From shock and awe during childhood to almost schadenfreude a few decades later, my thoughts on the different shades of non-existence. — I was around nine when, one day, I heard my dad’s voice from the kitchen going, “Really? Wow!” and I knew that something unprecedented had happened. Wow was never part of dad’s vernacular. I confronted him in silence. He reacted with a blank expression and a longer silence than mine…

Putting An End To Music Shortcomings Of the Past And the Future — My favorite bit of Peter, Paul and Mary’s In Concert performance 1964, was right before playing “Puff, the Magic Dragon” when they called James Blake and Fiona Apple on stage and they did this crazy rendition of Peter Bjorn and John’s “Amsterdam” together. ~ A Kanjira dev team member We…

And if you decide to leave, I will understand. — I will write an elaborate post on why Sweden is still one of the best countries to live in. I feel lucky and grateful to be here, and confident that I made the right — and thus far the best — decision of my life. …

The antinatalism of Les Chants de Maldoror — Comte de Lautréamont, the nom de plume of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, the author of Maldoror, died in 1870 at 24. But the vile and violent beast he created left a distinctive mark in the realm of un- and anti-human literature, which inspired generations of writers of the occult, the macabre…

Revelatory documents by a Swedish newspaper show how easily criminal gangs gamed the streaming giant. — Spotify, the most significant music streaming and podcast platform, is again under a lot of heat. An investigation by Swedish news publication Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) has revealed a big hole in the system. …

Hello Medium cronies and neighbors! The above is the Stockholm sky. No more blue, and I don’t think it will get any better. But there is a new blue. Just dropping in to say that I have finally been given permission to join Bluesky, and that is what I did…

Forty-two studio albums later, I remember a few songs. I’m sorry, Mr. Nelson! — I heard a few creativity tips in a podcast that seems to know what it is talking about. I’m, of course, kidding! No one has ever found a pattern for creativity; otherwise, they wouldn’t be giving it out for free. But let’s give this one a try. …

The night my brain accidentally found the key to world peace — I have feared, wrestled with, and gradually started to experiment with my sleep paralysis which has almost artistically haunted my nights since my senior high years. This was to say that I have seen things when it comes to eerie dreams and limbo states. …

When TOOL doubled down on their merch store, they did not see dads coming. — It was a marvelous day when TOOL, one of the most extraordinary unlikely accidents in music history, after years of resistance, announced that they would release their entire catalog on streaming services. Good news for us fans, but not that tempting for the artists. …