with a lot of questions. and before i fell back to sleep i decided to try reconstruct the post from my girls dream.


5.12.07


Sleepless again, no rest no peace , but this is not the kind of "Rastlose Liebe" Goethe writes about and Schubert composes music to, but the hopelessness of a young man considering moving to the forest, feeling the snow, rain and wind playing with his now all to long hair.


and then there is this issue with Miss A, who all of a sudden don`t have any money and therefore can`t buy new clothes and have to be miserable in her old ones.


Ohne Rast und Ruh!







Miss A here seen in a snow storm last November.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

foggy Sunday


my head feels like this picture, and there is something unsettled in the way i move,
this November thing is hard, it`s the light the short days and the slowness of it all,
i have managed to fill the month with as much fun as possible, arranged for my friends to visit from Kirkenes and from Finland, seen bands like Muse and Kaiser Chiefs and even seen the cup final, gone to movies and even started our own film club.

i know what it is, it came to me in a late sleepless hour in mid-november; i`m done with 2007, i`m full, now it`s just overdrive, i`m ready for 08 now.
07 saw the complementation of my Norwegian The Cure vinyl pressings, it featured a lot of good concerts, new friends, long night in sunny Finland, and the moveinwithfinnishgirlfriend.

on a foggy Sunday i gather strength to survive a fist full of novemberdays, next weeks concerts; Shining and Mum. two x-mas paties, and decorated street walking.

the biggest treat to come is roomboys visit and the start of the skijumping season,
a friend of mine once said that my most illogical feature is my weak spot for football and skijumping, amen to that.

Friday, November 02, 2007

the circle of life


i see from last October that i`m trapped in a circle. that is weired cuz i was kind of hoping that i`m leading an interesting life where i do new things, see new bands and try out new stuff but I DON`T...

last weekend i saw The Cynics, and cut my hair(short), this fall i have moved to a new place, bought a new manga cartoon, and now i`m counting down to the Motorpsycho concert in early December. Still using most 0f my money on Lps found on ebay uk, and the same tableware that i wrote about in December.

So if i, like i am most likely to do follow the circle i will in December go to Kirkenes to visit my family and LPs, continue moding my bag and in January go to Helsinki.

So what will happen to my life? Is it just "Copy and Past"?

I don`t think so, we`ll see, but some how i have a feeling something will turn, i just know it.

to be written.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

The Hellacopter has left the business


It is oh so sad to read that The Hellacopters have decided to "throw in the towel" as they have put it in their page.

But one of last concerts they did before this announcement were held in Tavastia in Helsinki and is by far one of best concerts i`ve been to, not only this summer but EVER.

the circumstances were nice as well, i arrived in Helsinki after my post Roskilde sleep (48hours) and was met by posters telling me that they were playing the very same night, my good friend n von g joined me for the show, and what a show.

They will releasing their last LP and do a farewell tour in 08.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

roskilde 07

I went to Roskilde after all, bought a German ticket from a Norwegian in Copenhagen. then the last decent meal at Bjørgs Café before the mode were set to "ULTRA FESTIVAL", and we, me and roomboy both agreed in light of a lot of things that it was for the best that this particularly mode were chosen before a lighter one which we now know would have proved to be fatal.

Coz when it rains more that it have ever done in Roskilde , i`m not only in Denmark, i`m on an open field in Denmark with only a thin layer of polyester separating me and the thunderstorm that was the unannounced headliner on this years festival.






But we were fine, me and roomboy camped together with Herr B and his sidekick Herr Bø, together with us was also some Finnish friends how despite the whether have promised to go next year as well.

Roomboy with this years flag, pitifully hid away during most of the fest due to the weather .



the days were killed with drinking and concerts as well as flute playing, this years weapon of choice.
this years highlight musically speaking was Fanfare Ciocarlia

so we survived due to choise of mode and boots, and after having a rather neutral view on mud i can`t say i have been able to maintain my neutral position.



Herr Bø wrapped in plastic.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Open at last

hi,
you good people ,
thought it`d do with some chances here in the farmacia, but all the painters i hired to do work, were apparently on LSD, coz this place looks like a mess, but i hope i will have something done with it during the weekend.

I had a nice summer and i will tell you all about it very soon; the sights the festivals, the books and the music.

so i`ll stop here before your eyes starts melting from reading on these colors, and rather post a picture from my trip to finland taken by my dear friend n von g i have not shaved since this was taken, early july so you can only imagine what i look like now, but all this and more later,

so long.....

Monday, June 11, 2007

..see the spring... paris

lost my flight,
my phone,
and my mind,

farmacia is closed for the summer.

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Herr W see the world in the spring part 2

After two weeks with much to do at work and other disturbances a trip to Kirkenes was what i needed.
hooking up with roomboy was very nice, he has already started to make the banner for our roskilde camp(coming up/TBA).then it was 17th of May, our national day, this picture was taken at midnight 17th. The white substance in the background of course being snow. it was cold all the time which made me spend a lot of time in this room.
well apart from this nothing more, i bought a new jacket, watched Twin Peaks, and went for a walk with my mom.
never a trip up there without visiting the local library .

my dad is making some thing for the military. divices...? and here i´m helping him out, contributing to the war against terror?

next time: Paris.

Sunday, May 13, 2007

is happines found in the past

that is a great title for today's post, still i will not talk too much about that today.
i will tell you that i´m trying my best to not become a Sunday blogger, and that i soon will watch football with my friends, and that i loved what i saw at the euro song yesterday and that i have googled the Ukrainian artist and liked what i found better that what i saw last night, that i was having fun with friends, and that we said nice things to each other, and nice things about people no present, and agreed to remain friends forever, that i´m in love whit Sundays, that i spend watching football with friends and going to concerts, listening to albums from my top 10 (today nr6.) and that i an emotional sometimes and some times think that i´m a genius, and some times not, that the coffee i just made is very good, and that i hope i can meet you all one day, maybe in the same room, that we spent our time drawing in salt while thinking that we ought to drink more, and that i bought be here now by oasis beliving that happines might be found in the past.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

More Sunday

I´m enjoying yet another with me and Herr JHK, (who's exit from myspace forces me to send you to his homepage this time)travelling to a part of Oslo either one of us have been before to see a house in which we both agreed we would love to live, but the money are so far away as is my novel etc.

and without money any money(still) we decided to spend all our none existing money on a 20piece sushi plate! I love it.

then as on every Sunday its football, and ridiculous amounts;
the national league starts 18.00, and another match 20.00 and an one hour summary of the round from 22-23.00 not to forget the summary of last round kicking of at 17.00.
last Sunday we started 17.00 and kept it going till 23.00, TV sent one match but me and jimbos team was not feathering either was teds, but since he subscribes to the whole thing on the Internet we could easily watch the one on TV as well as me and jimbo watched our team on one laptop and ted his team on his laptop, what an evening.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Herr W see the world in the spring part 1



Sunday morning and breakfast in Meilahti after a nice Saturday first at a party in Munkkivuori and then in Corona, on of the pubs owned by Aki Kaurismäki,

after breakfast, flee marked and coffee in Kallio, dinner in center then sauna with swimming pool and cold beer in Lautasari.

what a day, and Helsinki delivers every time. and those are the kind of things that are nice with Helsinki, big flee market and huge cups of coffee and nice people. and if you in London are never further than 2 meters away from a rat than in Helsinki you are never further than 5 meters from a sauna.

Monday, meeting Asko, checking out their studio, where i found this Russian drum machine,


next time,

Kirkenes.

Monday, April 09, 2007

Ensin oikealle, sitten toinen katu vasenmalle.




Birds don´t nest because they want or because they like it, they do because their mind tell them to, a center in their brain triggs them to start gathering stuff to build a nest.

for a week now i have been sick, forced to stay in my room with the daily trip to the downstairs kiosk as highlight. and not until now have i realised how lost i have been. when finally out of the fog i see what kind of mess this condition have left me and my room in, and a hobby scientist i can nothing but look for tendencies in this mess and there is one; piles.
all around me i have left piles of stuff even where it isn´t necessary to leave them i have left piles.

I am like a bird unconscious of my piling like they are unconscious of their nesting. don´t dare to think of what this would look like if i would stayed here for another week, but i´m getting better so soon i can start to go out again.

Espen is moving, and that's a shame, but i see his point, you can´t live like this till your 32...
but I'm going to miss him, and his records.



even thought this blog have existed for sometime, i can´t say that there are any traditions in the Farmacia, people come and go, gets what they have been subscribed, do some smalltalk and leave, but there is one; the annual "Festival sommer" post, and its coming up, this summer my hunger for live music and festivals goes perfect together with economy so stay tuned.

i met an old friend, i entered a record store and there he was playing the banjo. he said hi and i said hi, even though i should have said, we miss you Geb, get back on the stage behind those drums where you belong...

yours,

Herr w

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Haluaisimme kokeilla jotakin norjalaista.

En av mange ting med å bo i Oslo om våren, vel Oslo som sådan er at det stort sett skjer noe hele tiden, jeg oppholder meg sjeldent ute, men når jeg gjør det blir jeg like overrumplet over hva en kan oppleve i en by som denne.Jeg våkner søndag morgen, hører på radio og leser ferdig boka jeg sovnet til kvelden før. så ut, ut i parken, kjøper en kaffe og et wienerbrød, vet ikke hva som smaker verst, kaffen eller wienerbrødet. jeg setter meg for å skrive (dette) men blir i stedet sittende å se på alkoholikerne, den lille forsamlingen er i alle stadier: leende, gråtende, og sovende, sigøynerne spiller musikken til Fugledansen, de veksler på en interessant måte mellom 4 og 5 takt, en sliten alkoholiker dame kommer bort og setter seg på benken ved min side, hun gråter stille og stikker av og til en klut ned i posen som hun fukter på en flaske, stanken av lynol slår meg i ansiktet, hun fører kluten opp til ansiktet, den sovende våkner, de oppegående (som i de som klarer å stå) bommer røyk av de som sitteri denne sirkelen av benker som omkranser en byste av "hvem vet", dama ved min side gråter stille og fører stadig kluten ned i posen, som om hun skammer seg. jeg lurer på hvor det ble av han jeg tipset om kaffe og wienerbrød tilbudet, han gikk i retningen jeg staket ut for han, disse alkoholikerne har åpenbart et samhold, de holder sammen, de klemmer hverandre, de kjefter på hverandre, bare lynol dama ved min side er utstøtt, hun har reist seg og står borte ved de andre, hun har åpenbart et slags anfall, av angst, hun "går" sin vei, jeg kjenner meg igjen i dette samholdet; når man ruser seg slik er det bra å kunne speile seg i de andre i gruppen og ikke i goth dama med en svart katt i bånd som røyker sigaretter gjennom et munnstykke, jenta som har trukket bena oppunder seg slik at hun beder kan sole leggene sine, eller noen av de andre "normale" rundt bysten, og derfor undrer jeg meg over hvorfor han som spurte om kaffen og wienerbrødet forlot gruppen, de kan jo være borte når han kommer tilbake og da er du alene, så jævlig alene. lynol dama er tilbake mo i knærne betrakter hun gruppen og vet at hun er uglesett, hun får ikke det anerkjennende signalet om tilgivelse for hva enn hun har gjort og setter seg ved meg igjen. De begynner å bryte opp, det som var åtte er nå blitt til tre, og den utstøtte da, hun tar av seg sko og sokker og strekker på tærne, de på benken ved siden av oss går. hun snakker til seg selv, jeg spør om det går bra, hun ser på meg, ingenting i blikket hennes sier meg at hun har forstått noe av det jeg nettopp sa til henne, men hun forsto da i det minste at det var henne jeg snakket til. hun ser seg rund med det rusa blikket og begynner å ta på seg skoene igjen, men så plutselig ser hun på meg og sier "jeg heter Kari, hva heter du" jeg sier at jeg heter Terje. så dukker en venn av henne opp, sliten han og men glad; han har en flaske vin, han setter seg og på benken, hvit vin, de deler vin og klut. en av damene får napp på sin bomme tur rundt bysten og tenner en sigarett mens hun tasser tilbake til de andre, jeg kjenner at jeg blir kvalm av lynol lukta og går.

Thursday, February 22, 2007

these are crazy days but they make me shine.

been feeling weird lately, and when my head is weird it ends up effecting my behaviour as well; i went to a hardware store to day and ended up buying a wing nut and a bolt, they fit and that makes me feel safe, sometimes i just needs to experience that the world works and that's when i instead of doing something dramatic, i buy a 2,- kroner wing nut and a 3,- kroner bolt and put them together and they fit, OK i do agree that one can work out various analyses about this specially due to the shape of both the wing nut and the bolt, and the Norwegian word for wing nut is mutter which is slang for mother... i´ll stop now.

... and continue with telling you about a concert i went to with Herr K and Miss A, (soon to be Mrs K?), it was Farmers Marked and Kork (the Norwegian broadcasting orchestra) and it was just amazing, Farmers Marked are known for their Balkan speed boogie,and their humour; with song titles like "Les Paul more John" and labeling their music; Country and eastern, so we were up for a good time in so many ways, the concert will be sent on nrk during the spring i hope.

more "hardware" store shopping; bought Sepultura Chaos A.D. today, don´t know if that's a good sign? Why do i buy records that i got on CD, and why do i buy music that i know all to well? It´s a good record that's for sure and i will listen to it a lot. But what does it do to me? hmmm, is it all to feel safe, coz really i have nothing to fear, i have a job, and friends etc. etc. well i will stop bothering you with this now, and if i have bored you, i can at least say that i posted a nice photo from the Farmers Marked gig.

yours,

tw

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Herr W the collector, part 3

I collect tableware as you know. And i´m a heavy reader as well, do they mix?

Yes.

Arabias Moomin collection is a good example. Tove jansons original moomin illustrations have been embraced by Finnish tableware company Arabia for some years now issuing new models every year.

The Finnish author Tove Janson is one of my favorite authors, her books are disguised as children's books but houses far bigger issues than one would expect to find in children's books.




Here the latest contribution to the family together with my psynt.

Have a nice weekend everybody,

yours,

tw

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens



Oh yeah,
i got a new job, and that after just one interview, that is just too good to be anything, its an after school club where i´ll be helping out with homework, making dinner and whatever comes in to my mind. and the hours ladies and gentlemen; 12-17 Monday to Friday.

What really trills me with this strong routine that this job with these hours will bring in to my life is that they will provide me with a framework that will help me start a new and better life;
1) wake up 8ish, get the paper at the door, eat a better breakfast with coffee.
2) write, check mail, listen to music/have more coffee with good friends out.
3) walk to work, yes you heard me right, i can walk there, and that will provide me with long sought after exercise. this walk also leads me through slottsparken, as you can see from the map.
4) work.
5) walk home pick up the paper at the door.
6) eat dinner, read the evening edition of the paper.
7) be creative in one or another way.
8) meet friends, or relax home planing what to do in the weekend, coz then i´m off work.

and all the 8 things listed above are of my favorite things.

herr w

Saturday, January 27, 2007

I LOVE ANE!


Well even though i don't love Ane someone do or did as you can see from the pic taken of the wall in our fire steps, i have to go there to take out the garbage, BUT HEY! its not your turn to clean this week some of you might say, well that's truth my dear readers but one of my dear neighbours sold it to me for 400,- and i don't say no to that, to be truth i said yes and it leaves me with a dirty house ill use an hour to get fixed.
wonder is Ane ever got to know that she was loved?

I had Herr JHK here yesterday, he was cold and wet so i gave him a pair of pants i don't use any more coz I'm too fat. as a token of his appreciation he gave me a gift certificate at Platekompaniet.
Oh your God, i could go and buy a new CD, a NEW CD or what ever for 169,- and so i went there and had a look, and there was so much stuff, but what to go for? Something from Rune grammofon? A new Schumann CD? A DVD? soon i realized that i was lost. and i ended up with Nils Petter Molværs Kmer, a super album, maybe the best album there is, (nr. 11 at least), so i went to buy is and then i found all the boxes, oh oh, i love boxes, and so few of my bands put out boxes, but what about a Motown box, or Miles Davis, nuggets or Joy Division boxed? not i was still lost and in the line i caved... i couldn't make my mind up, so i returned Kmer and left, hmmm, it used to be the easiest thing i the world to buy Cd's, well next time i´ll make it.

but I'm glad, wearing me new button, the one miss tuuti made for me completing my 22, 7, 81 jacket, and i till have my Psychedelic Phinland Finnish hippi & underground music 1967- 1974 CD that bought in Psyc. Phinland.

herr w

Friday, January 26, 2007

oh so long

hei, i have spent some time with Finland,
1)trying to find out if i can live there,
2) if i can learn the languages,
3)if they show football, and
4)if they serve coffee in descent mugs,

4)


room 217 and Lilly! look at the size of my coffee mug!i have learned now, so you don't have to do the same mistake: don't dear a Finn to serve you a "big coffee" i did, i fought and i lost.

3)
the Finns do have some good players like the ones in premier league, their season start in April, and is growing, but is nothing compared to ice hockey, a sport i do not know anything about beyond what the name tells about it.

2)
the language is not related to any languages i know and therefore hard but not impossible to learn, i have started to collect words with three letters ending with "ää" like;
jää - ice
hää- wedding
pää- head
sää - weather
etc.



1)

Finland is good, Helsinki is good, vinyl wise i might consider it better than Oslo, food wise they got better bread, and its cheaper, at least the food, the beer and coffee. and the people... they are ihana!





Good Finnish people here represented by Annsi 8000
now for now






tw

Friday, January 05, 2007

I like it here.

new LP today,
i think i like shopping, better than i should,it is now turning under my needle, loudly in my room.
ever since i came back to my town i have felt good, strange, but OK. since i´m not working at the moment and not studying
i need to work hard to make the day seem just a bit real. so i admit it, i need something, some kind of structure to
feel real, to keep me on the ground.

So today i started out well, i was up before 12, i made breakfast and i went to the library to return some books and here it all went wrong,
i came under the power of art and poetry, and i love it but it kills me, i started to look in this book that makes me so happy, and then i borrowed a CD,
had something to drink at a cafe, went to a gallery and saw the most beautiful picture you can imagine.
On my home i meet some one i know and we hugged and i was so glad,
i bought my new LP and went home to play it loud, and i all kept and still keeps me high,

sometimes i love life,

Herr w