I am giving away my album to the first unique e-mailer from each country in the world!
More info under 1:st! Mail me!
UPDATE:
This give-away will run until Nov 30:th, 2009, 2359h.
Want my album? Mail me.
July 29, 2009
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Picture from snowy Finland!
November 12, 2009The give-away winners pictures, the ones I request that they send after they’ve received my CD, are now dropping in few and far between. Still, when they come it’s a blast! This picture, the one below, is from Finland, from Henri Poikolainen. He got his CD in early August but then waited until the snow fell, in his native Hyvinkää (at least I think where the picture is taken) to get the right look and feel of the picture. nice!
Thanks Henri!
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Give-away given away!
November 11, 2009As you might have seen on the sticky-post (WordPress-lingo for post that stays at the top of the page all the time) above, or on the page 1:st!, I have now put a time frame on the ‘The Anger’ give-away. Everyone, in every country that has not yet been claimed still has the chance to get my album for free, with unique cover art, but only up until November 30:th at 2359h. Just mail me.
I’m doing this, the time frame thing, for three reasons.
1. It’s been like 50 days since a country was claimed.
2. I am planning a little something for christmas (more on that as December’s nearer)…
and
3. … after christmas comes new year and in 2010 it’s all about the new album!
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Bad weather and fictional objects.
November 10, 2009If there is a weather associated with the town in which I live, the town of The Götet, El Gotembürgo, Göteborg, it would be the weather experienced today. The clouds flying as near to the ground a possible without being a mist. And there dense as hell aswell. It’s not really raining but the air is so ‘wet’ it feels like it is. And just when you think it can’t get any more depressing; here come the snow. But it’s too hot (and in that not saying that it’s hot… not at all) so the flakes just melt and make the ground more wet.
I hate the wet.
Had a lecture on Amie L. Thomasson and Roman Ingarden today, on fictional objects (kind of). It really did my head in.As does my latest iPhone app-purchase: Fling! I know I am going to read about those furry balls all night (and don’t get any ideas about dirty comments) since I’ve played with them all evening (I am warning you; don’t!).
I am hoping to be able to present some music news to you all soon. Still waiting for the bass-recording to commence. When it does I’ll post, and Twitter, stuff on it like a mad man, like a mad man I tell you (or more; write to you).
Wanted to end this post with a nice picture, but no nice picture was found. Sorry…
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The Thesis.
November 9, 2009Now; it’s official! I’ve gotten the highest grade possible on my bachelors thesis! And, as promised, I will share the thesis with you. Share it so you all can read it. Read it and get shared some of the sunshine in which I am basking now… kind of.
But, and there is always a but, I have to fix a few things first. Just want to make sure it is as good as it can be before you all read it. And you will read it, oh yes, you will read it. For if you do not, I will strike upon the, and you will feel like stricken upon like stricken upon for not reading, eth and henceforth…
I will note all the changes I make from the graded paper.
Still, feel happy for me. I know I do, sort of… (Can’t help but to think that there is something fishy about my grade, that I have been given it out of pity or something…)
The title of the thesis is:
Is Fully Informed Better than Cast in Oblivion?
So look out for that!
Ending with a picture of John Rawls. The man behind the ‘cast in oblivion’ part.
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Berlin Picture Post…
November 7, 2009So Berlin.
How was it?
Well… it was good.
Let me show you:
The Alexanderplatz and Fernsehturm view from our hotel room.
Coffee at Kaffe Mitte.
Breakfast at Balzac Coffee.
Seeing Sony Center.
Ice cream in Potsdam.
All this in pretty shitty weather.
Dinner at Vapiano.
A walk along The East Side Gallery. A stretch of the Berlin Wall now turned art exhibition.
Loads of graffiti and run down buildings in the old East-Berlin city center.
Off course we saw a Trabbi, both painted and real.
Coffee at Barcomi’s.
Dinner at best, and hardest to find, vegetarian restaurant, ever; Cookies Cream!
The war lurks around…
Beer at Erdbeer.
And then, after Dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant called Monsieur Wong and ice cream at Häagen Dasz we went home.
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‘The Anger’ on Spotify!
November 6, 2009Don’t know when it happened, I’ve been abroad you see (and yes they have The Internet abroad but no, I did not follow events on it at all… busy vacationing you see), but my album, ‘The Anger’, is now up on Spotify!
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Hating rain, grasping time, taking flight.
November 2, 2009Man I hate the rain.
I really do hate it.
And it’s been pouring down… all day.
During this mornings walk with The Boo, who during unfortunate weather like rain turns into a sponge, his coat of fur holding a million times its own weight in water, I almost freaked out. Almost. Always controlled (never in control). I thought to myself: No. I won’t go to school. I won’t go out!
But I did.
Before school Rob came by. He did it to pick up the last of the drum files, so that he can have a listen, and do a little fixing, before we go int bass-recording mode. Not far off now. And, although the recording of this album is moving along slowly, oh so slowly, it’s nothing compare to the recording of the last one. Don’t expect this one to take two and a half years to finish.
We, Rob and I, also talked a little bit about the physical record, the one to be printed and pressed; how it’s going to look, what it can cost and so on.
Then: Barry Dainton-lecture. Time-perception.
Now: Got some packing to do. Camilla and I are leaving for Berlin tomorrow.
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Olle Olsson…
November 1, 2009Yesterday, my sisters, and in some manner our family-, cat left us.
He will be dearly missed but mostly remembered.
Han ‘e en go:sse!
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Take outs from the past few days.
November 1, 2009I bid good Sunday night to you all!
A Sunday where I should have been studying (more, as I’ve done a bit of studying but need to do a bit more, especially reading, before tomorrow Barry Dainton-lecture) but relaxing got in its way. (I know I’ve said this on my Twitter but not a lot of people follow me on Twitter so I can say it again; intelligent stuff like that bares repeating!)
The weekend has been all about taking it chill. Last night Camilla and I were out with friends. Having superb Indian cuisine; going to an ok, not more, movie. (And as a follow-up, tonight Camilla and me are going to watch ‘Låt den Rätte Komma In‘. Have not seen it and have high expectations.)
That’s about it. Glad Arsenal won yesterday, looking forward to Berlin on Tuesday.
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Heavy metal satan fingers!
October 31, 2009
My favourite is naturally the “too much satan for one hand”.
Via: Loudfarmer.com
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Buying beer, getting drugs.
October 30, 2009Just came back from Systembolaget (the chain of stores owned by the government, having monopoly on selling alcohol here in Sweden). Where I bought my fave: Sierra Nevada Pale Ale!
apparently they’re running some sort of campaign: In Sweden you have to be over 20 years old to buy alcohol. But, even if you are older than that they much like it if you show your ID upon purchase. So I did. With out the guy behind the teller having to ask for it. (Now normally I don’t do this because I look well over 20 and because they normally don’t ask me – for the reason stated. But, the last two times when I have been to the Systembolaget they have, however, asked me. Leading to me having to produce my wallet again, and the pulling out my ID – such a hassle, I know.) So, because I did this I got a little tin from him. A pink one, which later proved to contain peach/mint pastilles, with a text, on the top, reading: Tack för att du visar leg! (Swedish for: Thanks for showing your ID.)
Now, as I did not know what it was I just received (nor had heard of any such campaign so deduction was out of the question). I asked him. This is the dialog that followed:
Me: What is this?
Him: It’s drugs.
Me: What!?
Him: You should put them in your beer. You should put them in your beer and then bring the beer to a boil.
Me: Ok…
Him: If you do so, for every beer you bring to a boil money will be put in your bank account.
Me: [Now laughing, some what, but not knowing if this is funny or not...]
Him: For every beer you bring to a boil you will get 40 SEK [Swedish Kroner] put into you account.
Me: Is this [the jokes] because its friday [and you have had a lot of customers and now just want to go home and kick it]?
Him: No. It’s April 1:st.
Then I left.
At first I though he was being kind of funny. But having thought about it I just found him disrespectful.
Maybe it was his last day.
Hope so!
(Now, you might ask: Well, why not be an ass to him the next time? Because then he’ll just decline me to buy my beer. Yupp, he has the authority to do that, as assholes often do!
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A test and/in a post.
October 29, 2009This is as much a normal post as a test. A test of the new WordPress-app for iPhone. The 2.0 version. The first version did not really make me blog on “the road”. (I think I only wrote one post with it.) But, as I’m soon of to Berlin I want to give this version a shot.
Right off, only having written on to here I see some flaws. I would like a more “Tweetie for Iphone”-like UI, where the function of the WordPress Internet CMS comes to better use; inserting a link, picture, geotag a.s.o.
Oh well!
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Three news picture.
October 27, 2009
This picture says (at least) three things:
1. Weather.
We’re experiencing fantastic weather today here in Gigantic Rock. (And, maybe, just maybe, because this just struck me, Gigantic Rock is an upside down, inside out, diametrically opposite, society, town or whatever to the town called Little Rock, in Arkansas… Or maybe that opposite town to Gigantic Rock would have to have a name that 1. was opposite Gigantic, something like Small, Little a.s.o. and 2. was opposite Rock, and then one would have to establish which kind of Rock one was speaking of; the musical style or the natural kind… tricky that.) It’s a beautiful fall day.
2. Hair.
Yes folks I have gotten my hair cut. (As mentioned yesterday on my Twitter-feed.) It had to be done. I was getting more and more angry every time the hair got into my eyes, mouth, food… I did it at Junkstyle, as I always do.
3. Glasses.
I have gotten my new glasses. So now it’s Blark Bent all the way. Well, not all the way. I only have to use them when in front of the computer, or when I’m reading (stuff that isn’t on the computer screen). So most of the time I’m still Ruperman.
On other news my mother had her birthday yesterday. So, happy birthday, again, to her. The whole family was there and celebrated in style. Which means loads of food and cake.
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About me: Updated!
October 23, 2009Sixth Revision; Gigantic Rock, Göteborg, 2009-10-23
Hi!
My name is Tomas Halberstad.
I am 31 years old.
I live in Göteborg, Sweden, on the island of the Hisingen.
I live with my girlfriend, Camilla, and our dog, Bosse.
I am a student and a songwriter.
I study Theoretical Philosophy (used to study Practical Philosophy) and write pop-songs.
For extra money I work as a security guard (but not for long, quitting that).
I started this blog in order to publish my music. The idea was to write, record and post. (That hasn’t really happened but it might.)
I dislike social networks, mainly Internet based ones but I still use them, arbitrary but there you go, live with it. If you want to find me on any one of those go to the biggest one; it’s called Google. I’m on Google.
I like my little family, food and The Arsenal.
Should work out more but it seems to be an on and off thing with me.
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Happy Birthday Arsène!
October 22, 2009Just weeks after passing the milestone of being the longest serving manager in Arsenal history the man, Le Boss, Arsène Wenger turns 60! Here’s a happy birthday from me! I know Arsène will not celebrate his birthday, still:
Hipp Hipp!
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Buy buy buy!
October 21, 2009A bit arbitrary. A bit late.
‘The Anger’ now, or maybe still, avalible on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk… Still waiting for Spotify.
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Lame excuse for a post (again?).
October 21, 2009Today has been all about reading. I started a new course on Monday. Loads to read. Today: The intentionality of Meinong. I think I understand it, at least the part that we; beginner students (beginners reading Theoretical Philosophy that is) are meant to understand. i just do not know what problem he is trying to solve. I’ll bet it al will become a lot more clear as the course progresses.
I also today came up with a couple of brilliant arguments as to why we should get rid of the phrase ‘It’s not the end of the world’. Perhaps I’ll share then with you one day. Today; right now, I’m a bit tired.
Have a lot of music/record recording stuff piling up on me. Have notes to send to Rob. Have bass-track recording to get planned and done. And more, and more. Man, it’s been a while since I have had this much to do… (And this just dawned on me…)
Got a semi-panic feeling right now. Best be getting those notes to Rob…
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Polish Pic!
October 20, 2009Yesterday the Colombian pic from Leyla. Today the Polish pic from Natalia.
Yes the pictures just keep on coming. I know there are still some to go (though I doubt I will get pictures from everyone who has received my cd – click on 1:st! in on menu bar) but I’m glad for every single one that comes in!
So, today, from Poland, here’s Natalia!
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Colorful Colombian pic in!
October 19, 2009In my inbox this morning there dropped a little picture. It was from my give-away winner in Colombia. It’s a real feast for the eyes. Check out the color! One can barely make out the album art!
Really cool! Thanks for the effort Leyla!
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Is grass really green?
October 18, 2009No. 24h-exams are not my thing. Had one today. Did not like it.
The set up. At 0000h the exam was posted on the Internet. We have/had until 2359h to, via e-mail, send it in. From the 8 published questions we were supposed to pick 5. 0-6 points per question, with a 2 point/question, 15 point overall, minimum needed to pass. 600-800 words/question.
The first question took me around 3h and I ended up with around 650 words.
Now here’s the deal. I am studying philosophy. Which means the questions are not like: Wich year did that old dude, that nobody liked and very few have heard of, die? But more like (and these are two actual questions from today) one: Is grass really green? Enlighten the question with take off in the writings of Democritus and Galilei, Also give a short account of your own view point. And Two: Let’s say that you perceive a piece of white, rectangular paper. What are the origins of your perceptions? What relation does your perception have to the paper? What is it you are actually seeing? Discuss from John Locke, George Berkeley and yourself.
Now, firstly: to give a word requirement and restriction for this is strange. Secondly, to think that the students can keep their/our thinking sharp enough to one: discuss, not only account for, for 24h. And two: keep 5 or more topics so fresh in your head so that you can discuss them in some meaningful manner, is even stranger… more strange. El strangeo. Tre strange. Schtrang.
I’m tired.
Hope I’ll pass.
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