Today I was supposed to be found on the starting line of Oslo Sykkelfestival http://www.oslosykkelfestival.no. I got up in the morning just to realize that the weather had changed from yesterday, today it was +5 degrees and rain. I dressed the same as a couple of weeks ago when I did Femsjøen Rundt, and thought it would be okay, but maybe a bit cold. I got dressed and got on my bike, ready to go downtown to the starting line. Passing Tveita I had to use my breaks, high speed did not do any good when being so cold as I was. Hoping I would get warmer when passing Valle Hovin, but no, and finally when I came to Tøyen I turned around. I did not want to spend 3 more hours on my bike, so after 30 minutes outside I returned back home. Elin was surprised, but glad to see me 🙂 So, warmer clothes need to be packed out, and hopefully, I will attend Oslo Sykkelfestival next year…
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Listening to K.D Lang
Have been listening to K.D Lang “Hymns of the 49th Parallel” today. It is a cd in Elins collection, I guess I would never had bought it, but now I would, but don’t need. She sings very beautiful covers of well known songs of among others Neil Young and Leonard Cohen. The Cohen cover is Hallelujah, a version sung much, much better than the Norwegian “Gitarkameratene”. Unlike them she does not try to imitate Cohen, but make her own version of the song. Just like Johnny Cash doing a cover of Hurt by Nine Inch Nails, it still Hurts…but it ain’t NIN’s version…
http://www.kdlang.com/discography/2005.htm
Gitarkameratene sucks, or sucked…
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
Brings back memories from 20 years ago, or maybe even more, the last dance at Ungdomsklubben and Elevkvelder 🙂
Tool – Undertow
Passed by Platekompaniet together with Kent today, came across this cd by Tool, and off course I needed it…Elin disagrees…
Mosquito helicopter and potato cannon
Today I have hang out with Kent, Loy, Alf, Espen and Simen. First I stopped by Loy who is making a potato cannon, so far it blows, but soon it will blow the potatoes far, far away http://glassx.googlepages.com/. Then we went to Espen , ate a lot of pizza, drank wine and flew his new mosquito helicopter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IKTfe5TBmY
Loy waiting for the blast
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Simen behind the helicopter, only showing by its green light…
Need a more detailed map?
Kent was out on the balcony when he shouted to me “Rune, come here and see…” So I went out to see this big truck with a trailer mounted going in reverse the whole length of Haugerudhagan. I guess due to the construction of new houses at the end of the road the turn spot had no place for him to turn on.
Hermano – Live at W2
John Garcia, former vocalist in Kyuss, with his new band Hermano. Heard one of the songs on this record on Myspace, the cover of the AC/DC-song TNT, wonderful!! Garcia is king of rock, and the cd rocks!!! http://www.hermanorocks.com/
The big project at Vestreng
The project started last year at Vestreng, cutting down trees to get back the cultural landscape from Gaya which tries her best to concur it back. So this year we have managed to finish one third of it, there is now an electrical fence around it where two horses have spent the last two months.
But, still two thirds left, the following pictures from last weekend showing the work being done and most important of all – how much work still left
First, me in the big 4WD towing Anders up the hill while he uses the backhoe loader to get rid of all the roots
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Still a lot more to be done before horses can walk here next year
Old, but still working
Even Simen has his own blog now
My friend Simen now has his own blog as well – keep the good things coming…
http://www.klavenes.dk
As a band you have to be on MySpace
especially since I today found even Guns N’ Roses there….whooowowow sweeeet chiiiiild of miiiiiiiineeee…. http://www.myspace.com/gunsnroses I realize that everyone is there…
Also stumbled across Ted Nugent http://www.tednugent.com/ Totally crazy man, supporting National Rifle Association and such, but the song played when you enter his site is really good…
I also had to check out Thin Lizzy http://www.myspace.com/phillynott , problems there with the player so I was not able to listen to it, so instead I ended up with Metallica, the live version of Orion is really good http://www.myspace.com/metallica