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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Death comes.
Two important things done today:
- I put the review copies in the mail.
Yes that’s right folks and in doing so i filled up two, yes two, mail boxes! I did it this morning and the mailboxes were to be emptied at 1300h and I hope that they were. If they were the envelopes are as I write this on their way to several recipients. If the recipients are in Sweden, the envelopes will arrive tomorrow, Monday, if the recipients are in the rest of the Nordic countries, I’m expecting them to arrive on Tuesday. I have no idea when the single American will get his package. Here’s hoping it’ll be quick! - I finished writing the PM for my paper in Value Theory.
The working title for the paper is:
Death comes – The effect of death awareness for the individual.
I’m sure the title will change but this one gives you a hint as to what I’m writing about. The paper will be in Swedish and when it’s done, and when I pass, I’ll post it here for you all to read.
The rest of the day will include eating dinner, watching Chelsea-Arsenal and vacuuming.
Written, burnt, printed and packed.
I’ve been sitting all day writing on envelopes, burning cdr:s, printing papers, packing it all and placing stamps on, the review cd kits being sent out tomorrow. I’m done now. It was quite a pärs as we say here in Sweden (perhaps a good English word, but without being a slang as pärs is, would be ordeal). So tomorrow I’m off to the postbox to send them all away. If you live in Sweden, Norway, Denmark or Finland check out your local news paper or favorite music review site in a couple of days. There might be a review of my album in it!
The Lars-Martin link.
My friend Lars-Martin has started a blog which you all should check out. He has the same basic idea that I had for this one; make music and publish it but where I have failed, since I haven’t published music, well not more that one song, yet, I hope he will succeed. He’s a great musician and a talented song writer so it’s for your benefit really. He might not have a lot of stuff up yet but I’m thinking that a couple of visits from you guys and he’ll work a little faster to make things happen.
Ship in, ship out.
I have talked to Rob. He has the printed review copies. They are in his car. He is going to come down to Göteborg tonight, at around 2030h/2100h and give them to me. Then it’s just work work work to get in all in order an shipped out by tomorrow so they will be delivered on Monday.
Apart from that the weather is crap here in Göteborg and I’ve decided upon a subject on which I am going to write a paper. The subject, as you may recall, has to fit under the Value Theory or Quality of Life umbrella so I’m going to write about death awareness and how it has a positive effect on the individual in life, how the awareness of death actually improves your quality of life, how it gives you a more valuable life. At least that is my hypothesis.
Rain, rain, rain your boat. Gently down the crap!
Review copies from Bäckefors.
This is what has happened with the review copies of ‘The Anger’ so far:
- The company making them missed our order.
- The company making them didn’t make them on time due to illness.
- The company making them changed our order from white discs to silver discs.
- The company making them changed our order back to white discs from silver discs.
- The delivery firm couldn’t make the delivery the first day; no one was home they said; tried to call three times they said. Correct that no one was home no incoming calls were however registered. If they had called Rob would have answered and said to leave the package on the front porch, at a neighbours or something like that. The delivery firm drove the package back to there central.
- Rob called the central telling them to keep the package there so that I could go and collect it today.
- Rob called the central to make sure that they had done that… They hadn’t. The package was now once again on it’s way to Robs house where luckily someone was home.
- The driver couldn’t find Robs house! Nor did he call when he couldn’t. Now here’s what I’m thinking: normally the same driver handles the same districts on all weekdays. If he could find it the first day…
- Rob gets hold of the driver who is now far north, in Bäckefors, from where Rob lives. The best he can do is place the package on a truck that will take it to another central about 10-15 kilometers from Rob, from where he lives… oh, and they close at four.
- Rob will now have to quit work early, drive like a maniac from Alingsås to Uddevalla (an hour without traffic) then from Uddevalla to Göteborg (another hour without traffic) where he will deliver the package to me.
If we get these review copies out by Monday it will be a miracle. We should the be given the nobel prize in revies copy out sending.
1900 is 2008!
Yesterday I received the latest issue of Sonic Magazine in the mail. If you are a subscriber, like I am, they include a CD with songs for your enjoyment. The last song on the CD accompanying the magazine yesterday was by an artist/band called 1900. It was a song from an album called 1900 (yes 1900 by 1900). I loved the song so I bought the album on iTunes at once. Now I can’t really explain what the music sounds like; the best I can do if I should try is; a soundtrack to a black and white silent movie (but not one where everything moves extra quick, like the old Chaplin movies, more extra slow, and sad, but good…).
Back pain from a worse place than hell… much worse!
My back hurts! I’m stiff as a stiff! If I sit down I can’t get up. Then don’t sit down you say. It huts then too. My back is like a contacted muscle, a big contracted, hard, stiff muscle aching. I got it from sitting down to long in a bad chair in a bad position. Stupid bad chair and bad position. Fell sorry for me.
Camilla has forbidden me to talk about it (not like I have to, one can see my pain, I walk around the apartment looking like a eighty year old man with arthritis needing to go number two really bad) she says it won’t get any better if I talk about it. I think it will get better but I’ll shut up. There cant, however, be a problem with me writing about it, can there?
Three things I think about…
I’m having a terribly hard time studying today. All I have to do is read and that should be simple enough. I have to read about the Value in Worlds. I can’t my mind is pre-occupied with other things; foremost this:
- The sending out of “The Anger” review copies.
The records haven’t arrived yet and were cutting it really short. We need to have them, the finished kits, delivered by Monday or else; or else what? Well, I guess you could take that calm and mellow road and say: Hey! If we can’t get it done by Monday we’ll get it done by Tuesday but that is not really my style. I want to keep things under control and in order. - The recording of my next album.
I have been writing songs for a while and now they are more or less finished. Rob and I have begun talking about the recording of it. (I know it might seem strange to you that I’m talking about my second album before the first one has had it’s real release. The first one took two and a half years to make and the writing process was more or less finished when we started to make it and it’s the writing process I enjoy so I’ve been writing.) We’ve gotten so far in talking where my head starts to work overtime thinking about sounds, methods, lyrics, songs… starting to structure it all in my head. - The paper I have to write in Value Theory.
On Monday I have to have a PM ready. Establishing a subject and accounting for questions also pointing towards literature that I might use and perhaps presenting a method, an approach to the whole problem. I am thinking about Death and how death seems to have value to us in-spite of it not being a state man can be in or the fact that it doesn’t happen now. I have written my professor and asked him if this is a good subject matter but I still haven’t got a reply.
So there you have it. The reason why reading for tomorrows lecture isn’t going according to plan. (Writing blog posts doesn’t help either!)
I’ve dropped to No 5… or have I?
I am, or my album is, today the fifth most sold download album on cdon.com as you all can see here. Nothing shameful in that. If you look at the chart you can see it like this: I’m the top male! There are just women in front of me. You could also say, in order to improve my position, that I am the third most selling Swedish artist, or that I am the top selling artist in the 79 sek/ album segment… One can probably find a cople more like that… the second most selling artist not depicted on the cover of the album… Yes. I rule in som many ways and statistics are fun.
Go on, get going, wake up or whatever…
Good morning to you all. I have an anxious Dog here who really wants to go out and chase Bitches so i’ll keep it brief. The sun is coming up and it’s another fine day. Camillas working all day so it’s just us guys here at home. I’ll be studying (and watching Arsenal this evening) and the Boo will be doing nothing.
Rob and I talked on the phone yesterday and the copies of the record to be sent out for review hasn’t arrived yet. There was something about a changed order. I hope they come today because we really need to be sending them out soon.
I’ll bet you some news will come my way later as I’m expecting some from Mr D and when they do I’ll just forward them to you. Now it’s dog walking time… he’s sitting in front of me, staring
Change; Yes we can!
…no, don’t sing along!
One of the most sad and disturbing and uncool and irritating things there is about seeing a band, or a set of musicians play live is if the drummer sings along. I don’t mean if the drummer sings back-up vocals or if the drummer perhaps, by chance, is the lead singer. No, I’m talking about when the idiot sings along with the lead singer, and he doesn’t have a mic, and he doesn’t sing back-up, he just sings along. Shut up!
The same goes for lame ass bass players!
It’s snowing! I’m No. 4!
Sweden is a blizzard, at least that’s what the news say. Not quite true here in Göteborg, but almost. It’s snowing, as it should do here in late November (as it also always does after snow in late November I fully expect the roads tomorrow to be covered in a brown-silvery semi-see-through slush. I am also expecting it to rain… and be windy).
As you all can see here I am, or my album is, now, on Monday the 24:th of November 1347h (I am writing this because the circumstances under the link are objects of change) the 4:th most sold download album on cdon.com! Huge I think. Thank you everyone! Now I don’t know how many sold albums that mean, not so many I guess, but none the less; the fact that the album sells at all amazes me. I know it’s good but I don’t know if people share my views (they usually don’t).
That’s right; I’m back, back home from school. It was a nice lecture. But since the weather is as it is, a bit windy and with down fall, I am going to stay inside, wearing a sweat suite, drinking coffee. Yes! Second batch on it’s way.
If news cometh than news you’ll haveth.
Laterseth!
A case of the Mondays?
No!
Good morning!
Monday morning and a quick post before I run of to school. All ready been out with the Boo and I am now drinking the first cup of coffee. I have great hopes for my album today; that today will be the day when all hell brakes loose.
Got a comment form Mange who seemed to have trouble finding my album om cdon.com. A tip to you all having the same problem: Use the links under the Discography: page above.
Ok? Ok!
How happy can an ice cream make you?
I’ve been reading my head to a sad state. I can take no more. Not another word. Also, I am a bit anxious. In the subject I now am reading, Value Theory, we have to write a paper, a small one but none the less one. I really have no idea as what to write about or even how I am going to go about acquiring one. Maybe I’m leaning to Quality of life over time or lack of significant temporal values (if anything can be named that)… what I mean is; value can exist over time but what effect does these values, or the object that bring these values, have after they, the object, are consumed… clear enough for you? How happy can an ice cream make you when you’ve finished it, and for how long after? Make sense? No?
Let’s hope that tomorrow brings more news music wise. The song in the commercial have gotten my name out there. There is a lot more visitors to this blog now than there were a couple of weeks ago, which is nice. Now that the album is out let’s hope that it makes the same imprint in people regarding Tomas-awareness.
Temper, temper!
I came back home yesterday after visiting Anna, Andreas and Elin in their new house on Orust. It’s a nice house in a nice neighbourhood on a nice island. Nice. I came back to height and lows. The highs included my album finally being released (as you probably can see on the sticky post above) the lows included yet another poor performance by my beloved Arsenal. What the fuck is up?
Ok. Today started kind of early but since the weather is, and was, absolutely stunning I didn’t mind too much. I took a morning stroll with the Boo and then all was good.
I really should be studying but my temper is acting up. I have no idea but I’m feeling really stressed, frustrated and angry for no apparent reason which is even more annoying since the lack of inducing objects make me not being allowed to act it out too much; I have nothing to be angry about.
Since it’s the weekend the music news are limited, to say the least.
ALBUM RELEASE! BUY IT NOW!
Yes it’s true. The album ‘The Anger’ has finally been released (at least in the Nordic countries)! To buy it click on the country name/link corresponding with the country in which you live. (There is no purchase by just clicking, the link will re-direct you to your local cdon.com page for further instructions on how to buy the album.)
This is a soft release but you can buy it none the less. The hard release will be 01122008
Come on! Support your local rock star!
Buy it by clicking (link will re-direct you to your local cdon.com page):
Sweden – Norway – Denmark – Finland
Grow Up!
No news about anything today really (yet) but I’ll, as I do, write some pointless stuff anyway.
I’ll start with a joke for my Swedish and Swedish speaking readers:
As I walked down Avenyn today after school I noticed a little shop.
This little shop is a chocolate shop but it also sells ice cream.
It advertises it’s sale of ice cream on a window where a big sticker says ice cream and under the text there is an arrow pointing to the front door of the shop.
I thought it would be funny to write a B before ice.
Ok. Not the most mature joke… or is it. One could have the point of view that to be mature is to let oneself be and act in whichever manner one likes, and I don’t mean anything extreme here. just not being confined to demographic social norms.
Ok. That on that.
I will leave for the island of Orust this afternoon. I will go to Andreas and Annas new house. I’ll be back tomorrow though, in time for Man. City vs. Arsenal.
Review copy’s delayed.
Just got a text message from Rob. The review copy’s of the album have been delayed. We will have them on Monday or Tuesday. Amazingly enough they, the company making the copy, missed our order.
It isn’t terrific news, it’s not even good news but at least it’s some news.
On a completely different subject I have cleaned the whole apartment today. I rule! I get a candy treat (which I have to buy myself but none the less: Candy!)
