…of “Roll down your fucking pant legs”. A campaign where I point my know it all finger at the kids who claim to be unique but all look the same, we now come to the video:
Vegan Crunk Fest… I’d like to go to that.
In My On-going Campaign…
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Promotion.
Having a meeting tomorrow with a company that is going to promote me; or my music, the single Autumn Fall AA. apparently one needs a promoter or a promotion company. Just music does not suffice. It’s ok I guess. Before (or still; parallel), Rob and I have done (are doing) all that work ourselves, and slowly but surely we’re getting a catalogue of contacts and what not, to whom and where we can push what we make; music. But, getting to the number of contacts, and getting to that weight, which a good promotion company can throw around, would probably have taken (take) us forever.
It’s like this: We have the goods, we have the store but no one knows the store exists.
We need to make people aware of the stores existence. (Sexy way to talk about art isn’t it?) And, that’s what I’m seeing to tomorrow. I hope. I mean, if nothing strange happens.
Let’s see where this leads.
World domination?
Counting on it.
Something’s Up…
…with my body.
It might be that I’m coming down with something, or that I’ve had something for a while. Something being a cold… or something.
Even though I got a headache after running yesterday, and still felt some of it today, I decided to go out running. Or no go out per say; I decided to go down to the exercise room, we have in the building, and run on the treadmill.
I had to do this, had to see if the headache was running-induced.
So, I got on the treadmill. Whilst running I wasn’t feeling great, but not crap either. Then, after about 2.3km, the treadmill started smelling of burnt plastic. The piece of shit machine was obviously not built for muscle-mountains such as myself.
I turned off the machine and went out to run proper, outdoors. In doing so, however, I got completely out of rhythm. I ran something like 4.5-5km today, and was completely battered.
Something’s not right in the body of Tomasville.
Rain, Thesis and Lunch.
The rain is coming down hard here in Gothenburg and motivation is at a low. Also, the headache from yesterday had not quite left me. Head feeling heavy.
I really ought to get going on my bachelors thesis. But it’s hard. I know what I have to do, I know how to do it and I know how much time it will take. Taking all those factors into account I know when I’ll be done. And, that’s before I need to be done. I therefore put all on hold. Not good. Why not just get going and have some spare time in the middle of the semester? Or, have the time to alter; correct; change stuff if anything goes wrong.
Maybe later.
Right now I need to make lunch…
Running/Headache, Song-Writing and Promo.
Hi!
Welcome to the Runners-Blog! (Well, no. Not really. But, it will be about running today… and a bit about music, at the very end.)
Today I started running again, after four days rest. Did not feel all that great. I decided to only go 7.1km. The 10km will have to wait. I’m going to stick to running 7.1km for a while. Let the improvement part of running not lie in distance but in speed and comfort. When it feels comfortable, I’ll go further.
Un-funny thing happened. After the run, whilst stretching, my vision started to go blurry. My peripherals went, and my focus-point was really small.
I’ve had this feeling before, but the last time was probably when I was 15. It’s the start of a migraine-attack. Previously I’ve been able to stop the migraine if I popped some headache pills at the first symptom (the vision-thing), so I did that today aswell.
Maybe it helped. But, if it did, the migraine I would have had, had I not taken the pills, would have been massive. The headache I got whilst in the shower was massive. I had to put myself to bed for a couple of hours. Even now, some 8h later, I still feel it.
I’m still going out for a run tomorrow.
Have to check.
Ok, music news… or something.
Today I wrote a song that I’m pretty sure I’ve written before. Just can’t find it; remember it. Might even be something on the album I’m recording.
And, I’ve started to talk to a promotion company about getting help getting my music out there. If all pans out they’ll help me. If not then… well, not. Either way I’ll let you know.
Blackjazz.
Rarely get excited by a song these days, let along a whole album.
This one is amazing!
Shining – Blackjazz [iTunes link]
Had it in my headphones all weekend!
September 12…
…nine years and a day after.
I remember coming out of the Lundbybadet/Rambergsvallen gym here, on Hisingen, Gothenburg, Sweden. I had been lifting weights. Tired and showered. I switched on my phone, a Siemens S35i only to find a text beep in.
It was from my sister. It read:
Have you seen on television about World Trade Center? [my translation]
I hadn’t. I thought it was a show about architecture or something.
I got on the tram. I got home. Made some food then turned on the TV.
It was not a show about architecture.
If I remember correctly, the second plane hadn’t hit; the second tower hadn’t been hit. I saw that live. Can’t really remember what I felt. Numb from distress? Something like that.
Over the following days, weeks and months (maybe even years), we were on a daily basis fed with these disturbing images, making us, or at least me, more and more numb (and not numb from distress instead, the other, cynical, kind.)
Today I almost feel ashamed to say it but, I remember at some pint during all this feeling; being of the opinion, that they would/should just stop broadcasting about it. “We know! Let’s move on!”.
It was the numbness talking.
Must have been.
Two days ago I saw that image of the second plane hitting; the second building being hit, once again. Hadn’t seen it in years. The plane coming in at high speed, banking slightly then just disappearing into the building.
For the first time, whilst seeing it, I really felt something; something real. The image was so disturbing. The feeling was despair. Not for me, for everyone involved.
It’s a strange thing how, or when distance can make you feel more; feel at all.
It says something about the impact the event had. Certainly on me, perhaps on the whole world.
A thing so strong you don’t allow yourself to feel.
I truly hope we never have to experience something like that again.
New English Word Learnt: Stye.
Today my body said “Eh, hold up a minute!”
For the first time, since I started running, I could not improve from the previous run. I had no energy. And, when I got home, my eye started to fuck up. Don’t know what happened. All of a sudden two styes [I don't care what the WordPress spell-checker says; it's a word] blossomed up in my left eye. (Might have been the 8.1km’s of constant headwind – and how is that even fucking possible running circle-ish like I do? Might have been the cold I now feel I have, and must have had this morning.)
I checked my training schedule and found out that I had not had three straight days rest since mid May, two days straight rest come very seldom and I go out running (or doing other stuff previous to starting running) about twenty days a month. Might not sound like much (to some of you) but about 180 days ago, I worked out zero days a month.
So, I’m taking a bit of a break from training. Four days. To let my eye heal and my body recover. I’ve got that 10km to run you know and I’m going to do it!
Rock stars need to be fit too you know!
Other Stuff Than Rock.
So, school has started. Yet, it seems as though nothing has changed. From Summer that is. This is because my first lecture isn’t until November 4:th. Sure, I’ll be writhing a Bachelors Thesis until then (and then, and after then). But, still.
Apart from the thesis I’ll be taking two classes this semester. The first one is an introduction in artificial intelligence; I chose this one because it just seems awesome! The second one is one on the late Wittgenstein (and then late as in ‘his later philosophy’, which in many ways contradicts his early stuff, and not late as in dead… although he is… ok, it’s a course on the late, late Wittgenstein… and not late, late as in the last thing the late Wittgenstein did…). I’m taking this course for two reasons. The first one is that I’m not particularly interested in Wittgenstein and think he is overrated, most in my class disagree, I want to find out why. The second reason is that the professor (and this is a real professor not someone calling himself that just because he gives higher edu. lectures… although this one does that too… give lectures; not calls himself a professor because he does it… give lectures) is about to retire. He has for a while been writing on a book on Wittgenstein, the final interpretation, as he jokingly describes it. The lectures are to be given through that book. Seems interesting enough.
But, until all that starts I’m going to write another Bachelors Thesis and I’m going to continue researching the realms of Contract Ethics and Epistemology. I want to find out if a ‘modern’ view of mind and knowledge can work together with the use of a knowledge restricter (such as Rawls‘ Veil of Ignorance) or if those views of mind and knowledge threatens to fail the whole (Rawlsian) Contractualist project.
So.
Now you know.
Summer Love AA is here!
Yes, finally!
Summer Love AA is starting to surface around the Internet; on digital vendors.
First up – Summer Love AA on iTunes!
Come one! Go on! Go get it!
Autumn Fall AA!
My absence from blogging is not only because of shame or un-eventfulness (as I wrote in the last post. No, I’ve also been hard at work getting my next release together. The one I’m presenting here.
Autumn Fall AA, is a continuance of the release before, Summer Love AA, and part 2 of a 4-part suite celebrating the seasons.
The AA, which contains the two songs ‘The Pendulum Swings Again’ and ‘Add to All Noise’ gets shipped of to press and radio today. We, that is Euphoria Sound, has also shipped the release to our digital distributor for… well… distributing. And, since the release will pop up here and there the coming weeks, well only give you September as a release date/period. (If we would want an exact date we would have had to either 1. ship months in advance or 2. be a big label. We don’t do 1. and we’re not 2.)
Ok. So without further delay, I give you: Autumn Fall AA!
No more balls to drop for you.
I’ve stayed away from the blog, for two reasons.
1. I have not had much to say.
2. I’ve been ashamed.
The second one is because of the fact that ‘Summer Love AA’ still isn’t available; it still has not had its proper release. (And, summer being over and all.)
As I wrote in an earlier post; we found the ball dropper, or what made the ball drop. But, and now I’m going to speak pretty metaphorically, what we thought was where the ball got dropped was not the case. We were told that the ball was dropped in one place but it seems as though the one telling us where the ball was dropped was in fact the balldropper himself.
To sum it up: The balldropper, the real one, can’t drop any balls any more. He got his balldropping ass fired.
Still, the release isn’t out yet. But, it will be. It’s being worked on.
Here and onwards.
After our (Camilla’s, Bosse’s and mine) vacation we’re back in Gothenburg.
A storm greeted us. Hello Gothenburg, I see you’ve been… the same. (We, here in Gothenburg, really need some government weather authority, modelled after the Chinese equivalent.)
I’ve started to get things together for September, and all that will be happening then. (However, it seems ridiculous to talk about upcoming record-releases when the one, supposed to be, released August 10:th has yet to see the light of day.)
Some pictures from Högfors tomorrow.
Night.
Högfors; Half-Way.
So I’m running now!? Ok…
If you follow me on Twitter (or just from time to time pop in here and see/read the Twitter-column to the right of this text), you’ll have noticed I have a new interest (hate the word hobby… and the meaning behind it, but I’ll get to that another time); running (albeit very slow, but still; running).
I started out about 150 days ago just walking. I had my little route and did about 6km a day, four times a week. Gradually I started running. I ran, then I walked, then I ran… Now I’ve reached a point where I do not walk any more, I jus run. and, the 6km route is now about 6.9km, still around four times a week. It feels great.
People who know me (who perhaps haven’t seen me for a while) will be very surprised at reading this. I am, or perhaps (hopefully, unless this is just one of my whims) was, not that kind of guy; a running guy. My motto was like the slogan (and now I can’t remember for which company it was), ‘Never ran, never will.’ Great slogan! But, not me… anymore.
My goal with this running thing is to be able to run 10km, five times a week. I realise this is a pretty tough goal, for many reasons. However, as I learn more about running (and there are some pretty great forums and websites out there) I’m sure I’ll be able to do it. As long as I listen to my body it’ll be fine.
As for time, well, I have time. Let’s come back to this in a year, and see where I stand then.
Found the Ball-Dropper (Sort of).
After a day of intense searching, we seem to have found who has dropped the ball on my summer release, ‘Summer Love AA’, and the fact that the release is nowhere to be found; on no digital vendor, despite of being released on August 10.
The ball-dropper is Cyber Space. Now, I don’t know who this Mr. Space (or Mrs., Ms?) is but I can tell you two things:
1. He (she… it?) has got a pretty ugly name.
2. I’m going to find him (her… it?) and tell him (her… it?) that!
Here’s what went down:
We, that is Euphoria Sound, uploaded all our info onto our digital distributors, Phonofile, server. Then our tracks, info and cover-art got lost. No one knows why. And really, that’s water under the bridge now.
Here’s what will go down:
We have uploaded all info yet again and Phonofile are working their ass off to push the info (songs, cover) out to the different digital vendors.
The fact that we’re doing it like this, this time not having a release date, means that the tracks are going to pop-up here and there at different times; the first in a few days the last (Spotify) about 16 weeks from now. If you have a prefered digital vendor, just hang tight. The songs will come.
I’ll let you know, through this outlet and on Twitter, when and where things start to surface.
Thanks for your patience!
Who’s the ball-dropper?
First off, apologies are in order. So, I’m sorry.
Why am I sorry?
Well, it seems as someone has dropped the ball; the ball that is the release of my summer single ‘Summer Love AA’.
It, the single, was set for an August 10:th, world-wide, digital, release.
We’re now onto August 17, and if you’ve checked your digital vendor of choice you’ve seen that the single is not there. It’s not anywhere.
We, and that is the record label Euphoria Sound, together with our digital distributor Phonofile are working to find out what went wrong, and getting the single out there as soon as possible.
It’s frustrating. Not only for myself but for the people working on this project, meeting deadlines, and then: nothing.
Hang with us. We’ll sort it out… tell you when.
The Video Swings Again Again.
Working with a video-director, who’s on the other side of a vast ocean, is hard, logistically. Still, I managed to get the files, the video files; footage, of me, for the video, to Stewart today. I’ve uploaded all the stuff on a server and no I just keep my fingers x-ed that Stewart has a pretty fast Internet-connection.
The Video Swings Again.
As you all know, all who read this blog, Stewart Smith is doing a video for an upcoming release of mine, a song called ‘The Pendulum Swings Again’. Yesterday saw us shoot some material for that video. (Not Stewart and I, but Brandt, Rob and I. Stewart is in London, we’re not.)
I’m pretty exited by this. Not only because the video is done by Stewart (who has proven himself in that field) but also because it’s a video, per say. It’s kind of strange that in this age of moving image, and moving images close relationship with music, this is only my second video, and first one as a solo-artist.
Ok. So Brandt, Rob and I meet up at a photo-studio here in Gothenburg. Brandt set the lights, camera (action!) and so on. Rob handled the scripting. And, I sang and acted like that was the only thing I had ever done. (Not really. In an embarrassing turn of events it turned out that I did not really know the lyrics to my own song…)
Got a text message from Brandt, just a few minutes ago. He had looked at the filmed material and cut out all the bad takes. Now we’re going to ship it all to Stewart in London.
You’ll see the end result soon!
New (press) images.
New (press) images uploaded onto the images: -page.
Taken by Michael Stooss on a warm day. Rambling around town.
Enjoy.
