Oak tree street press agency robbed!

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Tomas Halberstad

Gigantic Rock and the adjacent Oak Tree Street can be a pretty grim place.

Just passed the local drugstore, 5 security guards, 2 cops and 1 ambulance. It had been robbed. Unlucky for the robbers that there was a civilian cop (just outside my house!) wrestling and arresting on of them. There face forward on the ground claiming that the civilian cop had used excessive force which lead to one of our neighbours, out walking her dog, going up to the kid, screaming “Shut up and lay still!” (Right on Maggan!) A punk ass kid! The other one carried one by foot into the near by small forest.

I don’t know how much the got from the drugstore money-wise but one of the robbers had to ditch his moped running from the cops. A moped which according to rumor he owned (the insurance policy was written on him or something like that, how else would they know?). I can tell you this: a moped, cheap or expensive, costs more that the cash content of the drugstores register.

Punk ass kids!

Anders & Lina leaving Gigantic Rock.

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Tomas Halberstad

My friends and neighbours, Anders & Lina moved today.
A while back Anders sent out a text message in which he was asking for help with the moving of stuff from one apartment to another.
Naturally we said that we could.
Luckily so did about 13 others.

We cleared one apartment and filled the other in 1h 10min. I think we broke some kind of record. We moved stuff in a manner, at a pace and with a purpose that would have made hardened military men jealous. It was quite the operation.

So Anders & Lina are leaving Gigantic Rock. They are doing it as a step into adulthood; leaving there rental apartment, moving in to their first bought one. I’m not that adult yet. There moving to a place which is called the wind from the East street. (I hope it’s not this wind.) A bit to wrong side of the iron curtain for me.

When they get sorted they are going to have a moving in party with a Brännbolls-tournament (a bit like Baseball but with rules you can understand and an acceptable duration; I thing it is called stick ball in English). Kick Ass!

And for those of you receiving Anders text message, reading this blog and not turning up to help (and yes; I realize that I’m probably talking to about three people): NO STICK BALL FOR YOU!

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Posted on July 29, 2008 by Tomas Halberstad

Sent a mail to Rob O asking how the tweaking of the mixes are going. He said he was just about done and that then that was it; the mixing of The Anger was done! I got his mail a couple of days ago so it might be so that they are done now, as you read this; there they are, binary beauties; 0010001111011100010110…

As for the mastering we agreed that Rob O himself will have a go at it. It won’t be a problem equipment or knowledge wise, the question is if Rob O has enough distance to the material so that he can master it with just mastering in mind (and not the mix). He says he has. I trust him.

Now: wait.

And another thing: It’s raining!