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I am Grandpa!

~Plassgard — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:02:08 PST

Congrats to Jonny and Janni to their sweet lil daughter Elina! She came to the world this saturday and now IÂ´m a proud grandfather

New (or old) Horizons

~Plassgard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:19:48 PDT

It was 14 years since I quit playing in bands. For these 14 years IÂ´ve been doing a lot of photography/3D and photoshopping. But I never quit playing. It was just that the computer was my partner. But this year I started to play with other musicians again and I discovered how damn fun and good for the creative mind it is. Why the hell did I quit???

Well I guess it has a to do with a lot of stuff. I changed my life a lot in that period. I grew up )) good thing when youÂ´re 30 and started to think about career and stuff. I canÂ´t say that I regret that I took a break but why did it have to be so long??? LOL

Anyway, forming some kind of band again and I have so much fun. Video of our first rehearsal is here:

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Sound sucks thru the small cam, but itÂ´s evidence of the first jam

A summer of travelling

~Plassgard — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:56:12 PDT

I just came back from Northern Italy and it was a fantastic journey through dramatic landscapes and beautyful cities. We went to see all the big lakes like Lago de Garda, Como and so on and also took a trip to Venice. Right now thereÂ´s so many impressions going through my head that it makes me dizzy.

Some photos from this trip here:

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IÂ´ve also been on a trip to Norway and have another ton of photos to sort out... But that will have to wait cuz tomorrow vacation is over and IÂ´m back to reality.

Cheers
Anders

New music on My Space

~Plassgard — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:06:42 PDT

A lil song called "Alone"

New song featuring my new Hammond!

Song written, vocals, Hammond and keys by me
Guitars and drums by Ilkka
EngstrÃ¶m
Bass and 12-string by BjÃ¶rn Pehrson
Lyrics by Emmett Harris

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Cheers
Anders

In to the fire featuring El Bitcho

~Plassgard — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:39:00 PDT

In a perfect World I would have time for art,photo and music but thereÂ´s never enough time so right now I focus on music. Recording a lot of new stuff and finishing older songs. Uploaded a new version of "In To The Fire" on my My Space today. This version features guitars by Hector Carcedo from Barcelona in Spain. Hopefully finish some more songs soon with guitarwork from other musicians.
Also uploaded an oldie called "Darkness Returns"

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A new song at My Space

~Plassgard — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:57:12 PST

Wrote and uploaded a new song at My Space today.

ItÂ´s here:

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Happy New Year to all my friends!

//Anders

New Music at Myspace

~Plassgard — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:25:17 PDT

A couple of new songs up at myspace:
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Also a new version of the song "Ballet of a mechanical doll" The 3d character MetaliKa that I did with Vali and Lory a couple of years ago.

Cheers
Anders

R.I.P Big Buddy

~Plassgard — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:22:55 PST

Our beloved cat Texas went to sleep today...Miss him so damn much. Wrote a couple of lines about it here:

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Calm but not calm at all

~Plassgard — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:04:50 PST

Great gig by my favo hardcoremetal band Calm at Club Distortion in Sthlm last night. Theplace and stage was very small for these guys. TheyÂ´re so totally into their thing and the place was a boiling mess but fun, fun, fun

Follow the pic for more of this Mayhem!

Stockholm in B/W

~Plassgard — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:54:23 PST

I had so many unsorted pics from my hometown so I took a couple of hours and tried to sort out a bunch of different Stockholm photos and made a black and white album at my Site. More of the 43 B/W here:

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Thank God for Wordpress and Coppermine

~Plassgard — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:57:38 PST

I updated my Site this week and based it on Wordpress adn Coppermine. And yay, I like this, now itÂ´s so easy to keep a Site active and updated. Now I can focus on Art and Photos instead of making new html pages.

Thank God for the Open Source community who is developing such great tools!

REWAMPED and with a bunch of new photos:

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The F* Book

~Plassgard — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:59:18 PST

Seriously, whatÂ´s the use for a place like Facebook? IÂ´ve tried it for a couple of month but I just find it silly and frustrating with all noncense applications there. + All the bull about Facebook claiming rights to all material you upload and the spyware... So IÂ´m outa there.

Oh and thanx Krometekk for the subscription It was very nice of you!

Cheers
Anders

So much happening in life...

~Plassgard — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:29:15 PDT

Just felt like writing a couple of lines. Havent been that active here or elsewere on the net.

Life is busy, work take a lot, and been spending time in the photostudio. A couple of weeks ago I did a photoshoot from a small plane over Stockholm and it was awesum!!

Check these great Slovenian Thrashers:
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I just recieved the CD, thanx guys it rocks! (And features my art on part of the cover)

Trying to figure out the use for Facebook...So far I just find it confusing and timeconsuming but I am here if somebody wants to add me:

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Peace
Anders

ninnernaninnernaninnernaninnernaninnerna ninnernaninnneraninnernaninnnernaninnern a

I´m not much of a ballad fan but...

~Plassgard — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:07:01 PDT

God Damn this is a beautyful song:

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Actually it spins and spins in both my car and my mp3-player right now!

Industrial Archaeology and my Big Fat Cat

~Plassgard — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:23:01 PDT

I am building a huge photogallery at MOONSILENCE.SE. So far itÂ´s 450 photos and 254 of them are abandoned buildings/factories etc.

Do I have some kinda obsession??

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My big fat cat is on medication, He has some kinda infection and problems with his kidneys...Poor thing, I hope he will be alright, I love the Big Dude...

A godo sign is that he was at least very hungry when i picked him up at the Vet...

My Music on Radio Free FM tonite

~Plassgard — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:53:26 PDT

Radio Free FM will have a feature on my music tonite at 22:30 CET

So tune in!

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Thanx Frank

NIN

~Plassgard — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:27:01 PDT

NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN NIN

IÂ´m happy! What a concert...

Back from Greece, photomodels and more

~Plassgard — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:43:57 PDT

Wow what a vacation, IÂ´ve been shooting photomodels, visited the Greek Island Samos and photographed the Pride Parade in Stockholm.

I have also worked a lot on my songs so sometime this Autumn I will have the new MINDWRENCH.COM up and running.

Anyway, I decided to change my MOONSILENCE.SE into a gallery of both my photos and art. So far itÂ´s bit WIP but thereÂ´s tons of photos from Samos, the Pride Parade + the fetish model La Dollna there.

So if anybody is interested itÂ´s here:

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Cheers
Anders

PS Still looking for more models interested in industry/fetish/goth/dark/horror etc

I´m so tired of Vicky!

~Plassgard — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:08:36 PDT

I love the possabilities in 3d and I love the way itÂ´s possible to manipulate and mix 3d and photos, but right now I feel so tired of 3d models. I am going to use my camera a lot more for a while I think.

I love the Fetish/Industry theme and I would also love to do some horror, real dark pics. SO models of all kind, letÂ´s play!

Thank God for Velvet Revolver!

~Plassgard — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:05:23 PDT

When I was a young dude everybody loved Guns n Roses. I love a lot of their music too but I could never stand the whiny, whimp Axl Rose. I was more a fan of Stone Temple Pilots. And the combo of the creative dudes from GNR and Scott Weiland is so damn good!! Contaband was a good album but Libertad rocks my head off...

just love it, this is written in the middle of the night after terorising my neighbours with it for a bunch of hours he he IÂ´m glad most of em was here to listen.

Updates on my own work, songs are flowing outa my head, lyrics is a lil slower but I count on your help Jutta
Sometime this summer/Autumn at least a lil of the music/Art/Photo will be a new Mindwrench. Mindwrench - The Industrial Silence.

A lot of music is finished, a lot of lyrics on itÂ´s way, a bunch of digiart is in progress, a lot of photos is coming and hopefully it all will be something that I always wanted to create in the end. I want this to be a Site that is extremely personal, covering all my fears, loves, fetishes,illusions and disillusions and I hope I really finish this project I try to make it totally honest and write all the stuff from my heart but IÂ´m such a lousy lyricwriter, or at least the language is a barrier to climb. Well IÂ´m a bit on my way, and I got some help

Vacation,Music Creation, photo motivation

~Plassgard — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:44:10 PDT

Ok, sometimes I just wonder if things just happen or if itÂ´s a meaning with it all...
Last week one of my hdds crashed and this made me goin through tons of backups and all this led to that I found a lot of unfinished songs, stuff I totally forgot i wrote and some I just forgot to finish. Also some older songs I think I can do much better versions of. So was it a meaning with it all?
So in one way IÂ´m happy, cuz I would never have found those ideas again otherwise.
Ok, I lost some photos and that sucks, I had some photos I really loved on that drive without backup...Anyway, I can make the songs I lost again and the 3d objects I lost was shitty modelled so maybe I do em better next time, positive attitude huh?

So, right now IÂ´m thinking in terms of music and I even started to use my cam again. Been a lil to much 3d lately I think. I started my summer vacation this week and havent made any plans except working on music and art for the songs so if thereÂ´s any models of all kind out there in Stockholm/Sweden who wants to play and make some dark/wierd/industrial/sweet/sensual/hopeless/hopefull/ugly/beautyful photos please give me a IM.

I have this idea of turning my Site around with new songs and remakes of old and combine it all with art of all kinds, both 3d and photography and I need to make some new photos!

Digital F**kup

~Plassgard — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:09:29 PDT

So once again a harddrive fails, this time with a LOT of new written music and ideas + I donÂ´t know how many 3d models and stuff IÂ´ve made. And a lot of photos, both mine and stuff I got from friends.

I backed this shitdrive maybe 6 month ago and I was about to do it again this weekend...

IÂ´ve spent the last couple of weeks sorting stuff from it to make nice and clean backups and now itÂ´s gone...
And this drive is real DEAD, cant read it with external cables or anything so itÂ´s gone forever.

I think I need a real break from the digital world, I will go pick some flowers or hurt myself on a barbed wire or something other real...

Blog for Mindwrench

~Plassgard — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:58:26 PDT

I created a lil blogpage at my Site, will incorporate it with the frontpage soon but for now it can be found here:

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Katatonia damnit!!!

~Plassgard — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:48:41 PDT

Sometimes it just strikes me how many damn good bands thereÂ´s out there...

Just want you to listen to KATATONIA my friends, they deserve your atention.

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Opps, Artist of The Month at Renderosity

~Plassgard — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:03:32 PDT

DidnÂ´t have a clue that I was nominated and missed the headline on the frontpage when I went there LOL
But I saw that I had a new message and it said I was AOM. Well thats´retty typical me, I walk around in my own World and miss what is happening in the real one hehe.
My friend Shasha thinks AOM is a funny name so she said she will call me that instead of Anders...Yo AOM she says haha

Anyway, IÂ´m glad that people like my disillusions and confusions, IÂ´ve always looked at my art as to wierd and strange to be real popular, I donÂ´t do chicks with swords or cute pics and my pinups usually have cyberbrains or metalarms LOL but obviously some people are as wierd and strange as I am hehe and IÂ´m flattered. An interview should be up later tonite at this link:

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Oh and speaking Manson

~Plassgard — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 14:07:03 PDT

I just love the new look of his Site, damn cool! The whole place is a artwork! Highly entertaining.

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Eat me Drink me

~Plassgard — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:23:40 PDT

Outa sadness and desperation comes the most personal material ever by Mr Manson...
Why is sadness and desperation so damn beautyful??

The parting from Dita Von Tease really wasnt an easy thing but out of it came really beautyful music...

People really should be more depressed and sad...

Just kidding but damn, its good for the creative side...

Both musical and visual...

Lets get depressed...

A tout le monde

~Plassgard — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:18:41 PDT

I´m a huge Megadeth, Dave Mustaine fan. I had my doubts of him for a while a couple of years ago when he after all years of drugabuse that ended up in religious pondering, but Man, Man you just make my day with every album!

The new album kicks so much butt and fills me with energy and right now "A tout le monde" is the most beautyful song I know.

Keep kickin Dave, you do it so much better than the other M band you love to hate!

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Links to some of my older MP3s

~Plassgard — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:51:46 PDT

Right now I don´t have any good updated page with links to my older songs, but I have a bunch of em on my server. I got a request for one of them so here´s a bunch of links to some old darkness

Ballet of The Mechanical Doll
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Darkness Returns
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Death Of A Muse
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Trancenated
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Kill The Pain
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Deathmachine
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Companyslave
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As always all music, lyrics, singing, noises and confusions by me except lyrics for Death of a muse by Diana and lead guitar on Companyslave by an old drugaddict I don´t wanna mention with name.

Now I better start packing for our journey to Riga, all my love and Happy Birthday in advance for my Susanne and all creds in the World to my Father who is my hardworking 73 years old hero today, I would never have made it without you! (We are building a new fence and Man is my Man still going strong!) Also a Big thought of love to our sponsored child in Croatia, well what the hell a lot of love to everybody LOL

Hugs to ya all, better get packing!

So what happened to the music?

~Plassgard — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:34:38 PDT

What happened to all the new music I was making?? Well what happened was that I realized that I don´t have to finish everything right away.
I mostly work like that, I get an idea and finish it fast, leave it and go to something else. But this time I work a lot on the songs instead, I pick em up now and then. Ad new ideas, erease stuff that maybe wasn´t that good and hopefully it will lead to something that feels finished in the end

The funny thing is that I really like this way of working. I get a lot of new ideas and inspiration for details in the songs when I pick em up again after letting them sleep for a a month or two.

I really don´t know what it is but something happened to my mind earlier this year, cuz I do most things with a lil more reflection, let stuff grow a bit more inside before letting it out.

Well I just philosophize a bit

Life is flying at the moment

~Plassgard — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:22:50 PDT

I have so many things in the pipe that I can´t really get it...
We are doing garden extreme makeover, I´ve been driving home something like 20 bushes...and this weekend we will put up a new fence.

I just booked flight and Hotel in Riga, Latvia for a couple of days when Susanne turns 40.

Then I will go on a IT-conference on a small Island in Stockholm Archipelago for a couple of days...When I come home from that trip I have 2 days to rest and then I fly to Gothenburg for work...

And in between this I wanna have time for some digital art too...phew...and phew again...

But lotsa fun, I´ve always wanted to see Riga, seems like such a beatyful city with lotsa interesting architecture. I hope my 6 GB of camera memory will be enough

And yes I really begin to understand how Rhino works, at least the basics

The Boring Task Of Studying 3d

~Plassgard — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:23:30 PDT

Any ideas on how to find strength and interest enough to study 3d books?

I love to play in my programs and find new tools that way but I really, really should study a bit more to use the potential of the programs.

I´ve learned the stuff I know about C4D and Z-brush from tutorials and trial and error but I´ve owned Rhino for more than a year without using it...phew I really have to find some focus for that.

Happy Monday or Global Warming??

~Plassgard — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:19:24 PDT

Today we had this years first barbecue...In March!! Normally we have that in May, June in Sweden. It was so damn nice to sit in the sun and smell the beef and mushrooms on the grill.

Pictureproof 26 March 2007 18:07

But at the same time a bit scary, it´s not normal to sit in the sun and relax in March. Is it a effect of the Global Warming or just a Happy Monday?

Junkyard adventures!

~Plassgard — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:23:14 PDT

Postindustrial reality in the overfilled junkyard. A nice Sunday adventure with my friend Soile.

Under the pics in my photogallery there´s a link to a whole page with pics from this Urban Exploration.

Hope ya like junk!

A couple of funny MP3s!

~Plassgard — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:02:39 PST

Sorting out stuff and found some reeeeeeal old recordings. The first one is with a band called "Southern Comfort" I sing lead here and play keyboards, must be 1987 or something like that...phew funny stuff. I really was a poet in the line "Listen to my advise and get out of that permanent masturbation"

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This is pure joy for me to hear cuz it´s my son at the age of 2 - 3 and I used my sampler and recorded some lines. He is actually saying "flashing indicator" "Put on your seatbelt Grandma" LOL
I remember he loved to hear his voice coming out of the keyboard.

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Hehe, these are fun memories for me and I´m glad I still have these!

I will never understand the ways of life...

~Plassgard — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:33:26 PST

I will never understand the ways of life...That´s for shure. Life´s been going up and down all my life and I have always been kinda selfdestructive in a masochistic way, I´ve sort of enjoyed the missery I created by myself. I ignored the signals from my body when it was screaming STOP sitting at the comp 16 hours, stop living on coffee and red wine. I´ve ignored the signals from my brain when it says it´s to tired to think. I´ve ignored the signals from people around me when they say slow down...

BUT last week I had two dreams that had such huge impact on me, I can´t really explain how strong they were. Hmmm I will try to be a bit philosophic here in a language that is not my native so excuse me if I´m make no sense. A while back I had enough of my backpains and finally went to see a doc, well he told me that my muscles are so deeply inflamed and that I have to learn to listen to the body and gave me some medicine. Ok I´ve been eating this medicine for a while and trying to take it easy and for some weeks nothing happened but slowly I started to feel a bit better. Now to the dreams I had.

The first night I dreamed that I died...very scary, extremely scary and painful, I actually felt dead when I woke up, empty in my soul the whole day and extremly tired in the evening. So I went to bed early the next night and as some might have read I had the most extraordinary dream that night. I can without any doubt say that Its the strongest emotions I´ve felt in my whole life. It was so strong that it actually scares me a bit but Im at the same time so happy about it cuz it fills me with energy and happiness just to think about it. The details from that dream is under my last pic.

So for me these dreams was like being reborn in a way, I mean I still feel like the same person, I still have pains but they´re getting better, but I look at the World a bit different, I look at my self a bit different. I try, I really do try , to take care of myself and to listen to the body, cuz the body and the soul are one and when one part is screaming the other part screams too.

And it might sound silly but after that dream the World around me really feels different. I am happy and humble for each moment of joy, and I enjoy the days in a way I cant remember the last time I did. I feel that I deal with all the thousands of problems in life much better and even colleagues have asked me what the hell has happened cuz I come earlier to work and instead of sore red eyes I am filled with a new energy...And the funny thing is that I feel so eager to take care of all the problems, and I got a new confidence in dealing with stuff too...

So what am I trying to say with all this? Hmm I havent got a clue, I think I wanna say dream on, cuz dreams speak, and they can speak out loud and make difference. I´m just writing right outa my brain here and all this might just sound like rubbish to you, but this is one important thing for me. To write exactly what i feel at the moment cuz words have always been scary to me, I found it a lot easier to express myself with music or pictures than words but thats a wall I try to tear down too so I just write right out here

Take care!

Anders

From Life and Second Life

~Plassgard — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:40:45 PST

Went to a doctor adn realized that I have to listen more to my body...I´ve had an aching body for years without listening and all my muscles are deeply inflamed. So medicine and rest should be the cure...Just hope I can get my hyperactive brain to rest a bit too...

Speaking life, what´s the hype about Second Life??? I´ve spent a couple of hours in there and I just find the place boring.

Just some bad 3d graphics and tons of people who are as confused as I was about what they´re doing there. And peopel actually pay a lot to buy virtual appartments and land in there, geez...

The Art Of Nature

~Plassgard — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:52:26 PST

A day like this the nature creates it´s own art. Been on a photohike with my friend Soile and it was freezing in the wind but so damn beautyful.

And damn it was nice to leave the comp for some fresh air!

Alien Soul Connected

~Plassgard — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:06:21 PST

I decided to split my musicstuff into two different pages and made a My Space Profile for my more Trance/Ambient stuff:

Progress in Music in Progress

~Plassgard — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:33:08 PST

A lil update on what´s happening with my music. Right now I have the ground finished for something like 8 "rock" songs and also a bunch of more ambient stuff.

Still havent found the guitarist I´m looking for and the progress with lyrics goes slow right now, I find it hard with words (even if I get help)

So too lil lyrics and far to much music LOL . I will start by doing a lil playlist at my My Space with some of the trance/ambient ones and then slowly build lyrics and art for teh rocksongs and finish the Site for it.

My friend Soile who is a fabolous photographer will take some Wierd photos of me in one of my beautyful gasmasks for the Site as well In the meantime check her Photo Site!

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And listen to my latest song "Alien Meditation Part One"

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The Indian Mistress Ritual Dance

~Plassgard — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:29:17 PST

Sometimes I use music to clear my mind, I play and write without thinking and it´s like a shower for the brain and a paus from thinking, some kinda homegrown meditation

Anyway, I did a lil piece of music tonite that way and it´s here if somebody wanna hear it:

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The Adventure With A Crashed HDD

~Plassgard — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:21:44 PST

A couple of years ago I saved a lot of both digitalart and photos on a external USB drive. Well the bastard crashed and that was my only backup at the moment. I´ve had this disc in a box during these years but today I detached it. I took the HDD from the controller and plugged it in directy via IDE to USB cable and external power to the disc...

And it jumped and screamed!!! But it worked, it got so hot that I thought it would burn my table and it crashed a couple of times again. BUT I managed to save my originals from it!

At least 30 originalsized digiart + a couple of 100 photos

Work is Done!

~Plassgard — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 02:52:47 PST

Can´t believe I did this but I actually sorted my digital art in year folders! The pds files are flattened , renamed correctly and for every folder of pds files I´ve also made a folder with the originalsized pics as jpg. All stored on a safe webdrive with backups.

Still a lot missing but at least I´ve saved a bunch!

Next will be to do the same with all my photograpy but I save that work till I´ve finished my new Site and all the art and music to that.

The Healing Process

~Plassgard — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:29:09 PST

I wonder why I´m such a dizzy unfocused person? I wonder why I always have a million things going on in my head instead of one thing at the time?

I wonder why I´ve never done proper backups with flattened psd files correctly named instead of 20 layered pics called dark1.psd and dark2.psd?

Anyway, A friend asked me for some old pics I did earlier when I used the nick "Placebo" and I started to look after them and realized that I am a disaster in keeping my things in order. So I started to sort all my cds, hdds etc and I´m on good way to find at least 50% of my old stuff. I rename them properly, flatten them and catalogue them in year folders and it´s a healingprocess, feels so damn good So thanx Anna cuz it´s your fault that I started LOL

And I find tons of forgotten stuff, pics I dont even remember I started to make. So far I´ve sorted 102 pictures between 2002 - 2006 but there´s tons more. Anyway this is something I should have done from the beginning

A new song!

~Plassgard — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:15:12 PST

Very unfinished but still...

Link to the song from my gallery, did a lil pic for "The Man of a 1000 Faces" too

Now this is a very raw recording/mix, I had the song in my head when I woke up yesterday so all is done yesterday and today. (And I had time to go shopping too)

//Anders

Merry Christmas!!

~Plassgard — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:11:34 PST

A lil wish for a real nice christmas from me! Hope you all get a real good time with your near ones. And spend a lil thought for those that don´t have anybody too. Times like these always makes me think of all the lonely people around. I love to be alone a lot of the time, I often choose to spend time alone, but I always know I have my near ones and for me it´s a luxury to be left alone and create. But there´s so many people that havent choosed loneliness and who lives in it all the time...Well anyway, Merry Christmas!

//Anders

WIP Moonsilence

~Plassgard — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:23:39 PST

Just a lil update on the music front. 5 songs are written musically, just need the lyrics, to find a guitarist and to record the stuff I am basically keyboard player, drummer and singer so I can just make some noise on guitars and I want it better than that. 3 songs are basic ideas so far so almost eights songs so far.

Will be some kinda proggy, dark soft and heavy mix with lotsa distorted hammondorgans, all with artwork and a new Site. Hopefully finished in a near future. I will try to concentrate real hard on the music in the coming month.

Also written some more electronic and ambient stuff so maybe the Site will have two paths...

Anyway, I pimped my page at My Space with a piece of the Art Work for my Site:

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Merry Christmas to ya all!!

Cheyenne Anthem

~Plassgard — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:45:48 PST

Im listening to a bunch of old songs and I just realized that a band I´ve really mised is Kansas. Damn they´re so good!!! They´ve written a couple of the most beautyful songs I know, actually a couple of THE most beautyful, like Cheyenne Anthem, Carry on Wayward Son, Dust In The Wind and Hold On...These songs are 30 years old now and I love em as much now as I did way back in life.

I don´t always agree with their christian lyrics but damn...the music, the music is so beautyful that I almost get an "Cosmic Orgasm" as a friend of mine call it And Steve Walsh is such a singer.

Now I just gotta dig up all my old vinyls with Steve Walsh and Kerry Livgren too
I remember how confused I was as a teenager when Kerry Livgren did a solo album and DIO sang on it cuz DIO is suposed to be evil and kansas is a christian band hehe.

OHHH and so good news for the summer, Heaven and Hell will play at Sweden Rock Festival. So what the f*** is Heaven and Hell?? Well it´s the Black Sabbath Line up that featured Ronnie James Dio on vocals and they call them seves H and H instead of Sabbath for some reason but I cant wait to hear songs like Die Young again...

Cheers!

My Space Sucks!!!

~Plassgard — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 13:45:25 PST

What the hell is so good about My Space? I have a lot of Swedish friends and bands I know there but the place is just full of crap, bimbos and pokerplayers.

I created a player for some of my songs but some IDIOT hacked it and replaced my music with a Linkin Park song.

I´m tired of it, for you who wanna hear my music. I will put up my new Site in a few month with more music than ever.

Cheers to my friends and to hell with people who have to stick their stinkin nose into other peoples stuff!

Some of my older songs at My Space

~Plassgard — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:48:57 PST

I got a couple of questions about older songs so I made a lil player at My Space with some of them.
Hopefully I have a new Site with art and music ready in a few month.

I am writing more music than ever and rearanging some of my old material and work hard on the recordings. Anyway, for now some of the old ones can be heard here:

[link]

Cheers
Anders

I don´t get this shit...

~Plassgard — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:11:02 PST

Trying to upload a pic but it doesn´t show up.This happens now and then and it drived me mad...
I can´t see it, my girlfriend can´t see it, but somebody added it as favorite??? So damn strange...

Anyway, here´s a smaller version of the pic and the song I made to it. The pic is made last night when I had one of my sleepless nights and the song is written, recorded and mixed during 5 hours tonite

The Song:
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Focus works!

~Plassgard — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:42:39 PST

Phew...Sometimes focus and a lil bit of extra energy really works. I finished the CD over 2 weeks before deadline

And it feels so damn good cuz now I can concentrate on my own stuff. I got a new domain, I have about 15 more or less songs (mostly less) and some ideas for art and hopefully all will end up in a Site were art and music goes hand in hand in the end.

Will probably be a very split place since I am such a split personality LOL Everything between real dark and hard music to atmospheric stuff I think...Right now I´m trying to track a guitarist I used to play with very long ago...feels like it was in another life. Hope I find him cuz he´s a real genius on guitar and I would love to have him involved in my songs.

So hopefully I can have the same focus on finishing these new songs too hehe

A sneakpeak on the CD booklet I just finished

Focus!

~Plassgard — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:23:03 PST

Just want to tell my friends that I might be away a bit. I will try to focus on finishing a cd booklet that I have deadline in middle of December for. I wanna finish it fast so I can focus on my own art and music. Right now I´m doing all at same time + some photography and try to manage my job as IT-coordinator at daytime and it makes a bit chaos in my head hehe.

Well , anyway. I ´ll be around. Might not just answer so quickly on mail and so on.

Cheers
Anders

I killed today

~Plassgard — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:29:11 PST

Some days just sucks...Or doing good turned bad

My Missy was working late tonight and I wanted to surprise her and pick her up in town and not at the station here. So I drove away on the dark road. A few km later I just briefly noticed something in front of the car and then a gruesome noice. I hit something and I new right away that it was a animal.

It was a Badger...and it was stonedead. I have never killed a animal before and I feel like shit even if it was an accident. So the thought that came to my head is that I drove away cuz I wanted to do something good and just because I got that idea it turned out bad...

The only good thing is that it died right away, it didn´t suffer, but damn I feel like shit anyway...

I came home and turned on the comp and the synth, so here´s a few notes in memory of the badger. (It´s not a song or something, just me playing a few notes feeling sorry for the poor thing)

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So what did I wanted to say with this? Nothing I guess, just needed to write something...

A new old MP3 !!

~Plassgard — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:54:00 PST

As a first step in the progress of start playing music seriously again I rerecorded an old song I´m found of but never liked the version I did earlier.

This is a very raw mix. I recorded the vocals 3 hours ago and I´m pretty deaf at the moment
All music, noises ,vocals, lyrics etc by me.

The song is called "Ballet of Mechanical Doll" and can be found here:

[link]

Hope ya like it!

The Moonsilence II

~Plassgard — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:53:27 PST

Thank you so much Jutta my friend for helping me out with the words I will make a new version of that pic as soon as I´m on my graphic windows. I´m in my music OS right now and it´s strictly for music so no photoshop in here. It´s funny cuz it must be something like 13-14 years since I quit playing music professionally and I can´t remember the last time I had this much spirit for music. The ideas are popping out almost to much at the moment. It makes it hard so sort them out hehe. And it means that I have a bunch of songs to find words too...sigh!!!

I love words, I love to sing words that has a meaning but it is really, really the hardest part in the creative progress to finish lyrics for me.

To change the path,
to leave Mindwrench for Moonsilence.
To peel off the old skin and walk naked into the unknown...
With eyes wide open. What an adventure.
The journey is mine...

The Moonsilence

~Plassgard — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:11:49 PST

I was just thinking about some ideas and plans for art and music and a couple of lines popped up in my head. Nothing fancy, I´m not much of a poet, but I liked them.
So I grabbed a couple of my photos and made a lil pic of it

Art and music is the adventure of life, something without limitations. The only limit is the one we put on our selves and our own imagination. Sometimes I forget what a wonderful adventure it is, but I´m glad that it always comes back, at least now and then when I work in 3d , photoshop or make music. The feeling that there is no limits at all. Everything is possible, it´s a damn nice feeling
Yes there are some tools we have to learn like 3d programs or music instruments before everything is possible and that can be tough but it´s not that I am talking about, Im talking about the imagination, that everything is possible there and that is the feeling that is so amazing

Well I just ramble around in the garden of the mind...hehe

W.I.P

~Plassgard — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:42:31 PST

Just wanted to show a couple of WIP, I´m working on a booklet for a CD and this time there´s no 3d at all involved so it´s an exciting challenge to bade it all on photography. The concept of the album is about a dude looked in a room in a mental institution at a monastery

And

Well this is what I have made so far, I reall love to work in 3d most of the time but right now I love the idea of only using photography as base.

Cheers!

Devious Journal Entry

~Plassgard — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:31:26 PST

W.I.P

~Plassgard — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:30:50 PST

Just wanted to show a couple of WIP, I´m working on a booklet for a CD and this time there´s no 3d at all involved so it´s an exciting challenge to bade it all on photography. The concept of the album is about a dude looked in a room in a mental institution at a monastery

[link]

And

[link]

Well this is what I have made so far, I reall love to work in 3d most of the time but right now I love the idea of only using photography as base.

Cheers!