Heroes has in my opinion been going slowly downhill since the first season with the occasional good episode in between, but after the first episode of season four I am no longer watching. One Tree Hill is another show I’ve been watching for years, and quite frankly I don’t even know why. The first couple of seasons were great, but I’ve kept watching just to keep up with it, but after the nice ending to season six I don’t know why I even bothered to watch the first episode of the new one?

I also decided to check out some new music today, with Pedro The Lion being the highlight so far. I’ve seen the band name being dropped in lots of discussions pertaining to artists that I appreciate, and I finally got around to checking out one of the albums (It’s Hard To Find A Friend). The style of the music is very appealing to me at this time of year, and I really like what I am hearing so far when it comes to lyrics as well. Check it out!

If you have no idea what all the fuzz is about, this post over at Mashable will give you a good introduction. Also according to Mashable, this site has been setup to speed up distribution of invites, but it is of course down at the moment. Signing up for an invite over there once it comes back up might be a good idea for all of you looking for invites!

Brand New - Daisy

Thrice - Beggars

If you haven’t listened to these albums already,  you need to go out and get them. And by get them, I mean purchase them, preferably multiple times, because this is quality music that will leave you feeling like a petty thief if you decide to acquire them the pirate way.

PS: Check out the acoustic studio versions of Bought A Bride and At The Bottom from Daisy. It’s amazing what you can find on Twitter!

PPS: If you’re on Twitter, you should give an @reply to this little informal questionaire I started. I want to know which title track people like the best. Both are absolute top-notch.

10,000 plays and still rockin'!

Nine months after I signed up and started scrobbling. Which means that I, on average, listen to a little over 37 songs per day. I would have thought it was a little higher to be honest, but it obviously doesn’t count the music that gets played in my car (that should be next, a car stereo which hooks up to the mobile network and scrobbles your listens!).

And for some reason my iPod and iPhone only scrobble about every other time I connect them. I have no idea why! Anyways, check out my Last.fm profile if you want to find some good music

It’s been a good one as well. I went into the summer not knowing much about anything in regards to my immediate future, but most of it has fallen into place. I passed all my last courses / exams with the necessary grades which means that I’ve earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, and I’ve been admitted into the Master’s programme at the University here in Tromsø. As long as everything goes according to the plan, I’ll then have my Master’s degree and ready to enter the vast and frightening corporate life less than two years from now.

I guess that can be considered as my que to start networking?

Over to something far more interesting, what I’ve been doing these short couple of summer months! It’s actually not all that interesting, because I’ve mostly been working out of necessity as I’m always looking to fine-tune my skills to pay the bills. One thing I did do that was quite a party though was attend the Rock Werchter festival in Belgium.

It was four days of pure joy, just as would be expected from any event that lets you see bands like Kings of Leon, The Killers, Coldplay, Oasis and Metallica (just to mention a few) live. You can see some photos I took at the festival over at my Flickr profile. I must admit however that when I came back home after the week away I felt like I needed a vacation much more than the 20 days of work that were anticipating me in the three weeks that immediately followed.

Those three weeks have now passed, and I’m still alive, with a four day weekend off from work ahead of me, and life is generally just treating me well at the moment. Or so it seems anyways, but I’m sure Murphy’s law will kick in sometime soon

Hope all of you reading this had a nice summer as well, and that you’ll remember to enjoy what’s left of it! When those dark, wet and windy days of fall it always seems like there’s so much we forgot to do when we had the chance when everything was sunny and smiling.

As always when I’ve been idle for a longer period, I will try to post more often. I just need to find the inspiration to put together something interesting for you to read, because let’s be honest, nobody really wants to read these long and mundane updates about what I’ve been up to!

Unfortunately my carrier, Netcom, has decided that they won’t allow this. In fact they only allow you to connect your laptop through the 3G network by using a modem with a separate subscription, or if you use a Windows Mobile phone. Go figure.

It’s not as if I would actually use this option a whole lot as I usually have wireless access, or just use my iPhone for what I need to do online. But on the odd occasion that I feel the need, it would be nice to have the option. Now I am definitely switching to a different carrier once my term with Netcom runs out, as other carriers are indeed willing to let us decide how we spend the traffic that we pay for. #Netcomfail indeed.

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Vacation time is now over me and it feels… boring. Weather is abysmal in typical Northern-Norwegian fashion, and there really isn’t a whole lot to do. Right now I’m not quite sure what you do when you have vacation time, no work and it isn’t a weekend.

I suppose you could pretend like every day is weekend, but that’s not necessarily a good idea, I think.

This summer I’ll be fighting off my demons sporting some Brand New apparel.

A hoodie..

Back of the hoodie

And a subtle touch of excellence!

And a matching T-shirt!

Courtesy of the Brand New Merch Store. What are your favourite pieces of band merch? Looking to get some more from bands I like, but unfortunately a lot of bands don’t have a much that fit my taste.