I have seen the Sage

Yesterday I finally got to see Sage Francis live at Debaser. I was bored to the point of splitting my skull open by the supporting acts... they were not bad in any way, they were just so very generic that bad would be at least interesting in comparison. But at around midnight "The crater face steps in". And the crowd goes ballistic. This guy has stage presence and there is nothing generic about him. There are no babes, guns and cash... or is there... there is actually, but the babes are ex wives, the guns are water guns and cash was named Johnny. And God did not kill him, no sirree.

So if you know what is good for you:

1. First you get "A Healthy Distrust", it is the most accessible album. And its great. I love "Sun Vs Moon".
2. Then you get "Personal Journals", it's less polished but also feels more honest. Its my personal favorite, and the best of all is "Different".
3. Then go about your life. Make something up. Something good preferably.

And to the monkey arsed DJ that spun plastic between acts... what moron plays songs by the main act before the concert? Pissed me off big time... not 100% sure I'm right here but is that not just really, really weird?

Me: a criminal?

I got a little reminder from the Police today. They reminded me to my great joy that I am indeed a criminal. Perhaps one of the worst kinds of criminal.
I have been found guilty of offensive behavior and for this must pay 800SEK to become a better person. I doubt this fine will make me a better person, in fact I'm pretty sure I'm kind of a pretty good person already.
Here is what I did: I was sitting with a couple of friends from work, having an after work beer on a Friday night, at a bar on the edge of Humlegården and after 2 beers I really had to go all of a sudden. So I jumped over the really low fence and went over to this huge tree and did my stuff. This is where the fun starts. I hear some shouting behind me as I'm getting ready to return to my friends: Three Police officers are jogging towards me with faces full of non-smiling.
They never shout at me, but for a really long time they stand around me saying stuff like "Didn't you know this was illegal"
, "What were you thinking", "We can't accept this as an ID" (my drivers licence had a crack in it) and "We'll have to wait here for a while" (They needed to call station to make sure I wasn't convicted of some other heavy crimes). All of the time these guys had the facial expressions saying "This is a very serious situation, we must be serious and
alert, this guy may be very dangerous".

All I could think about all this time was "NO: Don't say it!, NO: Don't start smiling, NO: Do NOT make a joke now, they will NOT appreciate it and will NOT think it is funny".

All in all I took up 30 minutes of three Police officers time on a Friday night because I peed on a tree in a park. A big tree, nobody could see my thingie ( the tree is located at GPS RT90 coordinate [X=6581868,Y= 1629082] b.t.w, pretty big huh :) ). Was this well spent tax money? Did I waste this tax money, or did they? I know they were wasted.

Where is the line drawn between silly and offensive?

The best thing about Arvikafetivalen...

...was the CD:s I brought on the road trip there. Most are just universally excellent, others are in the spirit of Arvikafestivalen (The Arvika Festival). It's not in any way that it was a bad festival, it's just that this year most of the bands were not MY bands (except VNV Nation). The beer was totally decent.
So here they are, in no particular order, no wait, I lie! In the order I picked them out of the case to write them down:

• Tool - Lateralus
• Tool - Aenema
• Nitzer Ebb - Belief
• Kaizers Orchestra - Evig Pint
• Morcheeba - Fragments Of Freedom
• Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
• José Gonzáles - Veneer
• The Knife - Deep Cuts
• Tori Amos - From The Choirgirl Hotel
• DJ Shadow - Entroducing...
• Spawn Soundtrack
• Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
• Infinite Mass - The Face
• Portishead - Dummy
• Front 242 - Front By Front
• Frontline Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
• System of a Down - Toxicity
• Radiohead - My Iron Lung
• The Pouges -Rum Sodomy & The Lash
• Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
• Placebo - Placebo
• Kosheen - Resist
• Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's
• Red Snapper - Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper
• Gary Numan - Pure
• Pixies - Doolittle
• Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
• Oompf - Sperm

Yes, I still own CD:s.