Well, I just finished helping Jon/Jo/Freya get their own blog set-up; we'll see how long it takes before things start appearing.. it'll be cool to get some more pictures of Freya!
You'll find their blog at www.jonjo.se
I went to see Sting (you know .. "Every breath you take..") on Friday with Janet; he was playing at the Globe Arena in Stockholm. Since he's one of Janet's favorite artists, I try to get tickets whenever he's in town.
The show was pretty good (although he's not at the top of my list) and lasted for about two hours (with Eskobar warming up the electronics). Sometime around the middle of the show, there was a video sequence that really didn't need to be there. Apart from that, the whole crew gave a rock steady impression, with the drummer and one of the backing vocal ladies standing out.
The first half of the show was better than the second half; perhaps the sound technicians went to smoke some crack for the second half. Admittedly, really good sound is hard to achieve in the Globe Arena, but these guys are supposed to be professionals, right? And yes, good sound can be achieved there, Pink Floyd proved that during their Delicate Sound of Thunder tour (ages ago, man, I must be getting old).
The show got a fairly bad write-up in the Daily News magazine (Dagens Nyheter/DN) in Sweden. I figure they guy who wrote it can’t be too fond of Sting. If it works for the audience, the show is good. “Good performance”, as far as music goes, is definitely in the eye of the beholder.
While it's pretty "cool" that Axl "lends" his voice to a computer game of all things, it'd be nice if he could get off the couch and release a record :-) We haven't forgotten Axl, just get it out of the way and get back into the music!
Read more about Axl Rose and "Grand Theft Auto" on web.archive.org.
Hokan's words:
Well, one has NOT celebrated new year unless one has done it in Luxembourg with the Homrighausen gang. WOW. Is that partying or WHAT. Luxmebourg was also very good on the 25th of September as Joaquim Homrighausen tends to celebrate his birthday.
Well, I have to admit to Hokan that we did some damage.. :-)
If you're curious to find out more about Hokan, or some of our parties, here are some links to start:
Having been involved in the world of computer networking for quite some time, it always strikes me as rather amazing when I find "old material" floating around the Internet. I found this a few minutes ago, while looking for something completely different.
It's some sort of historical listing over bulletin board systems (BBS) in the Stockholm region; for those of you who don't know what a BBS is (or was), go to Google and find out :-)
08-7262550 Future Hacker Central Stockholm (1986) SYSOP Joaquim Homrighausen
Oh look, there's my brother too:
08-312536 Rumble Fish, The Not South HUB, Walkman's Corner Stockholm Sweden (1987-1990) SYSOP Christian Homrighausen
This is what the header said:
Historical List of BBSes in the Area Code
Created by TEXTFILES.COM From Many Sources
The full list was found on http://bbslist.textfiles.com/sweden/08/08.txt
Axl, RIP, was born in July of 1991. He was my closest friend when I went through a rough patch in my life. Axl passed away in the fall of 2003. His "real" name was "Pinero of Lucifer's Delight". His more common name comes from a rock star who needs little in the way of introduction.
I took Alexander to see the play of "Karlsson-on-the-roof" ("Karlsson på taket") by Astrid Lindgren with Markoolio starring as Karlsson.
What can I say.. the man was born to play this role! The role calls for something of a monkey-on-acid approach to acting, and Markoolio pulls it off. Children from ages three to nine were there with their parents, and I think most of them had their eyes nailed to the stage throughout the whole play.
Nice, wonderful, well worth the cash; and a good break from the input of digital media. Some links: About Astrid Lindgren (in English) About Astrid Lindgren (from Junibacken, in English)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
(Bertrand Russell)