Øggelpopp
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Åndelknabb
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Kneptenkuppt
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Spiffelspaff
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Ækkenbimp
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Xekekkenbebb
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Begurkenpipp
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Winkelkvassel
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Guptenklang
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Qestenkvemp
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Krabelladusker
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Diskentenkt
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Blockbrain
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Shadow of a Doubt
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Ståkkelpump
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Oyoyenoy
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Jallekulle
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Alakeiensnurb
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Around the Circle with Vasily Kandinsky
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All the Cool Kids Smoke Cigarettes
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To the Beauty of Hoverflies (Syrphidae)
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ALICE IN WUNDERBAUM
I always have a play on words going on in my mind. I love it. It makes me feel better. I was reading about Alice in Wonderland and suddenly Alice in Wunderbaum popped out of my head. I googled it to see if anyone had used it before, and to my surprise, no one had. Instead, I got an interpretation from AI, which surprised me too LOL. It wasn’t generic, it was imaginative:
The phrase “Alice in Wunderbaum” is a playful, likely unintended, combination of the classic story “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and the German word “Wunderbaum,” which translates to “wonder tree” or “miracle tree.” It doesn’t refer to a specific, recognized work, but rather evokes a whimsical image of Alice encountering a magical, possibly talking, tree.
Here’s a breakdown of the elements:
Alice in Wonderland:
This refers to the well-known children’s novel by Lewis Carroll, and its various adaptations. The story features Alice falling down a rabbit hole into a fantastical world filled with bizarre characters and events.
Wunderbaum:
This German word literally means “wonder tree” or “miracle tree.” It’s often associated with a type of air freshener that is shaped like a stylized tree. In a more figurative sense, “Wunderbaum” can also evoke the idea of a magical or extraordinary tree.
Therefore, “Alice in Wunderbaum” likely combines the fantastical imagery of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with the idea of a wondrous, possibly magical, tree. It suggests a playful, imaginative scenario where Alice might encounter a talking or extraordinary tree in her adventures.
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Jabberwocky
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The Only Fun Adults Are the Drunks
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The Stairs to Jessheim
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Oslo by Night
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MUSIC
A small homage to
the greatest music generation
of all time – the youth of the 1960s!
My interest in music
would not have been the same
without them.
This is the foundation
on which my record collection
is built.
It’s sad to see them die
of old age
one after the other,
in the 2020s,
but such is life in this world.
In music history,
they remain a phenomenon.
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Dravavvel
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Homage to all my soulmates out there (as if I ever had one lol)
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The patterns on tiny insects that are so small that you need a magnifying glass to study them are more beautiful than the pompous words of pretentious people.
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R.I.P. America. You will be missed.
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Round Midnight
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Roundabout
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R.I.P. Everybody/Nobody
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Dinkelpings of Today
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MODERN ART
People talk about whether AI
is an extension
or a restriction on art.
For my own part,
I don’t admire modern artists
or their art.
Just like AI-generated art,
it lacks a personal voice.
The artists that I admire
did their work
a hundred years ago plus minus.
Picasso, Miró, van Gogh, Kandinsky,
Klee, Munch, Pollock, etc.
I love their art
and their personal spirit
and they fascinate me as people.
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This one goes out to Professor Balthazar. One of the best among us.
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This one goes out to the fans. Without you it wouldn’t have been possible.
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“He who marches out of step hears another drum.” – Ken Kesey
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If I did a PR stunt in the mainstream media to get attention, do you think my art is mediocre enough to become popular?
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PURPLE HAZE
Back in the day,
when America was the creative flower
of the world,
I felt like an intruder
living off someone else’s culture,
because I loved rock & roll
and jazz and blues.
But now, when I watch
Jimi Hendrix Live in Maui in 1970
on YouTube
and the Woodstock Festival in 1969
and The Doors and Frank Zappa
and Captain Beefheart
and the hippies and the rockers
and the Beat Poets
and the personal freedom
and the way people were back then,
it’s almost not America anymore,
it’s cosmic
like from another world.
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I ran an expensive marketing campaign on WordPress for my blog and it didn’t result in a single valid visit lol, just a random mess of fake algorithms.
🎵If you’re going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some money in your hair
If you’re going to San Francisco
You’re gonna meet some greedy people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Conformity will be a cash-in there
In the buildings of San Francisco
Office clerks with money on their brain
Across the corporate nation such a lack of vibration
No people in motion
There’s a whole generation with no explanation
No people in motion, no people in motion
For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some money in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a sell-out there
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a sell-out there
Special price for you my friend🎵
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If you happen to come across my art I hope you like it as much as I like you.
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“A lady who’s been a nurse all her life and carried on trying to work in a hospital that was taken over by an American corporation, she breaks down saying; “We realized that we weren’t there to look after people. I’ve been looking after people in the National Health Service for 25 years. And suddenly it wasn’t that. It was how much profit can we make out of each body, and if we can’t make a profit out of them, kick them out the door.” The care of the patient is completely lost except for the very very wealthy.”
– Roger Waters (on the Chris Hedges Report, August 2025)
I can tell you this Roger, that it’s not just in the US or the UK anymore but I think this is becoming the new normal in the global healthcare system now. I’ve lived it myself (in Norway), to say the least.
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SPEECH (FOR NOBODY OF COURSE)
In our time,
you are either a Somebody,
an important person,
or a Nobody,
an insignificant person
who can be replaced.
This is not just politics,
but the new human value in society,
as most people see it.
And if that’s not how they see it,
according to their opinions,
the political correctness,
it’s still how they live it.
Materialistically,
ordinary people in the 21st century
have much more than people had
in the old days
and they don’t feel they need people
for anything other than doing
a job for them.
That’s why most people today
support the system
instead of their fellow humans.
It’s a war between
the left and the right,
while in the past
most people were united
in distrusting all politics.
In our time
it’s the government
that can give them more
of what they want,
and not their fellow humans,
who only irritate them
and get in the way.
Neo-fascism
in the 21st century
is facilitated by the citizens
who give their favorite leaders,
left or right
free rein to take off
by being their biggest fans.
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Through the Looking Nose
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Will the Circle Be Unbroken
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Circle in the Round with the Miles Davis Quintet
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Biffelnacht
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Heppaladien
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YACHT ROCK
David Bowie bought a yacht in 1977, El Caran.
His rockstar image of the time
was that of drug addiction
and a bleak existence in Berlin
with his friend Iggy Pop.
Their actual lifestyle
was that of kings and queens
with chefs and servants
crusing the Mediterranean
on holidays in a mega yacht.
It didn’t show up in Bowie’s art
and music until the 80s.
I think Let’s Dance and Tonight
and Never Let Me Down
can be called his Yacht Rock Trilogy.
Well, it’s Bowie,
so perhaps Experimental Yacht Rock
or Avant Yacht Rock is better.
I hated the term Yacht Rock
when I stumbled across it
on a music forum a few years ago.
It seemed a bit silly,
until I started imagining
a yacht cruising on the sea
with Toto IV blaring out on the speakers.
The image and soundscape matched LOL.
This is part of the yuppie lifestyle
of many rock stars
that they have always tried to hide
from the public image
of themselves.
It became fashionable
in the late 70s
for successful rock artists to buy yachts.
It makes them look more like Donald Trump
than Ludwig van Beethoven.
And they don’t like that.
But when you cruise the stadiums
with your greatest hits
to make more money to buy more yachts,
you have more in common
with Trump than Beethoven.
Art imitates life, they say.
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THE JOY OF DYING
A salute to all of us
who are getting old enough
to look forward to dying.
Goodbye cruel world
and hello to all the worlds out there
that twinkle in the night sky!
In my youth,
the thought of having to be
in this world for seventy years
terrified me.
99% of humanity
has nothing to do with me.
I like almost no people.
There is hardly a person
I identify with.
They are all strangers.
The only thing that makes
human society livable
is art and music.
Everything else is death in life.
Now there are only twelve more years,
and I have no intention
of doing anything to get there.
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Insects on a plinth/bust/pedestal (or whatever you experts call it). Talk about having a natural talent for abstract art. I’m a big fan.
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Blippert and Blopp
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Another skrukkenskrampt in the Wall
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“Americans don’t like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don’t like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don’t like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make ’em a lot of money.”
– Miles Davis
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EVILUTION
I rewatch the horror movies that scared me shitless in my youth, like The Shining and The Exorcist and Friday the 13th and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street, and I must congratulate my fellow humans for having managed to create a modern reality that is now far creepier than any movie I’ve seen. We’ve finally reached the point in human evolution where Freddy Krueger is the norm. Is that what you call Evilution? I bet your kids are proud of you. I know Regan MacNeil would have been.
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Cruising with The Mothers of Invention
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Drivin’ South with The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Key to the Highway with Derek and the Dominos
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Here Comes the Night with Them
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DOWN ON THE CORNER
I can’t believe people
who don’t hear the difference between
John Fogerty’s solo career
with hired session musicians
and the gritty, home-grown garage rock sound
of Creedence Clearwater Revival
spiced with adventurous undertones
of 60s psychedelia.
YouTube is full of comments like – John Fogerty was CCR!
It’s like saying Jim Morrison was The Doors.
And there are many who do.
Both of these bands had a magical chemistry
that a million amateur bands
at any given time search for but never find.
John Fogerty’s solo song “Rockin’ All Over the World”
is best known as a song performed by Status Quo.
It certainly wouldn’t have been
if it had been recorded
with Creedence Clearwater Revival at their peak.
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Alright.
Let’s take a break from my own art.
In recent years
I have almost completely stopped
buying new rock records.
Even bands that I have followed
for years
I have stopped following.
I don’t think rock bands
or rock artists
have anything to do with me anymore.
Maybe it’s just me who has lived
a life on the sidelines
and has become a little weird
because of it,
but I just don’t think rock sounds
alive anymore.
I feel alienated by it.
Artists that I used to like
I hardly like anymore.
We are not on the same wavelength.
And neither are their audiences.
We live in different worlds
on the same planet.
But one type of rock music
that refuses to die in me
is my love for the 60s.
It makes my nervous system
sparkle with life.
Just like it did when I was twelve.
I have posted three videos
from YouTube
that I have been hooked on lately.
This is rock music the way it sounded
when rock was the culture
and not just a pose and escapism
for modern conformists.
Creedence Clearwater Revival performing “Born on the Bayou” live at the Woodstock Festival in 1969.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience performing “Voodo Child (Slight Return)” live in Maui in 1970.
The Doors performing “The End” live at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
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THE ART OF WAR
Time has shown that Nazis
and Jews
deserve each other.
But the random killings
of children
and innocents
that Netanyahu is carrying out
in Gaza
are not a work of war art.
It’s American junk food.
Hitler, on the other hand,
was an artist,
a painter,
and the Holocaust was his masterpiece.
(P.S. if you happen to support
or justify actions like this
one way or the other,
as causes worth killing for,
then you are no better than any other terrorist
out there,
and I suggest you kill yourself.)
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Homage to us all
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MY GENERATION
That my own generation
of the boys are back in town,
now in their fifties and sixties,
would become neo-fascist leaders
and the worst career psychopathic liars
in a hundred years,
I would never have believed in my youth.
It is soooo disappointing,
soooo embarrassing.
Even more tragicomic for a music fan
is that the favorite music
of these conformist bitches is Punk Rock!
The image they have of themselves
is so distorted that even the music
they identify with
doesn’t match who they really are,
but only who they think they are.
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“You are all disgusting.”
– Lil Peep (1996-2017)
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“While artists can be fascinating creators, as individuals, they are not inherently more or less interesting than other people.”
– Brian Eno
I haven’t had a YouTube account
for a couple of years,
but I made a new one to get involved
in the comments,
especially in the world of music.
But I find the celebrity worship
that is all over that channel now
unpleasant.
In my youth,
it was fourteen-year-olds
who thought rock stars were cool,
but now it’s not just teenagers anymore,
there are 50-60-70-year-olds
who worship John Lennon and Bruce Springsteen
and David Bowie and Mick Jagger
and Ozzy Osbourne and Prince and Bono
and Paul McCartney as übermench,
as gods.
If you criticize them,
you are bombarded by fans who attack you with;
Who are you? What have you done?
How important are you? Who cares about you?
And it’s not boys in puberty, nope,
it’s old men in menopause.
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Calypso from the North Pole
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Waltzing with Tom Waits (Øyvind Sand’s Blues)
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Out of the Blue
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PRISON PLANET
What if there is a God but he is not here.
What if we are the godless,
forsaken, lost.
What if there is something wrong with us.
What if we are failures,
condemned to planet earth for termination.
There is a tap into this world,
through birth, but there is no tap out,
one just falls over and dies.
The body disintegrates and disappears
as the memory of us disappears
and in the end we are forgotten
as if we never existed.
What if we are on death row
and free to make the best out of it,
free to use our illusion,
free to believe in Santa Claus,
free to believe in God
if it makes it easier to cope
with our death sentence.
What if it is fully deserved?
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Eye Hate You
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HOBBY DETECTIVE
There are many discussions on YouTube about whether Charles Manson was in contact with the CIA and how the CIA may be connected to the music industry and that the world’s drug flow is actually an experiment at the expense of the population. My contribution to the discussion is that I have put The Manson Family in America against the Kommune 1 collective in Germany/Europe that was happening at the same time. No one has done that before, so if anyone builds on that, I am the source and it is based on my detective work. 😉
Comment 1:
The Tate-LaBianca murders happened a week before the Woodstock Festival as the absolute opposite of peace and love. They actively used the murders to demonize hippies. Could they have been fed bad drugs to see what it would do? At the same time in Germany there was a hippie collective called Kommune 1. One of the main members Rainer Langhans said that they got free drugs delivered to the door. He claimed he didn’t know where it came from. Could it have been the same conditions at the Spahn Ranch where the Manson Family lived? That they were part of a CIA experiment? The young pretty girls changed in a year from naive hippies to cold-blooded killers. The Kommune 1 hippie collective also developed into murder and terrorism.
Comment 2:
Kommune 1 is also infamous for supposedly giving musician Peter Green a bad trip at a party there, which the rest of Fleetwood Mac claim he was never the same after. They were connected to the music industry and had their own legendary krautrock band Amon Düül, just like the Manson collective with Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys and producer Terry Melcher and others. There are some similarities.
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Bøkkelskrump
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PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED
People change and adapt
in line with government policies
but John Lydon remains the same.
I like that.
It’s a personal contribution
to this world.
The only thing one has to give
that no one else can do better.
I felt like appreciating that John Lydon
in 2025 is the same as Johnny Rotten in 1977
with a piece of art that I created myself.
The first and the last of the punk rockers
with humor like a stand-up comedian.
I feel sympathy for John Lydon.
I like him better than his music, lol.
