random stuff

I'm currently taking my finals. This means I'm finishing school this year, which is fantastic. But it also means that I have to study my ass off. I'm not complaining, because I have been prepared for this so it's not difficult, it's just very time consuming. And it's not like I'm locked up in my room 24/7. I do have some of time off. So in this small amount time, I make sure to enjoy my freedom as much as I can. Which is working pretty good for me.

Today I was on (another) walk with my dad and our dog in a forrest outside our town to watch the sunset. 

On our way home in the car, my dad played one of my Radiohead records. And for some reason Radiohead had a whole new sound, sitting in this car, with my dad and my dog, on my way home from watching the sunset. It was really nice and I felt a strange way of comfort, which I usually don't feel when I'm with my dad, because I don't see him very often.

So that's nice ^.^

This month I have to spend a lot of money. Money that I do not posses! 

The 15th Green Day's new album "21st century breakdown" will be released

The 20th the Danish speciel edition of the Twilight DVD will be released in stores and I'm planning on watching it with Signe (again) as soon as we purchase the DVD, which I'm looking forward to. 

The 22th DFTBA Records will start taking preorders for the Chameleon Circuit debute album and there is no questioning here: I simply HAVE to own their CD.

and also Tom Milsom will release his album "Painfully Mainstream" some day in the near future and the demos on his MySpace are splendid, so I'll buy that as well. 

So this all adds up to... some fucking huge amount of money -__-

But I have to buy all of this. 

And also I want to read the Host by Stephenie Meyer, but I do not have the money to buy the book!

*sigh*

- Simon  

my day

I like today. Today is a good day. 

I finished the last part of my danish written exams. A 3½ hours test in a computer room where I have to choose between 5 given topics, and then write an essay about one of them. Usually the exam I'm best at. At last years exams I got top grades and the teacher, who had read my essay, even came up to me and said that it was absolutely brilliant and one of the best essays, he had ever read (which, of course, made me really proud). 

Today, though, didn't go that well. It started out as good idea, but I kind of had an epic fail. It didn't turn out very well. So I'm not counting on top grades but still pretty good :). 

After school I had a burger with two of my friends, which was really nice. 

I also visited the library when my two friends had left, because I prefer to go to library alone. I love that place but it's not a place where I would go to hang out. I like sitting in their comfortable chairs, reading a mildly interesting book, listening to music and watching the people walking by. There is all sorts of people at the library but they're all here for the same thing, because we all share the same passion for books and music. 

I got myself three CDs: 

Mikael Simpson: Stille og Uroligt - A very unique Danish electronica artist who make all his music in his own bedroom in the middle of the night when normal people are sleeping. 

Smashing Pumpkins: Rotten Apples - I don't think they need an introduction. Wonderful, that's what they are. 

Snöleoparden: Snöleoparden - another Danish artist but I can't label him as indiepop, electronica, world, ompa or anything like that. His music defines itself. But it is obvious that he is very inspirered by the mysteries of the East. 

And tonight I'm having dinner at Signe's place ^^

So basically this blog have no purpose whatsoever. 

Except for reminding myself and everyone else who might be reading, that it doesn't take much to have a good day. You don't need a whole bunch of succes, you don't need tons of friends and loads of money. You just do what you feel like doing. At the end of the day, that is what counts the most and makes it a good day. 

- Simon

past midnight blog

The clock is showing 01:46 (in the middle of the night), and I'm home alone, listening me some lovely norwegian soup music whilst reading some of Alex Day's old diary entries (which goes back to late 2003) and everything he has achieved in the course of these couple of years (which is a lot) is in these blogs. For some reason I am in a very nostalgic mood because of that. Or thoughtful so to speak.

Reading these really old diary entries from one of my biggest inspirations, made me realise that I have no idea where my life is heading. And I know, I sound so kliché like every other teenager, but I don't care.

I know that tomorrow I'll take the first part of my written Danish exam. I know that in 14 days I will be in Århus (a Danish city) with my best friend, Signe, and this summer I will meet up with a group of Danish nerdfighters at Denmark's very first nerdfighter gathering. But all that is just plans for what I'm going to do. Not who I am nor who I will turn out to be.

Being young, like me, means that you have your life ahead of you and a new world of possibilities opens up. Every day is a new chance to change your life and shape the one who you will become someday. Every choice is a choice in the right direction, but also the final destination.

I'm not making any sense right now. I probably should get some sleep instead of writing late-night-blogs.

To sum up: I don't know what to do about my life. And that's what I like about it.

EDIT: for some reason it shows the date as May the second, which is one big, fat lie. It is now 02:08 which means it is Sunday the third of May.

- Simon

I love spring

Today is Saturday and I'm currently sitting in my room, listening to Amy MacDonald and eating cookies ^.^ 

So life is pretty good when you think about it. 

Earlier today I was on a walk with my dad and our dog in a huge forrest outside of our town. Whilst walking down the crooked and narrow paths, and watching the odd but fascinating light from the sun shining through the leaves of the beeches, I realised that spring is fucking amazing.  

Seriously, all the colours, all the flowers and trees in bloom, and wild animal life everywhere you look, is just absolutely wonderful. That being said, I also love winther, fall and summer. I can't really decide which one I like the most. It is always changing. When it's winther I prefer winther, because of the snow, the melancholy and the strange but enjoyable solace. When it's sumer I love being outside in the sun with friends, hanging out at the beach, sitting around a fire in the afternoon and being caught up in the illusion of the sun that never sets. And so on. Right now I like spring the best because it's the time of love.

On a sidenote; last night I watched the movie Anger Management with Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson (I didn't watch the movie with them. But they were in the movie. You now what I mean). In my opinion two of the best actors alive. But to be honest:  it was absolutely utterly bullshit. I was really disappointed. I hadn't planned on watching the movie, I just came across it by accident, and when I saw that it was with Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson I counted on it to be brilliant. Or at least average. 

But the last 15 minutes or something, when they were at the baseball stadium was way too cheesy and predictable. Not that I loathe happy endings or anything, but this was just horrible. I can't believe I wasted my night on that crap. 

- Simon

International Workers' day

So today is May the first. Also known as International Workers' day, May Day or Labour Day. 

In my city there is tradition for meeting in a huge park in the middle of town, where there will be parades, music and basically just a lot of people enjoying life. Which is nice. I love that concept.

However in this park, people tend to drink alcohol. A lot of alcohol. Which is perfectly fine and I don't have any problem with it, I think it is great idea to add some extra fun and joy to the whole thing. 

But today I realised how little of the true traditions that actually are shown in a lot of the holidays today. It's all about alcohol nowadays. I don't know if it's just Denmark, because we are famous for drinking quite a lot of alcohol, or if it is the case all over the world. 

Lets take a look at this day for example. 1th of May. People go to the park for different reasons, but it all adds up to the very same thing: They want to blow their minds out

Reason 1: It is international Workers' Day which, obviously, means it is socialists, communists and all those people who are gathered in this park in my town. Which is very clear by the tons of red flags and people screaming about how the government sucks donkeyballs. 

Reason 2: Since it is the 1th of May we are on the edge of summer. Spring is all around us and spring is the time of love and happiness and that should be celebrated. 

Reason 3: They go to the park, because their friends do, and they don't really have a clue what the frick it's all about. 

But thinking about it... all these reasons are just a cover up for them wanting to get pissed.

"Hell yeah! I'M WASTED AS HELL! But it's okay because it's labour day!" wtf?!

and this happens so often - Christmas, Easter, Halloween, the start of the big vacation. Just every little event can be turned into an excuse to drink alcohol. That is just stupid. 

I know that of course it isn't everybody, who are drinking alcohol like it's their last day on this earth, but what I am saying is, that it is the vast majority. And this majority tends to do the same thing at every occasion they can find. And that kind of drives me insane. 

*sigh*

I guess there isn't really anything I can about it. Just gotta accept the Danes' drinking habits as it is, because I'm not counting on them to change.  

Sorry for ranting. I do love the International Workers' Day and I love hanging out in the park with all my friends and enjoying the summer ^^

- Simon

the beauty of religion

or maybe I should change that to: the beauty of the unknown. 

What I love about religion is that no one can be absolutely 100 percent sure in their statement. Now, both atheists and religious people are ready to click away from this site, whilst thinking that I'm the biggest douche ever to have lived. Because surely they are certain in what they believe in. Christians have their Bible and atheists have their so-called common sense. Either way is the one truth for that person. Maybe the Christians are right. Maybe the atheists are. Or maybe both are dead wrong. Maybe we're talking about some third option of a reality that the human mind aren't mend to grasp the concept of. 

What I'm trying to get through here is that you can't be sure. And I know, that you won't agree with me, but just try and read what I have to say. 
So here is a metaphore I made up to try and describe my thoughts about this issue: 

You have a bag of sand with a certain amount of grains of sand. There is no way on earth that you can know how many grains of sand there is in this bag. Unless you count them. Which would suck. 

This is where it gets tricky. Now try and imagine the amount of grains in this bag of sand being what you would define as the devine or God or whatever you prefer. 

Okay got that? Good. So there's a Christian dude who counted them all and found out that there is a million-something grains of sand in this sandbag, which he now is certain about, because he counted them so of course that is the truth. 

Afterwards there comes an atheists and count all the grains of sand and he gets another number than the Christian. Which I understand, because there is a hell of a lot of sand in this bag, so it's easy to miscount something. 

So here is the problem: who is right? The Christian one? Or the atheist? Or did they both miscount? In my opinion both answers are equally qualified, because they are the only two people in the entire world, who ever counted the grains of sand in this bag and they are too stubborn to count it all over again - because it's a very boring job obviously. 

So we can't be sure who is right. And that is okay. I just want people to realise that there is a possibility that they might be wrong. Religious people AND atheists. Just because some book says there is a God, doesn't mean that that is the ONE truth. And just because some German scientists says that there is no God, doesn't mean that he is speaking the truth. 

"The one truth is what you make the truth" as Connor Oberst would have put it. 

And for myself? I have no idea what to believe in. For a long time I was, what you would call, an atheists but I'm not quite sure about that anymore, because an atheists tends to know for SURE that he (or she) is right. And to be honest... I'm not sure. I have no freaking idea. And I don't really care. There might be a God, there might be some devine and there might be Heaven and Hell. Or maybe the Bible is just a made-up story to entertain people. 

Maybe the world is just what it is. And that's enough. 

I DON'T KNOW!

"I have no backing for my belief that there is no god, 

because a statement that is made without evidence 

can be dismissed without evidence."

- Christopher Hitchens

- Simon

The steady sweep of days

A couple of months ago, I purchased the album Sweep of days by the Danish experimental electronica/indierock band Blue Foundation. You might have heard of them from their massive hit Eyes on fire which appeared in the Twilight movie. 

For a long time I've loved the band with a passion because of their newest album Life as a ghost (the album with Eyes on fire in it). But when I listened to Sweep of days the first time, I must say, I was rather disapointed. Don't get me wrong, I still thought it was a lot better than most of the junk The Voice (a Danish channel with music as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and stuff like that) occasionally spits out, but I had tall-high expectations from the Life as a ghost album and they kind of didn't live up to those expectations. AT FIRST!

A week ago I stumpled across one of the songs from the Sweep of Days album when I had my Ipod on shuffle, and I was absolutely breathless. For two reasons: 

1) Due to the fact that the song was incredibly awesome 

2) I couldn't grasp how I could not have loved this album from the beginning

Indeed the album is very experimental and yes, it's true that you can't actually label the band as a electronica/indierock band, because this album have all sorts of genres, but I would argue that their main style of music is very electronica-ish. 

Basically I just wanted to rant about how stupid and musically-blind I can be sometimes, because this album deserves all the glory it can get, and I didn't give that to it in the start. 

Especially the almost 11 minute track "Sweep" is amazingly epic. I can listen to it a million times and still love it. 

- Simon