MONDOFUNZA

I’ve just discovered that eMusic.com features Copenhagen, a live album by the now defunct American band Galaxie 500 recorded Decmber 1st 1990 in Copenhagen by the Danish Broadcast Corporation. The funny thing is that the venue was Barbue, the club where I was doing the booking. Though I did not book this concert since I had left to be a reporter a year earlier, I was probably in the audience.

It brings back memories. I also booked The Flaming Lips. Loudest concert ever at Barbue. Our tight, black jeans were vibrating because of the air pressure from the loudspeakers. Must have been in 1987.

Only other band that played that loud was Rapeman = Steve Albini, formerly of Big Black and later to become a famous producer of Nirvana and others. He tried to score after the concert. With little luck as I remember. Who wants to go to a sleazy hotel with the frontman of a band called Rapeman? Though he was actually a quite nice guy.

Same thing with Henry Rollins, who visited us with his spoken word show. He had some really funny stories about being at the hospital with a great urge to masturbate and about how he blew his only chance to killl Bono on a street in L.A.

And Sky Saxon - legendary singer of the sixities garagepunk band The Seeds - who only wanted to drink “ice cold milk”, which meant that we had to store several litres of milk in the icecube machine.

Or the Meat Puppets, who stole all of our completely new orange towels. I bought the orange ones on purpose, because I thought they were so ugly that no one would steal them. Wrong!

And another star from the 60’s/70’s garagerock scene Alex Chilton, who was really bad tempered. Maybe because he kept on having an electrical shock from the microphone.

I don’t know, because I had to leave that night to play a gig with my own band – Boghandle, Danish grunge - as usual it ended up with our singer getting into a fight with someone from the audience.

Those were the days. 1987. Almost 20 years ago. And what is left except from a clear sinustone constantly ringing in my ear?

Well, search for the above mentioned artists at eMusic. There are some pretty good picks. And some day I might get back to writing the whole story with all the sleazy details of the Copenhagen underground rock scene in the 80’s.

But then again; who cares?

This is fun! I’ve just received this pressrelease from “Halliburton”… Is it the Yesmen in a new disguise?

Check out the photos.
May 9, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: mailto:EPDU@halliburtoncontracts.com
Photos: http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/EPDU/

HALLIBURTON SOLVES GLOBAL WARMING
SurvivaBalls save managers from abrupt climate change

An advanced new technology will keep corporate managers safe even
when climate change makes life as we know it impossible.

“The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no
matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way,” said Fred Wolf, a
Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss
conference held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Amelia Island, Florida.
“This technology is the only rational response to abrupt climate
change,” he said to an attentive and appreciative audience.

Most scientists believe global warming is certain to cause an
accelerating onslaught of hurricanes, floods, droughts, tornadoes,
etc. and that a world-destroying disaster is increasingly possible.
For example, Arctic melt has slowed the Gulf Stream by 30% in just
the last decade; if the Gulf Stream stops, Europe will suddenly
become just as cold as Alaska. Global heat and flooding events are
also increasingly possible.

In order to head off such catastrophic scenarios, scientists agree we
must reduce our carbon emissions by 70% within the next few years.
Doing that would seriously undermine corporate profits, however, and so
a more forward-thinking solution is needed.

At today’s conference, Wolf and a colleague demonstrated three
SurvivaBall mockups, and described how the units will sustainably
protect managers from natural or cultural disturbances of any
intensity or duration. The devices - looking like huge inflatable
orbs - will include sophisticated communications systems, nutrient
gathering capacities, onboard medical facilities, and a daunting
defense infrastructure to ensure that the corporate mission will not
go unfulfilled even when most human life is rendered impossible by
catastrophes or the consequent epidemics and armed conflicts.

“It’s essentially a gated community for one,” said Wolf.

Dr. Northrop Goody, the head of Halliburton’s Emergency Products
Development Unit, showed diagrams and videos describing the
SurvivaBall’s many features. “Much as amoebas link up into slime
molds when threatened, SurvivaBalls also fulfill a community
function. After all, people need people,” noted Goody as he showed an
artist’s rendition of numerous SurvivaBalls linking up to form a
managerial aggregate with functional differentiation, metaphorically
dancing through the streets of Houston, Texas.

The conference attendees peppered the duo with questions. One asked
how the device would fare against terrorism, another whether the
array of embedded technologies might make the unit too cumbersome; a
third brought up the issue of the unit’s cost feasibility. Wolf and
Goody assured the audience that these problems and others were being
addressed.

“The SurvivaBall builds on Halliburton’s reputation as a disaster and
conflict industry innovator,” said Wolf. “Just as the Black Plague
led to the Renaissance and the Great Deluge gave Noah a monopoly of
the animals, so tomorrow’s catastrophes could well lead to good - and
industry must be ready to seize that good.”

Goody also noted that Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society
was set to employ the SurvivaBall as part of its Corporate Sustenance
(R) program. Another of Cousteau’s CSR programs involves accepting a
generous sponsorship from the Dow Chemical Corporation, whose general
shareholder meeting is May 11.

Please visit http://www.halliburtoncontracts.com/EPDU/ for photos,
video, and text of today’s presentation.

Årets bedste nyhed. Da jeg var på Harddisken P1, havde vi en sofa til “meditativ research”. Det var toppen lige at tage ti minutter på øjet, før man skulle koncentrere sig en ny opgave. Jeg får som regel de bedste ideer, når jeg er i bad, på min cykel gennem byen eller, når jeg sover eller er lige ved at falde i søvn. REM-søvn er toppen for kreativ tænkning. Da jeg startede hos FDB, der lå i Coops bygning i Albertslund, var der to rum på gangen med skilet “hvilerum”. Det havde de sikkert været engang, men nu blev de brugt til opmagasinering af ringbind. Tænk engang, at “dovenskab” engang har været en værdsat kvalitet. Genkomsten af den bølge vil jeg gerne være evangelist på!

Dovenskab er godt mod stress: “En halv time på divaneseren er god medicin mod stress.
Dovenskab er godt mod stress
07. maj 2006 03.50 Indland Opdat.: 07. maj 2006 11.24
En dosis dovenskab er god medicin mod stress. siger stressforskeren Thomas Milsted, der er leder af Center for Stress, til NORDJYSKE Stiftstidende.

- Problemet er bare, at vi ser dovenskab og pauser i arbejdstiden som uintelligent. Så afstressning er kulturelt imod os, siger Thomas Milsted.
Dagligt dovneri
I dag er over 44 procent stressede med mellemrum, viser tal fra Statens Institut for Folkesundhed.
- Dovenskab aktiverer nogle stoffer, der modvirker stress. Pulsen kommer ned, og hjertebanken og blodtrykket falder, når man dovner, siger Thomas Milsted.
Han foreslår, at det daglige dovneri kan være t”

(Via dr.dk.)

Jeg er blevet inviteret med i Mennesker og Medier hos Lasse Jensen i P1 i dag klokken 13 - 14.00. Erik Kjær Larsen fra Flix.dk og jeg er det første indslag i udsendelsen. Det handler – som den opmærksomme læser nok har gættet – om borgermedier og borgerjournalistik.

Du kan også fange genudsendelsen på P1 lørdag klokken 11- 12.00 – eller på podcast

Though singer Wayne Coyne spent too much of what little was left of his voice on explaining his lyrics, talking about love and bashing on Bush instead of singing this was a great night. Flaming Lips remain one of the top innovative outfits in rock’n'roll.

Enjoy this piece of video from the beginning of the concert.

And by the way; Tivoli Concert Hall is great for classical music, but a disaster if you want to dance and drink beer. On stage Flaming Lips preached love, while the Tivoli crew on the floor acted rather harsh against the people in the audience, who tried to move closer to the stage and have a dance. Not a venue for any kind of rhytmic music.