Gun

I totally forgot how great Gun were. The songs are awesome. This singer, Mark Rankin, is amazing. I just love them. Can't stop listening to 'Swagger' at home and 'Takin On The World' in the car.

Oh yeah, all 4-days tickets are sold out for SRF 2009. Great news for us, sad news for those who haven't bought their tickets yet...

Japan

Japan.
Taste the sound of it, J A P A N.
We're going there, in less than 2 months we will actually be there. Standing on historic grounds. I'll be posting here as usual. Either in English or Swedish. Don't know. I am quite sure it won't be in Japanese, but I am trying to learn enough to get by. I am learning a few sentences that will make sure I don't get any kind of meat, fish, bird or seafood. Guess I am quite nervous about the food.
AND the politeness. I really don't want to offend anyone.

Can I say that right now, please forgive me, I am just a tourist who haven't ever been i Asia before and I really don't MEANT to offend anyone...

Anyway, I'll be the most grown-up - without kids - at the Sanrio Puroland (aka Hello Kitty land), hahaha!! The boyfriend's not coming with me, it's enough that the cute pink miss kitty is everywhere in our house :-) He'll be the one hitting the record stores (imagine, a country that still have record stores!).

Snakebite no more??

So, Snakebites are history. This wonderful mixture of lager and english cider with a dash of black currant. Apparantly it drives you crazy and it’s bad for you. I guess that’s why I refrained from drinking it when I first came to UK in April 1992, not only did it look awful, it sounded gross. And people told me the sugar in the black currant made the alcohol go straight to your brain and give you a quick effect of the alcohol. (UK lager wasn't as high in alcohol as the Danish my friends drank at home, so I didn't really believe it). But I stuck with Jack Daniel´s and (Pepsi) Coke with a few slices of lemon. Yummy. Still my first choice of alcoholic drink.

When I came back to Brighton in the summer of ´92 I had my first Snakebite, and the 2^nd and 3^rd… I haven’t gone mad yet, probably cause I never drink to get drunk rather drinking cause I like the taste and the warmth of it.

At Teesside Uni we used Fosters Ice with Strongbow Ice (both about 7%) with Robson Black Currant for our own (budget) Snakebites before hitting the town. And I remember my cousin M and I making our own Snakebites when going out in Stockholm, bringing a small bottle of black currant juice with us, ordering 1 lager and 1 cider and then mixing it by the table. Those were the good old days before all cider turned sweet alcho pop. I don't think you can get English cider in bars here in Sweden anymore. Only specialised English pubs. Anyway, that was the background history.

At Firefest in Nottingham last October I noticed that it wasn’t that simple anymore. I was told it was ‘illegal’ and they weren’t ‘allowed’ mixing this maddening brew anymore. But usually, after begging and adding plenty of please they’d do it anyway. In London – at Dirty Dicks near Liverpool Street Station – it was a no with without explanation. Just no, we don’t do that. As if I’d asked for something that get me high or something illegal. I felt like an addict. Everywhere I went they said ‘no’ but then told me it’s a stupid thing and they’ve served it for 2 decades without no-one going mad (at least because of it) so what-the-hell and they’ve made me one.

Need I say Red Bull & Vodka (served basically everywhere) actually killed people?

I am on the flight now...

I am on the flight now, not far away now. Been listening to two tracks
over and over, Life with Brides of Destruction and Dont Say Its Over
with Gun.
My eyes hurts, new lenses sucks.

London!!

Finally, on my way back to London. If only for a few days. No concert
this time so it'd be the same, but different :-)

Happy New Year

Seriously, I hate ABBAs Happy New Year and I don't think it's a good
start at all.

Fuck.