Oh, incurable humanist you are

Norwegian skies (or how I learned never to think like a photographer)

Greetings, my dearest readers!

As you may know, I was invited by my godmother Päivi Laakso, to play music at her art gallery opening in Sandeford, Norway. I arrived a few days earlier on a plane and stayed with her in this huge luxury house we were allowed to borrow so she could get everything ready for the opening (she actually lives in Oslo). And when I say luxury house I mean it, it was awesome! The house was huge and was located high upon a hill where you had amazing view of the whole town.

Sorry, a really bad picture xP

The town was so beautiful!
The gig and the whole opening went very well, along with me performed a group that combined theatre, music and performance art, Stella Polaris. Also Päivi snatched some Harley Davidson guys from the near-by Harley Davidson festival and made them perform a music piece with their motorcycles! It was crazy...

Here are a few pictures of my performing costume (without the jacket, sadly)

About a day after the performance my mother and little sister arrived to Oslo to spend a little holiday with me, my godmother and her 5-years old son (who was an awesome little boy).

We went to see the Munch museum (of course) and I lectured my family about art history xD And we did normal tourist things like ate caramel pudding (which was really weird). I also played an ex tempore gig in a music bar in Oslo where all the "high class" musicians hang out... And I totally failed it. I'm serious. It's a good thing they didn't laugh straight to my face. But it's alright, I'm just laughing to myself :D The next time I'll be better. (Oh dear god, I really was awful...)

But here, caramel pudding!

We visited the natural park near the Munch museum, which gave me an opportunity to try and improve my none-excistant photographing skills.

I solemnly name this piece of art: "Yay, it's a huge park with exotic plants, and what do I do? Take pictures of old benches!"

And this is my darling little sister.

Please don't eat the poor plant!

Next I'm going to present you the rules of art photographing:

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1. If it's black and white, it's art

2. If it's a closeup of a flower, it's art (the closer the better, and if the flower has a bug in it, it's even more better, for it demonstrates how you value all life, and especially how you have an expensive and professional camera),

3. If it's a shiny light (oooh!) it's art

4. If it's a closeup of a Starbucks coffee cup taken with a compac system camera that your daddy paid, it's art

And here kids, is some demonstration. 

(Why do I suddenly feel like singing the Trolololo- song?)

Thank you. The lesson has ended.

Here are the rest of the pictures I chose to fill this blog with, if anybody's interested. It also shows some of my outfits on different days.

Oh my sweet baby Jesus, I'm almost like a fashion blogger! *squeals with excitement*

Btw, if you look very closely to the backround of this last pic, you can see two guys with black suits and sunglasses. They were guards for the Norwegian Elle party, that was just starting when we were hanging out in the park (they played "Another one bites the dust" from the speakers! I sang along and frightened some Russian tourists). I failed to sneak in, which saddens me immensly. I thought I looked so convincing! Especially accompanied with two kids and my mum. Anyway, I love the picture, it's hilarious xD (The little boy is my godmother's son, if you didn't guess)

These last pics are from an art piece my godmother did and we went to see. It was awesome! The boats had speakers that played the sound of the waves, some norwegian singing etc. And when it was dark enough the boats would light up with thousands of small lights. I'll write the story behind this monument here when I have more time.

Have fun and enjoy the summer!

Peace & love

-Evan

Man is a machine

When you say it's gonna happen now - well, when exactly do you mean?

And if the end of the world
can't bring us together
then nothing can

Narrow streets of cobblestone

Hi!

I haven't updated this blog in a long time, I'm sorry. But the real reason is mainly that there just is nothing to update. The same shit as always.

Nahh, to be honest, I've been better these last few months than I've been in years. I don't know why, but I just haven't been feeling that terrible striking feeling of loneliness and emptiness I've felt before. I don't know if this means I'm seriously getting better. I do doubt it but I'm grateful for this short break. To those who are wondering what I'm talking about I can say that I've been diagnosed chronically depressed a few years ago. I've propably been depressed since being very very young, but nobody noticed because I didn't tell anyone. I never told anybody. But at the end I was almost psychotic (for example I went on a walk one day and just layed in the snow for hours in the middle of a snowy forest and just wished I would die, or intentionally burned my hand) so it became quite obvious. You will propably hear more about these things in my blog in the future, since they are there in my life every day. If someone wants me to tell more details I can do that. I'm not shy about this, but I'm not an attention-whore either. I like to think that maybe someone finds it helpful to talk about this. I've never really liked talking, but I realize it's a way for some people to express their feelings... 

 Or something.

To be honest I've never really thought that I'm depressed, I still don't. I'm just lazy, that's it. If I want to lay in a dark room and never come out, not clean my room, not see my friends, not think, not feel, not go to school, not find a job, not grow up, what else is that except laziness? But for some reason no one believes me when I tell them this.

My philosophy in life is that everything passes eventually. I'm nothing special, you're nothing special. But it isn't a dark point of view to me, it's a calming thought. That I don't have to worry, it will all end one day anyway. And I just think of the Universe and how small and non-excistant we all are and it blows my mind. To think we're so small. But we're still all part of the same system and we're all the same. Yay hippie thoughts!

Erm, anyway...

Well obviously something has happened in my life, but nothing that would interest anyone else. I've had some new friends and they make me happy! School-work takes all my time, and I still haven't uploaded that youtube video I promised. Here, have some crappy web-cam pictures!

XOXOXO- Evan

Sanity is an illusion