Butterflies

They sure got an extra pair of wings, those butterflies in my stomach.

As I’m writing these words I’ve just started my adventure. This weekend me and some beloved lady-friends of mine went to the oldest known rock festival in Norway – Glopperock. Good times. I got a thing for these small festivals. Last Thursday me and my band VITO performed four songs at Open Mic in Volda. Last night we had our last jam session in 6 months. Got a Thin Lizzy LP – Black Rose A Rock Legend, as a going-away-present from my drummer. Then I got REALLY sentimental, and wrote a new song. Tears wont stop us being productive! Now I’m back in Tomrefjorden to say some good byes to my family. Gonna miss them, much! After a stressful summer I eventually notice the seasons ripe for change. Tomorrow I’ll head for the rail way station, one hour drive to a small town called Åndalsnes, located in the middle of Møre og Romsdal. Then it’s off to the state capital Oslo, baby. Then to Asker, to visit my love Nico. Monday September 3rd calendar says byebye everything I know – hello AUSTRALIA.

Along with 19 other fellow students on the Austral-Asian Culture program I’m going down under. To see the sun, to taste the salt water.. To get away. To the land of convicts, explorers, and adventures. Tomorrow on the train I’ll start dig down in history. A concise history of Australia – by Stewart Macintyre, pensum. Kangaroos and wallabies. Crocodiles and sharks! Can’t wait to see one! Got the rest of my stuff packed today. Credit card, passport, and my backpacker sack – CHECK! Hope everything goes smoothly with the tickets and stuff. Everything’s good to go. But, I guess with my pre history of bad karma I’ll forget my luggage at the wrong platform, oversleep, or get stuck in the doorway or something.. On the other hand I’m the luckies daydreaming bum since mom will take me to the train station. I’m not too good with time tables, busses, or any public transport, no doubt about that. I’ll cross my legs, arms, and fingers just to be sure… My sense of direction and intuition will be far more better in the next couple of weeks, I wish. Never thought it would be easy to get outta here. This great big challenge, I’ll have it anyway.

At the end of our first week in Brisbane our class will head out on a field trip to the outback of New South Wales, Bourke. I’ll post an update on the excursion later! The following five weeks I’ll be sharing apartment and travel with two happy guitar playing blokes named Martin and Marius, and an open minded globetrotter named Anne Berit. We don’t know each other that much yet, but I have to say at this point I’m pretty excited! Hippie spirit! That’s it for now. Gotta catch some rest before the new day arrives. Take care. Love K.

TUNEZ TODAY:  The Distillers – Coral Fang (Album)

Liebster Blog Award, thanks to Dear Kitty. Some blog

Dear Kitty. Some blog was so kind to nominate me for the Liebster Blog Award. Thank you!

“This award is to promote quality blogs & to help promote the work of bloggers who may not have a large following. Part of getting this award is giving it forward and to award it to 3-5 blogs you enjoy that have under 200 followers.”

According to the ‘rules’ (btw I’ve never done this before) – Presumably, one should add the Liebster Blog Award picture to the post on the award. Done…

Dear Kitty. Some blog fascinates me in so many ways. I wish more people in this world would share her point of view. Check her out!

Here are my nominees (I am not sure whether I have kept to the 200 or less rule, as not all blogs list their number of followers) (I have linked to the nominees’ blogs. I will notify them at their blogs):

just be. love all. live life.

dogsharon

SORRY, I CAN’T STAY LONG

The receiver of the award should copy & answer the questions below.
My answers are:

1. What’s your favorite word in the English language?

Fuck.

2. What are you listening to as you write the answer to this question (if not music, what sounds)?

A shy tinnitus buzzing in my ears. Can feel and hear my heartbeat, kinda. The sound of overdrive and distortion. School of Nirvana, and four songs with my band VITO. The open mic gig tonight was insane…

3. What was the last thing you ate that you really, really enjoyed?

A simple green apple. Enjoying it at this particular moment.

4. You’re at a job interview, and the interviewer asks you to make him laugh. What do you do or say?

I1d say I’m not that funny.

5. The world is about to blow up, but you’re being saved, and are allowed to take five things to another planet (aside from the clothes you are currently wearing), where you and only 999 other people will now exist (ignore the bleakness of this question). What do you take?

My guitar, my journal, a pen, a toothbrush, and a pillow.

6. What’s your favorite drink to consume first thing in the morning?

Milk.

7. What was the last book to make you cry?

Buddhas Children – A Journey Among People – by Torbjørn Færøvik.

8. What’s the most ridiculous or silliest way you’ve been injured?

Stumbled down some stairs, fell flat on my face, and ended up with a fractured ankle/foot – crutches for seven weeks. FML.

9. What’s your favorite city in the world? Why?

Stockholm. Fell in love at first sight. The Swedes got everything. Astrid Lindgren, Unga Klara – Suzanne Osten, Vår Teater, Stadsteatern, Kungliga Dramaten, Unga Dramaten. Also got good memories from Moderna Museet, and Beyond Retro. 

10. What’s the most embarrassing album in your music collection? (Be honest)

Aqua-Aquarium. First CD I ever got. I even know all the lyrics.

11. To borrow an old line from a Crowded House song, would you rather a mansion in the slums or a caravan in the hills (i.e. a nice house in a not nice area, or a tiny living space but with views)?

I’d like to live in a bungalow by the beach. Perfect view!

1. How long have you blogged?

Since 2005. Just random gibberish at that time, Gaffelioyet is the first “real” blog I’ve got.

2. What is your talent you are most proud of?

Never giving up..

3. You wake up in a shaggy hotel in a city of your choice with your best friend and a complete stranger of the opposite sex. There’s a kitchen-battle-axe on the floor with blood on it and an owl in the bathroom. What has happened?

We’ve played the game they play in Four Rooms, and the owl is the award.

4. What’s your favorite day of the week?

Any day after a good night sleep!

5. If you were an animal, what animal would you be and why?

A squirrel. Had to be one in a play a while go. Never got rid of the moves…

6. What are you doing for your living?

Traveling student at the moment. AUSTRALIA.

7. Where would you take me in your hometown, if I would visit you?

I would take you somewhere nicer than my hometown!

8. What is your favorite sound?

Waves.

9. Do you have a celebrity crush? Who is it?

I got two. Patti Smith, and Brody Dalle.

10. What is the first web-site you go to when you open your browser?

http://www.mangareader.net/94-8-1/bleach/chapter-1.html

11. What languages do you speak?

Norwegian, English, Swedish, poor Danish, and lousy French.

This rare evening… This week has been exhausting. Good though. Gotta show up at school in less than five hours. VITO – we had our best gig ever tonight, and I even got to perform cover of Nirvana with some other grunge blokes of mine. Open mic in Volda and the audience … mental ! Fuck. Then I got this award from http://dearkitty1.wordpress.com. What a day! I sure appreciate it! Don’t know what to say…

VITO

From the left Paal, me, Mario, and a little bit Aleks. Split-gig VITO and Fatty Sunroad.

May 16th. Photo from our second gig ever at Det Grøne Tredet in Volda – Norway. The night we had the warm up for my beloved friends Fatty Sunroad. The crowd was amazing. I had my two best friends there, Nikko and Marielle. Insane. Couldn’t turn my head left nor right for a week after head banging and jumping around so much. VITO – I can’t wait till we get together, play around, and make music together again. Counting the days. The summer’s been to long. Get your cute, small lazy asses up here, and bring your guitars, drumsticks, and happy crazyfuck spirit. Punky sure miss you guys. Love K

Euphoria

Pure happiness! Pure insanity. Everything. We were there, together. Our first gig at Studenthuset Rokken May 11th. It went so well. It felt so right. Finally on the right spot at the right time. Drugged on life. Ecstasy. Exuberance. VITO. The crowd was amazing. Love you guys for supporting us. Can’t wait for Wednesday to arrive. Unfortunately I don’t know if anyone took any pictures during the concert. I got a lot of them before and after. Typical.

Anyway. This is a short presentation of my (punk) rock band VITO. Our motto is to make a hell of an awesome  time for everyone who listens. Vito equals life – free spirit energy. You should check out our demos on Urørt! I’ll have to add and stress that the demos are unfinished and recorded too slow. The bass guitar is missing, and my vocals – except for one song Cake.

I’m sharing the job as lead vocalist together with Paal, an awesome curl-head playing lead guitar. Aleksander is a mystic lover boy playing rhythm guitar, often also seen behind a synthesizer. Reidar is playing the bass. Not just playing it – blasting it all over the place. Love it. I actually played bass for a little while but then took the mice instead, that because it’s awfully hard to do two things you’re not too good at – at the same time. And then we got our own real hero super Mario on drums. Red Bull, Battery, and three sets of drum sticks. -The ground foundation we all rely on.

Rehearsal at the band-room at school. Paal and Reidar.

Marioooo – happy kid always wearing a great big smile.

. . . Paal thinking of his Darkest Sins. Hihi. (We did the warm-up at their EP-release).

Reidar – as happy as a clam backstage at Rokken.

-Hello. We are Vito.

Three on a row! Aleksander, Paal and me…

Love. Alexander and his girlfriend Marita.

Euphoria and sparkling water. Reidar and Mario.

Backstage at Rokken. A lot of bands worth mentioning has used the room before us. See for yourself.

VITO.

Kristina (me) and Mario.

Nerves? No? Are you kidding me? Three years has passed since the last gig with my former metal-core band, Fake Tourists. LOL. Vito is so much greater.

“My” tambourin and our set-list.

Alexander. The look.

What the fuck just happened? A weird guy came and told us he wanted to sign us on a contract. Scam, but it was fun anyway.

Knuckles.

Marius our bitch. He was a fine gentleman driving all our equipments. HUGE fan. Haha.

Ole Henrik was utterly pleased with the concert. Great support. We all love Ole.

Kake

og alle skal få smake. I alle fall litt!

Kom akkurat fra bandøving. Kongeøving! Det blir så fett, det blir så gøy. Fredag. Førstkommende. Det blir . . .  DET BLIR FEST! VITO. Som om det ikke var nok med en konsert på fredag skal jeg også være med på 12konserten i Volda kirke på lørdag. Klokka 12. Søvn sa du? Neida, sove kan man gjøre når man ligger pent og pyntelig seks fot under torva. I kirka synger jeg sammen med kammerkoret og skal opptre med eget soloinnslag. Gud vet hva som gikk gjennom hodet mitt da jeg sa ja til det. I tilleg blir det øving til eksamenskonsert med pianist på søndag. En slags generalprøve på eksamenskonsert på mandag. Eksamensskonsert klokka 1230 på tirsdag på Kaarstad (kom den som vil!). Vitokonsert sammen med Fatty på Tredet tirsdag. Jeg krysser fingre og tær for at stemmen holder. Er hes som ei heks. Og det verste, for det er egentlig bare det som er virkelig ille, er at jeg innen tirsdag må kunne 20 sanger på piano. Hevenu shalom a´leychem! . . .  har jeg akkurat lært meg. Har kun, og jeg mener kun, kleine barnesanger på spillelista. Satser på at sensorene ikke ønsker å høre meg humpe og dumpe Lille petter edderkopp eller Tommelfinger på det stakkars flygelet. Skal lære meg Your Song av Elton John i blinde, i tillegg til hovedsangen som jeg vet jeg skal spille. Om tankegangen min er sånn halveis riktig veldger de Elton i steden for Hvis dine ører henger ned. Det må bare bli gull. Jeg aner virkelig ikke hvordan jeg skal få tid til å tenke på bachelor oppi det hele. Og hvor i all verden skal jeg få selvtillitten fra?

Det er nesten Avatar! Det føles fortsatt bare som en difus drøm, at jeg skal dit. Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

Ser meg selv i speilet og det eneste jeg gjør er å le. For nå er det faktisk så ille at det eneste jeg har igjen er latteren. Det er nesten som jeg kunne gjort hva som helst. Utavdæsjælopplevelse. Maskin. Det funker ikke å tenke. Foran meg på kalenderen står det at det er 15 dager igjen. 15 dager igjen av helvete! Blir kvalm. Og svett. Mest kvalm. For jeg kommer til å savne det for resten av livet. Jeg elsker det alt sammen, selv om det gjør vondt. Frysninger. Det blir starten på et nytt era, og det føles abnormt absurd. Hei Australia. Hei Vietnam. HEI ASIA, jeg kommer og tar deg!

LYD I DAG:
Sjekk ut Cake av Vito på Urørt.

Skrik

så høyt at lungene brister!

I alle fall så høyt at parykkene letter og luene danser. Jeg vil skrike. Av glede. Og av angst. Våren er her, det er det ingen tvil om. I går rulla jeg mange meter på den deilige, soltørka asfalten som kler de krunglete veiene i vakre Volda. Nå skal jeg ut igjen. Jeg og Cath skal gripe resten av dagen ute i skogen. Puste. UT. Veggene rundt meg kryper stadig nærmere. Bukter seg sakte ned over skuldrene mine. Svett dusj. Klaus. Bachelorhelvete. Skrivekrampe. Erh, sperre. Liker det ikke. I dag er det 124 dager til jeg tar fatt på ferden til kenguruland, der hvor vannet snurrer feil vei nede i doen når man trekker ned. 24 dager til bacheloren er levert. Livet, det skjer. Det skjer! Heidi er endelig i Norge igjen. Marielle skal være med meg på villmarkscamping etter at skolen er prestert. I dag har jeg til og med øvd piano. HA!

Skal forøvrig spille konsert med VITO 11. mai på Rokken, og 16. mai på Det Grøne Tredet. Sjekk ut demo på Urørt. På Tredet varmer vi opp for Fatty Sunroad.

LYD I DAG: 
The White Stripes – A martyr for my love for you, Rag and bone, Fell in love with a girl