DIY

The weekend was spent redoing a wall in our bedroom. My girlfriend had an idea about how to improve the room, which included tearing parts of a wall down. Luckily, my father-in-law was good enough to help us out. In fact, he did the lion's share of the work with me helping out. It turned out that the wall wasn't insulated, so we had to take care of that matter which was unexpected and costlier than expected.

I spoke to Mats who has spent some time resting and recharging his batteries. One of the things we discussed were possible collaborators at IB Expo 2006. A couple of major names have been thrown about, a few well-known and the odd interesting but unknown namn has cropped up too. I will look into this during the coming months.

A busy week ahead: a couple of lectures ending with an exam for the students on Friday; two concerts (Jon Balke's Batagraf on Tuesday and Linda Pettersson's Up from the Skies on Thursday); a board meeting with the Swedish Musicological Society on Friday and a meeting with the jazz clubs of southern Sweden on Saturday.

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"DIY" is one of my least favourite Peter Gabriel songs, taken from his second solo album, one of my least favourite Peter Gabriel albums despite Robert Fripp sitting in the producer's chair. There are no strong hooks, no really interesting lines, the singing and playing is ordinary and not very exciting. A rather dull song if you ask me.