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Like I’ve mentioned on several occasions here on the blog and many more times over at Twitter, I am leaving the safe and familiar (and cold) surroundings of Northern-Norway, where I’ve spent most of my life, to stay the United States and more specifically Houston, Texas to work and study for three months.

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It’s the dawn of a new day, and we must all gather in celebration for this very blog has been revamped! And by revamped I of course mean been given a new pre-made theme. Yes it’s true, it has come to this, these days I can’t even be bothered to create a custom theme for my blog.

I simply asked myself: “Why bother?” — And when I couldn’t come up with a good answer, I just decided to go with this theme that I happened to like a lot for its clean look and emphasis on typography. The general idea anyways is that the blog will be about the content, and while I’m as busy with other things as I currently am I think a pre-made theme like this one does the job and even more.

The theme you are looking at is more or less exactly as it came from the good George Wiscombe. I only made a few minor alterations to the sidebar and the comments. Once I come around to it I’ll also be incorporating the tags once more, but for now I’m completely exhausted from modifying the categories. There were about twenty categories or so, all of which overlapped at least one other category, so I’m pretty happy about narrowing it down to five broader categories. It certainly looks much cleaner, and let’s be honest, it’s not as if anyone actually go beyond the posts on the first page of any blog, which means that in the case of categories the less the merrier goes.

I hope you enjoy this new look and plan on staying around to hear everything about my upcoming adventure which will take place in the United States. In the coming days I will post the first entry in my “travelin’ journal” which will go into detail of the where, when and whats of the trip.

Newsflash! I’m going over to the United States for a three month internship starting in March. I will be redoing my blog completely and use it to document my experiences while on the road.

Watch this space for more information!

As I’m sure most of you have noticed by now, my interest in music goes a little beyond what is expected of your average person (case in point, the now deceased Silent Sound Waves). With SSW no longer active, I thought I’d use this here little blog to publish my picks when it comes to albums of the year and decade (I’m a sucker for lists). Year is easy enough, but decade is a lot harded, and I’m bound to forget quite a few good ones, and that’s why I’ll start the process by sharing my shortlist.

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Just a short notice, if anyone is still looking for invites to Google Wave, I have a few to spare. Anyone who wants one can just leave a comment. Just be sure to use your “real” e-mail address in the field for it, because that’s where I’ll be sending the invite.

I spent the night catching up on House, and I was pleased to find that this show still has all the ingredients that got me hooked in the first place. This is contrary to a couple of other shows I’ve been following for quite some time but have decided to ditch after the season opening.

Heroes has in my opinion been going slowly downhill since the first season with the occasional good episode in between, but after the first episode of season four I am no longer watching. One Tree Hill is another show I’ve been watching for years, and quite frankly I don’t even know why. The first couple of seasons were great, but I’ve kept watching just to keep up with it, but after the nice ending to season six I don’t know why I even bothered to watch the first episode of the new one?

I also decided to check out some new music today, with Pedro The Lion being the highlight so far. I’ve seen the band name being dropped in lots of discussions pertaining to artists that I appreciate, and I finally got around to checking out one of the albums (It’s Hard To Find A Friend). The style of the music is very appealing to me at this time of year, and I really like what I am hearing so far when it comes to lyrics as well. Check it out!

Google have finally started sending out invites to Google Wave, but I haven’t gotten one yet. This is my cry for help, if you have one to spare, please send one my way. E-mail address is of course blog (a) lars-christian (dot) com.

If you have no idea what all the fuzz is about, this post over at Mashable will give you a good introduction. Also according to Mashable, this site has been setup to speed up distribution of invites, but it is of course down at the moment. Signing up for an invite over there once it comes back up might be a good idea for all of you looking for invites!

I can’t remember a time that I have felt more excited about two almost simulatenous album releases.

Brand New - Daisy

Thrice - Beggars

If you haven’t listened to these albums already,  you need to go out and get them. And by get them, I mean purchase them, preferably multiple times, because this is quality music that will leave you feeling like a petty thief if you decide to acquire them the pirate way.

PS: Check out the acoustic studio versions of Bought A Bride and At The Bottom from Daisy. It’s amazing what you can find on Twitter!

PPS: If you’re on Twitter, you should give an @reply to this little informal questionaire I started. I want to know which title track people like the best. Both are absolute top-notch.