David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

Eating my food and listening to the new David Gilmour album.

A CD is not enough for me. I needed the blu-ray and vinyl as well :)

I get Dire Straits feelings from this...Well, that is my first few minutes of impression. It might not mean anything at all later. I need to stretch my ear constantly to hear all the sounds. But it sounds great. Now I will try and relax and hear this piece of art music.

Update.

Well, yes it was good of course it was! You need to be some kind of expert critic to say anything else about this. And I am no expert critic. This is David Gilmour we are talking about. And since I love both his own solo work and Pink Floyd and music like this in general (if that even exists, Gilmours music is unique). I don't really feel like I want to be critical at all.

I just want to sit down and relax and enjoy this beautiful piece of music.

It was a short album, just like Pink Floyd's latest album was. I would have loved to hear twice as much of it. But I am still grateful for this little piece, that it exists.

When I first started to listen to Pink Floyd when I was 16 or 17 or something like that. I always wondered what their music and lyrics was about. I was always a kid with too much imagination, they said I was a daydreamer. I had all sorts of ideas what their albums was about, and every time I listened to it, it meant something new. I also had that experience with David Lynch's movies.

Every time I would see Eraserhead it had a different meaning to me. Or Lost Highway, or Mullholland Drive, etc...

When listening to Dark Side of the Moon it could have a different meaning  each time. Same thing with every PF album. And I loved it when it was like that!

As I said, I am no expert critic. And this is David Gilmour, his music stands steady like a copper statue in the middle of a beautiful garden. You can't really go there and paint ugly little tags like little skater kids. You'll get arrested. Your parents would ask you if you are going insane?

I have got problems with my ears. Both of them now. After chemotherapy I got severe tinnitus. Now a tumour on my left side. And for the last few days it has swollen so that it blocks my ear a  little bit. I can use my finger to pull on my ear and it would open. So I had to do that while listening to this album.

But I still enjoyed it. And even though it was short. I would go back to this garden I talked about above, many many times. And maybe take a trip over to the Endless River a few times also :) And there will be no ugly grafitti allowed in my garden.

Because it is only in my mind. Nobody else is there. And they are both very good albums indeed even if I still don't know what Rattle That Lock is about. It doesn't matter, as I've tried to explain before. It doesn't ruin the experience with this kind of music.

Then you can read into the lyrics and listen to what the artists have to say about the meaning of everything and what the story is. And that is another experience. 

But that usually comes later for me. Anyway, great album!

Rocksmith best record in this song so far

I thought I was going to recieve a trophy after 99 streak. But I didn't. Just one of the builtin mini trophies.

Edit: Even better now :D 95,7%

110 Longest Streak!

95.7% in Lead Guitar!

88% In Blitzkreig Bop

Woho.. Just a little bit more :)

Now I am going to practise guitar

Think I am going to keep practising on Blitzkreig Bop. I think I got that quite allright yesterday. Until I played the whole song, then my brain started to get confused.

Have beeen playing Rocksmith

I don't know how many hours I have played. I played Blitzkrieg Bop over and over again. I repeated a small part of it until I beat 100% difficulty.

And then I tried playing the whole song like that. Not easy. I noticed that it levels me down if I cannot perform good. That is boring. I wished it kept the level that I had practiced so much on.

Now I've played so much I've forgotten to eat. :P

My blisters still hurt though :(

I've got this sedative that works for a few minutes.

Being up late

I usually go to sleep by now.
But I got stuck doing things on my computer.
Doing deep dreaming on random pictures. It is so fascinating, I can't stop.
And playing Fahrenheit for example :P

I bought it a long time ago for Playstation 2, but never played it much. But it was cheap on Steam a while ago or maybe I got it from an Humble Bundle. I don't remember.

One of the reasons I bought it was because I read that Angelo Badalamenti made the music for that game. The musician who works with David Lynch often. He is famous for making the music in Twin Peaks and other David Lynch movies.

I didn't play it for long now either. I got as far as I did on PS2 really. But this time I found that I liked the game much more than I did on PS2. I think I stopped playing because I didn't really like the controls on the Playstation version.


I like to stream on Twitch when I play games on PC. But it has either stopped working in Linux. Or it is my ultra bad upload speed that makes it impossible. Twitch might shut down streamers with too bad upload. I only get 0.5mbit upload. And I don't really know why. From what I can remember, I am supposed to have 12mbit upload or something like that.

I also started my PSP for the first time, probably in years. I have some RPG's that I never played. There was a firmware upgrade... ofcourse :)

Another thing that I wanted to say was that for some reason Steam stopped working properly some days ago. Last week or when it was. I could not install games any more. And I don't know why, and I don't remember the error message. But I was unable to create install locations. The problem fixed itself when I did a

apt-get dist-upgrade

Fixed. Don't know why. But I guess that it was the kernel update that fixed it. Because I don't remember that it installed much else other than that new kernel version.

I deleted my .local/ folder with all my games and reinstalled Steam from scratch. So I was afraid that all my save files was lost. But they were not. Probably because most games seem to create their own hidden directory under in my home path, or they are saved in the steam cloud? I don't know. Except for Legend of Grimrock. And I think I've played over 20 hours on that game, so that was a little bit sad.
But I did get stuck in that game and didn't get any further so I don't know if I will keep playing it anyway.

It was a good thing I cleaned my Steam directory with all the games, because I did not have much disk space left.

I need to go to sleep soon. But I don't get tired, I don't know why really. But I will get tired soon because I ate my medicine. So, soon I will go into auto-sleep mode. I can also take a sleeping pill, but I think it is too late for that. But I think I need to take one of those Temesta pills that I have for sleeping.

But I constantly find things I need to do on my computer... for some reason Wine is not installed anymore, why? I don't know. *sigh*
And I installed wine again which cleared my menu of installed software. *Gah*
Well, the software is not removed. Just the links.


I will not forget to use my Prontoral now, hopefully it will help me with my blisters in my mouth. Everything hurts to eat now.

And I hope that my Neato vacuum cleaner will work as it should tomorrow. Starting at 07:00.

Well, goodnight.

Rocksmith Day #6

Playing some of the lessons in Rocksmith, Legato 101, Tremolo 101 and Slides 101. I sucked at them all. But apparently I passed. Ending with some Paint it Black that I have played a lot.

Rocksmith Day 5

This is a video of me doing 'The Bends' lesson. I think it is really difficult. It was the third time I played it.

I'm up early now. But this night I really slept good. Didn't wake at all during the night. That is good :)

Playing Rocksmith video

I think this is fourth day that I play. It is difficult. But fun :)

I think something happens to the video near the end. The phone crashed while filming. Because my Canon camera was appearently impossible to film with, full SD card or it just stopped filming for unkown reasons.

I beat 100% speed and 100% difficulty after about 3 hours playing this over and over. Now I just need to practice the rest of the song :)

Playing some more Rocksmith

It is really really fun :)

I don't know how many hours I've played today. My father came to stay over the weekend and tried it. He had the same problem I had the first time, hitting the right string or hitting it at all.

I've have definetly improved in skill. Even if it's just the second time. It is much easier to hit the correct (uhm, what is called) place on the neck, remembering number 5, 7 and 9 with the dots. Then it is also easy to find 4, 6 and 8. And also shifting between strings. But I think it's very difficult to quickly move my fingers to a specific chords and shifting between them. And also finding the correct string in the center. The two upper strings and the two bottom strings is easier to "find" when I play. But then I also have problems that is more specific to the game, remembering which color represents which string. The upper one and the lowest one is easy. And yeah, chords. But it is fun when you feel you improve every time.

My Battlestar Galactica game is still setup on my table, waiting to play the first round. :D
I had problems understanding how to do with the crisis cards. I am watching some tutorials on youtube. Eh, that has also been delayed. I got other things in my mind. I felt so angry and upset about my Neato vacuum cleaner not working properly. I got really really frustrated and couldn't calm down. I also had other thoughts on my mind that I don't want to talk about here really regarding cancer and social stuff. I had to take a few oxascand to relax, and it works. I felt I wanted to play Rocksmith. It's good when the medication works.

I am still running the battery calibration procedure on my Neato. It seems so confused. It doesn't seem to be able to find it's way back to the charging station anymore.

Rocksmith for PS3 and guitar

Yesterday I received this in the mail, I've been looking forward to it :D

I have never in my life played guitar or any other instrument. But I have always wanted to. I guess there are plenty of people out there that feels the same :D When I was a teenager, the people playing instruments was always the cool people. And with my nerdy and insecure personality, playing guitar was not something I "dared" to try, or show people that I was interested.

However, at music class in school, I showed off such a low self-esteem in playing, and had such a bad rhythm, that the teacher lost all motivation to even teach me. She told me I could go do something else if I wanted to. Which made me feel that music wasn't really for me, and kept that with me for the rest of my life. I do however love music.


Now anyway, I don't think any of that matters at all. I tried Rocksmith for the first time yesterday, and it was extremely fun! I kept repeating a part of the game where you learn to play a solo for a song, I did that over and over and over, probably 100's of times, getting better very very slowly. At first the track is really simple, the game looks similar to Guitar Hero where coloured dots comes rolling towards you, and you would need to hit the string at the right moment. Uhm, I'm not so familiar with guitar jargon, so I explaining is difficult. But I hope you get the point.

Each time I completed a track, the difficulty increased, I got up to 55% difficulty. And that was only playing on one single string, changing back and forth from position 3 to 5 (what are those positions called?). I could never get over 55%. I had problems hitting the right string or get my fingers in the correct position. I figured out some techniques to get better at it. But then there were other parts where I felt I needed longer fingers :)

Just changing to play on another string during a track was very difficult for me, but remember it was the first time in my life I played. And I played maybe for 2 hours. I guess, I forgot about time, because I had so much fun :)

I will play some more later today :D

Roger Waters - The Wall 2013

Just came back from Gothenburg watching Roger Waters The Wall. It was really impressive and powerful, I really liked it. Best arena show I have ever seen.


I didn't bring my camera, and didn't film any of the music. I hope they will release a Blu-Ray later, but here are some images and other videos.

Before show started, looking at the arena and the set


During Intermission