Ladies and gentlemen,

Bootlegs are awesome. They are the crème de la crème of our new digital society.

Thank you very much.

Well, are they?

Things?

Getting better all the time?

Ok, so i had a Dylan-week. By the looks of it, i'm bound to have a Dylan-life anyway.

Judge all music according to Dylan-standards, beat up innocent bystanders who make the 'he-can't-sing'-remark, collect bootleg material like a maniac, send CD's to friends (even 14-year-old ones), lecture them on some event or another in Dylan's life, go to as many of his concerts as humanly possible within the limitations of my funds (so i'm stuck at one, so far), get as many posters and badges as i can (also, one so far), have intentions wear the same clothes as Dylan (people…

Do you ever lie about music?

If you do, and you most likely do (because everybody lies about everything, right?), then i hope you can keep a clean mind and you don't develop any kind of musical guilt.

And IF you do, then the only thing left to do is fix every mistake you've ever made.

Woops. That might take a while, huh?

Last night i went to a concert of 30 Seconds To Mars. To prepare me for this concert i had listened to three of their songs and eaten a Greek dish (lots and lots of meat). I wasn't expecting too much of it, but there were a few noticable features about this concert.

First of all, they only played for about 50 minutes. I'm glad i didn't pay for my own ticket, because it would have felt like a waste of my money. I don't care if bands start way too late (it's what they do, especially in the…

This week i listened a lot to Neil Young, not because he's the greatest artist of all time, but because i wanted to get to 1,000 plays (i got 1,004 at this moment, so i made it!).

In general i don't like listening to albums that have very lengthy, slow songs on them, because even though you spend a lot of time listening to it, they don't show up very high in my weekly/overall playlists. It feels like you haven't been 'productive'.

I'm afraid to listen to Eminem, because my Last.Fm-friends (and others) would laugh at me! (Okey,…

Bob Dylan.

Yeh, i've known Bob Dylan for a long time. For a long time his name has been connected with Eric Clapton, for me. I know now that there isn't really that much of a connection: but back when I was a kid, my dad used to listen a lot to Bob Dylan ánd Eric Clapton, so I formed this idea that they were musical twins.

The first Bob Dylan album i really heard was Time Out Of Mind. For a long time it was the only music I had from Dylan, and i did like…

It seems that every time i write a journal here, i get 2 comments. Oh well, that's enough for me. It's more of a place to get rid of some thoughts about music i've had the last month or so anyway. In fact, i think it's miraculous that as much as 2 people read it..

Anyway, what i wanted to type is this: i'll be seeing Bob Dylan in april! That's just so awesome i can only say: 'Oh..' about it.

Oh..

That, and i'll be going to an Incubus-concert too. It sounds like the beginning of a good…

My aunt was the (first) person who told me about Lou Reed. In fact, it is her favorite artist, so i decided to get my hands on some of his music - and the first thing i found was Transformer, obviously. Lou Reed is one of those guys that makes music that you have to get used to. I remember quite well, the first time i heard some songs from Transformer, i didn't like it at all. I thought it was monotone, slow and just plain weird. So i never took the time to listen to it. Now,…

The Mayan Factor should be huge. They're good. No, they're better than good, they're awesome.

The first time I heard The Mayan Factor was after someone said I should check out dredg, and if i'd like that, maybe The Mayan Factor was my thing. So obviously, being the way i am, i skipped dredg and digged straight into that little band.

At first, I actually assumed everybody knows these guys. So i asked around.
And nobody did.
Then i checked the biggest site in my country selling CD's (www.bol.com), and they didn't have any Mayan Factor. When I decided…