Jeg elsker mandager. Jeg liker alle dager, men mandager spesielt. Mandag er et blankt ark du kan fylle med hva som helst.
Dagen i dag, årets første arbeidsdag, i et nytt tiår, er dermed den ultimate mandagen. Mandagen alle andre mandager misunner. En mandag for optimisme og store planer.
En mandag for å høre på usannsynlig heroisk filmmusikk:
Yesterday at work I listened to Jethro Tull’s entire 70’s catalogue. I’m not actually a fan, it was just there on my hard drive, and I haven’t used it up yet as work music. By the end of the day, I had written a lot of code, and also picked out my two favorite Tull songs:
Jethro Tull – Acres Wild
Jethro Tull – Crossfire
Moonsorrow – Raunioilla
Ensiferum – Sword Chant
Manticore – The Rise of the Black Moon (if I’d found a good version of the Archgoat original on YouTube, this would have been an all-Finnish post)
Hm, what? No reason. Any day is a good day for Norwegian black metal.
I’ve had a fragment of a tune in my head for 16 years. It began with the intro to the PC game Syndicate, in 1993:
Later I learned where they stole it from:
Gustav Holst – Mars, Bringer of War, 1914-16
Turns out everybody’s stealing from Holst. Listening to The Planets is like listening to a modern movie soundtrack. Did you hear bits of Star Wars in there? This one is more blatant:
Hans Zimmer – Barbarian Horde, 2000
Hans Zimmer churns out all these aggressive and pompous soundtracks for aggressive and pompous Hollywood movies. I think I dislike him more than I like him, but it’s close, and anyone who steals this fragment from Mars has my approval. To me, it’ll always be that tune from Syndicate.
