123 days in 302 photos and 5024 words

December 28th 2010

At the end of April, at 00:43am on the 28th to be precise, I published a journal entry titled ‘Turn the page‘, where I explained that I was about to depart on a spiritual and physical voyage to recharge batteries, gather new impressions and invest some time into interests that had been neglected due to the limitations that comes with a 40 hour work week.

I’m back now — been back for a few months — and it’s time to write some thoughts down. Not the easiest task I have you know; where does one start to tell the tale of a 123 days long break that was spent in 8 different countries and many more cities and places? For sure it would have been easier if I took notes over the course… but that would have been to easy… wouldn’t it? (to be frank (and who doesn’t want to be Mr Frank), if I’d found time earlier I would have done this earlier, but the limitation that comes with a 40 hours work week once again is at work and I’ve had this post as a draft for a couple of months….)

So let’s start by pin down a few key dates, give them some headlines and then fill them with some reflection and thoughts.

A small note. This entry turned out being quite ambitious and… yeah… rather long. I had to be shallow with the level of details at certain places simply not to turn this into a novel. Hopefully you’ll find it interesting anyway. If not, at least the collages of photographs turned out rather nice.

Read all of it

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Artists speaks Artist

October 16th 2009

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Mick Jaggers letter to Andy Warhol in ’69. Love it. (via Joakim Jansson)

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What have you done for me lately!

May 3rd 2007

Hoaa! I’m beginning to feel a bit bad about leaving this weblog with a super-long-and-super-geekie formula one post as a welcome for over a week. But hey, the weather has been all time record great and I have had better things to do:

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Besides spending some time with my guitars and loving my new bike, I have changed mobile-phone, been to the cinema, ordered a washing machine, works some on the next version of the welookgoodontv and Social Suicide website, begun to transfer some of my domains to a new host, played some on our new Nintendo Wii etc and so on, you know — general stuff.

I have also started to tidy up a bit around this weblog… after all — it’s been 1 year and 1 day since it launched! So, a small tidy up for the occasion. As you can see, the blue line is gone (when CSS can deal with baseline better I might put it back), the typeface has changed (so now even PC users can read without getting a headache), the line-height is changed. I’m also working on the Tags page, the Archive page, the About page. We’ll see, maybe one day it will be complete.

rant.jpg OOOOOOOO, I almost forgot — Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey, the latest book by my favorite author Chuck Palahniuk, is on it’s way! It’s always a bit special when a new Chuck Palahniuk arrive in the mail box. Now, I really hope this book is getting a bit more like his first books. Haven’t been a huge fan of his latest; they have been ok, but not as good as the first (pre 9/11).

Joakim Jansson is coming to London tomorrow. He’s stopping by to say how amazing the Coachella festival was.

And, it’s bank holiday weekend this weekend! So, Willow and I might jump on a train on Saturday and head over to Bath.

Aaa, time for bed (and I need to tighten the chain on my bike).

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5 things most of you probably don’t know about me

January 11th 2007

My intention was to start this years blogging with a review of 2006… but then this ‘I Tagged You’ thing came along, which also seems like a good start (and I haven’t even started to reflect over 2006, never the less start writing a review post) – so here we go.

The ‘I Tagged You’ thing is basically a blog-chain letter; you write 5 things about yourself and then pass it on to five mates (with blogs), who then do the same. Tom Hostler was the first one to tag me, and then Iain Tait.

  1. I have extremely small ears

    Yeah, they are the size of a 3-4 year old. I think it’s a defect caused by the fact that i was born blue; had my umbilical cord around my neck strangling me… that’s probably also why I can’t eat fish and find it hard to spell (good to have something to blame all these things on).

  2. I regularly shave my balls

    I am a hairy man – legs, head, beard, ass, arms, thankfully not back!. Like everything you have a lot of – you wished you had less of it.

    I once took this ‘anti-hair’ a bit to far. Being tired of always have to shave my head I once tried to wax the hair of it, thinking; this way I don’t need to do it that often. After 2 hours (and 1/3 of my head) we (myself and my waxing assistants) came to the conclusion that it wasn’t working that well. That the wax just isn’t strong enough to deal with hair on the head. Two hours was enough. The result was that I needed to shave my head with a razor every morning for about 8 month.

    So, if you have any plans on waxing your head – don’t. If you even thought about shaving your balls – please do. It makes you feel special.

  3. Just like Adam Duritz, the singer in Counting Crows, I have a Mr Jones

    When I’m on-stage with a guitar resting on my shoulder, I take on a different personality. Some people say I just behave retarded, other say that I’m a Rock God.

  4. I have a huge tattoo.

    … or I have two – one large and one huge.

  5. Belly Button Fuff

    I seem to be able to extract (or even produce) enormous amounts of belly button fluff.

So, now I will pass it on to:

  1. Joakim Jansson, (who just moved from 2006)
  2. Willow Tyrer
  3. Jonaz Vaneryd
  4. Henrik Engdahl and Isak Wikstrom on mananabanana
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