Monday, January 28, 2008

sleepless in oslo


i can`t sleep,
i have tried, but it won`t come,

if i was still in Finland it would be 7.07 now and ok to get up,
but i`m not, it`s 6.07 in Norway.

got home safe and starting work tomorrow, eh today, and what a start it will be with no sleep since Sunday morning.

well have to start the day, make my self a nice liter of coffee, and put on the radio,

take in the paper and try to do the sudoku , i will of course be to tired for that, unless its an easy one,
then read the same net papers i`ve been reading all night, FUCK i hate this day already,
what a super way to start the week,

FUCK

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

what does it mean?


after a quick trip to east Finland, i can still make it with my idea about blogging at least tree times before i leave.

The last days i`ve spent 10hours in a train, but considering the weather i can`t see that i have missed anything.

I had this years first real great concert experience, and to be honest(and in the end isn`t that what we all want to be) it is going to be hard to beat.
it was the Finnish band Cleaning Women- name comes from that they play on self made instruments made of cleaning machines and dressing up like women, nothing like Hurra Torpedo.
they played music to the Russian Sci-fi classic Aelita-the Queen of Mars, from 1924.
and yes you guessed right; they go to Mars, a bored soldier, a crazy scientist and a confused detective. in the cargo; an accordion and what else than communism.
do they inspire to an armed revolution on mars you ask?
-well travel to Kirkenes and see for your selfs, coz apart form tour in Finland is also kirkenes blessed with a visit,

On the train to Joensuu i found that this guy wasn`t welcome in the bistro:
but what does it mean, is it Michael Jackson they don`t want, or people with hats or is it sneaking Film Noir private detectives they don`t trust with normal people...?

from Finland,

herr w

Sunday, January 20, 2008

deeper underground


back in Finland,
this time my view on the town; Helsinki is different, probably because i know that i might move here within 3years, and need to see what that might feel like,

i went underground yesterday for some club event with videos and a band playing,
most of the videos were crap, but the band rocked, wasn`t as psychedelic as the picture suggests but nevertheless...

it rains here but that just gives me the time i need to do the couple of things that i have planed to do;
- be on vacation,
- read Kjell Westös book "Der vi en gang gikk"
- figure out Robert Schumann's 3. Piano sonata "Concert without Orchestra".
- and update here more that 3 times while in finland.

tonight live music to one of the films that i have wanted to see for a long time: Aelita

see you soon

Sunday, January 13, 2008

does it count?

Thought i felt spring while outside today but it was probably someone else,
i didn`t find anything at the market but miss.r did, a tea lounge next to it,
i don`t drink tea, i drink coffee but lucky for me next time we go there coz it turned out not to one of these Hitler-tea-lounges you read about that serve tea exclusively, but one that will serve me coffee next time, this time i had tea, or peppermint tea, don`t know if that counts .

Made a fish soup using rye flour, does that count?

Took a pic that turn out bad and made it cool with cheap mobile software, does that count.

Practiced an organ piece on my keyboard, does it count?

Was touched by music with German lyrics i didn`t understand, does that count as a genuine music experience?

...
it can play hideous tricks on the brain
...
any day any day any day

Saturday, January 05, 2008

silence is golden






I have to confess that i was quite old when i saw my first Chaplin movie, i was maybe as old as i am now, well 3week younger than i`m now to be honest, but in the end isn`t that what we all want to be?

but when i finally got around to see one i went to a viewing with live music played by the Oslo philharmonics. Like in many other of his film he had also written the music for The Circus(1928) as done most other things like casting, written and produced it.
Merna Kennedy from The Circus,
rumor has it that she had an affair
whit Charles during shoting of the film.


It was a good film, i was really entertained and so was the rest of the audience, and some how thats very funny; that in 2007 as well in 2008 were there is so much stuff to be entertained by it doesn`t take more that a cake in the face to make people fall off their chairs. (yes it contained a banana skin joke too). not to forget the great story.

for xmas i got a 3 movie Chaplin box containing Modern Times(1936) (a film in which he goes to jail accused of being a communist ,drinks a lot takes amphetamine and is put to a mental institution) , City Light(1931) and The Great Dictator (1940) great films all of them, well TGD was so and so, but hopefully more on that some other time.

Paulette Goddard, played in both TGD and Modern Times, and was married to Charles for a couple of years.

what intrigues me with all of these film are the women. Chaplin plays "The Tramp" like in most of his films, and then there is, at least in the four films mentioned here, a woman. And always played by a foxy lady at least in 1920 standards, and without exception i fall in love with these characters. And why not, falling in love with dead people is harmless isn`t it, and my girlfriend can`t be jealous at them, coz they are all dead, i`ve checked .

me and Charles probably shared the same test in women, "ed" coz he`s dead too, he often dated had affairs, and even married the women he played against.

till next time,

herr w











Virginia Cherrill from
City Light was discovered by
Charles while sitting beside
him at a boxing match in LA.

Thursday, January 03, 2008

up for something in March?


Happy new year,
08 is going to fool us all,
but also bring us joy like roskilde 08 or is it, more on that later.

first;
Just home from kirkenes. where me and miss r spent xmas together with my family, in the dark? yes, in the dark, if anyone dare to say something else i can tell you i am as angry with you that i`m with people who claim that everyone can learn how to draw.

this first month is going to be spent getting back to the urbanroutines i forgot while in north, started yesterday by having sushi with friend.
Then we have to find a new place to stay.

Later i`m going to Finland.
there i`m going to this nice lunch place in kamppi, the music library, then its all the coffee with all the good people of helsinki,
then its a train ride east that i`m looking forward to, i never go by trains anymore after i moved from bergen.

February is Cure time, seeing them twice, first in Oslo and later the same week in Berlin with my good friend, the fresh blogger, and yeah did i mention that i`m going to Berlin, don`t you get me started.

Anyone up for something in March?

Einstürzende Neubauten plays Oslo in April.

May is always nice.

And in June i`m scheduled to be a father,
oh yeah you heard me right, well most of you dear readers already know, but for those of you who don`t, now you do.

roskilde will have to wait...

till next time,

yours,

herr w