First rehearsal

Yesterday I played together with some friends for the first time. As can be expected from a first time rehearsal we didn’t create anything spectacular, but we got to know each others abilities a little better. At the moment we are two guitarists and one bass player. Perhaps other parts will be filled in later on, but it feels like a good setup for now. 

Thinking sustainable – true love comes from within

Every now and then we stand before the choice of buying new or using old products. When being raised up we ain’t always taught to think sustainable. Even if you understand the importance of not throwing away working stuff and to be strict in what you buy it ain’t always that easy to work that way of thinking into your everyday life. And belive it or not…! Even though I have a green heart, the same goes for me.

This conflict between what you believe in and what ideas you are brought up with, hits me everytime I am to buy something new. The last couple of weeks I have thought a lot about this because I need a computer with a working graphic card, for some video rendering. At home, I have had a four year old non-working computer standing at home for a couple of years. I have always liked the feeling of buying something new - especially computers. It’s new hardware and the system is all clean and working. But that feeling really only exists a couple of weeks until my new harddrive is filled with unnecessary files and dust inside.

When a computer breakes down it is often one of many parts that is faulty, but because it’s hard to find out which part, it’s an easy option to just buy new, if you have the money. This time, however, I instead of buying everything new only bought a new motherboard (the faulty part) and a processor that fits (you can’t put any processor on any motherboard – hi-tech stuff, you know). The computer isn’t totally new now, just repaired, and I may miss out on the feeling new things bring, but instead I will have the never ending feeling that I made my buy a lot more sustainable and with just slightly less power under the hood. Took a little more time before I got the computer working but on the other hand it was also cheaper.

A new year

Christmas is over and we are now two days into the year of 2008.  2007 was kind of a crappy year from my point of view, but all bad things come to an end. This year is when “it all” will happen (kind of what I though last year… ehr) and compared to last year things can only get better! Something that can be interesting to you, is that I got an electric bass for christmas present. The old one I had wasn’t really healthy on the E-string so I had to borrow a friends bass when recording. It’s second hand, also, which makes me like it even more. I belive that the bass lines will get more advanced, now when I can practice between recordings and so make the songs a little more interesting. So far one new song has been created thanks to this new present and I love it!