Anders Pollas

If these peo­ple don’t suc­ceed, I’m sure DAGEN them­selves will. I’ve been think­ing for a while now about what to think of DAGEN and despite my exite­ment about a new paper (any new papers) which is always nice, I have found the ones I have read so utterly and com­pletely bor­ing (yes, sim­ple as that) that I’m hav­ing trou­ble fig­ur­ing out who would actaully want to read this on a daily basis. As much as I find their dis­like for the com­mon point of view and the way every­thing gets turned into a two-sided con­tro­versy refresh­ing and necce­sary, it might be a view­point more fit­ting for a mag­a­zine as their search for sto­ries able to deliver a new way of see­ing things pro­duces page after page with­out any impor­tance or rel­e­vance what­so­ever. It’s all good writ­ten, the pic­tures are nice and in some way it’s nice not hav­ing to stare at really cheap com­mer­cials. On the other hand, I am not going to read a paper who adjust their writ­ing to fit buy­ers of cer­tain cars and hand­bags. It just might be that the large news­pa­pers have to recon­sider their own polit­i­cal plat­form and the effect it has on deliv­er­ing news, but DAGEN’s approach is defi­nately not the answer either…

This is damn nice… Get that WinaMP3 fired up with a funky skin and an Elek­tro playlist…

Found this inter­est­ing inter­view with Naomi Klein via Tveskov. Found the bit about Orange quite amus­ing: “They asked me to join their think tank, and when I declined they wrote me an e-mail, ccÂ’d to every­body in the com­pany, with the sub­ject head­ing: “I thought Naomi would want to try and make a difference.”

Despite the rain and the dis­tance we man­aged to get our­selves to SeeSound in Roskilde yes­ter­day. I haven’t had time to attend the work­shops dur­ing the week, but got to see the first night of con­cert. A great lineup — and a remark­ably more fierce sound than the con­cert at RADAR last month. But true lis­ten­ing music it was, excit­ing and new as expected.

Oh — almost for­got to post this: Went to Rust last Thurs­day to see Nau­tilus. Damn, pure energy it was… Rock’n’Roll and a decent two day hang­over. As far as I can recall the evening included qual­ity wine, a midget and five guys tak­ing on dif­fer­ent identities…

Lis­ten­ing to a live Grooverider sin­gle launch party on all time favorite Drum & Bass Arena. Sure makes work­ing late a lot more fun. The internet’s sweet…

Went to Cos­mic Zoom at Terra Nova just round the cor­ner to see Vinyl Dog Joy per­form to their new video back­drop. A really great expe­ri­ence; lots of new mate­r­ial in there and a nice video. Their album Sto­ries from the Halfway House is hereby rec­om­mended, so is Marc of VDJ’s solo project Cat Box Quar­tet (for­merly known as Mox) soon to be released on Radio Khar­toum.


Stayed to see 4 small ani­mated movies by Nor­man McLaren, all of them amaz­ing — and with good cor­re­spon­dence between sound and image. Hop­ing to find some of them on DVD…

And while on the topic of streams I just dis­cov­ered that Linux Finn is stream­ing, at least until some­one finds out :) Now we just need to find out if stream­ing Rob­bie Williams with Maxi Jazz and Jack­son Five is really worth the effort.

Just found out that the labrats at dublab have updated their site. I have a feel­ing it didn’t hap­pen recently and that I just missed out. Guess I haven’t been lis­ten­ing to enough streams lately. Well, that’s going to change soon, for the next cou­ple of weeks I will be sub­merged in loads of work, linked to my desk with my headphones…

Ear­lier tonight I went to see Green Pitch at Stu­den­ter­huset. Not usu­ally a the type of music I lis­ten to a lot, but this was was a pleas­ant sur­prise. Well bal­anced, bit­ter sweeet and honest.