Call Of The Wild.

...we have summer here today, sun is shining, it is t-shirt weather and the balconydoor is open... i am sitting at the kitchentable translating, and since the wall is now down, i have the tv on watching the wild - colorado... what a day!

the new portishead is absolutely fantastic!

Front Street

...so a couple of weeks ago i was supposed to interview greg dulli from the gutter twins... he was in berlin and i got a time and a phonenumber... well, at the exact time i call and it is busy, i call again, and again, and again... and after a little over an hour i give up... i contact the record company and explain the situation... they will look into it... the next day i get an email, everything had run late and greg did not have time, but he was in amsterdam tomorrow and i got a new number and a new time... i called, and called, and called, same thing... got a new day and time again, this time in paris... i call, and greg answers... -hi i am mathias from sweden, are you ready for the interview? -actually no, i am about to go to a interview now, talk to my tourmanager *click*... the record company does not understand anything... but two weeks pass and i get a email, can you talk to greg in stockholm before the show... sure, no problem, give a place and a time... subpop emails me, i will talk to one of them at 18.00 at the venue, probably greg, but it might be mark... sure, fine with me... i get there at 17.45 and tells the venue staff that i am here for a interview and that i wanna see the tourmanager... just a second and they call him... -never heard of a interview, we are out walking in stockholm, do not when we will be back *click*... i am really starting to hate this tourmanager, has he even told the band? or is he just completely useless? ...i decide to wait and call my contact at the swedish record company... she does not understand anything, subpop promised that everything was set and that the tourmanagers knows... she will look into it... i wait, and wait, the tourmanager refuses to see me and i wait some more... after a bit over an hour i call the recordcompany and tell them i am leaving... they understand...

the question is, who is to blame here? from my point of view all my problems has been with a tourmanager that does not seem to manage... because this is his job, organize interviews, make sure that the star is where e/she is supposed to be, and agaian to organize things... not to say "have i never heard of" and hang up... that is very unprofessional... i have dealt with a lot of stars and bands and just as many tourmanagers... and this is by far one of the worst ones... i really hope for their sake thar greg and mark are in the dark about this, because if they know, or if they actually are the problem... that would just be really sad...

i have a email from subpop with the time and place and the tourmanager in the box for who got the email, so he has the email... he has the time and place... and still...

the sad thing about this is that i wanted a interview for publication before the album came out and before the show... but nothing happened... now the show i went to is only half-full... i do not want to belive that i have a lot of power or anything, but i bet that a article about the band might have gottten a few more people to show up? ...right, isn't publicity a good thing for a touring band?

Methamphetamine Blues.

...saw the gutter twins last night... really good show, greg dulli had collapsed three days earlier in belgium and been taken to the hospital, so this was the first show since then... which you could tell, because he was a bit more careful and looked a bit worn-out... on the other hand, he had rested for three days which meant that his voice sounded really damn good... mark lanegen was his usual zombie-like self, grown to the floor with a steady grip on the microphone stand... during the encore they played two songs from lanegans bubblegum album and that might have been the highpoint... dulli did pj harveys parts...

i think spring is finally here, we have sunshine and pretty warm days... so in othet words, perfect weather for a mailman...

Blank Generation.

...the weather has been insane, one day warm and sunny, t-shirt weather... the next day minus degrees and snow, then 0 degrees and rain, back to sunshine and warm, and, well, you get it... it kind of wears you down, but we should be used to it by now i guess... the tents over our windows are finally gone... yesterday was the first day in over two weeks that we had daylight in the apartment, so nice... the cd-shelves we ordered are done too, my dad picked them up today and will bring them up to stockholm in two weeks... i can not wait...

...still on the please, kill me trip... i can not stop reading it and while i am reading i am going through all the music on the stereo, dead boys, heartbreakers, ramones, richard hell, suicide, blondie, velvet underground, stooges and mc5... damn, those bands are good, but what tragic lifes they all lived, it seems like they were all struggling to die as soon as possible... crazy times...

...it is also weird to read this book and realize that even though new york city is this incredible fast changing city, places close and open everyday, and you can eat a restuarant on the monday and then when you go there on wednesday it is a laundromat, new york is still a city were some things never change... there is this story in the book about the time when dead boys drummer johnny blitz almost gets stabbed to death on a east village sidewalk... the interesting thing is that they talk about that at night after cbgb's closed all the musicians used to go to this deli the deli stop on 5th and 2nd avenue to buy candy and chips and beer and stuff and it is outside this deli that blitz gets stabbed... the thing is that when we lived in new york we used to go the same deli after drinking in the east village or going to shows at the knitting factory to buy water or candy... i also remember that it was the only place in new york where i could find the chocolat bar bounty, so i always went there and bought a bunch... pretty weird isn't it...

anyway, minnesota beat colorado last night again and things are starting to look really good...

Sandinista

...saw Low last night at this old, really nice theatre... me and Anna were on the first row on the balcony and had great seats... Low was just amazing and really tight and intense... one of the better shows i have seen in a long time... great sound too... especially pissed and dragonfly were good... really good guitars from alan sparhawk... he kind of riffed and played solo at the same time... something i really only have seen bob mould do before...

...minnesota against colorado... this will be good!!

...thursday is malcolm middleton and then the posies on sunday, the gutter twins next tuesday and we end the month with entombed on the 26th... great month for rock...

rereading please kill me again... great book, great time and great music... i am really glad i tried to see as much of the classic places as i could while i was living in new york... i mean cbgb's is not even there anymore... what a crappy place that was though... lots of history and a great soundsystem, but what a crappy place, disgusting bathrooms too... saw a great show with bird blobs there though... and a really shitty one with the vines... but who is really surprised...

Sunday Morning.

...drinking lots of water, translating and listening to jesu... just another sunday...

Everything's a wave

...to no ones real surprise did i sleep bad last night... or to be more truthfull, i did not sleep much at all... my insomnia comes and goes, but i have always had trouble sleeping... i never really fall asleep and i wake up really early... in new york things were really bad and i did not have a full nights sleep for four years... that could have been because i had a rotating schedule of opening, midday and night shifts all mixed up and different each week... it could be monday 9-17, tuesday 19 - 02, wednesday 12- 18, thursday 9-17, friday 19-02 and so on... so i could go to bed at around 23.oo and lay in bed and toss and turn fully awake until i gave up around 3 or 4 and went up and wacthed some tv or something, night after night... but it has been really good now for awhile, which is why that last week has caught me by surprise... i am back in the tossing and turning mode... the only difference now is that i get up at 4.44 every morning, so if i fall asleep at around 3 i do not get much sleep at all... but enough whining...

ministry's cover album is pretty damn fun, not great, but fun, i love the version of rolling stones under my thumb and radar love is pretty damn good too.... check it out...

Luke Skywalker

Minnesota Wild are in the playoffs!

the new breeders is really boring.

The name is Broder Daniel

...sadly i just found out that the 32 year-old guitarplayer in Broder Daniel commited suicide this weekend by jumping from a bridge not very far from here... i have always been a very big BD-fan and i have seen them live well over 10 times, some real brilliant shows (park-festivalen in oskarshamn, pudas in växjö) and some horrible ones (emmaboda-festivalen, hultsfred before black grape), and i have always bougth their albums... BD is very småland for me, i listened to them a lot living in oskarshamn and a lot studying in växjö, i have very found memories connected with a lot of their songs and their albums... and don't forget that BD is the soundtrack to most of Fucking Åmal (that would be Show Me Love for you americans)...

Electric Alice

...so i was not gonna go to any festivals this summer... i was not going to spend all my time and money as i usually do, running around on festivals, sleeping in tents, eating bad food and doing my toilet buisness in well-peed bushes... but man, was i wrong... today the festival in göteborg (way out west) announced some new bands and i had no choice but to try and get a ticket... listen to this:
sonic youth
flaming lips

and G R I N D E R MA N

...of course it is probably to late to get a ticket, and i am probably to broke... but i will try... i will really try... i do not care about the national, sigur ros, yeahsayer, franz ferdinand or all the other indie-bands, seen them all, been there, done that... but grinderman... i mean seriously... grinderman....

i have to go...