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First live-show in… forever.

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This week sees me walk on to the stage and perform [facebook-event] for a group of people for the first time since 2005. Granted, it is not a show of my own. I am going to be a part of the new 047 album, Elva, release gig, as I am singing on one of the tracks.
Do not feel nervous just yet, but think I might. Not only because it has been a long time since I performed, but also because I will not have a guitar (or drums for that matter) covering me, so to speak. Just me and a mic.

If you are in Gothenburg, Sweden on the 10:th of June, do pop by.

Rain, Thesis and Lunch.

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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…

Here and onwards.

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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.

Logic and sneakers.

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Today saw the falling of even more snow.
Not something I like, especially not in the face of us here in Gothenburg having the snowiest winter since ever.

And now it has started to rain.

It’s going to be a fun couple of days.

I have been sitting here, in our (Camillas and mine) office (the smallest room of our apartment, but office sounds cooler; more grown up) all day. Anxiously waiting for the grade of my re-exam in Formal Logic to tumble in on either my e-mail or my user on the school’s website.

It hasn’t.
So, I will wait, being just as anxious, tomorrow.

I bought myself a pair of kicks today. Over at the sneakersnstuff sale. Something like 85% off. A pair of Nike Zoom Ashiko (the link shows the shoe but not in the right color-way), mainly for walking the dog in. I’ve also seen that they have two cool synthetic Nike’s over at Shelta Sneakers… a pair of Air Max 1:s and a pair of Nike Vandal High Supreme Vintage (Neon Pack). Also (and this is turning out to be a whole lot of Nike) their getting in a pair of Nike All Court Canvas Low Quickstrike tomorrow. Man, I do not have the funds for this. It used to be hard shopping for all synthetic sneakers, now it seems there’s nothing but!

And why am I telling you all of this; all these sneaker dreams of mine?
Well, as I wrote on my Twitter-feed, if my grade in Formal Logic ever turns up, and it turns out that I’ve made the highest grade, I’ve promised myself a little treat: A pair of Nike Air Jordan Alpha 1 iD, in a color way that I’ve spent way too many hours designing. (The iD is a custom shoe! The price is there after.)

So. When is someone going to swoop in, yes, swoooop in, and give me a sponsor deal on sneaks?

Nothing to say, say it anyway.

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Friday is here. The weekend.
Came home a couple of hours ago. Came home from the second to last lecture of this semester (which strangely enough runs untill January 15 with the next one, the spring one, starting on January 18). It was a lecture in Formal Logic. Not at all my thing. Not my cup of tea. I hate tea.
The weather here in Gothenburg is lovely, from the inside. Sunshine and blue sky. The wind and humidity, however, makes being outside almost unbearable. The cold, humid air finds its way into your very bone marrow. (And, in a few minutes time I’ll have to take The Boo out for a walk…)
I’m waiting for an e-mail or a call. I know I’ve said that I’ve now stopped working with my last album, ‘The Anger’. Or, not now, I stopped doing it, working on it, on November 30. Still, something might happen yet.  As I said, and e-mail or call might change it all.

My life has been fairly uneventful.

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Perhaps a little blog post is in order. It’s been long overdue I know. My life has been fairly uneventful. Not that anything hasn’t happened. Just that all that happens is right along the path of even steven. Nothing to get me too down or up and over. (And for those of you that want to follow me on this rather straight but not very narrow road there is always my twitter feed.) Well… that isn’t entirely true. There was that small matter of Arsenal winning over Liverpool. Two day euphoria, is probably the best way to describe the feeling that followed.

Nothing new on the study front.
Nothing new on the music front.
Nothing new on the weather front… you get the deal.

Seems like all I do is wait for Christmas break. Or perhaps the day after Christmas break begins. Or perhaps on the night, the day after christmas break begins. Why? Well, then Camilla, The Boo, and I will be in Högfors, after a train ride which I am not looking forward to. Two weeks of relaxing in the woods.

One thing I have done is the annual visit to the local amusement park (Liseberg) and it’s Christmas market.

Sorry the pictures aren’t better but there you go.
It was a rather pleasant experience. In spite of the snowing (and the snow then turning into slosh on the ground as it does here in the re-re-named city of Gothenburg… they tried to let the name City of Göteborg fly for a while but no more… at least not in English). Friends from up north were visiting. Always a pleasure.