I can honestly say I'm not sure what I've done this week, but I must have done something as it's been a week since I last wrote anything here. As always I've done a lot of writing over at Frekvens and I've been out visiting people and partying, but it doesn't exactly feel like enough stuff to fill out an entire week. But unless there was a glitch in the old matrix an entire week has actually passed and I must have filled it out with something more than lying about the house that I just don't quite remember right now.

But this week is going to be action packed, baby! Tomorrow it's all about David Eugene Edwards and Sufjan Stevens at Voxhall, which I think will be interesting. I don't know a lot about Edwards, 16 Horsepower or Woven Hands, but apparently he's pretty great, so I'm curious to see what the fuss is about. But I'm even more curious to see the oddly named Sufjan Stevens, who by all accounts is quite the character. They're also bringing along someone called Br. Danielson, who I haven't heard of, so it could be a fairly interesting night. I have some other stuff planned this week as well, but the thing that'll fill up most of my week is the Spot Festival, which begins Thursday night with a sort of Pre Party. Thursday night will feature a bunch of the people who'll also play later at the actual festival and some other stuff, so it's more like a teaser than an actual part of the festival. But I'm going anyway to see Sondre Lerche and Teitur and just to hang out and see what's happening.

The good people at Universal were kind enough to send me a copy of Teitur's "Poetry & Aeroplanes" recently, which I'm actually listening to right now and it's pretty good. It's one of those nice, mellow, acoustic, singer/songwriter albums similar to quite a few records on my shelf. He has a bit of a Peter Stuart thing going and sometimes he sounds a bit like Sting and generally the songs are very pleasent with the occasional surprising lyrical twist. I saw him open for Ron Sexsmith a few years ago and at Spot two years ago, so more than a few of the songs on the record were familiar from the first listen, which is always nice. For some reason though I seem to like the songs he's written himself the best as opposed to the ones he's written with Jeff Cohen (who wrote Crazy for this Girl with/for Evan & Jaron), but maybe that's just a coincidence. I've been listening to Scissor Sisters as well (which I got with the Teitur album) and I'm actually getting into them as well. There's a definite Elton John (pre Lion King) thing going on, but there's also a touch of Grace Jones and Frankie Goes to Hollywood and a lot of other stuff, so they might be an interesting choice at this year's Roskilde Festival.

But inbetween the concerts and writing reviews and all the other stuff I also need to start getting stuff ready for our coverage of the two big Danish festivals. And this is also the week where I need to find a new place to live. So if you know someone who is willing to rent out an apartment (size, prize, and location is less important right now) here in Aarhus drop me a line as once again I'm looking at imminent homelessness. So much like Alice Cooper I'm also looking for a girl with a gun and a job/and a house with cable!

My brother found this link today to a website, which points out the similarities between Nickelback's How You Remind Me and ironically Nickelback's Someday. Stuff like that is always fun.

I also enjoyed the interview with Ice-T in The Guardian recently, which is a fun read worth checking out if you haven't already seen it.