2001
SURVIVAL-NOTES FROM THE DARK ISLES
Dear friends,
Another year has passed and it is about time to look back and forth. Still sitting here freezing in old Hindersböle, Maarianhome, Alandia, listening to exotic music and struggling on at work trying to make it pay.
So, January 2001… must have been working on Winter Jazz & Blues in February making it a success, especially Patrik Boman Seven Piece Machine and good friends like Bö and Tommy in the house and Riitta down with flu!
18th of February leaving for Havanna on my 47th birthday, DV-camera in hand and a terrible storm almost stopping us already at the Viking terminal, but we made it via Eckerö, The Blondes and I. Was nize to be back in the sun and in the laidback rhythm of the heat. Two weeks of walking, wondering and cooling down. Riitta took a lot of pix and finally turned them into an exhibition "і Sí, Cuba, Sí !" which was on in August in MHQ and in September in HKI.
Back home for Vera Filmfestival (thank you, Joe! & Ben) and Mariehamn Literature Days at the end of March, both successful, once again.
Tried to get my moving pix together during two weeks in April but only got started and let down… Quite cruel that month of April.
After some nice days in Eskilstuna in early May and doing Maailma kyIässä in Hki dancing to Galaxy in Macombo I could it feel it coming to me, too, at the end of that so very fair month when my cousin Roy called it his "final day" in his garage nearby here… Left dem’n’us. - R.I.P. in cousin suburban King.
June just went by (thanks Illur for being around) and summer was nice and warm to some of us. Got down to Roskilde, Copenhagen, Odense and Langeland for some family days of vacation… Peter, Galal, Anne-Marie, Paul (50) and Britt. John mixing his film with Elias at Studio Julius. People came and went, friends from near and afar. I was quite distant, too.
August, fighting numbers in the budget for 2002-2004 and doing Stenhård in the library- garage (Kiitos Kari) slowly planning for and working my way up to Världsfest III in November.
September, a week in Stockholm almost all by myself at Bergshyddan cottage in Fåfängan. Home for Anni's 10th Birthday on the 7th and then back for the weekend. Meeting old friends and new (Ludde Tommy Olle Fidelia Nanna). Wish it had been longer.
Dancing to Manu Chao with Bö and Riitta in Helsinki.
October, hectic October:
Meetings and e-mails; Boss, Personal, Board, Badhus, Arken, Fakta, NiPÅ, Upplevelse, AV, Projektreferens, LS, JOL, XIT, Pers, MS, ss, ÅTF, ÅMT, Afrikka 2002, Fonder, NORDBOK Kph, BGT, VL, LS, Väst, ljud, pass, studio …
People: Ekman, Looking for Trouble, Stjärnfall, Marika S., Åsa, M-L 74, Chaplin, Ritva, Suz, Slotte, Bumba, Polisen, Micke tibaks.
November and a very nice Världsfest III, indeed. Dancing to Amani, drumming, actioning… Cuban music, good food… Piloto espero que sera ustedes aqui la proxima vez. İ Contactame !
And finishing off in December with two weeks of holiday celebrating Riitta's 50th, Xmas and Farewell to 2001 meeting up with friends in Helsinki (Bö, Steffe, Pelle, Olle, John, Jaana-Maaria) and Mariehamn (Bolle Dennis).
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Looking back at what I’ve pinpointed down it seems there have been some occasions with travels and parties floating up as buoys for Memory Lane.
Of course there was a lot more to that year of yesteryear. Gigging for the Elders second year in a row at Odalgården, this-a-time with three saxes and keys. Sega Gubbar seems to be the name that sticks.
Did my monthly radio-programs: Varma vindar still blow and Drömmar och mardrömmar popped up, a series of 25 programs based on stories written by schoolchildren… I wish I had the energy to fulfill my promise of putting them on the net…. Still dreaming.
No new house but a Volvo 850 gleams in the garage.
Started to docu my dog on DV: Oh, My Dog! Ånni goes Maarianhome… Did two shortcuts in December "D'Tailles de la Habana" and "Sur le Sable" a fast mix on a gig by local guys Sand with some great help from Mattias.
My near and dear ones try to put up with me. Riitta has been a teacher for children with special problems, Anni goes to school and reads, dances and talk-talk-talks. John is turning 20 in February and hopefully will pass his baccalaureat in the spring. We had a Family Christmas with Mother Maj-Lis and the kids. On Boxing Day we departed for Helsinki meeting up with The Third Blond, Mira, and her 1 1/2 yr Tim-poika and recent find Jyrki.
As The Two Towers fell people cancelled their trips to Goa, India so we had to change our schedule as well, hope to Goa for my 48th. But I still long for Africa, principally.
I have been fighting my physical and mental health, looking back and forth in therapy, blowing PEF, popping pills… My toes are freezing, Fermin Muguruza does Basque reggae and so…….
WISHING YOU ALL A PEACEFUL AND REWARDING NEW YEAR 2002.
Salam. Yours, Tom
Dear friends,
Another year has passed and it is about time to look back and forth. Still sitting here freezing in old Hindersböle, Maarianhome, Alandia, listening to exotic music and struggling on at work trying to make it pay.
So, January 2001… must have been working on Winter Jazz & Blues in February making it a success, especially Patrik Boman Seven Piece Machine and good friends like Bö and Tommy in the house and Riitta down with flu!
18th of February leaving for Havanna on my 47th birthday, DV-camera in hand and a terrible storm almost stopping us already at the Viking terminal, but we made it via Eckerö, The Blondes and I. Was nize to be back in the sun and in the laidback rhythm of the heat. Two weeks of walking, wondering and cooling down. Riitta took a lot of pix and finally turned them into an exhibition "і Sí, Cuba, Sí !" which was on in August in MHQ and in September in HKI.
Back home for Vera Filmfestival (thank you, Joe! & Ben) and Mariehamn Literature Days at the end of March, both successful, once again.
Tried to get my moving pix together during two weeks in April but only got started and let down… Quite cruel that month of April.
After some nice days in Eskilstuna in early May and doing Maailma kyIässä in Hki dancing to Galaxy in Macombo I could it feel it coming to me, too, at the end of that so very fair month when my cousin Roy called it his "final day" in his garage nearby here… Left dem’n’us. - R.I.P. in cousin suburban King.
June just went by (thanks Illur for being around) and summer was nice and warm to some of us. Got down to Roskilde, Copenhagen, Odense and Langeland for some family days of vacation… Peter, Galal, Anne-Marie, Paul (50) and Britt. John mixing his film with Elias at Studio Julius. People came and went, friends from near and afar. I was quite distant, too.
August, fighting numbers in the budget for 2002-2004 and doing Stenhård in the library- garage (Kiitos Kari) slowly planning for and working my way up to Världsfest III in November.
September, a week in Stockholm almost all by myself at Bergshyddan cottage in Fåfängan. Home for Anni's 10th Birthday on the 7th and then back for the weekend. Meeting old friends and new (Ludde Tommy Olle Fidelia Nanna). Wish it had been longer.
Dancing to Manu Chao with Bö and Riitta in Helsinki.
October, hectic October:
Meetings and e-mails; Boss, Personal, Board, Badhus, Arken, Fakta, NiPÅ, Upplevelse, AV, Projektreferens, LS, JOL, XIT, Pers, MS, ss, ÅTF, ÅMT, Afrikka 2002, Fonder, NORDBOK Kph, BGT, VL, LS, Väst, ljud, pass, studio …
People: Ekman, Looking for Trouble, Stjärnfall, Marika S., Åsa, M-L 74, Chaplin, Ritva, Suz, Slotte, Bumba, Polisen, Micke tibaks.
November and a very nice Världsfest III, indeed. Dancing to Amani, drumming, actioning… Cuban music, good food… Piloto espero que sera ustedes aqui la proxima vez. İ Contactame !
And finishing off in December with two weeks of holiday celebrating Riitta's 50th, Xmas and Farewell to 2001 meeting up with friends in Helsinki (Bö, Steffe, Pelle, Olle, John, Jaana-Maaria) and Mariehamn (Bolle Dennis).
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Looking back at what I’ve pinpointed down it seems there have been some occasions with travels and parties floating up as buoys for Memory Lane.
Of course there was a lot more to that year of yesteryear. Gigging for the Elders second year in a row at Odalgården, this-a-time with three saxes and keys. Sega Gubbar seems to be the name that sticks.
Did my monthly radio-programs: Varma vindar still blow and Drömmar och mardrömmar popped up, a series of 25 programs based on stories written by schoolchildren… I wish I had the energy to fulfill my promise of putting them on the net…. Still dreaming.
No new house but a Volvo 850 gleams in the garage.
Started to docu my dog on DV: Oh, My Dog! Ånni goes Maarianhome… Did two shortcuts in December "D'Tailles de la Habana" and "Sur le Sable" a fast mix on a gig by local guys Sand with some great help from Mattias.
My near and dear ones try to put up with me. Riitta has been a teacher for children with special problems, Anni goes to school and reads, dances and talk-talk-talks. John is turning 20 in February and hopefully will pass his baccalaureat in the spring. We had a Family Christmas with Mother Maj-Lis and the kids. On Boxing Day we departed for Helsinki meeting up with The Third Blond, Mira, and her 1 1/2 yr Tim-poika and recent find Jyrki.
As The Two Towers fell people cancelled their trips to Goa, India so we had to change our schedule as well, hope to Goa for my 48th. But I still long for Africa, principally.
I have been fighting my physical and mental health, looking back and forth in therapy, blowing PEF, popping pills… My toes are freezing, Fermin Muguruza does Basque reggae and so…….
WISHING YOU ALL A PEACEFUL AND REWARDING NEW YEAR 2002.
Salam. Yours, Tom
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