back once again

Seem to be going around in circles with my mission to find a nice person to share my apartment. If anybody can recommend or knows someone looking for an apartment from the end of March, I´d really appreciate it.

the blöb

Just added all my CSN bills in my e-bank system.
A real brick as I am.
The famous Swedish amoeba is now, with a blow torch attached somewhere i blöbet, starting to chase tax dodgers "living" in Sweden.
Håll i hatten Rebot och Erik. You can hide but you can't run.
I'm coming down to Barcelona for one or two days in about three weeks.

WWF Junior Edition

Yeah, yeah, yeah, maybe It´s just me that thinks this is cute and worth looking at, but I´ll post it anyhow. Waking up these days, Blenda normally stays in bed for a while chilling and talking to her toys and laughing and stuff. This morning she got a good grip of a weird doll called Kalle and started throwing him around in the bed, for a very long time. I thought it was cute. She started to get a good grip of many things nowadays, especially my beard. Papi Tomi soon beardless.

Blenda wrestling

It´s friday morning. Which means..... yes..... weak end & payday! Party on!

E31

Erik! Big boy!

Music, come save us.

Ljudbilden did a fantastic show last night. Snowstorm outside, warm inside. Beer, music and friends. Dead Texan was also good, but nothing like K´s show....

Snippet 1
Snippet 2
Photo 1-2-3-4, alla byxor äro füra

More news from the north? Josephine got a job! She starts the 1st of May. Which means that I will stay home, at least part time, from the beginning of May. This needs to be celebrated!

Erik Larsson

Erik Larsson, the world-famous graphic designer residing in Barcelona is writing this post in order to see if Google might score him even higher. Erik Larsson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden where he spent his formative years.


Sorry folks :) Just experimenting

They don't make pop stars like they used to

Tom Jones has asked women who come to his concerts to in future remove the price tag before they throw knickers onstage. Jones, 64, told a female fan at a gig at Las Vegas' Hollywood Theatre, "Luv, you're supposed to remove the price tag before you throw it, otherwise that takes all the fun out of it." The Welsh singer has just finished a sold-out engagement at Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel.

Primavera Sound 2005

So far...

Alter Ego · American Music Club · Antony & The Johnsons · Art Brut · Astrud · Bertrand Betsch · Brigitte Fontaine · Broken Social Scene · Christina Rosenvinge · Coralie Clément · Daniel Darc · David Thomas & Two Pale Boys · Destroyer · Dogs Die in Hot Cars · Dominique A · Don Nino · Erase Errata · Erlend Øye · Experience · Françoiz Breut · Gang of Four · Grabba Grabba Tape · Gravenhurst · Helena · Iggy & The Stooges · Isis · Jesu · Jr. · Kompakt Sound System · Kristin Hersh · Les Georges Leningrad · Los Planetas · M83 · Maximo Park · Mercury Rev · Micah P. Hinson · Nacho Vegas · New Order · Nouvelle Vague · Oslø Telescopic · Parker & Lily · Piano Magic · Polysics · Psychic TV · Radio 4 · Ron Sexsmith · Sammy Jo DJ · Sondre Lerche · Sonic Youth · Sons & Daughters · Sophia · Sr. Chinarro · Steve Earle & The Dukes · Television Personalities · The Arcade Fire · The Czars · The Dirtbombs · The Go! Team · The Human League · The Married Monk · The Wedding Present · They Might Be Giants · Tim Hecker · Tortoise · Vetiver · Vic Chesnutt · Vitalic · Whignomy Brothers · Whitey · Wiley

Hunter S. Thompson dead

...apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot...:
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Test from Tallers

Lorum ipsum dolor set amet...

Sing-a-poop-poop

Fat Shit Hot Stuff

Weekend is Dead End

Some nice tracks from Viktor Sjöberg.

New technique sucks

Damn. Since they updated the blogger system i can´t post comments from my shitty computer at work.

Something Erik might be interested in

Digital artist David Sullivan's Ego Machine uses Google to project Sullivan's soul into the future. His remains will be integrated into a computer processor. A virtual agent running on the computer that contains his ashes will scour the web for mentions of his name. As the mentions increase, an on-screen image of Sullivan will morph into an image of his younger self. But if the mentions decline, Sullivan's image will age, deteriorate and eventually fade away.

On a similar note, there is an installation in the Metronom gallery in El Borne at the moment where a robot gradually deconstructs itself until it is down to one piece and, essentially, ceases to exist. It sounds like an interesting concept and look at the nature of existence, the industrial age, technology and art, the future of artificial intelligence and, more importantly, there is always the chance of free wine.

cuidado

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian DJ has been fined a record 1.4 million euros ($1.8 million) for using thousands of pirate music files in a nightclub near Rome, police said on Wednesday. Police in the town of Rieti, near Rome, said they raided a popular nightclub earlier this week as part of a crackdown on piracy and seized 500 illegally copied music videos and more than 2,000 MP3 music files. Police said the files belonged to a "well-known" Italian DJ. "For the MP3 files, which were kept on the DJ's personal computer, the DJ has received a fine of 1.4 million euros," Rieti finance police said in a statement. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said the fine was the biggest ever slapped on an individual for unlawful music copying and the use of copyrighted music in the MP3 format. More than 7,000 legal actions have been launched against alleged uploaders in the United States, Canada and countries in Europe as the music industry fights to stop piracy which it blames for a decline over a number of years in CD sales.

Acetone Party

Convent de Sant Agustí
C Comerc 36
February 18 @ 21:00

Idealworld.org (imágenes)
Un Caddie Renverse dans l´Herbe (live) (and totally Xcellent)
Simon Marino (dj)

It´s free and should be coool, saw Un Caddie a few years ago and he was great. Tomas, if you remember u bought me his cd the first Christmas in Sant Marti . Anyone in Barcelona should check him out Friday and da Hooded tooth on Saturday...

luv

I know you'll hate me again Tommy for not telling you...
I totally fell in love in this slender girl tonight.
laleh

Jesus, next they'll be saying he was gay

I saw this Freddie Mercury cake online (don't ask me how I got to that web page) and thought I'd share it with you all as it made laugh. I think they should do a Gros cake too, or a Black Metal cake.

Shit me not.

I see what you are doing, kids.

Buy this car, Rebecca

Mimas, one of Saturn's 33 moons, looks just like the Death Star

This is a new picture of Saturn's satellite Mimas, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Death Star. Scientists at Nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in California have released a new image of Mimas, which was snapped by the Cassini spacecraft in orbit around the ringed planet. Mimas is one of the innermost moons of Saturn. Its most prominent feature is a giant crater some 6 miles deep and 80 miles across, covering almost a third of the moon's diameter, probably caused by an enormous asteroid impact. The moon's surface is icy and heavily cratered. Far from the warmth of the sun, it has a temperature about -200C and scientists think its low density means it consists mostly of ice.

Most of the craters on Mimas are named after characters in Camelot, but the biggest was christened Herschel after Sir William Herschel, the astronomer who discovered Mimas in 1789, Uranus in 1781 and invented the word asteroid. Mimas was a Titan slain by Hercules in Greek mythology. Mimas's similarity to the Death Star was first noticed when the twin Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn in 1980 and 1981. The new picture was taken on 16 January when Cassini was about 132,000 miles away (text taken from Guardian Unlimited).

Three days

3 days without any blog from Don Tomaso. Scary and some kind of record. I found a pancake teddy bear. or a teddybearpancake.

Don't let Steve choose bars. That was the weekend's lesson. Or make sure he buys, which actually was the case as well.

More "loco" than "motive"

According to NME, Joe Strummer is to have a locomotive named in his honour. The train, simply named Joe Strummer, will be unveiled on February 12 at Bristol Temple Meadsstation in recognition of the late Clash singer. The locomotive is a Class 47 diesel, a designed in 1962 and after being named, will work in East Anglia. Weird.

da hooded tooth

Tomorrow in plaza trippy hood and tooth will be playing music in petipe?¿ from 11, come by for a beer.............................................................

We love Linus and Linus loves us!

Linus Records in Tokyo recommends all four of the new Fork Series releases (Independent Sweden, Independent Chicago, He Can Jog and Gros) and the two new Aa releases (Now and Det Gamla Landet) on their home page! This is it Gros boys, give up your day jobs (sic), we're Big in Japan. Some of the more eagle-eyed Slackers out there may notice an amusing mistake in the Mandarin on the Linus site, where it says, "Gros is ONE of the best bands on the planet", it should read "Gros is THE best band of the planet". Silly people. I'll tell them.

definitely not a place for the swedes to visit

'?tomas?¿erik'¿

Do ye know if there is an hourly rate (ma o meno) for freelance designers in Barcelona?

tanks

30 minutes of ikea was all they could take

Once person actually got stabbed when they opened the new Ikea in London. It was so crowded they had to close after 3o minutes. Who, WHO brings a knife to Ikea..? No even our old landlord Guno would do that.

Look Mum!No Mum!

Wanted dead or alive!
If you see the little miserable prick riding around my ride, kill him, fucking kill him.
I don´t care if it hurts.

I had to catch the bus to get to work today. I don´t like the bus. It is smelly and full of idiots.
Shitty mood. Oh yes.

"Art is the lie that helps us understand the truth"

Here's some nice afternoon music for the Slackers out there: Broadcast (the band) radio shows
Prizes go to whoever can tell me who the quote is from.

Leve Sydsvenskan. Typ.

Who Wants To Live Forever Anyway?

Aubrey de Grey's Gerontology theory

The little question

Señorr Erikk, the phantom of search engine optimization.... do you have any good programs for statistics to monitor this you could recommend? Freebees or payies, es igual.

Schteve, thanks for the pancakes!

Cora's post

Factory rides again

Always at the cutting edge (it's from Manchester, naturally), Factory Records is back as F4 Records, which seems to only aim to offer downloads (from what I understood from the as-yet unfinished website). Nice. Looking forward to hearing what they got to offer.

F4 Records

pancake day

Whose making the pancakes and where??? Padraic leaves tomorrow but is back in a month for a visit. Is there any chance of a few tasty "panqueques" (don´t u just love spanish) for the hard worker tonight??

Weekend of poop

Blenda word up

Cover art for new Nosordo release:
CD
Folded cardboard

Why me headache?

Two good cranks for a good friday afternoon laugh

Al Pacino phonecall - one
Al Pacino phonecall - two

Erol Alkan

Bailarrr.. bailarrrr! All Barcelonianer, big night out tonight, excuses will not be excepted. Bring dance shoes.

don´t shout if u have seen it already

For me it´s new and excellent http://www.google.com/options/index.html Picasa foto organiser

Jag hade fel, igen.

Erik, I was wrong. Again. The new album by MU, Out of breach, is f**king excellent!!! Totally crazy shiznezz, screaming japanese girl and weird beats and noise.

Check it out, folks.

Eldorado is back! Kjell Alinge is back!
Eldorado!

I die

People are stupid.
I implode.

(I laugh and cry at the same time:
Stureplan 4-ever
Check the guy at bottom of the page, hands full of sinful flesh.)

surrounded by silence

Any comments, reviews on the new prefuse album??? He´s playing at alltomorrowsparties but I suppose tickets are all gone at this stage

A dummies guide to Ireland

Could someone give me a few links to maps over Ireland? Airports and stuff. When I google on Thurles i get these really nasty websites, and they list strange airports like Shannon and stuff. Makes me scared. Maybe the best is to get to Dublin first and then rent a car / go by train around the green island?

Big in Poland

I´m being featured on the world-reknown basementalism webpage of Poland:
http://www.basementalism.pl/

New American working visa for artists

LAURENT GARNIER US TOUR DATES
I am very sorry to have to cancel my forthcoming U.S. tour due to what I consider to be completely unreasonable demands by the U.S. Embassy in France in order to renew my work visa. In order to obtain this new visa, the rules have once again changed since November 2004 and I would now have to not only fill out an exceedingly probing application form, but also be interviewed by a member of the Embassy staff, and provide proof of ownership of my house, details of my bank account, my mobile phone records, personal information on all my family members and more.

I consider these demands to be a complete violation of my privacy and my civil liberties and refuse to comply.I am horrified by these new regulations and feel really sad that this is what some call freedom and democracy. It has now become almost impossible for an artist to come and perform in the United States. And until this new proceedure changes I will unfortunately refuse to comply with this nonsense.

Thank you for your understanding.
Laurent Garnier


I always liked this guy (and his music) but now I like him more for making a statement like this. He could probably have summited all the bureaucratic crap needed, gone to America and made shit loads of cash but he said no!

In one word "good frog"

Save as Draft

Sound!

Mix by Shuttle 258 or whatever he is called..

Pretty nice little label as well.

Travel plans 2005

Howdy Folks,

We´re planning to come down to Barcelona for a week or two in the end of July. I might be spinning a few isty bitsy weenie beenie records at the CMYK Fest this year again. And then we´re probably going to Ireland as well. To Dublin. Is it nice there? Or should I go and pay Betty Cleary a visit instead?

Tommy Globetrötter Melinder

Like a thief if the night

Last night we waited in vain. James is now a big boy and has moved away from home. The mummies had cheap white wine, assuring themselves and eachother that our protégé had warm clothes, food in the fridge and kept himself clean. He left without a trace, like a thief in the night. Maybe he KNEW that the electricty would collapse last night, leaving us in darkness. Maybe he even had something to do with it, blasting on heat in his fancy place on the other side of the triumf?

New patrol is on its way though, as the Swedish delegation sends us reinforcements, installing another swede in the house, come end of February. And speaking of reinforcements, we have a huuuge generator on our street. Shouldn't that provide us with electricity? But, as the third world inhabitantes we are, the power cut hardly affected us. No radiators and gas oven kept us alive. And the Santa Rita candle of course.

What's up with Chrillo? No news in a long time? It can't take that long to survey the navy's ships can it? All 3 of them..? Todo bien?

And last week la chica got a cd from the swedish supergroup gros - mange tack!

Agur,
R

Kjell Alinges Antilista 2004

(Seems to be the day of quotes)

Dom 40 000 000 starkaste skälen att aldrig nånsin befatta sig med Årets bästa-listor för 2004

1. Det är smittsamt. Det sprider sig som pollen, som svampsporer, som dålig andedräkt och det bäddar för en dålig framtid då precis vartenda mopedbud sitter hemma och listar dom bästa reggae-singlarna 2004 istället för att lämna fram dom viktiga paketen. Bränder släcks inte. Brandkårer sitter och listar jazz-fusion 2004 medan undulater och små, små hårt arbetande utredare av brottslighet bränns inne. Hela daghemsgrupper stapplar utmärglade hemåt i skymningen eftersom matleveranserna uteblir.

2. Alla år är påhittade. Det senaste året, 2004, är dessutom särskilt fult och löjligt. Det börjar hyfsat med en tvåa, men sen är det rulltrappa ner i nummerhelvetet med nollor och sist denna otympliga fyra, som enbart sprider missmod, sorg och rimmar på ohyra, pissmyra och alldeles för dyra.

3. Andra nollor gör det redan. Pissmyror och ohyror från hela Västerlandet sitter och kisar sig vindödga så ansiktovalen sprängs, när dom rotar genom sina skivtravar och anteckningar för att verkligen vara säkra på att skivan med Böxans Kaneler kom just 2004. Så håller det på. Deras liv går i stå. Ansiktkulören drar mot blå. Hej hå.

4. Man kan inte lita på nån. Det kan stå precis vilka siffror som helst på skivans baksida, visst och det är just det som det gör - VILKA SIFFROR SOM HELST. Det går aldrig att säkerställa att musiken spelades in just då, att idéerna kom just då, att trumpåläggen gjordes just då - det enda man kan säga att nånstans inne i röran av varningar om polishämtning vid kopiering och andra förbudstexter finns några årtal. Ett copyright-år. Och ett produktions-år. Men det är år som fibblas med. Dom årtalen kastar man hursomhelst upp i luften och så blir det som faller sig. Tiden och tidens lilla söta själ kan aldrig fångas i siffror. Siffror är äckligt. Siffror är snusk och grunden för Västerlandets förtvining. Jfr Wall Street och den så kallade IT-bubblans detonation!!!

5. Årslistor är efterblivet. Det är skrock. Skrot. Pojkskrot som avslöjar skribenten som en lättledd pölsa utan egen moralisk kompass. Eftersom siffermagin är gammal, eländig och ökänt fördummande finns det inga förmildrande omständigheter. Den som säger: "Men jag ÄLSKAR listor!" bör hastigt dumpas i vulkanen för samhällets, djurens (pingvinerna och rådjuren och dom stora ugglesorterna på Färöarna) och barnens bästa.
6. Listor har svåra följder. Listkonstruktörerna drabbas inte bara av sin omgivnings rättvisa hånskratt, äggkastning och offentlig chavottering, utan dessutom ofta av så allvarliga ting som tandvårtor, cd-hicka, allergi mot kvinnor i basker, svullnader i sadeln, sprutkräkningar vid Blå Hallen-besök och tvångstankar om att dom stickat Lill-Babs swimmingpool. Ibland är det senare dessutom sant. Tvångsvirkning av kända kändisars husgeråd är YTTERST vanligt. Många är dom list-författare som hamnat i ett decennie-långt virkande av Carli Tornehaves motorbåt. Du kan se synen - eller hur? - efter att ha virkat 56 motorbåtar ska den femtiosjunde sjösättas och det blir ännu ett BLURP när den sjunker mot havets botten och förorenar räkors och humrars lekplatser och samlingsplatser.

7. Skivbolagen skrattar så dom faller ut genom fönstren åt listorna. Artisterna hatar dom. Musikförlagen använder listutskrifterna för att slå in soporna med. Konsertarrangörerna avskedar helt okontrollerat vilken personal det faller dom in när listorna förs på tal.

8. Alla listor är likadana. Det ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar och ekar (fade out innan upprepan sätter en hård käpp in i hjulets ekrar och ekrar och ekrar och ekrar och ekrar och ekrar och ekrar.)

9. Kompakt radhusägarmentalitet går inte att stoppa. Vad jag än skriver här kommer plågan inte att gå bort. Stupiditeten är monumental. Listskrivarna fortsätter i stället skriva listor över dom bästa listorna på listskrivare och deras motståndare. Och då kan jag dras in i sörjan bakvägen. Så jag måste lämna er nu. ARGHHHHHH!!!

Quote!

Leonard Cohen: “Chelsea Hotel”
The first four lines of this song tie the banality of the human condition together with eroticism so beautifully that they make sweeping the kitchen to surprise my girlfriend seem like an all-weekend orgy. Pretty incredible.

.... says Six organs of admittance.

En helt annan sak. Alla talar svenska. Hittade den här recensionen av M83. Rätt träffande.

"Förra veckan höll jag i en äkta Tangerine Dream-liveskiva. Det får knappt plats en låt på varje sida av de jävlarna, son. På omslaget spelar Tangerine Dream sin symfonirock för någon frusen öststat. Det finns en bild på publiken, hundratusentals rakade dårar på en fotbollsplan som skriker rakt ut i vinterkylan för att någon lutar sig över en synt. Jag tror att medlemmarna i franska M83 sluter ögonen och drömmer om samma respons varje gång de spelar live på någon tuff klubb idag. Deras förra skiva hette Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts och var faktiskt ännu mer pretentiös än sitt namn. Den
var också fruktansvärt bra, en vägg av gitarrer och brus, mumlade texter och orglar och syntar och drones.
 Before the Dawn Heals Us är i princip samma intergalatiska symfonirockjam. Bara ibland blir det lite mindre vansinnigt, och mer mjäkigt rockband. Ibland hör man texterna för bra också. Men sen exploderar fyrverkerier, på riktigt, i Let Men Burn Stars och svulstigheten blir något fint igen."


Nöjesguiden

Catchdubs...

...is a blog which I´m reading every now and then to get up to speed on the music-scene in NYC, recently DJ/Rupture DJéd at Rothko (sup James?), anyways, check out the t-shirt he wore at the gig:
Link here

The great white hope

With black music in the states gone all jiggy it´s all up to the white and
pale people of Brighton to wave that soul-flag high, check out the video to this fantastic song the debut album of Alice Russell (she´s apparently been asked to be feature singer on the next Massive Attack LP)
Video here

Lords of Chaos (and lip gloss)

Top Ten Black Metal Band Pics

A life in the shadows of glamour

For all Slackers in Scania, release party for Det Gamla Landet at Metro, Möllevångstorget, tonight at 20.00. No free drinks, no free sex, too much people, too little space. Come, join the fun.

A colleague of mine invented a new word (or combination of words at least) today. Självmordssugen.

all eyes on elslacker

If u do a search in google for nativos.org, the third on the list is from elslacker with James talking about t-shirts in 4 different languages. Strange but true