So the CD-buying season is here again (also known as "Yay I got my student loans!"-season), and was kicked off last week with In the Mode, excellent drum 'n bass - and I can't really understand why some people say this album is inferior to New Forms. Both are equally brilliant I'd say.

This weekend I went to Stockholm, and as usual I came back with a bunch of CDs (at a ridiculusly low price).
Soulmotor - which was pretty neat, and sounded kinda like what I'd expected. Stoner-ish rock/metal, quite dusty. I was surprised to find that…

There's some music that I totally associate with books.

I guess it started way back in '96 (man, that's 10 years ago… how time flies) when I was reading Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I was constantly listening to The Third and the Mortal, and especially the album "Painting on Glass", as well as Theatre of Tragedy and their album "Aégis". I was hooked on those books up until Memnoch, after that I kinda lost interest (although I read up until Blood & Gold).

Around that time, I discovered Patricia McKillip - she writes wonderful, dreamlike books. More fairytale than…

I wanna do one of those too. So that people can see how un-mainstream I am. (Now, the question is, am I joking or am I serious?)

So there's a few different ways to do this I've seen. I'll stick with the easiest one (since I can't really find the others and can't be bothered to think too much on my own).

I'll just add up my top 10:
The Shamen (9257)
Haggard (12130)
Summoning (7040)
Ewigkeit (707)
Psyclon Nine (2127)
Dolce Triade (1191)
Front Line Assembly (18201)
Omnia (558)
Switchkicker (227)
Down Below (76)
Which makes 51514. Divide by…

So Jon Nödveidt (of Dissection fame) decided to end his life. My initial reaction was "Oh man, that's hilarious!". It was just so over the top and "oh look at me, I'm so satanic and evil and tr00". And I mean, the letter he sent to his girlfriend and dad, saying that he was going away to Transylvania? And the fact that they found him in a circle of candles… with LaVey's Satanic Bible open no less. Sheesh. Or cheese? :P What makes that even funnier is the fact that LaVey expressly stated that this life is all we've got…

While, in systems theory, negative feedback is considered a good thing (it's given us life after all, which upon further reflection probably means that teh tr00 black metal fans would dislike it) in day to day life, positive feedback seems the way to go.

Embracing the positive means that you want positive feedback from the people around you, and also that you yourself give positive feedback. Whereas the other way, negative feedback, means that you want to avoid getting negative feedback and also that you yourself give negative feedback.

Let's make this easier to follow. When someone is trying to…

Here's the (somewhat belated) report from the Arvikafestival. First of all, I should mention that this was probably the last time I camped at a festival. It's amazing how chaotic Swedish festivals are when compared to, say, German ones. Last year I went to Wave Gotik Treffen and it was like a spa trip compared to Arvika. Drunk teens everywhere, screaming, rumbling around and just being generally annoying. I suppose part of it is that I'm getting too old, but also that I'm not impressed by massive drinking anymore. Been there, done that. Anyways, on to the music part.

There…

The local record store has gone completely bonkers. Yesterday and today, me and my girlfriend bought some 20 albums at less than 5 eur each. Now, you'd think they'd just be some obscure, unheard-of, bargain-bin type stuff… Not so.

Granted, a few were (at least in my ignorance).
Clinic - Walking With Thee (a pleasant surprise, somewhat post-punkish)
Ouroborots - Zukunft (a pretty decent dark electronica album)
C-Tec - Darker (yet more dark electronica, this time with a more industrial oomph to it, not surprising since it features the singer of Front 242)
The Court and Spark - Ventura Whites…