Where Soul Meets Body

Closed the month ahead of target. Closed the quarter ahead of target. Only a few weeks until the next month's ending...

Thursday morning I'm flying to Oslo on the early flight. Am going to Asker to pick up one of the X-Trails (yay!), and will then collect Else in Oslo before we catch Lotta at Gardermoen and head off to this year's Arvika. PC, Cecilia, Bjarni, Henrik, Karine and loads of other people I haven't seen in ages will be there, and the line-up puts a smile on my face. Will definitely miss Erlend, Hanne, Christer, Vidar, Ida and Andreas, but it'll be good fun to experience it with someone who has never been there before. This is the plan, let's see if we manage to stick to it:

Thursday
Timo Räisänen (me)
Blood Music
*beer and socialising*
Håkan Hellström*
Kate Nash
The Kooks*
Robyn
Slayer (Lotta)

Friday
Lykke Li
Hardcore Superstar (Lotta)
Assemblage 23 (me)
Saul Williams
The Hellacopters
The Crüxshadows (me)
Kent*
Suicide Commando (me)
Interpol*
And One (me)*

Saturday
Volbeat
In Strict Confidence (me)
Alice In Videoland*
Combichrist (me)
Totalt Jävla Mörker
The Go! Team
Deathstars (me)
Death Cab for Cutie*
S.P.O.C.K.
Hot Chip

If I manage to go to all of the * ones I will be happy with myself. My plans at Arvika never turn out quite like I think, so there are some ok-to-miss-ones in there. And some I've seen plenty of times already... I mean, there's a limit to how many times you can see Suicide Commando and still focus more on the music than how much the guy sweats. There will also be swimming, pizza eating, sun worshipping/rain cursing, t-shirt shopping, alcohol drinking, weirdo spotting and loads of lust for life. Looking at the list I now realise I'm about to introduce one of my best friends to a very ebm'ish music scene. Oh well, she'll manage. Can't just live of metal for the rest of her life. :D

Oh, and it turns out you should never say yes to helping people that are going on holiday with meetings without seeing some kind of meeting invitation. My kind offer to help out with a 1.5 hour video conference on Tuesday has suddenly turned out to be a meeting in Switzerland on Monday. There goes my next week planning. But I get to go to Rolle :) There's beauty in everything.

Catch you on the flipside!