Active Lifestyle

I have always believed that I am in relatively good shape and I have an active lifestyle. I work out about 5-6 times a week and love to sweat and push my body. But today I did something that really opened my eyes! I booked a spot on what is called active pump at the gym I go to with an instructor. 60 minutes with a bar and enough weights. It was intense and non stop. Over 60 minutes we trained all parts of the body with only 30 seconds break in between every 5 minutes or so. I gotta tell you, it was hard! Now I know that I am faaar from the shape I would like to be in, this was madness!

Anyway, picking up the phase from now on. What do you out there do to stay in shape? I thought that a good song to follow this post would be a song from the Rocky soundtrack and a little training montage from YouTube, he-he! Enjoy;)

James Brown - Living In America (Spotify)

Rocky IV Training Montage
Not the best quality on this video, but fun to watch anyway.

One song

Just sitting here chilling and listening to music, and I wanted to share this song with you!

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (Spotify)

Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (YouTube)

The Spotify version is live and about 2 minutes longer than the YouTube version. I must say that the live version is the best one. The video is just a normal music-video, but very good quality! Enjoy:)

Dilemma!

Weekend is coming soon!
I've got a dilemma on what I should do this weekend, I have two choices: The first is to go to a concert where a local country band is playing with some friends of mine and one friend I haven't seen in forever. The second is a Halloween-party in another city not far from here with some other friends. Hard choice indeed, one con for each, Halloween-party is away from home and traveling with a hangover is not cool. The concert is a band that I really don't like at all, they suck, he-he! But it's fun because its with friends, alcohol and its a short way back home. I hope that everyone is having a good morning or night in other places of the world:) And yes, I most certainly do have a song for you this time too :) I'll get right to the point, Enjoy!

Black Sabbath - Dirty Women (YouTube)

Black Sabbath - Dirty Women (Spotify)

The audio on the YouTube video isn't all that great, but it's cool anyway. The video is live from 1978.

Ditching School

So today I am ditching school, I know its wrong and I know I need to be there, but the weather is so damn nice today, so I'm studying at home in the sun :) Besides there is so much other stuff I can do at home in this weather, like sit outside and play guitar in the fresh air. Inspiring stuff! I came up with a new riff this morning while eating breakfast, small stuff but I think I can work with it and try to make something more. Anyway, you all probably want this mornings song! So how about shot in the dark by Ozzy? I'll post both YouTube link and Spotify link, but the video is just a picture with the song in the background, very good quality though! Here it is:

Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark (YouTube)

Ozzy Osbourne - Shot In The Dark (Spotify)

Strangely warm

Today I've been working on my studies and playing some guitar. Me and a friend also walked up to the top of the mountain here in our area, 776 meters over sea level. The weather has been strangely nice and warm these last two days, nicer than it was in the summer. My body gets confused when it goes from almost winter to a hot summer day in only one night, but that's how it is here on the west coast of Norway! Now its bedtime for me, hope everyone had a nice day today. Hmm what song should I post for you today? I know! Steve Lukather - Flash in the Pan. This is a YouTube video, maybe more fun for you out there to watch a music video then just listen to an mp3. So, here it is
Steve Lukather - Flash in the Pan

Totall overdose of energy

This day has been so weird.. I've been working out two times today and washed my apartment. Hardly been sitting down at all and still my feet is shaking and needs to do more. Cant understand this, been sleeping okay last night and eating just right today, that's all. Ah well, I got a few things done today too then, that's good. I've been on a job-interview today too, at the gym where I work out. I am very positive and think I will get the job, she said she needed to sit down with a few more but would get back to me after that, this job would be perfect along side of my studies. Anyway! Next song today, this will be the last post today. Good night:)


Billy Sheehan, Terry Bozzio - The Last Page

Paranormal Activities

So I was at the movies on Saturday to see Paranormal Activities 3. I must say, the movie was extremely freaky and it got my heart racing a few times. But to be honest, it wasn't as good as I imagined it would be. The first Paranormal Activities movie was much better because it gave you a sense of reality with close to no special effects at all and few actors which seemed like your normal neighbors. Anyway, movie number 3 didn't give you all that so it wasn't as freakishly scary as the first. One of the reasons was to many special effects so you could really see that this was a movie and not anything that "really happened". They had many actors, there was a consistent storyline, you could really see that they had a much bigger budget on this movie than the first. That's my reason for thinking the first is better then the third. I haven't seen movie number 2 yet, but I will. What do you guys think?

I promised a few songs this weekend that didn't get posted, so I will start by posting the first one now. This is a link to YouTube and the song is Frank Zappa - Dinah-Moe Humm. This guy was so freaking awesome! Enjoy!

Frank Zappa - Dinah-Moe Humm

Sunday

I'm sorry I didn't get to post a new song on my blog last night, I was hung over and really tired so I instantly fell asleep on my couch and woke up a few minutes ago. Today I will post two songs to make up for yesterday, but first I need to do my early morning stuff! Be back later.

Evening!

Good evening world.

I'm going out, gonna drink a little, so I will post today's song now since I probably wont be online later this evening. Making it short, Pagan's Mind - ...Of Epic Questions, enjoy.

Pagan's Mind - ...Of Epic Questions

Logic Express 8

Does anyone have any previous experience with Logic Express 8?
It's not an easy program to learn and use and I was wondering:
Is there anyone out there that have any experience with mixing in this program? Could someone give me some pointers in how to make it sound more finished than a rough take?

Early bird in the worm:D

Morning!
Today I'm off school and work and everything. Got nothing important to do. So, today I thought I would be working more on that song I'm writing on Logic express. AH! I haven't told you about my equipment yet! I will do that now.

So, I'm not rich, I'm actually quite poor, he-he! But I have a few instruments and a few other gadgets so I can record.
Instruments first:
One old acoustic guitar which was my first guitar.
One Morgan electric guitar in sunburst which was my first electric guitar.
One Epiphone Les Paul Black Beauty, which is my favorite of the guitars, used all my savings on that one:)
One Fender Stratocaster 60's reissue, love that guitar, its straight up sexy.
One Morgan WD 5 which is the latest, I bought it 1 month ago. Really good guitar, very nice sound and its a great to play on. That's my opinion, everyone to their own taste I guess:)
And I have one shitty Yamaha keyboard which I use rarely. Want to save up for a real piano, now that's a dream!

Okay, that's the instruments. I have a lot to buy that's on my list. To name a few, a bass, a midi-keyboard, a banjo which is the instruments I see myself acquiring in the near future. Total need. OK! Off to the software. Its not much but it works.
I have an iMac with software that I bought at the same time I bought the iMac so it came installed and ready to go once I switched on the computer. Software:
Logic express 8. This is really amazing, but its difficult and hard to use. It takes a great amount of time to learn to use Logic, I haven't learned half of it even.
Garage Band. This is an easy program, plug and play kinda thing. You get right to the point here. Its fun but not what you primarily use to record.
POD Farm. Now this is a fun software! This program followed with my Line 6 UX1 sound-card for my instruments. I can use a whole day in the POD Farm. There are several different guitar speakers, guitar effects, bass speakers, bass effects. You have a panel which is easy to use, you get all the "buttons" from the real speaker or effect pedal over the frame that shows what you are using of equipment. Here you can turn on nobs, switch buttons from clean to gain, treble, bass, and so on. Extremely fun program to use. You need a good headset though to hear the sound right.

This is 4 of my guitars hanging on the wall in my old room back home with my mother.

I think that was everything. There are sure to be more to come, and I will update as soon as more has arrived. Have a nice day!

Gaming?

Today after school I went to visit a friend of mine, we've been just sitting around playing this new game that was released a few days ago. Might & Magic Heroes VI. It was quite fun, been wasting a few hours on that game tonight. Fun to see how the graphics and stuff has evolved since the first three heroes games that we used to play as kids. Lots has changed and there was TONS we didn't understand, he-he! All in all its been a good day.

Been studying chemistry at school today, I don't know all the words that's educational correct to use in English, so I wont even try to, he-he! Anyway, we've been calculating reactions between acids and bases today. Not hard at all to do if one knows the basics. As long as it is doable it is fun.

My father asked me if me and my bro wanted to celebrate Christmas with him this year, its been so many years since the last time that I can't even remember it. We've usually been with my mothers side of the family, so I think it would be great to change the tradition for once. All depends on my little bro what he wants to do though..

So, not much more to write today. Today's song is Airbourne - Bottom of the Well. I will link it at the bottom of this page. And remember to get spotify if you don't have it. If its not available in your country you can always find the song on YouTube or iTunes if you are interested. Thanks for today and have a good night everyone! Peace out. Airbourne - Bottom of the Well

Snow

I woke up pretty early today, it was dark and the weather was crazy. Hail and strong winds. About an hour ago it was actually snowing for a few minutes! Winter is knocking on the front door I guess. I can't wait for winter to get here and I hope it will be a lot of snow this year too! Gonna freestyle snowboard up in the mountains this year. Gonna be a whole lot of fun and hopefully no broken bones:D I hope everyone will have a nice day, evening, night. I gotta get ready for school. See you all tonight!

American Pie

Hey!

This has been an OK day I guess! I've been too school learning some math, fun stuff. I have also been at the gym, running my ass off. The weather has been crazy today, high winds and lots of ice cold rain, there is also new snow far down the mountains. I guess winter is coming soon! Can't wait:D

I've been using my evening to relax, taking it easy. I've been watching American Pie, telling you, those movies (the three first ones that is) NEVER get old. They are both stupid and funny at the same time, also they was the peak of good teenage comedy when I was growing up as a young dude of 12. Anyway, fun to watch again:)

Well, I can't leave and go to bed without today's song now can I? So which one will I choose today? Ah, I know, I really dig Jack's Mannequin. Talented guy. So the song today will be Dark Blue by Jack's Mannequin. Hope you enjoy:)   Jack's Mannequin - Dark Blue

Good morning!

Good morning!
Hope everyone had a good night sleep, or is still sleeping or are about to go to sleep.
I've just had my bowl of cereal and I'm ready to start a new day. Going to school in a few hours, so I'll write more then. Until then, have a nice day!

Spotify

I was wondering if there's many of you that have Spotify?
The reason for me asking is that I love music and I use Spotify every hour of the day to play music. And I would like to start share music here in this blog once a day, maybe like a top-week list or something strange like that. I will set up a link which will re-direct you to the song on Spotify, I will of course name the artist and song in my post. I will start right now!

One song that I have been listening to a lot these past few days is Steve Vai - Still My Bleeding Heart. Wonderful song, instruments are great and so is the vocal on the song. Link will follow. Enjoy!:)Steve Vai - Still My Bleeding Heart

Welcome

Hello future readers and welcome to my more personal blog.
I have decided to write more about my days and what i am doing, more like a log of some sort on this blog. I have another blog, Earths green forces, which is a blog about our environment. Not the most popular subject to write about, but it interests me.

Well, the autumn is definitely here, I'm sitting at my desk looking out my window at batman-rain and superman-winds, he-he! Sitting inside right now listening to music and studying math is great, I wouldn't want to be outside right now:)
I am listening to Avril Lavigne's new singles from her new album, he-he I know that's kinda strange for me, but I just love those songs, she is a great singer. I am a rocker and listen a lot to metal and progressive music, but even I have my guilty pleasures! I may uncover some of them during my time writing in this blog.

Later today I'm gonna work a little bit on a new song I've been trying to write, fun to play guitar:) Before that I'm going to the gym. My body is my temple and so on!
The picture uploaded to this post is the view from my window.

See you all later!