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First chapter or the frist 2146 words of the Blissard by Johan Harstad are printed in this week edition of Morgenbladet.
The piece is brilliant.
In fact I now consider the book more important than the 4CD Blissard box.
Many thanks to Falck Forlag and of course the author!
Strange thing to say, that the book is more important then the 4 cds (heaps of "NEW" mp material). But ok.
The first chapter concists of four pieces:
The first one doesnt't do much but annoy me because I just can't stand this style of writing; endless sentences with a billion commas. Utterly pretencious and boring.
The second piece is a short one: "I don't think any album, not a single one, ever made me as happy as Blissard did." I can relate to that!
The third piece annoys me again, neither due to content nor form, I guess – I just got so damn jealous when I realised that when working on this book, Johan Harstad was probably given the opportunity to ask all the nerdy fanboy questions I've always wanted to. :wink:
The fourth piece is a perfect summary of the young adult's coming to terms with realising that he's no longer in that place in life where contemporary rock music is a matter so important it's beyond life and death. Great reading!
can anyone make a readable scan of that first chapter? I'm nowhere near to Norway at the moment but would very much like to read it..
I usually upload images to my Photobucket account, and then link to it using the IMG button above this text field.
Not perfect quality, photobucket seems to make the image smaller, but perhaps you can read it, its worth it:)
Since you seem like you’re over avarage interested in Motorpsycho, I just want to say that I’m releasing TWO different MP-books in October. They’re both in English. One of them is the mentioned book "Blissard" (it won several awards in Norway 2012) and one is comissioned by the band, and is an anthology with 15 different famous authors, music journalists and musicians contributing with one essay each, AND the largest MP-discography ever.
You can preorder them here.
http://www.newjelly.com/Projects/2-MOTORPSYCHO-BOOKS-IN-ENGLISH/
Kind regards Christer Falck
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