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P O W E R · M E T AL video game theme Mega Man 3 Cut Man Stage remix by GameOver.

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Justin.tv streaming TV over the web. Leo Laporte talking tech, DJ:s working live, real people sharing their lifes, lectures in how to make music. Whatever you want to watch.

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G R E A T · B O O K · sale in Sweden right now. I try to keep the language skills up. I bought an English Chinese Dictionary on a flee market. Fika is a swedish world meaning sitting down having a cup of coffee or tea with a cake. translated to chinese 咖啡
You could also make a cup of indian Chai, tea with much milk and spices. The site Chow seems to be a nice source for the food addict. In the tea you can have some rock candy. I use to go a small food store in Kista where they sell this interesting crystals of suger.

Today I started to be followed by finest.se. This is a site for great and famous people in Stockholm. Well they have told me at work that one part of my work is to make my little science city as popular as Stureplan. It's like Swedens Hackescher Markt. The new Digital Art and Culture Center will open it's door in March and a new digital culture house with different stages will be built soon.
To come back on topics, books, iPod Touch, the device that could be used for eBook-reading, is very popular by adolocents and kids according to a study published by Machable this week. So, teachers leave the kids alone!, With the gadgets, as they read.

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C H R I S T M A S lights at the Järva peoples park culture farm by Kista.

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T H I S W E E K E N D DreamHack is in Skellefteå in northen part of Sweden. DreamHack also has a game qualifier in Berlin to DreamHack Winter in Jönköping. Watch the invitiation to DreamHack Winter below.



A lecture with internet grandfather and Google vice president Vint Cerf was held at Engineer Academy in Stockholm and linked to DreamHack in Skellefteå.

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T O N I G H T · it’s beer slam night! And the contenders are:
Anchor Steam from San Francisco, California, USA
Born in 1896 · 4,8% alc./vol.
going a title match against
Breznak Lezak from, Czech Republik, EU
Born in 1753 · 5,1% alc./vol.
Review at Beeradvocate

This is a Swedish Beerotica production 18+

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T H E · F U T U R E · of input to computers will be holographic keyboards.

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Plastica - "Y Y ME" (all-toy Rush YYZ Tribute) - Click here for this week’s top video clips

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T H E · L I G H T S · T U R N I N G · O F F at the opening of world's largest digital festival in the main D hall at 4 PM. New laser show this year, a gigant disco ball, the Northon tower, several rock concerts with Sonic Syndicate etc. Visit the Stockholm edition of DreamHack in August.

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T E S T I N G · several tools for Twitter management. Scroobler, Twazzup and Monitter are my favorites for live real time Twitter searches and monitoring. The Twitter Stream Graphs has been discussed by IT researchers that haven't found it very useful.

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A N · A P P · F O R · T W I T T E R · that makes it pussible for your cat to twitter with friends and followers on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Learn more about Cat Twitter

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D A D A · I N · B E R L I N · with Die Skeptiker, Germany's Dead Kennedys.
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T U R N E D · T H E · L I G H T S · O F F · at 08:30 and lighted some candles instead.
World Earth Hour

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W A T C H · California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger opening speach
Worlds biggest trade show for technology with 5.000 companies on location in Hannover.

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R E L E A S I NG · N E W · A L B U M · 4:th March. The album is named Sju (Seven). Producer is Torsten Larsson from Stonefunkers and producer of Soundtrack of Our Lives. The album is recorded in a special studio in an old house at Olles house lot. May I call Olle a swedish Lou Reed. A strong honest much emotional documentary movie filmed longitudinal under three years, about Olle and his life, could be watched on SVT-play. Learn more on myspace/olleljungstom

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T H E · S C H L A G E R · M E T A L I S T S · The Poodles are comming to Vällingby Design City to perform in Kfem Fashion House Stage. Be there and take a close look at some italian shoes simultaneusly, but don't trow them on the lads in the band. Visit Poodles web

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O N E · O F · T HE · W O R L D ’ S · greatest film festivals starting today. Watch the livestream. Press conference 14:40, opening 19:45.

Photo: Maharepa at Flickr

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L A N G U A G E · E X P E R T · comic strip author, video game designer etc. has been interviewed in swedens biggest newspaper Aftonbladet today. Sippan is the manager of the upcomming puzzle game OCD.
Learn more in Aftonbladet Wendela

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T O · S T O C K H O L M · first time ever. World’s biggest LAN-party normaly located to Elmia in Jönköping, is on tour and will attending the Technical Museum in Stockholm in the Winter Vaccation week from 21 Februrary.

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W I T H · N E W · C U B A S E · 5.0 presented by Steinberg at recent NAMM 2009 music instruments trade show in Anaheim California. Visit NAMM Show
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3 .0 · P R E S E N T E D · at game developers evening at Swedish Game Awards 20 January at the Student Unions House at Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Now it’s more simple than ever to create videogames with a more abstract programming and straigt forward production methods on the Microsoft Xbox 360 platform
Visit the XNA Creators Club

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W O R L D S · L A R G E S T · digital education and eLearning event with expo and conference held in Olympia western part of London City from today wednesday. The tag line is “Learning Creatively Through Technology” The opening speach will be held by Mr. Jim Knight Minister of State for Schools and Learners. Lego Education will be represented at the fair, with their flagship concept Lego Mindstorm.
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G A L A · E V E N T · with award show monday 12 January in Stockholm. Master director Tomas Alfredson’s “Låt den rätte komma in” (Let the right one in) a vampire horror movie settled in Blackeberg Vixton Vällingby received 5 Gullbagges (gold betles).

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I N F L A M E S · E L E C T E D · at the annual Grammis Award 2009, the swedish music industry show held in Stockholm. The nominee in the metal class where: Opeth, Sabaton, Millencolin, Inflames, Messhugah. Learn about Inflames latest studio album “A Sence of Purpose” on wikipedia
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M A D E · F U N · T E S T · on AQ a Asperger test. I got 21 categorized as an average male or female computer scientist

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S T E V E · J O B S · will not make a keynote speach, as everybody knows, instead marketing manager Schiller will speak when the Macworld Expo 2009 starts 5 January. Will new multicore processors be on board? What will happening with the MacMini concept? Quadcore iMac with hyperthreading and new microarchetechture? OpenCL with higher level programming and easyer and faster app-development? Will we see a Netbook? What do a processor and hardware oriented advanced user think? Watch this initiated video on the topic.
Visit IDG:s MacWorld Expo 2009

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T O · Y O U · A L L · with childhood heros Twisted Sister including great singer and showman Dee Snider and bass-virtuoso and radioman Mark ”Animal” Mendoza from Animal Tactics Radio NYC. Thanx dudes you gave me a big laughter.

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M R · J O S E F · F A R E S · famous director for several hits in the swedish movie business will receive a grant of SEK 700.000 for developing a new video game. The Nordic Game Program supports the development company The Story Lab for their new fantasy genred game called Brothers. Erik Robertsson president of Nordic Game to the right.
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K I S T A · S C I E N C E · C I T Y · Today 11 December Dogge Dogelito, frontman of leading swedish Rapper group The Latin Kings lectured at Kista Scince Tower’s Conferance Centre on Labor politics and integration in the swedish society.

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H E L D · B Y · S W E D I S H · R E S E A R C H E R S at IVA Grevturegatan 12 at 03:00 pm. Malin Gawell, Bengt Johannisson and Mats Lundqvist are the lecturers.
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W H A T ’ S · T H E · D I R E C T I O N · of the current IT-industrial development in Stockholm and Kista Science City? What has the future in store? The IT-sector is not as hard affected by the down turn as other more traditional industry sectors. The near future will possibly present a slow recovery. Software competences are attractive as specialists in general. More information on studies and analytical work on the IT-industry and further discussion, please contacting me by mail tomers66(at)yahoo.se

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S I N C E · 1 9 9 7 · exhibitions presented on video games, viewed as art and culture. The museum is located at Gubener Strasse 47 in Fredrichshain, Berlin.
Learn more at computerspielemuseum.de

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H E L L O · F R I E N D S · and neighbours of the web2.0 social sphere. Im back from a manic week in Berlin. I was attending the international Web2.0 Expo and continued my exploration of Berlin and the digital cultural scene in the European Metropolis.
In Berlin you have great opportunities to choose from a multitudeof experiences. First the Expo with lecures by intersting speakers like Tim O’Reilly founder of the O’Reilly publishing house, a wellknown litterature source if you are a computer science student. And Yossi Vardi the inventor of ICQ and the diacronic messaing client concept. I see the sector today as a sea of with ripples of new intersting positive internet bubbles in a time of bursts. Like in physics bubbles produces waves on the surface that intersects and interacts. Positive vibrations in a time of bursts.

Combining roles as a new media entertainer and teacher. Duande from Toronto succesdes in that for sure. He has over 200.000 regular wievers of his net-TVshow Duandes World on Adobe.TV. He showed up with his distincte positive apperance, listening, smiling and dressed in a black leather coat with a flex logo on the back. Referenced by the other more formal dudes as ”Billy Idol of Flex”

Adobes Flex 3 for easily production of Rich Internet web sides driven by interaction with applications. New books where available for sale. For example you can build dynamic stock analyst sites for NASDAQ

Cloud computing
The new company Soundcloud from Sweden was presented by Alex. This is a new place for all of us independent musicartists. Alex estimated that +60k individuals are producing music in USA and there is a great market for supporting them on the net. SoundCloud doing this with all kind of services like uploading, community etc.

Salesforce from USA delivers safe solutions for distributed customized client support. Salesforce

I will do a lecture of the risks of cload prel. called distributed or disrupted? A case study from a musicians perspective

iPhones of course, everybody put them up and use the different apps, like the photo apps making sounds and animation of a big shutter.

OpenSource organizations and community as the way of thinking development. You are dispersed and make developement with people all around the world. Thats the new organization of the workforce.

Start ups like mushrooms
Everywhere there where young men and women dressed in a suit maybee for the first time? presenting themselves as CEO, CTO, CIO, CBO etc. actually being you and your best friend starting a company in your flat. Thats pointing to the future. In ten years the chinese suit-dude whery keen on learning will be the new Bill Gates.
A good point for startups is in times of depression, according to wellrenomated Saul Klein of Index Ventures based in London. The key issue is not venture money is in what you and your company can with in much limited montearty found, especially right now in uncertain times.
The Berlin City Development Council was letting entreprenours know that they are willing to give their support. Berlin Partner

Danger! The triad of dead cold products, ok not dead yet
Desktop computers - mail - computer books
Avoid them if possible!

To sum up in a light way - The Web 2.0 Berlin paraphrasing a song popular in YouTube (search for Flee Market Montogmery and sing along).
“Its just like, its just like, a miniolympics, for the future, of internet and computing, oh yeah”

Image above, from the light and sound show of the opening cermony

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I M · G O I N G · to Berlin today. Visiting the Web 2.0 Expo. Who is going to attend you can see on Crowdvine. The event will be held in Berliner Congress Center in Mitte (downtown) some minutes from the Alexanderplatz.

Expo info can be explored here

Web 2.0 Expo is hosted by O’Reilly and TechWeb.
The weatherforcast for Berlin is exellent for monday an thuesday with +16–18°C.

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I · H A V E · been active as tutor and teacher coaching several people into reach for a new desirable employment. Below I give short advice for how to make a kick start to get a position in the video game industry.

Write a personal letter describing yourself and ansvering the following questions:
/ who you are / What you are verry good at / why you should be picked / what others think of you
Produce a CV/ or resume with:
/ working experience / practice / education / language skills / other relevant info
Datamine the web on companies you are interested to work for finding out info about*:
/ operations and acctivites /annual report / nuber of employees / professional roles
/ trends / sales / turn over
/ titeles / projects / production lines and time lines
Create contact and ask for an internship
Use a coach and get an inspirational book on the subject

*If you want info about a swedish video game company you could use allabolag.se

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T O · M A K E · an Andrew Loyd Webber citation:
“The sun will come out tomorrow, Bet your bottom dollar That tomorrow There'll be sun!”
A new low price Apple notebook will see the light. Probably a MacBook priced USD 1.000, in metal. Newer before there has been so much interest and rumours about a computers case.
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T O D A Y · I · V I S I T E D · an event called Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden, an annual gathering for fans of old video and computer games. Gaming consoles and computers like C64, Nintendo NES, Sinclair Spectrum and Ataris. Lectures was presented by the early days enterpreneurs, today veterans. There was early conections between the music business and video games industry in the early days. CBS for example was involeved in the develpment of the PacMan game.

A video game quiz with 22 tunes was presented. Composer and game title you where supposed to remember. Music from C64, Nintendo NES and some remixes it was. I think of myself as a kind of video game music fan, but I got completely lost and succeded realy badly. I speaked with a dude that came as 6 in this competition and 2 in an overall retrogame competition. He was pleased with the day, two placements in the video game circuit in only one day. Old video game machines and subjects around them, have became objects for fashination just like old cars used to be.

The image above shows the price cermony and winner of swedich championships in original Pong video game at Retrogathering 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mr. Martin Lindell from the Swedish Game Industry Association hosted the event. More than 200 individuals attended the event.

www.retrogathering.se

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V I S I T · European Commision’s researchers night web
Local activities in Stockholm starts 12:00 at Kulturhuset. Visit the event program

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I N · S T O C K H O L M · at Pub Anchor Sveavägen 90 at 09.00 PM the Swedish gigants of death/viking metal will release their new album. Check out their new widget beneath.

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T H E · C O N C L U S I O N · from the Multicore Day is a upcomming great paradigm shift. After a digital age with single microprocessor, linear applications, bus architechture and networking, we are climbing ower to a multicore or many core era. Chips with thousands of processing cores with own dedicated cache and I/O-bus and swich will be a reality in only six or eigh years. Today 4 cores are available in comercial processors, and 64 cores in the research like Tile64 from Tilera that host 64 cores in a regular mesh architecture.
Two cores in a processor will give a 50% faster prosessor, but upscaling with additions of cores will limit the speed, unless the methods threading is not optimated with multi threading.
New processors are suitable for running several OS and applications simultaneus extremely useful for demanding multimedia like HD video streaming management. A clear pro with multi/many core is lowered power consumtion and meeting environmental issues.
Ericsson R&D:s Mats Karlsson know that their future is in software development. Today 80% are working on software. Heteregenous processors will probably be adopted for applications.
Acumem founder Erik Hagersten lectured over parallelzing compiling and Mr. Hagersten is representing UPMARC a research programme with 60 MSEK for 10 years.
Stanford research manager Kunle Olukotun talked on Stanford Perversative Processing (SPP), parallel object language, and aim for development of Virtual World applications.

New Questions
• How to optimate threading of multiple/many cores
• Development of new tools and methods are needed.
• The limitation of internal bandwith is a great problem
• Regular mesh or heterogenity
• Hardware or software definition of applications
• New ways of thinking for new programmers

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I · A M · A T T E N D I N G · the Multicore Days at the new opened Kista Expo in Kista Science City. Keynote will be presented by Kunle Olukotun from Stanford University and after him will Anant Agarwal from MIT and Tilera give a lecture. The event is hosted by Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS)
Read the complete Program

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T H E · N E W · webbrowser from Google, Crome was released as a beta for Windows on tuesday 2 September. What is Chrome? Execution speed for javascript enhanced, adaption for webapplications, minimalistic design etc. But eyh, it's better to let the Google developers explain.

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T O · E V E R Y · C H I L D · is an educational project with Nicholas Negroponte from MIT involved.

“Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

Visit the OLPC:s web

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S P O R E · V I D E O · G A M E · by EA released 4 September, here discussed by producer Will Wright.

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L I S T E N · T O · T H I S · keyboard shredder. Not only guitarists can play fast.

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A · N E W · M A G A Z I N E · for macusers with a maclifestyle perspective will enter the market soon. It’s Peter Esse from Macradion and Macfeber, one of Swedens most popular blogs, that is the founder of this new paper.
Visit iLove

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Y O U · C A N · F I N D · the statistics for the most popular and visited web sites in Sweden at Tidningstatistik. You can find out that Bonnier’s Dagens Industri and the IDG-cluster are the two biggest dragons at the web TS-controlled web-publication field.

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O F · B L O G G I N G · with a video from Ullevi, Swedens biggest Stadium from SVT with Iron Maiden playing “Run to the Hills”

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T H E · W I I · F I T · is a training device to put on your floor and step up on. You can train yoga, strenght, balance and aerobics.

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I · A M · R A N K E D · as #32 mac-irc-chatter in Sweden today. I write in avarage 40 words/day, every single day, on Mac and Apple topics (source: Buck@#macnytt@freenode.net)

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U P · 1 0 % · last 30 days. The Uppsala based swedish gamedeveloper with the Darkness and Riddick games, was last SEK 0,34.
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Read an interview with the CEO at Gameindusry.biz

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N O W · A T · L A S T , I have uploaded a new tune called "Casa Grande" on my www.allears.se site. Kind of experimental distorted electro latin style. I got inspired by a spoky house for sale in rural Smaland, Sweden, big scary with a over grown garden, trashed stairways etc - for short a house suitable for a mystical shock rock video. You dont want to know who the former residents was and for sure not what the did there. Well this scary house influenced me in some way when producing this tune.

Tunses by Tom Smoke’s Mountain Fire Wind at Allears.

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R O B E R T · W E L L S · from Sweden is the composer of the 2008 Olymics theme song “We Are Ready”. Over 100 songs competed for the job. The song will be played for over 1300 times at the Olympics. The Olympics will start at friday 08-08-08 at 08:08:08.
Visit theOlympic web

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S W E D I S H · N E T · R A D I O · on mac os related topics.
How are Steve Jobs health condition? MobileMe, iPhone and other subjects are up to discussion and penetration.
Visit and listen here

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T H E · N E W · Asus eee PC 900 seems to be a nice small palmtop to use when you are computing in the open air. It’s small, soundless, energyefficient, is delivered with bundled softwares and priceworthy. Go visit TrustedReview for a review on the machine. >

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T H I S · W E E K E N D · it’s metal festival in Wacken, Germany, EU. I listening to the Wacken event radio at Last.fm right now. Do it at: www.last.fm/listen/event/278782

A little story. When I was a kid I had a dream that Iron Maiden walked on the St:Eriksgatan in Stockholm and Bruce Dickinson came up to me and asked if I wanted to join them as a drummer. Guess if I was disapointed when I waked up. St:Eriksgatan btw is the musical district in Stockholm.

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G E N U I N E · Swedish hula hula rock n roll music video and movie track from the happy 50ies staring famous movie star character Asa-Nisse,played by John Elfstrom, actor in more than 100 movies. Singer Bertil Boo acted in the Asa-Nisse movies in the role as himself, the singing farmer. I have to say that swedish rock n roll have developed since the golden days back then.

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Q U O R T H O N (Tomas F) · was one among my best friends in Vinsta school and Spanga Gymnasium school in the 80ies. He was completely obsessed with music at realy early years. Kiss was the favorite band at this early stage. He put up posters (teared out from music magazines) outside the classroom, posters that covered the walls completely. We choosed group music in “fritt valt arbete” (free school subject), as the only one from the class that dared to play when we where 14. The group music class (two pupils) was conducted by the music teacher, an older man with a grey goatie(called Carl Henry, if I remember right).

D R U M S · A N D · K I S S · Quorthon lived in a big white stone house near the school and I lived at a greater distance and had to travel by bus every morning. My parents and I chosed this scool because it was the best in this part of Stockholm. Unfourtanely I could not spend much time with my schoolmates after school because I had to take the bus home to my district and also studied a lot. Quorthon talked a lot on musical topics on the lunch breaks, like what the intention of a musical solo was, what it meant, and on how to play drums, the members of Kiss. He played Pearl drums that he practised on at home. He was quiet, tall and skinny and I think he had a verry strong and cloes knit family at home, so he didn't took much contacts with mates in school. His dad run a musical business operation called Tyfon that focused on swedish dance bands originaly and I remembered that his dad was young, much younger than mine. I do not know when Quorthon picked up the guitar but I think he had a lot of opportunities to play what ever he wanted at home.

T H E · C L A S S · from school had a reunion on a boat trip to Mariehamn at Aland in the 90ies. Quorthon talked a lot and we shared cabin. He had started out his international music career with the Hammerheart album, was sad for some unsolvable difficulties with his ex-girlfriend from a south European country, Italy I think it was. Most of our classmates did not understand and apreciated his extremly high musical ambitions and his great talent. Music was something you could do on your spare time but not do for a living was the middle class perspective around. Quorthon did not like school much, expect from music of course. I remember that he also was a bit interested in sports and had a bag with the 1980 Moscow olympics logo printed on it.
He used to pick on me because he was almost a year older than me. He was so much more experienced, also tired on school and I was far behind, in his oppinion. He didn't found comfort with the life in school and wanted to be inspired by real life and grown ups outside the school setting.
I remember a travel with the class down to a lake where we used canoes to experience the wild nature. I fell of course out of the canoe and into the water, something my class mates found verry funny. I used to have a picture of all mates in canoes somewhere in a photoalbum.

T I M E · went on. I studied a lot and worked at different sites at offices. Quorthon was 100% focused on music. Mine and Quorthons paths went on diffent directions. We lost contact. After a lot of years I got information that Quorthon lived in an appartment just some kilometers away. He had experimented with his stage name and changed it several times. When I got layed of from my old work I got a lot of time to think and I thought a lot on music and started to think what Tomas was up to. Maybe I should call him up, after all this years and go visit him?

I · D I D N ' T · even know the name of his band at that time. I started to search on the net and I googled around a lot and found out that he had founded and run a metal band for several years and published a complete catalog of albums, had international success, made several promotion trips abroad, most most important of all – invented two musical genres all by himself with his own ears of creativity. Bathory and Quorthon (sounded like a sort of cream cheese to me) at the beginning.

T H E · C O N C E P T · of a branching out or differentation of hard rock to what we today call extreme metal (speed, grind, trash, hardcore etc. etc.) started to be popular in the early 90ies with bands like Slayer and Megadeath. Bathory was influenced by Motorhead. The studio equipment and later musical applications for computers developed so one person could compose, play and produce all music by himself. Bathory was a band that bacame a oneman band with a great recording artist, supported by new technologies.

A T · T H E · S U M M E R · of 2005 I thought of taking up contact, but a big issue crystalized among the rich information on the net. Quorthon had hart failure and he had got a deadly stroke just seven weeks before. That was the irony of destiny, that we never should talk again. I would liked to say hello, but now I only can bow and say thank you alot for beeing such a great person in my early youth and thanks for all your effort you brought into you music that will live on for a long time in the future.

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Thanks Mibook84

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