I have been a very busy bee indeed, and this is just a small segment of a large and ambitious project that i am involved with, so i thought it might be of interest to some random citicen xxx to hear something from it. ...So that you may rest assured, i am indeed going places. Even if that place is nowhere.
Anyway, enjoy the nonsense..im in a sharing mood
Im probably not allowed to upload this, but ...well, noone ever comes here anyways... All copyrights are indeed very reserved !!!!
-P
"As the skies Darken...the hours of our lives pass us by".
So, history bites its own tail again, and i see a certain mr. Pål Hetland making some desperate attempts at revealing the "truth " from the Norwegian Quart festival in the form of a "shocking" book from behind the scenes.
Drugs, sex, shock, outrage!!!
I thought i should make a "official" statement regarding this issue, in the eventuality that the subject be brought to attention again in connection with the release of this great new litterary masterpiece.
Hetland, offcourse was the person responsible for publicly making very disfavourable comments regarding the kovenant and our now fabled "bible burning incident" at the Quart festival in 2000.
Lemme say...he is now, as then...full of crap.
His ignorant and speculative comments concerning our performance and consequently "banning" us from performing in the city of kristiansand and the festival itself, was a hypocritical bunch of consious lies and a copout to the conservative forces and beurocratic fingers of the local legislative and clerical posse.
Why do i say that?
Well, becouse it was the festival itself that encouraged us and made sure we followed thru on the idea of mocking god in the city of godness. They even went as far as to supply us with lighter fluid to make the motha burn. !!!
Then in a blaze of make-believe shock and outrage, they went ahead and publicly denounced our performance, and Mister Hetlend made a bunch of comments for the Norwegian media that drew very infavourable comaparisons to Hitlers nazi regime, and a whole other range of infentile subjects.
So anyways, i encourage people NOT to buy his book, i have no idea if this is even mentioned in it, but he proved himself as a creature of low moral fiber, and to be deemed that by my standards...makes you pretty fukkin low.
Also, if they were feeding people with drugs, we never saw any of that down there. ...and we would be the most obvious candidates to...errr..ask, so again...i think this is a token of selective history, and indeed...the mind of a bitter nobody.
Just wanted to say a few things in regards to our work, and its future. I only speak for myself in this blog, so it is still not to be regarded as official news of any sorts, just raw material from the chaos that has been my mind of late.
Well, what you all want to know is offcourse...
What my IQ is.
...the kovenant you say? oh that old band. yes well...ok.
In all regards to being honest and such, i must confess...i didnt touch the record for almost 1 year.
well, but i did just recently start on it again. You see, there was , and is i guess, so much turmoil in my "personal" life , that i just couldnt work. Realy. And i made the project so ambitious, that i almost killed myself with it, metaphoricly speaking offcourse, but not too far from the truth either.
But i realized, the music is such a gem, i am so proud of it, that it has to be completed, and the irony is that i know the impact it will have for the band and on the metal scene , so it just needs to get done and the band is revitalized.
After all, that is what i do, what we do, so if some hardship blocks our path, then well, so be it.
As time passes by, one treads through many variations of identety, but i keep coming back to the same old one: I realy need to create music, i am completely lost without it, and have no hold on any other reality than the one i created, and always loved.
So i guess what im saying is, that we shall indeed finish the record and more to come after that, but i view it on a different scale now, that its a body of work that is crafted like the classical masters used to, and that the time it takes to fully complete it is not of relevance.(it sounds arrogant perhaps, but i only said it was crafted in that manner, not that it could be compared by its actual contents and quality!)
So im on the right track again, and we shall see how it progresses, im always known for kicking it up a notch or ten when im truly inspired, so perhaps it might be completely done by the end of this summer. Im not quite there yet, but im working on it again...
The bottom line is this.
We had some rough times behind us, and surely some are still to come, but we are still around and in our prime,(thank satan we started very young hehe) and our music is better then it ever was.
Just some bullshit got in our way, i guess it was called life. ha, it had to hit us sooner or later i guess, we just always sailed our own paths, so reality sort of cought up with us.
But anyway, i shall transform this blog soon, so if you want to say something, please feel very free to do so now.
And i thank you for all the support as well. its easy to forget that we have something out there, and you all keep reminding me, that its not just a ego trip, somebody actualy cares as well. Same difference perhaps.
So, there you are. No drama, just a reality check.
Dawn is breaking. Something in the horizon. Radiant new suns, shimmering with brilliant white light.
Its not so long now...until the day of all days arriwe. Untill then, be steadfast, and linguer in a aura of contemplation and serenety. Remember...we control the vertical.
I must confess...i dont get it anymore. I am just falling to pieces
...it must be something in the water.
I remade myself , forced progression, or a neccessety perhaps. Though luck though, i hate what a created. Like some mad contraption of mutant genes that can not sustain. The center cannot hold.
So here we are then ...me and myself, ...my beloved frankenstein.
Im here, in this little cell with a window to the exterior world, contemplating the future of all things. All things related to me that is.
And i cant keep from wondering...is there any future left in music? And i dont realy mean for me personaly, although... i am intertwined and tangled to it as all others are, but in general. On a grand scale, in the most stereotyped way of thinking.
Let me take you back a few moments, a few thoughts of random interval and chronology.
The backdrop for this gloomy future prospect, is offcourse the greatest evil yet known to man... No, its not the old moustache ridden pesky german chap, or even the entrance to the atomic age...
...its the WWW, offcourse. What else ?
I was doing some hardon googling, (well...metaphoricly speaking offcourse ,ehem), concerning the state of the art, sales statistics and the future of it all. I started thinking about certain prospects, and i mean let us all face it:
The music biz is dead. gone.
I mean , havent you wondered why all new releases are streamlined cardboard copies of shallow models and plastic faces, no art and no integrety?
Just clutter in our radiowaves, beaming their prefab garbage into our collective membranes? It is not the times that are changing, its just ...nobody invests in anything any more.
That we all know.
But its not the record companys that are the arch villains here...as people like to proclaim. No not at all, it is us that have wrecked this havoc.
Companys release music increasingly and exclusively to the few marked segments that doesnt download music, ...that being elder age groups, and presumably small kiddies. So everything gets streamlined accordingly. Anything else is a waste of time, becouse the sales are just horrible for serious music and artists with a intention that reaches beyond plastic surgery and bleached teeth. (beuty is also an estethic that should be valued, but not on those terms)
And we all have ourselves to thank for it. There might not be a future in music anymore, it will die a slow death , but not music itself offcourse, just the biz we have all come to know and despise.
Maybe its not such a bad thing...but it certantly pulls dark curtains over many a promised future. Yet again we killed our heroes. And it hold some grim parallels to other more lifeimposing issues... proving perhaps that even on a smaller scale, we cannot save ourselves...
Such a bitterweet ending ...that the world we have come to know ,and have reaped from its harvest ... is barren.
The borders between the plausable and the implausable are governed by reason, to wich no logic can be applied. How tragic then, that limits exist only where we create them, and that the cages in wich we are imprisoned... are of our own device.
Greetings Earthlings. Well now, we seem to have been cought in a ever expanding black hole of misery. Various incidents and situations has spiraled us into a somewhat catatonic void of nothingness, for reasons that shall remain undisclosed and securely unpublished.
We need to regrow our wings for a moment, stop and smell the fresh morning fumes of coroding napalm.
It must be something in the water, our whole world has lost its hinges. Stay tuned, and never loose your frequency.
Greeting Earthligs.
WIDGETIZE