J. B. Hutto and Booba Barnes saved my day!

You have to forgive me if this blog sometimes gets a bit nasty. But this is my open outlet for just about anything in my life so you better get used to some moaning and groaning every now and then.
Those you of you who read my shit on a regular basis know that I’ve been in a bad mood lately. There’s so much in our society/world that annoys me BUT there’s just as much that gives me joy and happiness. I guess that’s why I still get out of my bed every morning.
Today I went to a big Record fair in my hometown and had a really good time. Even at record fairs it can be hard to find the records that will make your day/week/month but this time I did find 2 wonderful records.
Booba Barnes ”Heartbroken man” and a live record with J.B Hutto and The Houserockers from 1977.
I’ve listen to J.B for years but my only previous encounter with Booba was through the wonderful film Deep Blues. Booba only made this record but ”Heartbroken man” is pure traditional blues joy from a real blues man.
Tonight I will stay at home with my new records and a 6-pack of cold beer and I know that I will have a good time.
I FEEL GOOD!!!

Slim

The lack of competence

I’m in one of my angry moods! Aaaaghhhh! I’m like a runaway train, don’t get in my way!
Let me tell you. It, more or less, always starts with a situation where there are people involved that lack competence. I mean, if you know that you lack the competence of working in a certain field why the fuck do you even try? There is too much of this everywhere. I see it every day! Take school for instance.
Don’t work in school if you don’t know how to handle kids! Be a real man/woman and quit the job and go do something else. Don’t fuck up my kid with your lack of knowledge.
It’s the same with the police. Yeah, I know that they might be doing some good somewhere (I don’t know where though) but hell, to me it seems like you have to be a moron to even be considered to work as a police. And yeah, I fuckin’ know what I’m talking about. Sure have had my share of encounters with the law. I might tell you more about that someday.

It’s all about taking some kind of pride in your occupation no matter what it is. Even more so if you work with people. I fuckin’ hate myself every time I do a bad concert. The people that spend their hard earned money deserves nothing else than my best. Otherwise I should consider doing something else. That’s my fuckin’ responsibility. Be proud, do what you do best and stay the away from things you only mess up. Do you hear me Mr. Politician, Mr. Police, Ms. Stupid Girl at the Dressman store, Mrs Teacher at the Montessori school, Mr. Almost Kill us all Bus Driver? I’m angry. I might be in a better mood tomorrow. Or not.

REST IN PEACE

During the past 15 years I’ve been driving my car countless of miles in the middle of the night on my way home from concerts.
Always with the knowledge about all the dangers that follows with driving during night time.
But even if I have been really tired, driving through snowstorms in the north of Sweden and through thunderstorms and heavy rain in the South of USA I’ve been lucky enough to make it to my destination safe and sound.
These days I always try to sleep over if possible but once in a while I have no choice but to drive home after the gig.

After my gig in Västerås this weekend I needed to go back home directly to be able to make it to another gig the day after. And everything went just fine through the dark forests and small roads from Västerås down to Norrköping. With just 40 kilometres to go and with the feeling of safety (?) that highways always brings me I felt relaxed and glad to have made it through the night once more.
Then, without warning, a big fox bumped in to my car. I had no time at all to react. What a shock! For some people I guess that something like this might not be a big thing but I am a BIG animal lover. Yes BIG!!! I love animals of all kinds and I have, more than once, tried to avoid running over frogs with my car. When I am out walking I always help snails over the road, I’ve tried to kill fish but it makes me sick and I do not eat any kind of meat, I love to hangout with cows (yeah, I ain’t kiddin’) and one of things I love most in life is spending time with dogs. I’m a strong believer in the fact that animals are equals to human beings.

Well, maybe you could understand what a disturbing experience this accident was for me. Of course it could’ve been worse but still I can’t shake off the knowledge that I’ve killed a beautiful animal. I guess it will take some time to get my Karma in order after this.