Meeting xtC
Last two weeks has been the same old shit, only more stressful than usual at work. It’s weird how the smallest things, added up, will completely ruin my week or month or whatever. Stuff like getting some job with a deadline that I’ll dread to even start working on, getting a letter about dentist appointment, not having enough money to buy this and that, etc.. Really trivial stuff. At first it’s just a bit frustrating, then when it starts to pile up with stuff I’m not looking forward to do I feel more and more clutched, weary and generally unenergetic.
Luckily there was at least one positive event this week, got to meet xtC (as most of you who reads this - if any, know him already I’ll refrain from explaining who he is). His mom lives practically right next to me, and he travelled here from Sweden to work a bit while staying at his mom’s place, so it was a nice oppertunity to meet. Was originally going to meet him on friday, but he was sick or something so we scheduled for me to call him on saturday instead, where I probably spent a good 5 minutes just working up the nerve to press the call button on my phone. After some awkward misunderstandings because of my norwegian we settled for english and arranged to meet up 20:00 at a nearby Narvesen, armed with a pack of beer. Went out and stood there waiting a bit, looking nervously around to see if I could recognize him from the crowd, then got a call from him saying “watefak where are you?”, “outside the narvesen, you?”, “i’m also outside narvesen”, “ugh k”. Then I managed to realize where he was, as there are two Narvesen right next to each other at the station. Started walking up to it, then I saw a very distinguishable character among the crowd and said hello. Then started the somewhat forced small talk while walking to my friend Fredrik’s place, where we met up with him, Steve and Vidar to drink some beers before going out later on.
After awhile we eventually headed out, decided to start off with a trip to the infamous Tranen, where Arnie Skiffle Joe plays each friday and saturday. For those of you who don’t know him, you just have to experience him, words can’t really describe this amazing show. I even won a signed cassette tape by him, wohoo. After the show was over we journeyed further into the heart of Oslo, and stopped by Møllers quickly, then went over to Elm Street where we spent the remainder of the night before Fredrik, Steve and Vidar managed to get kicked out. They left before xtC and me figured out what happened, so we started walking home on our own. We ended up at his place, where he invited me in since his mom was working the nighshift. Just chilled and watched some C.S.I. episodes before I left around 5:30 or so.
It was weird meeting him, eventhough I’ve met people from the internet before, this was the first time it was somebody Elma related, and a guy :X. It was however a very positive experience, he was a really great, funny and friendly guy. I think it has at least made me a bit less nervous about going to FEM05 and meeting so many people, it has probably only strengthened my determination about going there. He said something about calling me later today after work, so I might meet him again at my place. Since he has no computer at his own place he must be very bored during the day.
After watching the Metallica documentary I got this urge to download all their old albums again. I’ve never really been a big fan of them, I’ve only liked a few of their most known songs and left it at that, and never taken the time to listen to a full album. And now I’ve fallen in love with them, everything they made before Load is really amazing. It’s pretty cliche to “identify” with lyrics, and it’s something I never really think of normally, but the chorus part in The Unforgiven somewhat reflects how I feel about my life.
What I’ve known
Never shined through in what I’ve shown
Never be
Never see
Won’t see what might have been