Last Thursday I attended a showing of a documentary on the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf. After the film, there was a concert where Ida Bach Jensen, who composed the score for the film, performed. It was a magic 40 minutes, and it gave me time to digest some of the themes and thoughts of Ekelöfs [...]
Another year, another Roskilde Festival. As usual, I’ll give a quick summary of the best concerts I attended this year. I’ve done this for the past few years that I have been blogging and attending the festival. But this year, it doesn’t seem quite as relevant to do so. I have been neglecting blogging for [...]
Another year, another summer, and another Roskilde Festival. This year the sunshine returned to the festival as I opened up my summer holidays by gorging myself with beautiful and surprising music. I didn’t get to see and hear as music as usual, as earned my ticket working in a Smoothie bar for part of the [...]
Having been away from the Intertubes for a month, I have accumulated a huge backlog of bloggable material that I need to put up here. Indeed, this whole month, I’ve felt like I could be wearing one of those gimmicky web 2.0 T-shirts to signify my intention to pass my experiences on to the world, [...]
As the awareness of the issues surrounding copyright and copyleft increases, filmmakers have begun to take notice and make films which focus on these matters. Recently, Danish state television aired two such films which are now available for streaming off their website. Simply paste the following link rtsp://streamer-01.dr.nordija.dk:554/DR2Tema1700.mp4 into a movie player such as VLC [...]
The past week has moved by so quickly, it all seems like a blur now. I’ve certainly been too busy to sit down and blog. I’ve managed to move into my lovely new home, buy new furniture, assemble said furniture, have had lots of people visiting and gone to two concerts. First, my room is [...]
From time to time I get caught up in technological nostalgia. Sometimes I find myself missing phones with rotary dials: You got that tacit touch of the mechanism inside and you could guess at how things worked inside. Now phones are just black boxes that emit random beeps. In the latest iteration, they’re even trying [...]
Why didn’t anybody tell me about how nice The The’s Dusk is? Oh, somebody did, I guess. 5 years ago, when I wasn’t really ready to appreciate it. Telling somebody at the age of 20 that “you’ll love this music in 5 years time” is a surefire way to make them avoid it. And then [...]
Last night I took some time off from the rather intense note-taking and -organizing I’ve been doing and went out to have a look about on at the ongoing Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Specifically, I went to a Tony Allen concert. Allen is a legendary Nigerian drummer, co-originator of the entire afrobeat genre, and described by [...]
Well, I’m finally heading out into the field. The real field, not the virtual one but out to meet real flesh-and-blood informants. I’m very excited, if you couldn’t tell. The plan is like this: First I’m off to Paris for the Ubuntu Developers’ Summit where all of the core Ubuntu developers will gather to spend [...]