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Get a haircut, hippie!

Another 3 days of light (and heavy!) drinking come to a halt. (Well, today is not over yet, and my uncle might just be serving a beer or two when I go visit this evening… so make this the start of day four.) Thursday was just a few beers before going to see The Simpsons Movie (for the third time) and to relax after my first day of work.
Friday was a bit more heavy. Our group of five (give or take a few, people seemed to join and leave through out the night) started out drinking a few at The Old English Pub before we went to see Saybia play fredagsrock in Tivoli.

See pictures (not by me or anyone I know) from the concert here: http://flickr.com/photos/m-alo/sets/72157601358584697/

I have never really been a great Saybia fan – and must admit that they had to play more than one tune before I even started to recognise the music. I was not the only one not feeling the full concert vibe, so we headed out of Tivoli and ended up at Den Glade Gris.
After a bit of waiting a live band started playing some nice Rock covers. One hour followed the next and after a while some of the guys and girls started leaving, so the rest of us moved on to Heidi’s to meet some new people. It was hot (as always) and our entire group managed to get thrown out over a quarrel with one of the bartenders. At first he just called the doorman to move one or two of us out, but as the rest of us started to question the logic we were all asked to leave. The doorman of course had to follow the requests from the bartender, but deep down I think he him self could see that it was a bit silly throwing us out. His said something along the lines of “You’r clearly having to much fun” to justify throwing us out. Which makes a lot of sense – usually people come to Heidi’s to sit and be depressed? If I want to have fun, I go out, if I want to be alone and depressed I will stay in my room and watch a wall, Swedish television or something similarly depressing/boring.

Anyway, we moved on, was thrown out of another bar (because they closed, not because of our good spirit) and finally ended up in Lades Kælder.

So, I had hoped yesterday could just be easy and relaxing, but Søren had just returned from a month of inter rail, so when he asked me to a party at his dorm I really could not say no. And as always in the dorm I ended up getting a lot of Harboe gulds and liquor. Long story short, after a lot of heavy drinking at the dorm and a few other places I finally went home from a party (with a bonfire in the back yard and everything) in a collective in Bellahøj.

Lækker fredags rock!

Jeg var inde og høre Rasmus Nøhr og Marie Key Band til fredags rock i Tivoli i fredags! Jeg har længe været rigtig glad for Rasmus Nøhr, men må indrømme at jeg troede Marie Key Band skulle spille for/med Rasmus og ikke var et band for sig selv. Men jeg blev overrasket – glædeligt overrasket!

Så den første time underholdt Marie og band med finurlige tekster, akkompagneret af god musik (og en lille smule twist). Hendes stemme er meget speciel. Jeg ved ikke helt hvad jeg skal sammenligne den med… den lyder måske lidt barnlig, men det er også en dårlig beskrivelse – den skal høres!

Da Rasmus Nøhr endelig gik på kunne jeg godt ærgre mig over at aftenens program ikke var blevet fordelt på to aftener – jeg tror godt Marie Key Band kunne have underholdt længere, og jeg tror også godt Rasmus skulle have fundet noget at bruge en ekstra time på. Men Rasmus startede stærkt ud med et nyt nummer der vist hed “fyr den af” og holdt ellers dampen oppe resten af koncerten! Numre fra hans første 2 albums blev mixed med et par helt nye numre og jeg gik i hvert fald fra koncerten med en følelse af at jeg havde fået hørt alle de numre jeg var kommet efter, lige fra Til min far over Hash eller gas og Ring nu, til Det glade pizzabud og Kysse under stjernerne.

Efter musikken i Tivoli snuppede jeg lige et par øl med de andre, inden vi tog hvert til sit med en aftale om at tage på stranden lørdag. Det blev så ikke til noget da vejret lørdag ikke lige var som vi havde håbet – men sådan kan det jo gå. Jeg fik klaret en del oprydning lørdag, og selvom det jo ikke er lige så sjovt som at tage på stranden så er det jo også meget lækkert at kunne komme rundt i sin lejlighed uden at man skal ligne en af de ynkelig hunde der tvinges til sådan noget “agility træning”



HMKC Spring 2007 Agility Trial, originally uploaded by SheltieBoy.

Summer the way it is supposed to be…!

Tuesday I got up late(ish) and went to visit Esben. We went for a run in Amager Fællede. We did manage to stray from the marked trail and ended up on a path that really wasn’t a path. In the end we were in some very long grass and facing water so deep and wide that we had no option but to turn back.

After the run we went to Havnebadet for a quick swim in the 20 degrees hot water and some lunch at Kulturhuset. Sitting outside in the sun having a burger by the water front is just something I don’t do often enough.

Later in the day Thomas had invited quite a big group of people for dinner and a movie. Emil (who I hadn’t seen in ages) was one of the people. He has just gotten him self a motor cycle not to long ago, so we agreed that we had to go for a ride some time soon. The movie, Harry Potter, was ok – I haven’t read the books, so nothing was spoiled for me. I think some of the other more ‘hardcore’ fans were a bit disappointed but that is the way it always is when you read the book and then see the movie. I thought the movie ended rather sudden, but I guess you have to remember that it is followed by two more books / movies. All in all a nice evening.

Yesterday afternoon I got a text message from Emil. The weather was perfect for a quick MC ride. And it had been quite some time since my bike had last been taken for a spin.
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We decided to meet up in Virum. From there we rode out to the coast and then up north along the water. It really is a nice view and the sunny weather only made it better. We got all the way to Helsingør and the Kronborg Castle and then back home on the freeway. I finally met up with Esben (and later on Mark and Rasmus) for a great workout – and to top it off this morning (well, noon) I went running with Rasmus… I think my legs will be sore tomorrow.

I need a holiday after this vacation!

Today I came home from a five day visit to Amsterdam. The trip did not start out in the best way. One of the guys in the group didn’t catch the plane and had to ride the train to Amsterdam instead – a trip that takes quite a bit longer than the two hours the rest of us had to spend on a plane. On top of that I left Copenhagen with a cold and a bit of fever (properly something I caught in the mud of Roskilde). When we finally arrived the weather was so-and-so and our hotel was located 8 kilometers outside the city center.



IMG_4079.JPG – Anne Frank Statue near the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, originally uploaded by otzberg.

All those things aside the trip went well. Except for a visit to the Anne Frank House we didn’t really ‘see’ anything. But for some reason just passing time and letting days pass by is not as hard as it might sound.
I have unfortunately never read the Anne Frank Diary but did know her ‘story’. After visiting her former hiding place, reading it has moved up quite a bit on my mental ‘to do’ list.

Roskilde Festival

Egentlig havde jeg ikke nogle planer om at tage på Roskilde i år. Jeg har kun været af sted et år tidligere (tror det var sommer 2001) og selvom det var rigtig hyggeligt så er jeg jo både et luksus dyr og syntes måske også at prisen er lidt voldsom.

Men i dag fik jeg et tilbud af en kammerat om at vi kunne få biletten gratis hvis vi tog et par vagter (som så mange andre). Det skulle dog ikke være vagter med at stå og svede over en varm grill i 14 timer i træk, men mere overkommeligt (og tilrettet til mit luksus legeme) arbejde. Så det lader til at jeg komme af sted i år.
Så jeg får måske mulighed for for første gang at se Beastie Boys live. Der er vist også alligevel en hel del af min omgangs kreds der skal af sted i år, så det skal forhåbentlig nok blive sjovt!
(Men lad os nu lige først blive sikre på at der er flere vagter tilbage på det der arbejde – for de sidste biletter er vist blevet solgt.)

Så nu skal jeg (udover en enkelt tur i tivoli i aften for at høre Pet Shop Boys der spiller til tivoli fredags rock) bruge resten af min weekend til at lave to afleveringer – begge til på mandag. Sjov og spas weekend til mig!

I byen I Vejle

Onsdag aften var jeg (efter en lidt kølig MC tur fra København til Vejle) i byen i Vejle med min lokale ‘guide’ og nogle af hans venner.

Der var mere gang i Vejles natteliv end jeg egnetlig havde forventet – men man har jo som Snobbet Københavner Snude lov til at blive glædeligt overrasket over provinsen.

Vi var bl.a. på Den Knæhøje som var en hyggelig lille bar med rigeligt påskebryg på fad.