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Torbjörn Hk

Torbjörns Place!!

About Me

Born in the early 60's. Musically I grew up with pop and rock, mostly progressive (international as well as the more politically swedish variant, mostly spelled with two 'g:s' "proggressiv"). I am also one of the two founders of the swedish fanclub The Swedish Yes Society .I had an early start with my family, got my firt child before I was 19, but today I am a proud father of three wonderful people, all adults and indepented in their own way, creative and a constant source of joy in my life. I love you so much!!Music is, and has always been, an important part of my life. I play bass in a couple of small bands, although a musical career is not our primarily resaon for playing. We, or at least I, do it more or less for the fun of it.I am still married to the mother of my children and we live today in a small house on the countryside, the very same house my great grandfather built, where my father is born and raised. We have two cats, Franz (from Franz Berwald) and Zappa (from Frank Zappa).Finally, the reason for me getting up each morning, my lovely wife, friend and life companion for more than 25 years!! There is no way I could be here without you.

My Interests

Music, books, plays, movies, all kind of arts.

I'd like to meet:

Any Yes-member in, let's say 1961. Where are they? Who are they? What are their dreams and hopes? What were their opinion on.... Peace? War? Climate changes? Life? Death?

Music:

Some of my musical heroes!!

Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood, Alan White, Jimmy Haun
Tony Levin, one of the best bassplayers in the world!! Tony Levin Road Diary

My Blog

Once there was a water pipe....

... and it had to be exchanged. It has been laying there, inside my floor, since the 50's and now it just HAD to be changed! So, I put on my favourite workingpants, took out my hammer and my crow...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Mon, 26 May 2008 11:42:00 PST

So close....

So, winter was defeated and spring had begun. The snow was melting away, slowly, slowly our garden was popping up through the snow and showing us that, Yes, there ARE grass underneath the snow. Then i...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:50:00 PST

So...

I keep talking about winter, some of you two readers might be tired of it, but up here in the north we, or at least I, really need REAL winter weather to manage through the whole thing. So, when you w...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:22:00 PST

Snow!!

Lots of it!! For a short moment I thought that the door was stuck but it was all the snow that had built up against the door that stopped me from open it. Well, lots of snow is perhaps an "o...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:58:00 PST

Christmas!!

Always nice. I can be at home and rest, be lazy and do nothing. Not only because I want to but because I am allowed to! As usual we've been eating and drinking well. Christmas gifts recieved I have (a...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:32:00 PST

Winterweather?

Well, weather it is but winter? I doubt!! We got some 10-15 cm of snow and everything seemed as normal as it should be. Then suddenly there came along warm winds (some), sunshine (very little) an...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:49:00 PST

Black Whisky?

Cu Dhub, The Black Dog. DON'T DRINK IT!! The only exciting with it is the colour, it's almost as black as coca-cola but it tastes.... nothing! I wouldn't even wanna call it whisky! No character. Tast...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:34:00 PST

Rats!!

So, the young cat, Zappa, surprised us today. Usually when he catches a rat or a mouse it's a small one, 5-6 cm in length (without the tail). This time he showed us a huge, ugly, disgusting RAT. 13 ...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:46:00 PST

Catfight!!

No, sorry guys but there are no ladies involved! Ours and our neighbours cat got into a real fight today. The Neighbours cat (Leo) attacked our little cat (Zappa) first, and then the big on...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:59:00 PST

Driving cars.

A new car has found its way to our home. A red Golf Variant. Well, new and new... it's from 1994 so it has been around some time but it's a nice car and it works for us. The driveway is fixed now. As...
Posted by Torbjörn Hk on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:41:00 PST