magne f archive

myspace blogs

Magne joined MySpace in April 2006, and immediately began posting blogs containing poetry, ramblings, topical thoughts and even just strings of letters or punctuation. These blogs appear on a relatively regular basis, and are a great way to keep informed about Magne's many projects.

If you would like to read Magne's blogs in their natural habitat, the best way is to subscribe via MySpace. If you are already a member, simply go to http://www.myspace.com/magnef and in the blog box, "magne f's Latest Blog Entry" click [Subscribe to this Blog]. If you are not a MySpace member, signup is free and you can create an account here.

Since MySpace's blog settings make it difficult to find specific entries, the best way to access the older ones is via direct link to the individual blogs. Below is a blog archive that will help you get caught up on the old entries and serve as a reference to those who might want to find a specific blog. Thanks to Sue and Caterina for compiling the links and titles; I added the dates and short quotes for the purpose of this page.

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blog posts 2009

9/8/2009	lust, want and lasting enjoyment
	maybe you're not too impressed with my output on the apparatjik channel yet, what with my big announcement and all... but one day it may just be worth the struggle. i think. my job is to confuse. and i do it so well even i am in a daze.
9/8/2009	last will and testament
	so here it is, honeys; i’m outta here. not to disappear off the radar completely of course, (don’t get your hopes up!), but to create havoc somewhere else. 09.09.09 here i come.
8/12/2009	hey babaluba
	having survived another a-ha album (the cat only has 9 lives) it's fair to say that i will try to pay more attention to my own space again
4/5/2009	so you can read again, - so read, you can better
	doublespeak: twice as good
4/5/2009	neutron blast
	thank you, city for grinding us down
4/5/2009	as we hover
	our instruments not quite powerful enough
4/5/2009	as neutron
	we hover just shiny metal outside unbroken glass
4/5/2009	so yes is marginally better than no?
	the original question was; have i read finnegan's wake? yes and no. i read in it constantly, but i have not 'read it'.
4/2/2009	no, the answer is yes!
4/2/2009	the answer is no
4/1/2009	cattermole hill, ex-mountain of flesh
	was reared up by stress and sank under strain
3/10/2009	if I can’t imagine what we were
	and explorers will end up on the verge of amazing discovery back at the original feeling
3/10/2009	it’s alive
	i don’t beat know your own soft skin how until it hardens to write
2/7/2009	if you are reading this
	you have been very patient

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blog posts 2008

10/15/2008	baryon minority
	physical separation can be mathematically explained but that doesn't do much about the pain
9/23/2008	if by living
	if re-incarnation teach me of the things i never got surely spending time with you would do the same
9/23/2008	the force that through the green fuse drives the flower
	no sense not thinking now of all things that go into being here
9/23/2008	oldplay
	http://www.coldplay.com/newsdetail.php?id=133
9/23/2008	hinterland
	behind the forest rolls in verdant waves toward the sea yet further still, like frozen surf the mountains stand at ease;
8/30/2008	bedouine
	and i, who have no herd except when i can't sleep
8/30/2008	help the elderly remember by forcing the young to forget
	yet further still, like frozen surf the mountains stand at ease; coagulated will
8/30/2008	read me real
	sein blick ist vom vorübergehen der stäbe so müd geworden, daß er nichts mehr hält.
6/19/2008	farmfrow’s foul flair for that flayfell foxfetor
	gone never to return the same coming back but believing the same to be different always leaving for the last time - again and again there is madness in the method and no real method to be mad about
5/17/2008	full on
	i think tomorrow is also the day the new magne f cd is out in the uk people are scrambling for the doors of recordshops, screaming & banging their litlle fists... at one point I will just have to let them out, i guess.
4/11/2008	pre orders post festum
	for the digitally inclined there is now a pre order of the new cd possible this time there is no hand- or foot-painted covers, i swear!
3/31/2008	bad santa
	however, giving my songs away for free does not mean they now belong to everyone else - and not to me. i still intend to do exactly what i want when i want. call me old-fashioned. let me reiterate the obvious: the free download was for you. the vinyl exclusively for those of you interested enough. the music is for everyone. the cd for anyone who wants to buy it. are we clear ?
2/8/2008	watch me dance
	mms://195.204.125.48:8080
2/1/2008	much ado about something
	(all you need to do to show your love is buy my bandmates beer afterwards, but not all 50 of you, please - we have a gig the next day)
1/26/2008	i love the wrongness of it
	the promise of another magne f concert in the uk may be all the bad news most of you can take on a sunday ...but the albert hall?!? shurely schome mischtake.
1/24/2008	nothing comes to those who wait
	just don't go to www.magne-f.net/magneftube expecting some kind of reward. especially not some song i just finished mixing tonight or anything. ok - the beard may be greying at the edges, but do i look like mr. claus to you?
1/24/2008	ok...so now it’s up
	rather painful watching if you ask me - with my uncensored self so shamelessly exposed the mitigating factor is of course that the pain only lasts 30 secs (like most things) only to substituted by a new even harsher one! (again, like most...)
1/23/2008	pay peanuts get monkeys
	here's the better part of the world's work-force glued to their computer-screens (notice i said better, as in better, not as in 'larger' - i'm not completely delusional) trying to catch the world's fastest painter posied and ready, brush in hand... all that human resource gone to wasteville how will we repay them the time lost - oh, we won't? ouuuh we're sooooo sooorrry....come back later
1/23/2008	how do you like it so far...?
	so a bit of internet channel-swapping is recommended here. personally i am looking forward to sleeping through the whole event wake me when I am done!
1/23/2008	hello, I must be going - or; quantum leapfrogs - always ahead of schedule again!
	why are my sentences uncharacteristically characteristic? because i was up until 05.30 this morning painting. so that you can watch me do things i have already done, that's why. so that you can watch something coming into being that already exists. the old birth control discussion all over again
1/21/2008	better broken english than broken hearts
	the reason this confirmation comes your way 2 weeks ahead of time is that the collector's vinyl-edition sold out way quicker than expected, and there is a waiting list of ferocious fans who would love to take your place in the queue if you hesitate.
1/15/2008	new magne f album
	why waste time chasing strange ears around with you guys already here? you have found me. You have supported me (stranger than fiction, and for reasons known only to yourselves). This record's for you.
1/6/2008	word war 3
	love the fact that any message i write is regarded by some as potential poetry beauty in the eye of the beholder and all that…well, that only makes you more beautiful!
1/2/2008	outside the pale there is colour…
	time to get to work now gather round my friendlies…

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blog posts 2007

12/14/2007	anticlimax
	i will be kicking off the new year off with some news on the musical front especially for y'all. you should probably start looking backwards to it already.
11/6/2007	I’m leaving on a jet plane
	any engineer would tell you this bird's flying days are over, but I beg to differ; I like to look at it as an object which has yet to realize its full potential
10/28/2007	who will stitch together
	who will turn these fragments of my life into legibility?
10/28/2007	I am not human
	I walk among you, recognised but virtually unknown famously celebrated but seen by some
10/28/2007	because eyes can see
	because eyes know because these eyes have memory because without it, it's just energy
10/28/2007	reverse psychology
	for it is not for us to know what started long before and ends well after
10/28/2007	as your story bleeds into mine
	as we piece together moments into mosaic dreams - made from broken vases
10/28/2007	Toussaint
	so if my history is of no importance my story may one day be
10/28/2007	self referendum
	this sentence contains nine syllables
10/28/2007	another good verbivorious tip
	he is me but I am not him yet
10/28/2007	literati come forth!
	you are now and those other times are running elsewhere
10/28/2007	one unharmful gem
	I'm a toothier, inhumane wit meanie.
10/26/2007	you’re quick, I’ll give you that!
	what cd? oh - THAT cd!
10/14/2007	shyly, slyly
	me? i am just an emotional striptease. you knew that.
10/11/2007	the restless are getting native
	the new magne f album is nearly completed. it will be released….probably sometime after xmas.
9/4/2007	Guys & Dolls
	on behalf of the many perfected versions of myself; thx!
8/14/2007	be my seamstress
	you may soon all officially add 'installation artist' to your respective resumées.
6/20/2007	got myself a cryin, talkin, sleepin, walkin...
	in case you were wondering - the dolls keep coming, the sick grin on my face ever widening. so many me's, so little time...
6/4/2007	at your mercy
	yes, mags is full of hot air. the ego has landed. blow me up scotty
5/11/2007	a doll's house
	now since I know there is sometimes a difference between thinking something and doing it (uh...there is, isn't there?), this message is to remind the undecided to jump in.
5/6/2007	all I need
	all I need is this thermos… and this chair
5/5/2007	a doll the size of myspace
	now get going and forget this crap about having no talent - talent is a form of intelligence…are you calling yourself stupid?!?
5/5/2007	are we clear?!
	in order to avoid even more confusion; anything from six inches to six feet is welcome
5/4/2007	invitation to participation
	This is definitely an offer you can refuse. As the smarter ones among you no doubt have figured out, this is merely a clever ploy to make you all work for me for free.
3/29/2007	n th wr gnst bbbl, vwls r th frst t g
	ooiooueea
3/27/2007	book of vowels, verse 1
	I e ou ou i y a
3/27/2007	book of consonants, verse 1
	ths chmcl bnd
3/27/2007	s ptt, s a a o (ntnmcll: I ay aao you ay ptt)
	smthng xtrrdnr
3/4/2007	infall
	forget sea & sand, forget sky and ground unless; looking at the sky you understand the sea
2/27/2007	salvus
	in this maze I call my own there's no place left to go - no place I haven't been
2/15/2007	I mistook myself
	I mistook myself for someone I once knew I've been wrong about a lot of things one of which was you
2/15/2007	split infinitives
	like it or not who gives a fuck I don't know how or why but if you wish to know you'll have to really try
2/12/2007	for the man who wants to be somebody
	you only look for things that you can use and then concoct something wildly different out of what you got
2/10/2007	like the white
	like these hands your shape is all they remember
2/9/2007	to put oneself in a place
	our loss is losing you holding up a mirror to our ugliness
2/8/2007	valor in a wheelchair
	but secrets will reveal what time won't tell tedium succeed where ferver once failed
1/25/2007	verbatim;
	I was monster now merely minion
1/25/2007	If you need another friend
	If you need another friend ask, don't steal if you do not understand what I am saying think, don't feel
1/22/2007	I am still talking to you
	I am still talking to you even though you've gone away every day I talk to you I still think of what to say
1/22/2007	our lives interwoven
	our lives interwoven our features interfaced our voices in unison our dreams interlaced
1/19/2007	oh yes you can
	you can catch it as it comes towards you catch it as it moves away
1/19/2007	cough cough..danger, warning; art-project!
	http://www.blacksmoke.org/gallery/project?page=3
1/12/2007	I despise
	no fuss nor strain no pressure or pain free from unbearable tenderness
1/11/2007	subterfugere
	you will stand your ground convincingly if pushed but underneath you flee
1/11/2007	undo undone
	finish the end and be done
1/10/2007	silence is not personal (1)
	silence is not personal we just fill it with our own insecurities
1/10/2007	silence is not personal (2)
	silence is not personal we just fill it with our own insecurities
1/3/2007	wishing you all
	wishing you all had a merry kizmaz

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blog posts 2006

12/5/2006	the bigger you get
	the more you believe the less it is real
12/5/2006	oh healthy forest
	oh healthy forest your cousins are sick all over the world
12/5/2006	I loved you
	I knew you while we were still strangers
12/5/2006	tv learns from you
	we all battle demons whatever their names
12/5/2006	we all wrestle with corruption
	we all wrestle with corruption one way or another we all fall short of expectation
12/5/2006	I can draw the line wherever I want
	you don't know the half of it and if you think you do it is only because your mind is only matched by your mechanisms of self-defense
12/5/2006	it is looking at old photographs
	it is looking at old photographs that we see who we really are
12/5/2006	thoughts are like masturbation
	thoughts are like masturbation writing like making babies
12/5/2006	seal this house
	broken silences like shattered china
12/5/2006	I can't do right for doing wrong
	opposite to her I can't do wrong for doing right even as I try with all my might
12/5/2006	the stoned group
	hide behind your alias all you want it will not make the rest of you disappear
12/5/2006	and just like that
	the preachers have installed creditcard terminals for easier collection
12/5/2006	would not blame the shark
	would not blame the shark for doing what it was born to do would you?
12/5/2006	how she takes refuge in herself
	how she is hurt and brave in the face of truth for she believed love when it told her to wait and so she waits
12/5/2006	why complain?
	akk, oh vey, phew, oh lordie and the like - it's in vain unless you are willing to change
12/5/2006	the beginning is over
	the beginning is over the fade out soon to commence
12/5/2006	winter has turned
	winter has turned its back to the sun and a blind eye to the spring that will come
12/5/2006	as long as you remember
	as long as you are you I don't care about the rest
12/5/2006	the khoros
	be cursed, Cassandra so that even you (or I) shall doubt that this is real
12/5/2006	nowhere
	if you want to be in the middle of nowhere this is where to do it
12/5/2006	nothing
	nothing we can learn to live with nothing
12/5/2006	no one
	no one holds my silence like you do no one
12/5/2006	the bitch is back
	hard to know if it was your high expectations or my great(er) disillusionment with myself that made me stay away/come back (your choice)
11/16/2006	vow of silence
	shhh (wow!)
10/23/2006	danger & desire
	begin to believe your doubt of what's never been
10/23/2006	of all the mindfucks
	of all the songs I never wrote you were always destined for success
10/23/2006	made popular
	my secret is something you tell only one person at a time
10/15/2006	my ovaries
	my ovaries are merely in my head but the worry of a barren time to come plays part in my desire to nurture every line
10/14/2006	rudolph steiner
	self-importance knows no boundary
10/14/2006	my testicles
	but we shall only know the glory of the few combinations we pursued
10/9/2006	if I changed
	if I changed everything about you and turned you into someone else would I love you the same?
10/9/2006	what am I going to do
	you have seen a version of the truth of me but does the truth have versions?
10/9/2006	no more rhyme
	and stop pandering your thoughts are important enough without it
10/9/2006	the first babystep
	every road from here leads away
10/9/2006	do not make the mistake
	do not make the mistake of asking what I mean
10/9/2006	leave the bible
	but neither of us have the stomach or strength to reinvent their purpose to suit our lives
10/9/2006	how can such clumsy moves
	how can the appropriate words be so excruciatingly difficult to find
10/9/2006	I wrote your neckline
	I read your face as landscape not portrait a place to see, somewhere to be
10/9/2006	I don’t know what you mean
	giving in is an integral part of every fight
10/9/2006	back on the scene of the crime
	as I look out across the gray slab of water in crossfilter morning light a wingless muse calls my name
10/9/2006	who convinced you
	if I could beat sense into a head yours would be my first choice
10/2/2006	you are a poem
	you are a caterpillar of wish
9/27/2006	you have bruises
	If I ever see your words within a five-mile radius, I will seek a restraining order.
9/27/2006	your south sea skin
	a pocketful of change for a lifetime of chaste
9/27/2006	want to make you smile on buses
	I want to make you smile on buses and laugh out loud with strangers looking on to have a fucking fit in the middle of a crowd
9/25/2006	the kiss of truth
	for nothing lies more convincingly than a syrupy tongue
9/25/2006	so you read
	but art is like a child, my dear faithful to its own truth
9/25/2006	when is it over
	our past has changed colour so many times now and we have wasted every chance to meet
9/24/2006	lovenot on lycon quer sall
	sweet ruin, love not only conquers all it shatters what it touches
9/24/2006	lose the map
	lose the map we'd get lost a lot faster
9/24/2006	they should make a statue of your mind
	they ought to build a church a congregation for your thoughts
9/6/2006	re-open the door
	this is you, this is yours you are home
8/27/2006	redux
	guard your hear against hope take your mind off the mess you're in
8/27/2006	call me old-fashioned
	…but I did appreciate so many of you coming to the shows!
8/23/2006	the other me is having more fun than I am
	your gucci eyes match your wallpaper smile
8/23/2006	how can you miss me if I never go away
	(illegal to import 'tsks' - and rightly so...except if you buy an old piano - in which case it is your solemn duty to play something beautiful enough to make the elephant forgive)
8/23/2006	the native flute (no relation)
	your strength is you remember mine that I forget
8/23/2006	why is it kudos are quicker than comments?
	your world colonized by the empire of me
8/23/2006	seriously now
	the tattoo on my soul is you
8/23/2006	one more for friendships (passing in the night)
	the things we love destroying most are things we helped create
8/23/2006	and then tomorrow...
	and anyway I am a better human being with a hangover
8/22/2006	make a world to suit my mood
	there is a rent in your world leading to another you
8/21/2006	Butterflies are Disppearing
	according to brodsky, a tear is a consequence of having to let beauty go. that is what I love about the fall. that and the blue sky.
8/11/2006	ode to the three most important women of my life
	maybe life is something someone can make sense of
8/11/2006	poetry on toast - I like that
	we are not measured by what we get but how we deal with what we lose we're defined by opportunities we threw away and the mistakes we learn to use
8/3/2006	ICA piece statement (of sorts)
	we are almost 80% water and still we are thirsty
8/3/2006	surely you can't expect me to continue on like this..!?
	memory makes my mouth kiss itself with conviction
8/3/2006	gat shemen
	the worst part is the memories we will never share
8/3/2006	it's a well known fact
	(I love the English language - just wish it liked me)
8/3/2006	from the archives (running out of ideas - tell no one!)
	no thought a train no day the same
8/3/2006	a sad state of affaires
	some decisions are made from the singing of the blook in our veins
8/3/2006	singalong song (let's hear the ladies...)
	but recent times don't stand up to the way you were before
8/2/2006	words
	words to veil and seduce words to beguile and confuse
8/2/2006	you will not see me
	you will not see me but you will see the jet trails of my escape
8/2/2006	the natives are getting restless
	Oh yes, poetry is suffering on the altar of prosaic summer activities (or was that prozaic slumber activities), but then you all seem so informed it's hard to keep up with my own life...
7/12/2006	1+1=22
	Even if the numbers dont add up, you will find much potential in the calculation.
7/12/2006	I do like to be beside the seaside
	your mind has sprung a leak like an old boat
6/29/2006	forgive and forget
	forget the difference friend; forgetters give what forgivers get
6/27/2006	archeologically yours
	for we are mummified and will turn to sand in each others arms if careless
6/24/2006	...
	the headsman in me the axe in you
6/24/2006	you can go there anytime...(the movies of your mind)
	fast forward past these inbetweens
6/20/2006	where do the blogs go?
	memory is meant to make stronger not wipe your sense of self out
6/19/2006	dividends
	here is 2002 kudos in return for all the kind words divvy them amongst you in a friendly fashion
6/18/2006	do cusswords make me cooler?
	and who am I to tell you what to do I am just as fucken stuck as you
6/18/2006	sifting and lifting
	I immediately had a vision of the ensuing culture that would emerge and I liked it.
6/18/2006	1000 misfits can't be (in the) wrong (place)
	Everyone says fuck you but no one keeps their word
6/18/2006	sons and daughters of uranus
	in fact a lot of the first mixes michael did was better with hindsight, but at the time and for some reason, I was cocksure. I simply knew best - now I just know better ;-)
6/12/2006	The world has teeth
	My own little army of wordspies out there scouring the field!
6/12/2006	wordsprouts, fontvegetables and grammatical gardens
	the poet is a vulture the vulture is a poet
6/11/2006	the way it works
	Every book I read I mark every word or line that triggers something in me, and when I finish the book I write them all down in my notebook filed under "lines from literature" so I know where they came from. A book that doesn't give me lines is not a good book...in my book.
6/11/2006	a gleam in the gloom
	"Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself"
6/11/2006	if you're gonna quote yourself - f***ing get it right!
	how will I know myself if need be
6/10/2006	makes me wonder if I'm really as happy as I think I am
	I will steal that line and give it back to you as mine
6/10/2006	your eyes were green
	theres nothing that can match your rainbow smile
6/10/2006	my southbound mouth
	you, my tongue-tied friend
6/10/2006	beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs
	wooden conversation in concrete & glass surroundings
6/8/2006	th elesss aid them ore imp lied?
	my body is poisoned by the presence of you
5/30/2006	a four-page blog in invisible ink
	….
5/29/2006	you say poetato I say potryto
	Naturally I was curious as to your comments about 'black and blue' demo, but you all know what I like now: undiluted praise.
5/28/2006	new song
	Is it a demo, is it a track in the making, is it a finished masterpiece..? Who cares, it's music.
5/27/2006	this is not the title of this piece the line beneath is
	these are the roadsigns leading bck to where we were
5/27/2006	sharks
	you never thought that keeping my limp body afloat would put you in harms way
5/23/2006	undo undone
	music is the reason we are all here, innit?
5/22/2006	man of the cloth
	this world is ink and I'm a man of paper
5/15/2006	all we are saying...is give codpiece a chance (finally something useful!)
	Please be advised that I did in fact not compose this literary masterpiece, but simply stole and copy/pasted it here - under the guise of everyone's write to borrow ideas from each other.
5/8/2006	the square root of I is I
	everyone in the world is a friend you just don't want to know
5/7/2006	thoughts for food - will eat
	Limitations are road-signs...not the velvet rope of some VIP-section in your mind where you cannot go. And anyway, they are never in the same place when you come back to them again.
5/7/2006	a dot of blackness in the blue of your bliss (...song in progress)
	always forever but never like this there's a dot of blackness in the blue of your bliss
4/26/2006	making friends was never easier
	I now officially have more than 300 friends in here - and here was me downsizing the department; not returning calls, generally being rude or unresponsive, making inappropriate and/or unintelligible comments to everyone - and it was working too!
4/25/2006	blog and blurb = bog and burp...(a book rec. of sorts)
	I have been known to stick my neck out once or twice, and I won't be surprised if I do it again, but these periods are invariably followed by the slowburning acid of self-scrutiny and maudlin moments of doubt...why are the stairs up from the basement getting longer each time?
4/20/2006	transitoria
	don’t make it less than what it was by pretending it was more than what it seemed
4/20/2006	flatulatoria (the slightly less self-important version)
	we struggle to sit upright for the obvious reason; we're too full of beans
4/7/2006	Past Perfect Future Tense
	Some points are strengthened by being made over and over. I don't know if any of it is important, and I don't care if it is any good, but at least it's not trying to hide anything - it's not trying to score points. I'm proud of that much.
4/7/2006	magne f in quotes
	"Sometimes something comes along that just leads you somewhere you did not expect to go and you have very little or no control over it - disasters come wrapped up as gifts, and gifts come disguised as disasters."

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a-ha.com web diaries

These web diaries were written by Magne during a-ha's winter 2000/2001 tour and are ancient history, but they are fun to revisit from time to time.

• My summer of sloth...
• The Russian Detail Department
• The Regular Snaps Department
• The Foot Tourist Department
• A (kind of) Christmas-card (from Magne)
• December 2, 2000
• December 1, 2000
• November 30, 2000
• November 29, 2000
• November 28, 2000
• November 27, 2000

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