It's Hard To Find One Rich Man In Ten With A Satisfied Mind

Title: Johnny Cash - A Satisfied Mind (not the original artist, but it's a good cover)

I think I'm very...satisfied right now. I feel like things are coming together nicely, despite it perhaps not going that way. Maybe it's just the morning, and how I feel things right now is what does it, but that's not what I'll blog about right now.

Today, my girlfriend is coming to visit me. I'm REALLY looking forward to it! It'll be really great to see her again (though it's "only" been 2 days since the last time). When you're in a long distance relationship (or your current relationship was a long distance one), you just can't really meet your girlfriend enough.

My summer break is ending in three days (as in I've got school on Wednesday). It's gone past me WAY too fast, and I didn't do all the things I were supposed to do. But when does one really do all the things you're supposed to do through the summer break? I don't think I've done that a single time. We set too high goals for ourselves.

I'm not really great in math. Actually, when I don't think a lot about math, I do VERY many mistakes. Today, I thought 4.99 + 4.99 + 7.99 + 3.99 would be just under 20. Of course, if it were 7 + 3, and not the .99's, I'd be correct, but it wasn't so, so I'm gonna have to think things more through.

Yesterday, I was at my local instrument shop. I nearly bought a Tascam DP-004, but I went there mainly because I wanted a whammy bar for my guitar. The reason I didn't buy it, was because I apperently doesn't have enough money. Good thing the machine didn't work then, because otherwise, I REALLY would be broke! Anyways, an old and dear friend of mine has offered me to send me his Tascam DP-01 FX Portastudio, so I think that'll have to do for my sake. Whatever happened to the product I once ordered there, I don't know.

But now I'm gonna have to leave you, because I'll have to get ready to pick up my girlfriend, but I'll leave you with some questions for you to answer:
1. What's been your plans for this summer?
2. Where would you most of all like to go?
3. When do you start school?

Fly On Little Wing

Title: The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Wing

I wish I could be so much more than I am. For now, I can't, but I'm struggling towards that goal. I wanna be everything I can. But I can't be that either.

Tomorrow...or later today, perhaps it is, since it's over midnight now, I'm not going to be doing a lot of things. I'll try to get me a whammy bar on my precious guitar and try to visit my granma, since she's been nagging about it for a week or so now, and I'm free tomorrow.

Right now, Derek And The Dominos is the best music for me. The title is really from the cover made by them today, but ALWAYS other, it's Jimi's song to me. I just had the Derek version stuck to my mind when I woke up this morning. It's a good cover, but it's not NEARLY as great as Jimi's original version from his VERY fine album "Axis: Bold As Love". Though, all three of Jimi's albums are VERY fine albums to me, there's something about Axis that makes me feel it SHOULD be my favorite by him. Jimi means much more to me than I ever give him credit for.

Today I've been with my girlfriend, and we're doing fine lately. I feel I'm not the easiest to be with lately, and also that I can't control my obsessions as much as I used to be able to. And I'm REALLY bad at choosing my battles lately, and that leaves me losing a lot of battles that aren't really important to me, but becomes so, and that brings me down. My mood is really changing a lot lately.

I really like The Rolling Stones' music now a days. But you've probably already discovered that. They've got some of the finest music I know of, but I've been trying to hold back those feelings because I didn't see myself as much of a Stones fan, but in reality, I love their work, at least back in the 60's, so yeah, I feel it's okay that I listen a lot to them lately, because it suits me. I've even started getting into "Exile On Main St.". Only a few songs I don't feel like I really like yet, but that's just a few listens away.

I'm soon gonna start going to school again, and it's a mix between scary and sadening. It wasn't going to be like this. I was supposed to quit school now and work this year, but I couldn't get no work, and Google AdSense has kicked me out of their program as well, so I can't really gain any extra money from them either. I don't know what I am to use my education for, because I won't work with something within this field. I think everybody knows, but not everyone are admitting to know it.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere -Neil Young

Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

Title: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain

I've been awake and fallen asleep and been awake and been aware of whether I'm asleep or not for over an hour now. Right now, I'm just lying in my bed, listening to the rain, which really pours down right now. It's always nice listening to the rain, especially when you fall asleep or wake up. I like the sound of rain.

But today, is NOT the perfect day for it to pour down. In three hours from now, I'm supposed to be in Oslo, going to a festival to see a lot of artists, but mainly The Stooges. If the world was under my command, the festival would've been exposed by one day.

I'm going with the beautiful ms Universe, which I had an anniversary with yesterday. For new readers, I call my girlfriend ms Universe for her identity to be a bit hidden. We've been together 19 months. 19 MONTHS! I can't believe she still likes me after 19 MONTHS with being my girlfriend, but somehow, she does. I love her more than anything else.

Being together for this long of a time at our age, makes a lot of grown ups think about how far they had come after our time of being together. My parents had moved in together quite a long time ago by this time.

But back to today, because I live today (unlike Jimi Hendrix, who said he didn't live today even back when he was alive). I know I'll be tired as hell when I get back home today, because:
1. It's raining
2. It's a festival
3. I'm gonna take a trainride home
4. I'm always quite tired after having done...anything?

Three quick questions for you, the reader:
1. Do you like listening to the rain?
2. Have you been to, or are you going to, a concert lately?
3. What's the longest relationship you've ever been in?

Love Is Love And Not Fade Away

Title: Buddy Holly (or The Rolling Stones) - Not Fade Away

Buddy Holly and The Rolling Stones said it well. Love is love, and not fade away. If it's love, it won't fade now, will it? But what if it feels like it's fading, or rather slipping away? Is it still love or what is it? I don't know.

I'm sitting here, listening to The Rolling Stones now. I'm gonna add two-three movies to my iPod later on, and then hopefully watch a movie or two or something. I don't know why I'm so negative to The Rolling Stones going up on my Last.fm. After all, they've got some of my favorite albums of all time (so far: Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed) and some of the finest songs I can think of (Wild Horses, Play With Fire, "Paint It, Black"...) and they're the kind of band I like: From the 60's, playing rock'n'blues and was there before the "big scene" got there and got some GREAT harmonica playing. Damn it, I'm gonna go ahead and listen more to them and get them UP on my Last.fm!

When I listened through "December's Children" yesterday (for the first time), I didn't like it all that much, but it's growing on me. Growing fast! Almost as fast as The Monks' "Black Monk Time" did not long ago (but that's like the fastest ANY album have grown on me as well, cus I think I thought it was PERFECT from the first listen).

I think I'll watch "The Searchers" today. The John Wayne movie. He's got a great reputation, but I haven't really enjoyed any of his works yet, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm just a bit disappointed with myself for watching "Casablanca" before all them other movies I bought when I was in London this summer, because it's like the best damn movie I've EVER seen!

Mercy Mercy

Title: The Rolling Stones - Mercy, Mercy

Music was better way back before. Of course, I'm not supposed to say that, being an artist trying to become something great, but it really was. Though it may've been simpler than today's music, it still was more advanced. It's not ALL about HOW you play a song, but HOW you play a song. "Did he throw monkey shit at his guitar while recording that riff? THAT'S what makes THAT sound?!"

I don't know why I put "Mercy Mercy" as this title. It's just the opening song of one of the Rolling Stones' albums that was waiting for me at home when I got back today. Of course, the album I'm referring to is "Out Of Our Heads", the US edition. The other Rolling Stones' album waiting for me was "December's Children (And Everybody's)". It's just one of those albums I'm obsessed with, without EVER having heard it! Now, you may wonder "why do you want the American releases when you don't live in America, and The Rolling Stones ain't from America?", and there's a quite simple answer to that. Unlike The Beatles, the American releases is REALLY great! I'm not saying American-Beatles is shite, just that I prefer their official British releases, while with The Stones, I like them American. There's so much more I think I'm gaining from it, and what I don't get, I'm gonna get in British editions. After all, I'm only interested in The Stones pre-Goat's Head Soup (that means I'm NOT interested in G.H.S.!).

I'm not sure what I should do with tomorrow. There's TOO MANY things I wanna fix. I think a lot of the day's gonna go to watch movies, try to get WordPress straight and listen to some of my new albums and read them magazines I bought today in Sweden. I bought four magazines, actually. Not usual of me to do, but there was four magazines I could NOT leave, so I'm happy about it.

I'm starting to get a bit pissed that I'm not getting any answers from Google about Google AdSense, since I wanna make some money when I'm blogging here and there, and they aren't opening my account...or at least haven't told me they've done so...*checking*...Nope, still blocked, and been so for two months. I ain't diggin' it.