Ein zwei drei Fishermang!!

Proceed with the worshipping, and I will give a bags of gold to most worthy ones. Come on, let's dooo it!!




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So, if I had scrobbled every track I listened to since I was a toddler, what would my top chart look like? I mean, it is only 1.5 years I have been here or so, and Nitzer Ebb and Front 242 are strongly distinquishing themselves. It is thus important to note that my unexplainable manic obsession with charts caused me to listen to more music.

Still, I blasted a whole lot of Sabbat (Jap) (Jap Sabbat > Eng Sabbat) and those crazy Japanese in leather manties would definetly be somewhere high up along with the EBM. But let me go back in time and remember when I was around 10, and had a Queen casette, with their greatest hits. Let me Live, why don't you take another piece of my heart, etc. I must have blasted it, or at least particular songs from that tape, for a few hundreds times.

All in all, If I have to make an uneducated guess (you have no idea what struggles I went through when I took math in school. Here in Norway we have several math courses you can chose from, and I, at that time thinking that I would be a l33t computermang, as my father is, chose the most difficult one. Funny that, because I ended up studying psychology, and didn't even consider c0mpUt3rs (0001010 0010111000 01010) in the end. I went through the first year of math pretty well, and ended up with a bloody 3 grade in it (where 1 is worst and 6 is best). I deserved at least a 4. In second year me and me mates discovered the awesomeness of Liero duels and championship, as well as Heroes III hotseat (I used to play Dungeon, it was awesome with those Black Dragons and Harpy Hags and the f00king Armageddon!! Also, the Dungeon is the strongest castle in Heroes V, where Destruction magic really becomes effective. And to everyone of you who think that Heroes III > Heroes V, you go and have intercourse with yourselves. That's because the new skill and ability system is so awesome. Just look at it, all the neat combinations you can create. And also, not a single skill is wasted or sucks . In III you had various skills that didn't do anything. I don't remember any examples, because my memory has been dedicated to the so more awesome and superior ability and skill system of Heroes V.). Back to math: so we skipped a high percentage of math classes and my grades dropped, I panicked, fooled myself into thinking that I am playing a computer RPG in real life, and awarded myself with experience and gained levels, etc. Say, you solve a mathematical problem, and depending on its difficulty level, award yourself with a certain amount of exp. It might especially look attractive to all the WoW junkies out there in da world. Try it. Anyway, I got my math grades back up to a more satisfactory level, and during the last and most important test I did so crappy, that I ended up with another 3 grade for the second year of bloody mathematics. That was because I drove my becycle to town in early spring (spring comes really late here in North, so when it is May, you can still find snow and ice and whatnot down teh street) and wore a t-shirt, pretending it is summer (winters depress me, and frankly, I, as well as some respected psychologists with Pee aich Dee say that it is a biological issue, meaning that we can do nothing or very little aboot getting depressed during winter. Thus blaming oneself for not being active or happy or whatever, during winter, is wrong, as it is not your fault, but biology's. I wrote an essay aboot this last spring and got a D, which is really really crappy - apparently I didn't include enough theory in it. F00k that shit! My essay wasn't supposed to have theory, it was practical, showing people how they could raise their well-being. But Norwegian university, at least much of it, is a joke, so we will leave it there. When I grow up I will open a bar. Anyway, I got really ill, with fever and whatnot, even had to go to the doctor (don't get me started on the doctoral (is that even a word?) issues in Norway. TO YOU WHO WANT TO MOVE TO NORWAY BECAUSE YOU IMAGINE IT BEING AWESOME, DON'T!! Because you will die. People have various pretty serious health problems, yet they have to wait for at least a few months to get a doctor appointment. You can always contact a private doctor, but they are so expensive, that unless you are really good in math and therefore have a great job, you will never afford it). So, I got ill, went to see a doctor, he had no nurses called Helga, and he did not look like the medic in Team Fortress 2, and did not shout "Oktober fest!!!" when his patients did well in whatever they were doing, because he successfully healed them or prevented them from dying in the job market. He said I was only having a really bad cold. So I went back to school, took the test (which I didn't read for since I was ill, will you pls pay attention??) and did really crap and got a bloody 2 on it. Remember how me and me mates skipped lots of classes to play Liero and Heroes hotseat? By the way, I would like to suggest Liero to anyone who enjoys fun in computer games, and it is entirely multiplayer - you have to have a human opponent sitting next to you. The result from all this bad behavior in relation to math classes prevented me from learning the basics, on which whole third math grade was based on. Yet I took it. And how did I took it! My first grade that year was 3. And from there it went downhill. 2. 2. 1. And the best: 0+. Z E R O F00KING P L U S. Me and me mates spent lots of time, sometimes while drinking, what in the deepest fishyest level of hell that kind of grade meant. One friend, who doesn't drink, suggested the teacher meant that I wasn't an entirely lost case and could pass the course. So I decided to do so. And it didn't go any better. We went to Inferno Festival (this was back in the day when I listened to a lot of black metal and stuff like that, I have grown really bored of it after blasting it really much - that being said, Darkthrone, Mayhem, and Faustcoven would be pretty high up on my list as well. Now they are down there somewhere below 60 plays or something ha ha ha.). So we come back after the festival, and I suddenly find out that there is a math test in TWO f00king days. It had to do with that..what you call it...it's "sannsynlighet" in Norwegian.. You know, all the theories that have to do with chance, like rolling a 6 on a 6D is 1/6 chance. As you can see, I was really good at this particular mathematical theme. I panicked, as it was one of two last tests before the final end of the whole course, and by the way I was doing it looked like I would fail it completely, entirely, and without a single doubt. So I dig in those 10 or so pages, and got a 2 on the test. You know, that is the lowest you are allowed to have, before you fail. Then the huge test came. I studied hard again, I can't even remember what happened during those days of hard study (my brain probably suppressed it somewhere into the subconscious. You can clearly see, right here, that I study psychology. Did you know that Freud was wrong? If you enjoy any of Freud's theories, particularly those that seem to make a lot of sense, kind of like...religion? Beat dat scheit out of your head. Freud didn't have a clue. All he did was to introduce a pretty effective method for healing mentally, by talking and he might as well have been a little right aboot suppressions and subconscious. But all that Oedypus complex was a result of something that only he knows. One might speculate whether he himself didn't want to get rid of the mental problems which resulted from his own Oedypus complex? I will not elaborate on it, because it's grose. But back to Freud, he said so much aboot it because he wanted to talk aboot it. What is better then, than talking to thousands of naive ppl who have no idea? He fooled them, and he is fooling you, if you believe it. Now go and cleanse yourself.) So, the test.. I got another 2. The teacher (he had white hair and was a really pleasant man, despite all the bad grades he gave me, but I will agree that some of them might partly be my own fault. What I am most grateful for is that 0+. It gained me unusual popularity at school. It is only a pity I threw it away ) called me and told me that I would pass the class. I am a poit, I know it, hope I don't blow it. See that Bob Dylan in my top 50? Well, at least let's hope the old man still is there when you are reading this. Everything was finally well, I wasn't stressed anymore, the summer was approaching and it was getting warmer and warmer, and snow was finally melting away, in the middle of May. And my birthday was coming up, and I had friends, and the vacation would start, and I would be home alone for almost two months, and could watch as much pr0n as I wanted to (ever notice that stuff like that gets really boring when you finally can look at it as much as you want? That can be connected to the scarcity principle, as we awesome social psychologists call it. Our minds are exposed to really much of stimuli and the mind can't deal with it, so it creates shortcuts. One of 'em shortcuts is that when there is something that there is little of, we automatically assume it is worthy and cool. So..go figure. Those two months I spent playing Diablo II, tried but failed completely at Counter-Strike, and posted on metal-rules.com/bb forum. And blasted lots of metal and ambient music. And drank beer. My fridge only had beer and jam, they say. Is it my fault that they peeked into my fridge after I emptied it from all the outdated food (I still forgot to take out those potatoes out of the corner, hidden away)?) So, yes, all this good stuff was coming up, everything looked pleasant and really really positive and optimistic. And then it hit.


There are exams at the end of the third grade, the last grade of all school before university. They are random, and chances are small that you will get math on it. Really small, I know, because I am an expert in chance math or whatever it is called, remember I got a 2 in it? So I got three days to prepare myself for that exam. Me and my friend sat in his cellar and blasted various music (everything ranging from The Cheeky Girls to Gravewürm (not Graveworm)) and did our best. My head would hurt by the end of the day. Last day of study, the last day before the exam we drank a little beer, studied more and then the exam came. I remember sitting in that huge hall with neat oldschool lamps and really uncomfortable chairs covered in black leather (kinky school). Another friend of mine once said that after sitting there for like six hours you can see a dam of your own sweat where your ass was for half of that day. Grose. I did not have that problem. But I still check every seat after sitting on it, just in case. (Just in cés, *KABOOF*). I sat there and answered what I could, which really wasn't much, I think they had less of chance math that time, and went home. The results wouldn't come for a month. After that much time I went to school, got an envelope with all my grades, including that math exam. See, if you fail that exam, you still fail, no matter that you didn't fail the math class itself. And if you fail, you can't study - the university doesn't want that kind of people. Needless to say I was nervous. I know you are too, so I will relieve you - I got another 2. That day was glorious. I don't remember how I celebrated it. But I was free to go in to the open world (I ended up in psychology class in university, 5 kms away from school).

So, as you can see, I can make an educated guess. Which is that Nitzer Ebb and Front 242 would remain where they are in my list, then probably followed by Sabbat. The other three black metal bands mentioned above would also be in top 10. So would Judas Priest. And Queen. And Dimmu Borgir maybe. I wonder whether this journal entry will make it to the band sites, or do I have to add some sort of connection? Afterall, I have mentioned Nitzer Ebb and Front 242 two times now. Three. That ought to count for something!


I would like to express my wory: why have I been banned from wox.no Team Fortress 2 servers? As much as I try to remember, I simply can't, anything against the rules that I did. If any of you wox people read this, spill the beans. Am I too good for you? We all know I am just an average player on your servers, rarely among the top players.




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