We are being fucked with. At any given moment in time, we are being made fools of, we are being decieved by the easy pleasures of our modern times. We resist a force so relentless that we get tucked in again. The whole last winter I had a feeling I was being fucked with because of the school I was finishing. It made me feel humiliated and fucked up. Even in the rehearsal of the final ceremony, the rector said to me "so, at last, we're here". (He's a great guy, by the way). It was as if the slight delay of my graduation was being shoved in my face every day. Perhaps I was not humble enough. Perhaps I should have communicated better with those who were running the show. But nevertheless, It sure felt weird. Anyway, finishing, overrated as that seems, was a good thing, giving a finalization to it. Nevertheless, the performance of my final piece, served as a glorious moment. Perhaps one of my best overall performances ever, though i was just sitting with a laptop in the corner. I think it will be a memorable evening for a long time. So maybe all the bullshit of university policies was made worth it, by that sole moment? Now of course, the concert, and all the other pieces I wrote at Listaháskólinn, have been released on a CD, by Paradigm Records, entitled Lífsblómið. You can go to their website
http://paradigms-recordings.com to find out more. They have a webstore, which you can order the CD through. That got a heavy load off my shoulders as I know I would probably not have released this material on my own. Without the interest of my dear friends at Paradigms it would have gone to my own drawer. So all in all I have no reason to by discontent.
In Andrými news, we have finished the layout for the long delayed Líkn record, right now I am sending it to Tunecore, which will deliver it to iTunes, so that Apple can make money off of it, and give us a little share. I haven't had money to manufacture the actual CD in the last year since it was finally finished, but I'm checking out the options. It seems that every step of the way, is a bigger obstacle to overcome. Hence, I will teach a bit more this term, to have money to manufacture the CD. Now the band was defunct, from the spring of 2005, for various reasons. Now I finally have a vocal teacher, and I've been working on a solo record called Death and Resurrection, which will be released early this year, if all goes well. The material is more industrialized and electronic than Líkn. But these two projects are connected, its just different ways to go, production wise. Its being mixed and mastered at the moment. So all is going well, its just a question of a little patience. There is a concert schedule for january and february, which is quite vague at the moment, 'cause I need to refocus afer the haze of the christmas and new year thing, but I want to do a realese concert for Lífsblómið, and I am going to be headlining a concert on the 101 festival, which is a festival held by SLÁTUR, Café Hljómalind and Café Babalú. Might be an interesting month ahead.
