Scharinska Villan
Seen here on ladder night. This is Sweden, socialist utopia, everyone gets a fair go, even ladders!
On Saturday I went to Scharinska, the homebase of many fine Umeå bands such as the Sahara Hotnights and the International Noise Conspiracy, who I just found both come from here. This weekend it was Captain Murphy, a nice group of well-dressed young men who played rock'n'roll music for us. Kinda a You Am I vibe if I'm feeling generous, or something between Jet and The Strokes if I'm not. But it was a small room filled by about a hundred people, so pretty much anything is enjoyable. Check out the song "I belong to the girls" on their myspace, it's quite reasonable.
Scharinska itself is an old building with chandeliers and columns everywhere and mosaiced walls - quite a cool vibe.
Something less cool happened on Sunday, when I played squash with what in retrospect must have been an improperly cleaned contact lens. My eye went all swollen and red and oh the pain! "Thousand little red men in my eye, put down your firey axes", I cried, "I'm willing to listen to your demands". But its seemed their only wish was continued pain for me, so I sent them a great tidal wave of salty water, which quelled the revolution somewhat, but even this morning there were lingering troublemakes still hiding out in the dusty cellars of the townsfolk, occaisionally coming out to dynamite railway bridges, so I went to the doctor and got some industrial strength antibacterial eye drops - time to rain down on the little bastards with a program of indiscriminate chemical warfare!!
In other news, Fancy Pants and Old Mate have locked in their visit dates for May, and Dickman and Anita should be coming by around August. And I just submitted this for a conference in Noo Orleans.
On Saturday I went to Scharinska, the homebase of many fine Umeå bands such as the Sahara Hotnights and the International Noise Conspiracy, who I just found both come from here. This weekend it was Captain Murphy, a nice group of well-dressed young men who played rock'n'roll music for us. Kinda a You Am I vibe if I'm feeling generous, or something between Jet and The Strokes if I'm not. But it was a small room filled by about a hundred people, so pretty much anything is enjoyable. Check out the song "I belong to the girls" on their myspace, it's quite reasonable.
Scharinska itself is an old building with chandeliers and columns everywhere and mosaiced walls - quite a cool vibe.
Something less cool happened on Sunday, when I played squash with what in retrospect must have been an improperly cleaned contact lens. My eye went all swollen and red and oh the pain! "Thousand little red men in my eye, put down your firey axes", I cried, "I'm willing to listen to your demands". But its seemed their only wish was continued pain for me, so I sent them a great tidal wave of salty water, which quelled the revolution somewhat, but even this morning there were lingering troublemakes still hiding out in the dusty cellars of the townsfolk, occaisionally coming out to dynamite railway bridges, so I went to the doctor and got some industrial strength antibacterial eye drops - time to rain down on the little bastards with a program of indiscriminate chemical warfare!!
In other news, Fancy Pants and Old Mate have locked in their visit dates for May, and Dickman and Anita should be coming by around August. And I just submitted this for a conference in Noo Orleans.
posted by I-Rock at 4:24 PM
9 Comments:
When are you getting your lazy arse back into the land of Oz.
Although when you do get here I won't be able to do anything unless it consists of spending no cash due to recent travels to the land of the rising sun.
You're squash partner must have been quite shocked at your sudden outburst?
nothing that can't be explained in the following manner:
Tourette's.
Poor I-pop. Feel better.
xxx
Yo I-disease!
Whattup, girlfriend?
Wanna have a jibber jabber?
x
Argh, perhaps the least flattering of all the monikers you've bestowed upon me, young katie!
brett - I have no current plans to visit the country you speak of. It's a long fucking way away!!
ahhh
I was misinformed then.
Ha, 'Dickman' is worse than 'i-disease'. ha ha.
oi! Dickman's a champ, and don't you forget it!
Brett - there was talk of a quick jump back there around june, but it didn't materialize.
We had a guy at school whose nickname was 'Fishdick'. Now how and why he got that name is a mystery to me, but I am sure the scars run deep. So be thankful I-disease - it could be much much worse.
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