Record Shoppers Anonymous #15

The meetings last Friday really became extended so it took a while before I could hit the road towards Höör. It was a nice drive most of the time but turning into Road 13 towards Höör the sunny weather changed and it started to snow heavily. Lucky enough it was just a little here and there and it had stopped when I reached Höör. Still I think it is way to cold and snowy for this time of the year.

My cold almost given up and I was starting to feel quite normal during the end of last week. Now it was Peter's turn instead. He was a bit low when I got home so we turned in early Friday. Saturday I woke up, feeling rested and decided to take care of the laundry. I can say like this, it won't be as nice to hang out in the basement anymore. I found Hubert lurking in the laundry room and something as big as that need a name. I think it is a normal house spider so it's not dangerous but just really creepy and scary. 
 

Hubert is about 7-8cm's from front to end including all 8 legs... I sure hope he's all grown up now! 

To something a little more fun instead, Peter's first batch of home made beer got ready just before the weekend. First edition got the name "Mourning Brew", and is a dark ale. Really easy to drink with a slight bit of a fruity taste. Really nice actually! So it will absolutely be another batch, Peter mentioned something about a Stout for the next try, all well by me. The brand name "Isle of the Black Cat" came from this summer when we visited Peter's parents in their summer cabin at Hasslö and I was picking black and red currants and the cat kept me company around the bushes.

So the brand makes red currant jelly and black currant jam apart from the beer. Perhaps production of apple pure if the tree in the backyard allows it!  We'll see what happens during the summer.

It's very nice that the Festival season (and concert season) starts now. Keep It True is just a few weeks away. But first it is Saint Vitus and Helloween, Edward from Triffid productions was nice and gave me a photopass for Helloween. According to the promoters at Loppen I don't need a pass for Saint Vitus, as long as I check with the bands it's ok. So now I need to figure out how to do that! :O)

But KIT looks nice as always! Saturday will be really tough even if I like the line-up for Friday also. But Warlord, Angel Witch, Steel Prophet, Jack Starr and Legend, that really is a killer line-up!

Then it seems like April will continue it a furious speed. Perhaps a few trips with work and at the end of the month, Overkill and perhaps also Doro. We'll see what I manage to squeeze in to the schedule. 

I was complaining about not having any incoming packages last weekend. Of course I realized I had a few records to look for and hitting Underground Powers eBay store I realized just HOW much I had on my want-list! A very fast delivery from Underground Power and I could pick up my package when I got back home. 

So the weekend was spent listening to music. I can't remember the last time I listened to music as many hours as I did this weekend. Of course, since Peter stayed in bed most weekend I amused myself with writing MK stuff so apart from the nice package (Lord, Obsession, Taunted, Overlorde SR, Midite Hellion and Axxion) it was also a lot of stuff that I need to review, like Colossus (Swe), Kingcrow, Hürlement, Omission and of course the new Vicious Rumors "Electric Punishment" plus a whole lot more. 

And from TPL, two weeks back I got the new Saxon album, really nice Picture Disc in a Gatefold sleeve, really nice. Also Witchgrave. So it was a very small package this time. Actually, the new Circle II Circle was in there also, wonder why I forgot that one... I didn't like it very much when I first started to listen to it, but it actually is getting better for each spin.

Peter got two albums as well, Alice Cooper and Black Hole. 
And last but not least, I finally got my Eleminator tape. Daniele was really nice and sent a bonus tape, Nekrofilth which was quite cool as well. Perhaps not REALLY my favorite style of music but not bad at all.

So the weekend was really nice even if I felt sorry for Peter (apparently my cold wasn't a real man-cold because Peter was much worse than I ever was). I needed a calm weekend and it was really nice to just explore a bit and dig up new nice bands.

The drive back to Borås Monday morning was rough. I didn't want to leave Peter in his misery, also it would have been very nice to have another day just like Sunday (Hubert was gone from the basement then too) and just listen to more music and perhaps play a bit of Guitar as well.

At least it was a nice, but cold day Monday morning. It's good that it is daylight out and that the roads are getting dry. Still there's so much salt our Blue car is completely grey even if I washed it about two weeks ago. 

It feels like I'm shopping a lot now... (found a cool bookshelf at Blocket as well but it might be a bit too big for the house) But I'm living my dream and I really want a BBQ Grill and they actually had 2 very cool ones at ICA... So the aim is to spend some of the bonus money that arrives in April on one of them!

So I really hope the summer will be as long as winter so I can threw a lot of candlelight BBQ suppers out on the deck, but sure, with a grill like these it just need to be above 0 (ok, a little warmer perhaps) until I can start with it all. Half the deck is under roof so that should be fine...

Cheers
E

NP: OBSESSION - Order of Chaos

 

Cat on cat

During the night we heard a noise from the kitchen, of course the house makes a lot of noises all the time but this was something falling. Neither me nor Peter wanted to get out of bed to check it, we just assumed it was the cat making a mess.
And right it was! My thought was of course that he was on the flower I got for my birthday from Peter's parents (apparently it worked well as cat grass, yummy) but when I got down in the morning it was the egg clock looking like a fat and grumpy cat that was on the floor, in pieces... That cat BASTARD!! :O) He sure is good at making a mess. 

The weekend was spent curing my man-cold. It got a bit better during Saturday so I took the opportunity to write some reviews and reports for Metal Kaoz. Not the best idea since I felt worse for Sunday again. I decided to work from home Monday. So the driving from Höör to Borås happened yesterday instead. I took the car despite the warnings regarding snow chaos. I'm not sure if it was because it was Tuesday instead of Monday or if people had listened to the warnings and stayed home. The road was empty at least. Both from cars and snow... The roads was really dry and nice. 

But of course, it took the opportunity to watch a few movies during the weekend. I bought "Last Days Here" and "Så Jävla Metal" when we were in Stockholm. Both were actually very good. It was horrible to see Bobby Liebling when he was at his worst. Fascinating film though and it was a good deal at Bengans as well, so check it out!!! 

"Så Jävla Metal" was a bit the same as that "Metal History", by the guy from "A Headbangers Journey" only that "Så Jävla Metal" was a bout Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal history. Cool interviews with bands from all time and genres but the nerd in me felt it was like most other documentary's, not deep enough. Well worth seeing at least, since it was both interesting and fun. The title sucks though I think (So fucking Metal).

And then a bit lighter entertainment too. I actually fell a sleep when we were watching Kenny Starfighter but that doesn't say anything about the movie in general. I normally do that. The other one Superhero Movie was actually very funny, same kind of humor as Naked Gun or Airplane. Exceeded our expectations a lot I have to say. I thought it would have been more like Scary Movie which of course is fun too but not close to Naked Gun and Airplane. But it was some really nice jokes in it, and it can't fail with Leslie Nielsen in a movie. Well spent 19SEK at ICA a couple of weeks back!

 
Of course I felt a bit sorry for myself since I was ill and I complained a bit that I didn't have any incoming packages to look forward to. Actually I didn't even have a clue what to look for at eBay. Patrik has become our personal shopper when it comes to new records and I get a package about every 6th week from TPL... But this time it was only two for me, Saxon "Sacrifice" on Picture disc and then the new Witchgrave. Nice of course but still... Both Peter and David got more than I did! So I started checking a bit and found a WHOLE batch on the Underground Power eBay page (had to leave a few ones I wanted because it got a bit expensive in total, damn good store that one). What I really like about it is that they have a whole lot of self released records, underground bands and an almost unlimited selection of US Power Metal, that I like. So when I get back to Höör again I'm sure I'll have a BIG package waiting to be picked up! 

But still some intense days at the office to go before it's weekend!

Cheers
E

NP: SAINT VITUS - "Lillie: F-65"