Merry XXXXMAS.

Photo from Christmas last year, my brother and myself.

Leon Redbone & Zooey Dechanel - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Julian Casablancas - I Wish It Was Christmas Today
Bright Eyes - The First Noel
Black Lips - Christmas In Baghdad
Belle and Sebastian - Santa Claus, Go Straight To The Ghetto

Pinkish.

Just found these old-ish photos from The Big Pink's gig at Vega back in October or something and realized I'd never posted them. So. Ladies and gentlemen, The Big Pink!

MONSTERS!

Monsters of Folk @ Store Vega, November 2oth 2009.

No words. Just look at the tracklist here. They blew me and the rest of an enchanted Store Vega away completely. I've rarely seen a crowd act this exemplary, staying perfectly quiet through the slow songs only to erupt in mindblowing cheers as soon as the moment arrives. It was perfect.

It felt like I'd been at 4 different shows when the 3 hours were up. My Morning Jacket with Jim James and his pwetty, pwetty voice; Bright Eyes with a completely awesome Conor Oberst jumping and running around stage; M. Ward being his regular amazing self, ruling the guitar-solos; and finally the combined Monsters of Folk. They seemed genuinely happy to be performing, like 4 BFFs complimenting each other like no one could have expected.

Though 3 hours is a LONG. ASS. TIME to be standing in one place, I never for one second wanted it to stop. It could've gone on for 3 hours longer. I seriously believe that this is the best concert I've ever attended. And that's a big deal.

Anywho. Photos! I haven't had the time to do serious Photoshopping yet, as I've spent my weekend with family and am currently on a train back towards the capital. So I went ahead and abused Toycamera a little. I still start gushing when I look at the photos and realize that just two days ago, I was 5 feet away from M. Ward and Conor Oberst.

HORROR.

The Horrors @ Lille Vega, November 9th 2009.






(several more at the Flickrlickrdickr)

Suddenly I understood Melissa and Ida's obsession with Faris. Who may or may not be my wallpaper now.

Last Thursday.

First, I met Mira:



Then we headed to Rust where Among Relatives were playing:





Then another band took the stage, I forget the name, and they were also terribly hilarious. Too much laughing going on for photographing.

Finally, Ciao Transizta went on, and I ended up enjoying it too much which resulted in almost forgetting to take photos until the very end:



So there's a lead singer for ya.

In other news, I have an annoyingly huge paper due tomorrow and am currently studying at the library on my old school's campus. This is some serious procrastinating. Going back to focusing now. NOW.

Update.

I have not been a good blogger lately.

Instead of any kind of substantial posting, I give you a few random photos from the last few weeks + random tracks.


Telling extremely exciting stories to Carsten at my workplace's party. Open bar, permanent beer stains on that white tee, very few memories.


Jacob and Emil post-baking of our infamous BACON CAKE. Disgusting.


Karen a.k.a. Coolio. We spent our entire freshman-trip dancing on a mostly empty dancefloor.


Maverick + Goose, Emil + Jacob, Jack + Ennis.


Blurry Ida.

Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything
Ciao Transizta - Cover My Ass
The Used - Light With A Sharpened Edge
The Beatles - Glass Onion (remastered version)
Altmodisch - 5bånd (working title)

Vendetta.

Had a wild Friday night - came home from work at 10:30pm and went straight to bed. WILD I TELL YOU.
Tonight should make up for that. Party with work supplying an open bar. Planning to dive right into that bitch, dance with my favorite Swedes, then head out to Lades Kælder for Mescalin, Baby + The Hogliners + Ciao Transizta.

I really hope to make it to Mescalin, Baby. It's been, what, 3 weeks since I last saw them at Studenterhuset. THAT'S A LONG TIME.

Photos, because I forgot to post them before. Woops.









Also, here's awesomeness in 11MB
Mescalin, Baby - A Vendetta For Our Blood Money MP3

I Stand Corrected.

So I finally edited all my photos. Ish. First up: Vampire Weekend @ Store Vega, August 13th 2009.



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Because those two photos aren't at all alike. And they totally show how completely and entirely the boys rocked Vega with their afrobeats.

It does, however, re-envoke the feelings I had when the Vega security guy almost made me leave because of my camera. I just put it away, but GOD. Very obnoxious.

Weekend in photos.

Friday:


Brunch with Nina.


Followed by shopping,


..followed by blackcurrant cheese cake at what used to be called Roberts (and I refuse to call it by its new name)


Very randomly we found a band playing at Vor Frue Church in relation to World Out Games. They were surprisingly good. Myspace.

Saturday:
Met people for beer at Astrid's new apartment in Larsbjørnsstræde (very envious). Celebrated that everyone got into the university of their choice.

Anne is continuing with Economics, 2nd year. Line's arm is going to KU for Law.


Anne and Astrid are both going to Architecture school.


Met more people at Din Nye Ven for more beer. Thomas didn't enjoy the flash.


I've only known these girls for about 18 years, y'know.

Sunday:
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart @ Lille Vega.

Northern Portrait did the warm-up. (As did another band that I missed)


He really liked his tambourine. They apparantly also used up all the decent lighting before The Pains of Being Pure at Heart went on.


He likes Mew and Oh No Ono. Wtf?


Cutenessss.


Belle and Sebastian!

They were good, cute, but somehow not as great as they were at Roskilde. Probably the crowd.

I've got delayed weekend the next two days, since I've been working all weekend.

Playing Dress-Up.

I adore this concept.










All photos by Ben Rayner (http://www.benrayner.com/)

I have no idea if this blog is alive or not right now. I sort of want it to be, but I've got no idea what I want to do with it. It needs a reinvention. Ressurrection.

I'm particularly uninspired this summer. My only time off was Roskilde and that already feels like months ago. Now it's fulltime work work work. Tomorrow it's even the classic 9-5. I do really like my job, though. Not that it's especially groundbreaking or anything, but there's always something to do (I really hate jobs where you're just bored all the time. Time moves faster when you're busy.). Also, my colleages are amazing. Almost all Swedes. But so great. Saturday night we had a meeting at our department and went out for dinner afterwards, on the company's bill. And then we all ended up drinking beer and shots while shooting pool at Floss - STILL on the company's bill. It was fucking ace.

Alas, I don't have much spare time. It's alright, really, because work is so social and busy I hardly have any energy left when I get home. I never even eat at my place anymore, because our cantine is like, THE GREATEST. The food is so good. And there's free fruit. And soft ice.

Anywho. I doubt anything'll show up here this summer. Maybe a random photo or two. I FINALLY got my camera back last weekend, but I've had no time to use it. We'll see.

Have a lovely summer, folks.

Stylespotting @ Roskilde.

Spent a lot of time Thursday right after the festival area opened spotting cool people. First at the bagels/Pavilion, then outside the Lucy Love gig at Cosmopol. Roskilde is seriously filled with coolnezzz.