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.

The first step towards the stars

The Raven Nation is now officially a band (if you really can call one person a band…)! At 01:57 tonight I finally made up my mind and now there’s a lot of work to do. For example there is a website to be made, but foremost I must finish all – or at least some - of these songs I’ve begun recording. And when that is done I’ll need some skilled people to play them with. I have thought of a couple of people that I hope will want to join the band and we’ll see how that works out. If you know someone who lives in the vicinity of Malmö, Sweden, and wants to play heart smashing power pop, let me know!

Now, you may be wondering what this blog will contain? First of all, it’s my first real blog. I have thought about creating one for myself, before, but I haven’t felt like I really have something interesting to write about . Until now! I will fill this blog with info about The Raven Nation and things that touch the subject. Basically that means I will write about the progress of the songs – from idea to recorded song, the RNTV – a monthly Internet TV show I intend to produce, try to cover my thoughts about science fiction and such interests and to that add some views about the green society and what’s going on around the world, even though I prefer to express what I feel about such matters through my songs.  I will get more in depth with all of the things I’ve covered in this post, in the future.  You’ll see…

Be aware! This may be the beginning of something fantastic. So stay tuned!