The Swedish Legal System is 3 guys. I’m one of those 3 guys. I play rhythm guitar. I rock the long hair and handlebar mustache look. Up until this week The Swedish Legal System purely rocked covers. I am happy to announce that The Swedish Legal System decided you, the consumer, were ready for a new original song.
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December 18, 2009
The Swedish Legal System – Homeland rock from the Heartland of Sweden
The Swedish Legal System was back in the studio over this week cranking out another pop gem. This time we set our sights on the dance genre, taking a dance floor staple and putting the SLS stamp on it.
Here is a teaser:
l to r: Magnus – Pelle – Bjorn
Sphere: Related ContentDecember 7, 2009
The Swedish Legal System Cover God Bless The USA – Dancing Bunny Style.
The Swedish Legal System seem to have the indy rock vibe thing going with GBTUSA.
If Lee Greenwood were dead he would be rolling in his grave.
November 25, 2009
Team Ride And Glide at Madison Elementary School
Carter’s school had a BMX team come and put on a show for the kids today. The guys from Ride and Glide were cool. I took a couple of photos. Dig.
I really like the composition of this shot. I think this is one of those photos that tells a story.
November 23, 2009
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck – Heaven Can Wait
I don’t know much about Charotte Gainsbourg (I know she mutilated Willem Defoe’s genitals) but when she makes an album and video with Beck weird shit happens.
Charlotte Gainsbourg – Heaven Can Wait from Charlotte Gainsbourg on Vimeo.
Sphere: Related ContentNovember 11, 2009
This is probably not as dangerous as it looks – A day at the park.
I took the day off and went to the park with Carter and Claire today. I took a few picture of the kids that are ok. 
This is probably not as dangerous as it looks.
Watching Carter smile on a swing reminds me how big he is getting. He is going to be 12 next month and I don’t know how long scenes like this will last. Carter is growing up and I am torn between enjoying watching him grow and missing the little boy. Mostly I miss the little boy.
Claire. Getting Big. Walking Away.
November 1, 2009
Halloween Party – 2009
The Peterson’s had a Halloween party last night for the first time in 4 years or so. It turned into a pretty solid shindig / dance party / howdown type affair. Tons of super hero costumes; Captain America, Red Skull, Sharon Carter (Agent of Shield), Blue Lantern, Green Latern, Poison Ivy, Joker, Riddler, Batgirl, Two Face, etc etc etc…
There was also a Dirty Sanchez, McGruber, and Dick in a Box…
The garage turned into Vickie Peterson’s West Side Dance Party complete with Disco Ball and everything…
Dead Soldiers: 15 bottles of red, several cases of beer, a Gallon of Vodka, a Gallon of Rum… I think we are going to be finding empties for a week…
October 24, 2009
2009 Seattle SteamCon Saturday wrap up
I went to the inaugural steampunk symposium, Seattle Steam-Con today with Carter, Tim and Kevin. As a crew we were probably not ideal demographic for this event, but it was still fun. Carter digs the steampunk in the abstract, but hasn’t really read any of works yet. He just really likes the crazy clockwork weapons and outfits. Tim has probably read the most steampunk fiction of the 4 of us. I liked have read The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling and enjoyed it, but I don’t think that makes me “into” steampunk. Kevin likes to take pictures.
None of us were dressed up for the even, which put us very far into the minority at the event. Add to that Kevin and I were walking around shooting photos with our DSLR’s and we were feeling a little out of place.
As this was the first Steamcon I have to cut the organizers a little (lot) of slack. They did a good job of getting a decent number of guests (Tim Powers, Paul Guinan, and Abney Park), having a lot of panels, and just getting a convention off the ground. That said, the venue, the Seattle Airport Marriott was probably not the ideal location. A little cramped, the panels were all standing room only, but I supposed that is probably a good thing for the panelists. It would certainly suck to stand in front of a room of 4 people.
The biggest initial roadblock for us was just registering, they closed down the online preregistration several days ago so we had to buy our tickets this morning. Knowing how messed registration can be (PAX, Emerald City, SakuraCon have all sucked in the past) we arrived 45 minutes early. We were about 40 people back and it still took 2 hours to get a badge. I’m sure they will figure this out next year. The line behind us was massive so feel bad for the people who showed up after us. And the single day passes sold out later this morning.
On the plus side, some of the outfits were really amazing. The people really put a lot work into their Mad Scientist Victorian Garb. We saw a lot of Leather, Copper, Feathers, Bowlers and Girdles. Had I put a little work into making an outfit I wouldn’t have felt so odd about taking photos of people. Kevin and I were a little timid about taking photos. Live and learn.
Next year I promise to wear a pith helmet if they promise to speed up the registration process. Nice work SteamCon.
October 14, 2009
Future of the Left – …and you will know us by the Trail of Dead – At Neumo’s
Went to a big rock show tonight, Future of the Left and …and you will know us by the Trail of Dead at Neumo’s on Capitol Hill. I have wanted to Trail of Dead for quite a while now and have just never quite made it. I don’t know why, they come to town, I say “I should go see those guys” and then I don’t go see those guys. This time when they came to town they brought Future of the Left and I knew I had to go.
Future of the Left is fronted by Andy “Falco” Falkous who was previously in McLusky – a band I loved and saw a couple of times at the Crocodile in Seattle. The last time McLusky played Seattle they were wrapping up a long tour and had just played a gig in Arizona. While in Arizona all of their gear was stolen so they were playing borrowed gear for the Croc show. Not a good way to wrap up a long tour of the states. The band seemed pretty angry about the whole ordeal. About 2 months later they were no longer a band… I blame Arizona.
The first time Future of the Left came to Seattle I was at the San Diego Comic Con… I was determined to see them the next time they came to town, and only had to wait about 3 months. One of my favorite things about seeing shows at venues like Neumo’s or The Crocodile in Seattle is that at the end of the night the band is often working their own merch table and that was the case with Future of the Left. I got to talk to Andy Falkous for a few minutes, told him I had really enjoyed seeing McLusky and was glad I got to see him this time around. He was super gracious, chatted with me about his Arizona adventure a bit and I bought a t-shirt from him.
Oh, and Trail of Dead were really good too. Wall of noise. 2 Drummers. One of the drummers had Marvel Thor and Vision bobble heads on his drum kit.
Trail Of Dead
Trail of Dead. Microphone Head.
Ed and Andy Falkous
This is me saying to the guy “Just push the button, no the other button…”
