My favourite is naturally the “too much satan for one hand”.
Via: Loudfarmer.com
Heavy metal satan fingers!
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Buying beer, getting drugs.
Just 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!
A test and/in a post.
This 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!
Three news picture.
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.
About me: Updated!
Sixth 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.
Happy Birthday Arsène!
Just 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!
Buy buy buy!
A bit arbitrary. A bit late.
‘The Anger’ now, or maybe still, avalible on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk… Still waiting for Spotify.
Lame excuse for a post (again?).
Today 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…
Polish Pic!
Yesterday 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!
Colorful Colombian pic in!
In 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!
Is grass really green?
No. 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.
Tomas Kant – Immanuel Halberstad.
Sitting here, listening to Autechre’s 2005 release [Spotify-link] and all is good. Another beautiful day here in Göteborg. I really love beautiful days. They get me going, energized. I like to be gotten going and energized.
Last lecture of the course, the one I am now taking, today. The course’s name is Classical Problems and the lecture was on Kant and whether his Constructivism is one, a Constructivism at all and two, weather he can steer clear of Relativism (and this all discussed in the epistemological bracket). I’m leaning towards that he’s barley a Constructivist but in the sense that he is one, he’s also a Relativist. Kant would be furious with me!
Funny thing: Kant was from, lived and worked in, Köningsberg (now Kaliningrad). It’s not a big place. And, I apparently have family from there. Now, Kant lived between the year 1724 and the year 1804. The family I supposedly have from there were, as I understand it, one of my grand fathers grand parents. My grand father was born in 1904! So, perhaps my grand, grand, grand father, or mother, was a relative of Kant’s! Then again, maybe not. What a heritage to bear on ones shoulders.
Hey! Is that Immanuel Kant or Tomas Halberstad?
Third Times the Charm.
I handed in my bachelors thesis today. For the third time. My advisor has been nice to me. But, I’ve also done good! And the deal still stands: If I get the highest grade possible, I will publish it here. and you will read it, oh yes, you will read it.
So, thats about all I’ve done today. Cleaning up the thesis for hand-in. Well, apart from the odd dog-walk, the doing of the laundry, a Kant-lecture and a nice city walk with The Boo and Camilla in the beautiful, beautiful but cold, oh so cold fall/winter weather. Really thought I was going to freeze my ass off there for a bit, and I’m not one who freezes easily, but then I got a cup of coffee and all was well.
Rob hooked up with KG today to get the files, filled with nice drum sounds. (The files for the first five songs). Don’t know much more about that then… well… that. On Friday KG and I are going to listen trough, and edit, the last five. The they’re of to Rob then Bass Man Brandt should get hold of them and not long after that, sweet bass is to be recorded.
It’s all coming along very nicely!
Bread, town, cars and fall.
Today started off with a trip to the bakery. Göteborgs best bakery! If you like your sour-dough bread and your ecological stuff this is the place to come to. And, yet another plus, it’s cheap! I’m giving the cheapness to the fact that the bakery is run as a co-op. (At least I think it is.) Heres the link: Cum Pane!
So, back home for a sour-dough bread breakfast! Then, during coffee, Camilla and I decided to go into town to get some stuff done.
1. Cleaners!
We went to the cleaners to get a jacket, a shirt and a pair of pants, jeans clean. Since the jeans were of a raw selvage kind I wanted them to be dry cleaned. In fact I insisted on it. The girl in the store wanted me to have them water cleaned stating that dry cleaning it might get the grease and other fats out but it would not get them really clean and the smell of well worn in jeans, would not come out. Two things are strange about this, One: the jeans makers, the makers of fine raw selvage denim, recommend dry-cleaning over machine wash. Two: Did she by that statement dismiss at least half of her business as a fraud?
We’ll see how they turn out when I’ll get them back.
2. Perfume!
Got a gift certificate for my birthday. Got it to buy a perfume. So I did. Paul Smith Man.
3. Textile colour and shower curtain!
Camilla and I both have miss-coloured shirts. Shirts which we both love, and want to wear. We’ll try to keep them alive by colouring away the stains. We also needed a new shower curtain so we bought one of those. A really stripe:y one.
4. Dog food!
Yes, The Boo needs his fix. So, we got it.
A little observation. As we parked our car, in one of Göteborgs more central car-parks, here’s a couple of the cars parked next to us: Mercedes R500, Mercedes GLK 350 cdi, Land Rover (the biggest one), Audi Q7, Cadillac Escalade and the biggest pic up ever. Now, were in the middle of Göteborg, not a big town but still big enough for traffic to prevent speeds over 50 kmh, and there’s not a lot of space… Now, this is not an original thought but who drive’s these cars? People with money? And would you think it’s a stretch to think that all of these cars have gotten to the car-park with one driver and no passengers?
Then back home and the studying began. Was going to finish my Bachelors’s Thesis today but in the mail I got another little hand-in assignment due today. So, I did that.
In between the studied I have taken a couple of walks with The Boo. It has been a beautiful day here in göteborg. Cold as hell but blue skies so I’m not complaining. In fact, I am doing the opposite. Summers greenness and all that, but it can’t really compare to the colour explosions of fall going into winter. The green, red, yellow, brown and versions there of. Amazing.
Here’s a pic of the tree outside our balcony:
Before I’ll leave you I’ll give you a pic of the in-studio work KG and I did yesterday:
A bit of a long post with not much interesting said…
There you have it.
Drum takes.
Just came home from KGs studio. We, KG and I, were there to listen to the drum-takes, listen to the alternate drum-takes, choose between the different drum-takes, fix the drum-takes, polish the drum-takes, take the drum-takes, drum-takes drum-takes.
5 songs. Half the amount recorded. Was what we mustered today. The last 5 will be done, listened to, and all that, on Friday.
On Wednesday Rob will get the drum-files and get cracking.
Yupp. That’s it.
Happy Birthday?
It’s my birthday today.
I am now 31 years old.
31.
Say it. 31. It’s not all that fun a number to say. Nor to feel.
Odd thing though: I do not feel 31 unless I say it. Then I feel it. 31.
I wish I wouldn’t have to say it.
Say 31.
So, yes, it’s my birthday but, no, don’t ask.
Drums done, Irish picture.
Second day in the studio today. We had 4 more tracks, 4 tracks left over from yesterday, to get on tape (although that is more an expression than the truth since we’re not using tape, we’re using hard drive).
It took a lot of strength and a few too many re-takes but we got there. Tired, but there.
Here’s KG, Chrille and some chubby guy in action:
That’s all there is to say really. Chrille played his ass of and it turned out great. KG says it sounds good too!
The sound came from these drums:
Over all it’s been a good two days. And how can it not with this scenery?
(Bit of a tired saying there, of course one can think of a million ways where this scenery would not imply two good days… Still.)
Also: Got a picture from Ireland today. Dave has gotten his CD and is posing proud:
Sorry that I can’t give you a fuller post. I’m tired and Camilla and I are going to watch a movie.
Drum-recording day one.
Guess I have to say something about the being in the studio today.
We were in the studio today.
Yes. The first day of recording the new album. A track-by-track type recording process saw us begin, as one traditionally does with rock’n'roll, with the drums. Six out of the ten were done today, drum-wise. Six out of ten! That’s amazing. People spend far too much time dwelling on details and skipping the feeling. And that does not mean we have thrown quality out the window.
I’m a bit tired so I’ll leave you with that.
More tomorrow.
Picture from Honduras in!
They are coming few and further between but still they are coming!
I am talking about the pictures of my ‘The Anger’-give away winners. One rolled in yesterday. One from Honduras! Here it is:
Last rehearsal, tomorrow recording!
Been rehearsing today.
Drummer-boy Chrille, Bas-Brandt and I.
Tomorrow recording of the new album starts. For the second time. For the last time. This time we’ll get it right.
The rehearsal went well. Now we’ll just wait and see what happens.
I’ll have more for you, on this, tomorrow. Pictures and stuff. Come back then!
