Random Norwegian

Words don’t matter

I feel like I need to have some kind of confrontation with poetry. Poetry sucks. Poetry is the very contradiction of everything I believe. Poetry sets value to the words and to the actual order they’re recited in. It’s as useless and annoying as modern art, were the pattern of some random splatter defines the piece, as if it all mattered in some kind of way. But the real hate is against “everyday-poetry”, which is short, annoying phrases without any actual meaning, as: “Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?” now as John Green eloquently put it, or rather Hazel Grace: “This is an old argument in the field of Thinking About Suffering, and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries, but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not in anyway affect the taste of chocolate.”. Another just as annoying saying is ”It’s when you feel the saddest; that you feel the most alive”. I can’t find the original of this quote, but this thing has several mistakes:

1. How could you feel alive without sadness? As if sadness is required to live a life, and not a happy life either, just more of it.
2. Now if this is true, isn’t this then more of a motivation to go kill yourself?

Now over to the second problem I have with poetry. It’s supposed to fill words with value and meaning. That’s stupid. Think of all those people who gets verbally abused everyday. Those words shouldn’t mean shit. Isn’t that what we’re telling them? “They’re just words, they don’t matter. Mind you, they’re probably just jealous”. No. Not in this society. If we really put this value in these words, it’s time for someone to suicide, because, well, those words really meant something, yeah…

And while we’re at it. “Haters gonna hate”. They don’t hate for no apparent reason. They hate because, well, they don’t like it. Not everyone likes everything. Actually more people dislike your awful singing. And if you really feel the need to expose that horrible sight and voice on youtube, good for you. But don’t go around complaining about being told that you’re horrible.

1. WORDS HAVE NO MEANING.
2. Ignore those fuckers and get better (as if you’re horrible voice is a slickness…)
3. Just quit it, find another hobby.

And to those insecure fourteen-yearolds with usernames such as “w4tsss0n301” who tells this girl that she should cease to live because she’s a terrible singer: You need to reassess your own contribution to society.

1. Your words don’t matter
2. You’re probably being abused at home, or neglected. While your parents who live in the suburbia, with you, strive to make a living, and yet you’re an ungrateful little prick who
3. Let your problems go out on people whose self esteem is probably worse than yours.
4. But don’t be lenient, and don’t lie. This could have worse consequences than being honest. so:
   Instead of saying: “U shuld go kill you’reself. UR UGLY & ca’nt Sing” 
   Say: “You have troubles getting the right pitch. No offence, but this does not sound good. Keep practicing. Se a vocal instructor if you can. Good luck”
   And well. The second one there can be just as rough, but, it’s honest, and at least constructive.  

/The irony of wring a blog, yet hate the concept of words with meaning.

My january post

woo, the first month of the year has soon passed, and the world is moving on. I don’t know what to write.

Well, I joined Okcupid.com  . Just because of all the Reddit-posts mentioning it, and well I feel like it’s a community which, tries to be better than everyone else. It even has questions which depends on pure pattern recognition. How fucking relevant is that? I’ve been with girls which are 10X as bad as me in logical thinking and general common sense and politics. But well, they’ve at least 100X smarter than me in subjects like language, social interaction and the likes. So, if you think a value of a mate is based on whether or not that person knows if a platypus is an mammal or a bird, then go to hell. Take your degree from MIT or Harvard and shove it up your arse, she probably has a happier life than you’ll ever have.

I’m not stupid. But I hate intellectual pricks. Like the users of Reddit and Okcupid. You’re not smart. Just annoying.

Merry Christmas

So, the official Christmas holiday is over and a new year is soon to come. I thought I’d just weigh in on my thoughts on how atheists in america handle the whole Merry Christmas vs Happy holidays deal. Personally, I regard myself as an theist-agnostic, And the biggest problem I feel I have with religion at the moment, is that there’s supposed to be an almighty power caring for me, as an individual. This bothers me because I’m not a self-centered prick. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you’re an egoistical douche for being religious, I’m just strongly implying it. Now, I’m not going to lie. I have sometimes closed my eyes, when I felt hopelessly lost in life, and asked; “If there’s an almighty power up there, can you please help me with this?” or “How come you made me this fucked up? I hate you”. I believe everyone does that sometimes. It’s good to rely on someone else and, well fuck it, sometimes, there just doesn’t seem to be anyone there.

Now that you know how I feel towards religion and such, you may get a understanding on how my opinions is formed around the matter of being religious or not around the holidays. It’s simple though, Merry Christmas, even though it’s christian therm, and you hate religion, it’s meant as a nice thing. Personally I feel like “happy holidays” becomes so impersonal, because it’s being used in fear. In fear of being frowned upon for having your own opinions and believes. Fuck that. I think overly religious people is one of the most disgusting things that exist, but I’d be 10 times more disgusted if they wouldn’t stand up for what they believe in. Again, if they do so without being engaged in an argument with another person, but are spewing their crap all over regardless, I’d be furious. But. A fucking “Merry Christmas” or “happy Hanuka” or what ever you desire, isn’t religious propaganda. It’s a god damned wish that you may be happy through the few days where most people feel alone. Embrace it you fool. Merry fucking Christmas and a happy new year!

No context, and The thing

Please skip the whole part with the Gray on the side, it wont make any sense, not without context.

So I’m trying to order a plane ticket, and I know I’m going to travel with the love of my life. Every time I place the order, it changes the destination to china. In the end we go with it and we jump to the scene were we’re actually flying. Now, the next couple of scenes are unclear in the sense that I don’t know in which order or exactly how it happened but, it becomes clear that the plane is going to crash, we’re panicking, a person I don’t know, Maybe female is asking me to deliver a urine sample. I do… Now the pilot has a plan, he’s going to try to crash land the plane by sliding down a grassy mountain and into a structure of some sort, a village or something. The plane touches the ground and everything is going in slow motion. It gradually slows down by hitting these structures, and there’s blood and gore everywhere. I’m pretty sure I’m dead. I wake up. The love of my life is there. she’s holding me, neither of us is damaged. There isn’t even a plane near by, but the scenery seems familiar.

It becomes clear, we have to get to some sort of civilisation, I begin walking, she’s hesitant, and awkwardly silent. I don’t know but she may seem older than she was before. I die. i don’t know how. I wake up again, in the exact same scenery. No body tells me how or why, but I know. I have a curse upon me, but someone is saving my life. The whole world is destroyed except china (by china perhaps?), the plane ride was someone watching over me, and some one is reviving me every time i die, using the urine sample, for the past 10 years, but there’s little left. Therefore I am aware of my curse and I actually manage to get to a city. there I am chasing some one, or being chased, I don’t know who or why. /wtf

Anyway. I’ve watched “The Thing” today. They actually used Norwegian actors to play Norwegians. While the performance may have been worse because of that, it certainly helped on the credibility. I do notice I become very aware/critical of how they portray the Norwegian culture and behaviour, And i feel like they’re actually trying to portray us as weird, but nice, drunken “farmers(Hillbillies)”. That is kind of wrong. We’re not nice.

There was also a scene where they were partying, and a guy had a ukulele-kind of instrument. And they sang

Honestly though, This is a song which is incredibly fun to sing drunk, almost as fun as seven nation army. The problem I had with the film was that I feel that it failed to portray the irony that we have when singing this song. It’s as if some one would sing dragostea din tei, because of it’s musical values, deadly serious. The song is terrible.

Anyway, I liked it. And as a random Norwegian, even though I hate to admit it I like it a little bit extra just because of it being in Norway, using Norwegian actors etc. Fuck patriotism, it’s ruing my taste in everything.

No-post October

So, as you may, or may not have noticed, I haven’t posted anything in October. I actually haven’t had a single interesting thought in October at all. If you add that with the fact that I’ve been a Lightning technician at a school project, were I spent up to 54 hours at school in one week; you can understand why I haven’t written anything. I’m tired as hell at the moment, so if some of my sentences makes little to no sense, please forgive me.

I downloaded the new animals as leaders album today, while I wait for my pre-ordered copy. I notice that i get a little overwhelmed by so many new songs at a time, and that I’m a lot more used to, and understand better, the pre-released songs versus the rest of the album, so I think I’ll just take a day and listen to just one of the songs, figure it out, and then move over to the next one.

Playing now: Animals as Leaders - Isolated Incidents

I’m also looking at merchandise, I’m a little weird, but I find merch interesting. I’m kinda fantasising about ordering pens or USB’s with Mund0.com on them, and handing them out and getting some visits on this site (which I rarely maintain). So when it comes to merchandise, you’ll have to choose something people use, the most genus merch is pens, everyone need pens, and almost everyone I know, knows what kind of logo there is on their pen. Another genius merch is lighters, though twice as expensive as pens, you know you’ll get to the most susceptible people of all; smokers. Those who fell for the peer pressure and actually got addicted. Very few people are better to advertise to. And then of course; memory-sticks. Aiming at a more intellectual and younger audience, It would be the most efficient way of promoting Mund0.com, because, well, you use the USB’s on a computer, you usually use a pen because there isn’t any computer nearby (at least from my experience). But memory-sticks are expensive and well, I got memory-sticks myself, but I always lack a pen. Do you think I will regret using £82.57 on 600 pens?

playing now: Animals as Leaders - Odessa

Well I have put some text up, so I’m happy :D, good night

The English language

Woo, another post!

I’d like to dedicate this post to a Thread on reddit:

No, i’m not sorry for my bad english.

This thread, or post is made by a 16 year old German kid who’s annoyed with the grammar-Nazis all over the internet.

Now, as a Norwegian I’ve got an unfair advantage over him. English is a part of the curriculum as of first grade, And we’re subbing films rather than dubbing them. This helps a lot, but even with this, if you lack motivation, you won’t learn much. Languages isn’t my strongest subject, I’ve got Es in Norwegian(2), Spanish(2) and French(2), but an A(5) in English. Now, that shouldn’t make much sense, since I’m speaking Norwegian daily and my English isn’t that good, If it weren’t for the fact that teacher’s aren’t expecting fluent English (Did this sentence make any sense?). So how come that I, who isn’t exactly good at languages, can write quite decent English? Blame Japan.

Until I was eleven, I failed every single English glossary test, all my English understanding came from watching “Friends”, and that wasn’t much. Then I discovered Naruto.
Naruto was awesome. At first I downloaded the latest episodes from naruto-central, and watched them without much context and understanding. If there was a word I didn’t understand I’d google it. These episodes were subbed btw. It didn’t take long until my grades improved. I began reading the manga, and watch the older naruto episodes, and Bleach. Now I had a fair understanding of english and I had figured out the “syntax” of the language, by that I mean that even though I didn’t know the exact word I could understand it by context and the feeling the word had.

Here’s where tribal-wars come in. Ironically, since Tribalwars is a German game. But I began playing on Tribalwars.net when I was about 13-15 years old. I joined the latest server at that time, World 8. I played for about a month before I got owned. I didn’t really have any understanding of the game. Then I joined World 9. I was in a top tribe for quite a while, but I still didn’t understand the game, But through that time I had Loads of interaction with other players. I began learning words such as “Lenient” and how to spell attack and defence right, but that was because of the genius dictionary inside of Firefox.
I then joined World 11. I started my own tribe. This would become my success-story, even though I had no clue how to play the game. I’ve must have been a good leader, because we grew, and I became friends with so many Intelligent people, twice my age and skill, who still followed me. I was extremely proud of my tribe and family. It took all my time though, and I had to quit because I forgot to eat and such. It ended with me passing out on my way to school. It was at that time my English skill peaked, I began to think in English. If I couldn’t remember a Norwegian word, I would know the English equivalent right there and then.

I began actually to write this blog to keep some of the English vocabulary, to keep it maintained. And I am ten times better at writing English than speaking it, I did some wiring on a sound system at school for some Brits who where performing, and I had troubles saying the complicated word: “yes” to them. I really struggled when I asked if they had any duct tape (which i go the response:” Oh, Gaffa?”). My point is that I suck Orally (ಥ‿ಥ).

Common mistakes I know I do: Have vs Had, Were vs where, got vs gotten (I use “obtained” as much as possible) I can’t remember more atm.

Anyway, Hope you have a nice day, please follow me if you find rare, long and quite uninteresting posts, appealing, until next time ^^,

cognomen asked: Seriously? Animals As Leaders? Periphery? Meshuggah? Norwegian? I like you, sport.

Yes; very serious.

Weightless

Animals as Leaders are releasing their second album soon. The title is Weightless, which is kind of ironic considering how metal they are. Snippets of the Album is available for pre-listening here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005M2OE9Y/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_m56Aob0XND7P4 (This URL is weird, so I don’t know if it will work for you guys.) But if you’re reading this, you probably already knew about it.

Even though the quality of the files played on Amazon sounds like they’re 96kbps or less, you get a little picture of how the album sounds; and it sounds amazing!

The first song starts out with a pretty hardcore glitching sequence with a sweeping guitar in the background, it breaks, and a set of rapid twin kicks roam the mix together with a nice djenty guitar. The quality is so poor you can’t really hear any definition to the muted 7/8 string going on a rampage, but of the little I hear, it’s good.

The second song starts of in a “square pusher”/”jaga jazzist” kind of way, It kind of remind me of this composition:

It then introduces a melody-line/sweep-ish thing which sounds really animals as leaders followed by a tight power-chord backing up in a nice djenty way. sweet.

The third song reminds me of a song on the previous album, but I’m not sure which of them it is.Well maybe some of it reminds me of about 3:40 of On Impulse, I’m not sure. Anyway it goes on, and then a riff which I think sound like nirvana shows up, but it’s brutally raped by the insane scales of mister Tosin, in a good way that is.

We’re now at number four, It sound really bad because of the quality, but I think we have a CAFO-like thing going on here. The djent chord rhythm is kind of similar. It also starts with the drummer “throwing sticks everywhere, randomly” kind of like when the drums are introduced in CAFO. I also believe i can hear the lovely “Future Breed Machine-chord” (is it a lifted fifth chord(the chord of the devil)?) in the background, adding to the chaos he’s making. it progresses into a part which sounds like middle part of CAFO, until 2:16. It sounds also as if its played as slap-style on a bass. I can’t wait to hear a clear version of this!

Since I now have a tendency to make connections between songs that really aren’t similar I can continue to compare “Animals As Leaders - The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing” with this fifth song. The slow intro that is, because when the djent comes, it comes hard, holy fuck, that is some fat sounding riffling right there. Mehuggah style.

Number six is also a victim of low quality. I can hear the heavy power-chords all too well, and just some snippets of the melody-ish thing in the background, when it breaks, and i can hear some of the background music it sounds to me as somewhat similar to Gojira. I’m only halfway, and I’m getting tired, haha.

New Eden, also known as number seven. I’m not going to compare this one even though I really want to. The melody line here is going to become obligatory for any good prog-metal-guitar-enthusiast to learn.

Number eight. Cylindical sea. I love how they name their songs. Not any bullshit about flying jet-packs or whatever (this is a joke, I love periphery), It’s a cylindrical sea, god dammit, deal with it. On a musical note; it sounds like “Soraya” to me that is, I’m tired and my head is -. Maybe the bass-end of things sounds like Gojira? Anyway, In this composition we’re talking about chord-progression far beyond my level of comprehension.

Next one up is Espera. The sample preview is very calm, and it has at least one sting instrument going in the background (violin or viola), flowing with the wind; I guess it’s a synth? And a delay-intensive guitar on top. I’m looking forward to make my self a cup of tea and just listen to this track.

And the song which is made to lead you to an overwhelming question. It has a little dream theater feel to it, and it is very djenty. I just want to compare this song to something i haven’t mentioned yet; Zyglrox by periphery.

And now for the title track. I don’t really want to say much about it. It’s tempting-time-ish. But finaly he’s found a good sound for those sweeps, honestly I cringe every time I hear the sweeps in the intro of CAFO. The sweeps in this song on the other hand aren’t that pointy, but it may be in the release, let’ hope not.

And finally the song which appeals the most to me. David. I play classical guitar, and I can just feel the passion running through these strings, even though it’s El-guitar. It might sound weird, considering they’re a metal band, that I prefer their melodic pieces the most, but it just makes them so much better, knowing that their metal pieces isn’t just pointless rambling on a guitar, and even though you can’t find meaning in a riff from the start, there is a melodic purpose of it, and when you find/hear it, it is as if you’ve moved over to another dimension where music is more than just tones. It’s passion for the art you love. I can’t wait until this album comes out.

If anyone takes any of what I’ve said offensive or if I’m wrong, I’m sorry.

tl;dr

Buy Weightless by animals as leaders?

My thoughts of an idealistic goverment/society

At school today we had to do this task, which were; If you were to “habitate” a new planet what kind of rules would you and your fellow inhabitants live by. To get us started we got four different “conflicts” to work with.

1. Property, would a government own it all or would it be privately owned? My opinion is that everything should be privately owned, but if you for example own a forest, the government will control that you don’t kill the whole forest, not for the sake of other living animals, but so that the forest can grow back and you don’t empty that resource. But the government can own things too, but the government should be treated as a private person, so say, that for example that the government own a school, those who pay tax (you can chose not to), will have rights to attend that school, and those tax-money will be sufficient to run the school, but you could also chose attend a private school which would be paid directly, or people could join another “organisation” which also demanded taxes, to get the school for those money. So the “government” would be a very loose term. So what i am saying is actually not that a government should be treated as a private person, but that a private person should have to option to be treated as a government. kind of. you have the right to chose. which is a fundamental point in the right winged way.

If you chose not to pay taxes you do not have the essential rights which comes with it, like: Free healthcare, the use of the government owned infrastructure, no human rights, and no laws to defend you, etc. there is off course a democratic government, and you can choose to elect a party which do not want free healthcare but rather cheaper food, by giving those who produces or sell food money, what ever you like. The most powerful tool of the government though is the care of resources. they control every land’s resources so that they don’t disappear.

I’m still working on this Ideology of mine which I’d like to call the opposite of the Venus project. Or, there could be a corporation/faction inside this ideology of mine which could be alike the Venus project. It’s versatile!

If anyone find any faults in this system tell me about it! (I’ve found some myself, but I don’t want to mention them ><)?

I hate fat!

Okey. Hello again, how are you?

So the topic for today will be exercise, or rather, muscle-building. The thing is, I am a quite skinny guy, not to the extent that you can see my ribs, but enough to make girls point out how small I am when I hug them! So I began googeling, and came over this site: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bbmaintrain.htm

On the top there, there’s a flash like square with a male silhouette and a female one. Well, I chose mine; male, muscle building, teen. Now, I chose muscle building because, if I lose any fat, I will look like a heroin addict. I’ve almost never exercised for the last five years, and the only thing keeping the last muscles I have, on me, is my work. I work as something like a waiter, just on a nightclub, so there’s some quite heavy lifting especially of these:

And, well, I can take three of those at the same time, but the only thing it’s good for is making my fingers hurt. Anyway, I chose the top video which was recommended for me: http://www.bodybuilding.com/guides/male-teen-fat-loss/intro. Well fuck you, bodybuilding.com! I am not fat, I just want to gain some muscle tissue so I don’t crumble on myself, and while I’m still young so I have something I can look back on.

The truth is though, that I’ll probably never begin lifting weights, just because I am not disciplined enough. But god damn it, Even though fat guys are taking over the world, it doesn’t mean that there’s not any skinny guys here any more, and we, I, want to be told how to gain weight, not to lose the weight we don’t have. Is it weird that there’s anorectics out there, when everywhere they look and listen, there’s just talk about loosing weight!

=( The song of the day/week is Animals As Leaders - CAFO from 2:16 and out.

Do you feel the stigma; that you can only be accepted as concerned for your well being if you’re fat?