One Weekly Gun » One Weekly Gun

Plastic Patch – video

oneweeklygun — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:59:24 +0000

A video for the song Plastic Patch.

The Song That Kills – Hindenburg Disaster Footage

oneweeklygun — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:32:55 +0000

Is Sex a Thing?

oneweeklygun — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:50:38 +0000

Is Sex a Thing?

Download audio file (4554477)

Download

Is sex a thing,
Is it a concept?
Or is it me, who thinks it’s nonesense
To discuss what sex is?

Is sex a sin, is it a monster,
That lives inside our body closet?
And what are we, without sex?

Is it all worthwhile?
Is it wasting sex’s time?
Is it all worthwhile, to define what sex really is?

Is sex for real or is it dirty?
Is sex for free when over thirty?
And what is love? Does it fit in that sexy thing?

Is it all meaningless?
Do we want the joy of sex?
Is it just futile, to describe what sex really is?

Downer – The Catholic Church, condoms and abortion

oneweeklygun — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:18:28 +0000

I know this is a touchy subject, but I had to do this.

I respect all religious people. There I said it.
But the guys who conducts the business from the church pedestals are often making a fool of themselves.

The Catholic Church has really made a mess of itself the past weeks.
Not only did the Archbishop Don Jose Cardoso Sobrinho of Recife excommunicate a doctor who performed an abortion on a 9 year old girl from Brazil, who was pregnant with twins after being raped by her stepfather.

The Pope also went to Cameroon and spoke against the use of condoms.

Come on!

What is this church doing? Why does it deliberately advocate against helping the suffering? Yes, we DO want to end the terror of AIDS in the world. Africa is the place to start. Why not help the masses to avoid it by slipping a piece of rubber over their Johnsons?

And what is this thing with putting God’s laws over the physical and mental health of and innocent girl, who has been the victim of horrific crimes? Where in God’s name is the point in that? I get so ANGRY! … and I lie sleepless beacuse of this idiotic and cruel behaviour of a very powerful organization.

So many people in the world listen carefully to these men of righteousness. Their power is terrifying.

Especially when stupidity is flowing from their mouths.

This song is called Downer.

Downer
Download audio file (1765594)
Download
Get a dose of the downer
Let the Lord know we’re breeding again
Even though you’re a minor
Come on! We have to win this 7 billion race

Get behind the reaper
Get in line and start beating the drum
I know folks that are meaner
Come on! We have to move before the damage is done

Here come the downer, downer, down.
(we are in line, but we’ll stay at the end)
Here come the downer, downer, down.

All around we are misfits
Got a feeling we’re going to hell
To conduct our business
Come on! We move or lie in symmetric shapes

Here come the downer, downer, down.
(we are in line, but we’ll stay at the end)
Here come the downer, downer, down.

New Archive page!

oneweeklygun — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:06:37 +0000

Someone suggested that I put up some sort of archive page, to create an overview of the many songs.

I found out it’s quite difficult to do this in a meaningful way. No matter what, it seems to be impossible. I guess it’s one of the big challenges publishing in a blog format. How to keep the old posts from being burried in the swamp of old material.

I made the archive page http://www.oneweeklygun.com/archive.

It’s a very interesing aspect of this project, and I have never considered it before. I will try different approaches in the future to deal with it. Feel free to tell me what you think about the new archive.

Michael Jackson’s Comeback ‘Tour’

oneweeklygun — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:35:16 +0000

Around 6pm GM-time: Michael Jackson announces, that he’s gonna play a series of concerts at the O2 Arena in Lodon in July 2009.

8pm GM-Time: One Weekly Gun has written a suitable song.

Hail the King
Download audio file (1705007)
Download

There’s a man in my telly, and he says he’s coming back
Cause he happened to empty out the mattress crack

Hail the king

On the way to the stand you were 90 minutes late
First you had to calculate your depreciation rate

Hail the king

That’s what happens when you’ve spent
All the money from more than 750 million records

Hail the king

You could have built a thousand highways in development countries
But you happened to want a bunch of ferris wheels

Hail the king

We won’t give it back, we have taken what is ours
All the money we spent, you’ll just blow it again

We’ve got our lives, we’re not sharing them with you
It may seem unfair, but that’s what we’ll do

Hail the king

Bob Lefsetz and Barack Obama

oneweeklygun — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:59:02 +0000

I want you to read this.

Bob Lefsetz, creator of The Lefsetz Letter, wrote this great article about Obama’s speech the other day.

- OWG

Obama’s Speech

This has been a bleak year for me. The gig that covered my nut evaporated. Seemingly every year or two this occurs. But I always have hope a new job will appear. Right now, I don’t have that hope.

I open the newspaper and find articles telling me it’s worse than everybody says. That the banks are not lending the money we gave them because they’re insolvent. And while elected representatives with assured incomes try to triangulate and guess what’s good for themselves, their constituents, keeping their jobs all the while, I just feel they’re out of touch, they don’t know how bad it truly is outside the beltway.

I saved each and every dollar I made. Not literally, but close. Because I had a brush with debt twenty years ago whose emotional scars I still bear. I lived frugally, in fear that an impasse might occur, and I would have to rely on my savings, protected by the FDIC because of their limited number, yet sufficient to get me through. But not everybody did. Some I blame, but some I don’t. If you’re feeding a family of four, and you’ve got a mortgage and you lose your job… How long until your economic viability collapses?

Be sure to see the movie “Milk”. I went reluctantly, but am so glad I did. Not because Sean Penn embodied the character so well, which he did, but because of what a state congressman says to Sean right after their debate, when Sean is telling him that he’s going to win. This already elected official says it won’t happen, because Penn/Milk is minus one crucial element, hope. You’ve got to give people hope.

I haven’t watched a Presidential address since I lived on the east coast. They usually occur before the work day is over in California. And what is said is the same old nonsense. But tonight, I entered the bedroom and found Felice watching our President speak, and I got hooked.

The standing ovations bugged me. These are the same people who put roadblocks in front of progress, who say the right thing on camera, but sabotage our future when no one is watching. But the black man at the podium, as he continued to speak, I felt a fire start to burn inside. At first just a flame, but when he spoke of taxing the richest two percent of our citizens and stopping torture, I cheered. Someone could see the truth, someone was trying to make a difference.

And maybe you don’t agree with Obama’s policies. I’ve no need to debate you. But when our country is as fucked up economically as it is, when all anyone can speak of is recession, where everywhere you turn you find someone out of work, we need a leader, who just doesn’t tell us to shop, but gives us hope.

Yes, we do need to shop, consumer spending will help eradicate this crisis. But we’re not going to part with our cash until we believe our personal coffers will be refilled. Who’s going to give us confidence that the future will be bright, that we will not only survive, but prosper?

I used to rely on rock stars. But when Bruce Springsteen makes a deal with Wal-Mart and then says he is performing at the Super Bowl because he’s got an album to sell, I end up deflated. Who is doing what’s right, what he feels inside, who is not worried about his personal advancement and public approval?

Funny that it’s our President.

I wasn’t a fan at first. But when he spoke of Google, he hooked me. Finally a candidate that lived in the same world I did.

I don’t have a problem with you being rich, as long as it’s not at my expense, as long as you don’t try to protect your lifestyle, denying the working man a chance to get ahead. For too long this country has been about the haves and the have-nots. The uneducated people Obama spoke of believing the American Dream was as vibrant as ever when even the right wing paper of record, the “Wall Street Journal”, said it was harder than ever to get ahead.

I love my country. And I know you do too. We criticize it because we want it to be better. And now, we’re willing to sacrifice in order for all to progress, not only ourselves, but the unknown masses that make up society. We’ve got work to do. But we will only do it if we have hope, that by standing together and working hard things will get better. Without hope, we’ve got malaise. We’ve got suicide. We’ve got heartbreak.

Tonight I have hope.

I hope you do too.

Repost: The Heath Ledger song

oneweeklygun — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:53:55 +0000

Just a quick repost of the Heath Ledger song from week 4 of 2008.

Ledger got an oscar for best supporting role. Needless to say, I feel this is right.

The original post is here: The Heath Ledger song by One Weekly Gun.

For those who speak Portugese, there is a very nice mention of the song at Hitnarede.

About Rush Limbaugh – republican radio host

oneweeklygun — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:07:47 +0000

Hello Friends

Today it’s all about Rush Limbaugh. The infamous and influential republican radio host from Missouri.
Credits go to Alex, for suggesting the topic last week.

Limbaugh is amongst other things famous for making fun of Michael J. Fox who has Parkinson’s Disease and his somewhat dumb remarks on things like feminism: “Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society.”

The Rush Limbaugh Show is where he on the weekdays expresses his conservative values on the air and serves as a commentator of political events. It’s actually quite entertaining and sometimes controversial. Especially when he recently said, that he wish President Obama will fail. Although he really was saying that he hopes Obamas politics will fail and not the man himself (he stressed this by pointing out that Obama is a human being), the qoute speaks for itself.

Bill Maher commented: ‘I don’t hold it against Rush, people say all kinds of crazy shit, when they’re high.’

Rush Limbaugh was in 2003 investigated illegally obtaining prescription drugs. He had admitted his addiction to drugs – a topic he has ranted about often on his show. Needles to say, he has stated that he is against drug abuse and believes in duggers should go to jail.

Since then several episodes in the saga of Limbaughs drug abuse has been aired.
I guess Maher’s right. Just ignore the guy.

But keep him out the office, will ya?

The song is unusual, in that musical mastermind Erik Nørgaard participates on all sorts of weird instruments. Trumpet, trombone, accordion and a very special one in the beginning of the second verse.
Guess what it is, and you are rewarded with a T-shirt from the upcoming One Weekly Gun line!

People on Drugs can say the Craziest Things
Download
Download audio file (1656504)

So you want an empty throne
So you can pick up the pieces alone
And it seems, that you know
You are speaking in a feverish tone

But we’re gonna tell your momma
We’re gonna tell your friends
That people on drugs can say the craziest things
So yell and scream
You’re just wasting your time
We won’t spend our days with a painkilled mind

You don’t care, what you do
You just want some more quat to chew
Smoke some pot, swallow pills
Get a high on viagra of you will

But we will tell your daddy
And your children too
That they should not take any notice of you
Stop calling you a jackass
Stop calling you a jerk
You’re only just an overweight teenager

People on drugs can say the craziest things
People on drugs can say the craziest things
Women’s rights and the environment
Will have to work around this fruitcake

We’re gonna tell your momma
We’re gonna tell your friends
That people on drugs can say the craziest things
So yell and scream
You’re just wasting your time
We won’t spend our days with a painkilled mind

One Weekly Gun at Twestival!

oneweeklygun — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:54:16 +0000

Hi Folks!

One Weekly Gun is proud to be a part of the ongoing project Twestival!

I created a Twitter account for One Weekly Gun a little while ago. It’s great fun!

Anyway, on Thursday the 12th of February 2009 a worldwide charity event called Twestival is happening, and me and a bunch of other artists including Imogen Heap and Bloc Party donated songs for it!
I donated an original song written especially for the Twestival. You can find all the songs at the Twestival.fm website.

All money collected from the project goes directly to the organization Charity: Water. They work on projects bringing clean drinking water to everyone. Right now more than 1 billion people lack access to clean and sufficient water. For 20$ you can give clean water to one person for 20 years! Go ahead and donate if you want – I think you should.

Water
Download audio file (download)

Download

In my mouth there is some
But it’s sometimes gone
Mostly when I’m nervous

It consists of slime
With salival enzymes
Which come from inside the circuits

But that’s just one half percent
And all there’s left is Water
To you it’s normal stuff
For some it’s valuable Water

The vast majority
Have access to clean
And sufficient water

But One billion at least
Is in desperate need
And they need our dollars

For us it’s not so tough
Because we have enough Water
But we’re the lucky ones
Don’t have to squeeze our buns for Water

Life is not that sweet
You gotta make ends meet
And noone get’s what they want

That’s ok, I think
Cause I have water to drink
And more in the pipeline

Well that’s how it should be
Not just for you and me
Water

So come on girls and boys
And re-tweet your choice
Water

I love it when others get it :-)

oneweeklygun — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:45:11 +0000

Great post about One Weekly Gun from Powerpopulist!

Apart from the obvious good taste in music, it’s a really cool and well written blog. Go read!

What a nice thing to do!

oneweeklygun — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:52:27 +0000

Just read this one, and thought I would share it with you all.

My heores in They Might Be Giants once again proves that they are the coolest guys in the music business.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/internet-blogs/they-might-be-youtube-watchers.html

All please rise!

One Weekly Gun at Youtube

oneweeklygun — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:49:48 +0000

Just a quickie to inform you, that OWG is now at Youtube.

Below is a brief clip from the choir recording of the Xmas special.
Go listen to the whole song here:

http://www.oneweeklygun.com/2008/12/the-big-christmas-and-new-year-special/

One Weekly Gun enters 2009

oneweeklygun — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:44:50 +0000

Good day World!

One Weekly Gun has returned to the laptop and begun the work for what seems to be a year of news hopefully as exciting as 2008. All kinds of events and stories will be covered here at oneweeklygun.com throughout the year. Both stories of success and tales of tragedy can be found here in the future. I can guarantee that.

So what should I write about in the first post? Will it be the news about Oprah Winfreys use of cocaine? The Obama whistle stop train, that travels to Washington DC and celebrating the 45th birthday of Michelle Obama along the way? The anarchist graffiti on Washington State Capitol? Or perhaps something that does NOT take place in th US?

Time will tell. One Weekly Gun will be back shortly… stay tuned.

THE BIG CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR SPECIAL!

oneweeklygun — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:13:56 +0000

Hello and YO HO HO all you dear and happy people!

Yes, this is the great and exciting One Weekly Gun Christmas and New Year Special 2008.

We have come a long way this year. A lot has happened.
For my part 2008 has been crammed with stuff to do – my wedding, travels, a new job etc.
And in between I have tried to cover the some of the important events in the world in song, as I see them.

One Weekly Gun has taken off. This is the 39th and final song of 2008.

To celebrate 2008 I here present a very special episode. The very first song of OWG has been transformed from a lo-fi/first-take piece to a complete outta this world treat for all of you. It’s been recorded by the Danish National Chamber Orchestra in a FANTASTIC arrangement by my friend Jakob Faurholt and mixed by two other magnificent guys: Frederik Thaae and Kristian Thomsen.

Afterwards we added a beautiful X-mas choir and my pathetic voice. The result is of course stunning and absurd in the same time.

‘But this must have taken may more time than three hours?’ you might ask.

The answer is yes. But I thought it would be fun to step out of the OWG procedure for this one time. I guess this episode took the same amout of time to do, as all the 38 other episodes accumulated.

Why? Because anything is possible. One Weekly Gun is about just that. In our time the world is FLOODED with talent. Way too much for anyone to comprehend in a lifetime. Much of it never gets an audience. Now, I don’t consider myself a big talent, but I treasure my abilities enough to show them to the world. The world belongs to you and me, and you should not hesitate to get out there and do what you have to do.

One Weekly Gun wishes everybody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Remember, that you can download all the songs for free here. Or at ReverbNation.
Or import all of it into Itunes by clicking here.

See you in 2009!

One Xmas Song Every Week
Download
Download audio file (1416886)

Maybe I’m not really the kind of man you want
Crouching in my chair, and sleeping everywhere
One thing makes up for all the work I haven’t done
It’s the songs I sing, that noone listens to.

One song every week
Now that’s what you’re getting
It’s really a treat for all my fans out there.
So I’m really busy writing songs every week
And that is what you’ll get

One song every week
No time for rehearsal
It’s one take a week
With limited production
And everything is free
This really is suicide
For I’m so damn busy writing songs every week.
And that is quite absurd

One song every week
No less could have done it
You’re climbing your peak
No benefit from it
Cause you’re to damn busy writing songs every week
And that’s a weird idea

One song every week
You know what I’ve been through
The world’s biggest geek
Despite this will continue.
This years’s winning streak
Without hesitation.
So I’ll just continue writing songs week after week
And that is what you’ll get.

One Xmas Song A week
Music and Words: One Weekly Gun

Musical Arrangement: Jakob Faurholt
Mix and production: Frederik Thaae and Kristian Thomsen
Production Engineer: Lars C. Bruun
Orchestra conducted by: Michael Bojesen
Ensemble: The Danish National Chamber Orchestra

Choir:
Conductor: Jonas Nørgaard Sørensen
Soprano: Frederikke Kampmann
Alto: Anna-Kajsa Holmberg
Tenor: Søren Rubæk Hansen
Basso: Erik Nørgaard
Basso: Steffen Bruun
Photos: Flemming Gernyx

One Weekly Gun at All Scandinavian

oneweeklygun — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:35:15 +0000

Just wanted to share a link with you.
It’s a very nice and on-the-spot article about OWG.
The blog is called All Scandinavian, and has loads of cool info on bands from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Check it out here:
http://allscandinavian.com/440/one-weekly-gun-music-taking-a-stand/

One Weekly Gun records with an orchestra!

oneweeklygun — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:12:24 +0000

Above you see a snapshot from One Weekly Gun’s session with the Danish National Chamber Orchestra.
(Yours truly in the middle)

“What?” – you might ask. And with every right. You’re probably used to the lo-fi sounds of OWG by now. You know when you only have three hours to do everything from getting the idea, to publishing the song, sometimes it affects the ‘quality’ of the sounds. I try hard to cope with these challenges – If I can’t get an instrument to sound right, it’s better to lose it. The three hour limit often get’s it’s significant saying on the sound of the song.

But this time it’s different. We are recording a brilliant episode for new year for yo

u guys! More than 50 musicians will be participating! It’s a mastodont musical frame around my little voice. The production is handled by A Kid Hereafter and my friend Jakob Faurholt.
(In the picture above you can see the boys on the right).

The song we are recording is a rendition of the very first song here at One Weekly Gun. It’s called ‘One Song Every Week’ and can be heard here.

Much has changed since then. When I recorded the first song, I only had the idea of weekly songs for like 5 minutes. It all went very fast. My wife came home, and I was all excited. “Guess what! I’m gonna do weekly songs now!!!”.

“…ok!?!…”

I didn’t know how far this would take me.

Right now I’m still feeling like, I’m giving birth to the concept. Every day new thoughts and ideas about the future of the blog is created in my brain. I’m getting a lot of mail feedback from all you guys out there. I really appreciate it. Both when you tell me you love OWG and when you tell me you don’t.

Please continue to do so, and post comments here on the site.

So what is One Weekly Gun apart from a nerdy punk guy’s naive dream of revolution of the web and international music business? I’ll get back to that in a future post.

In the meantime, if you want to be among the first to receive the New Year special complete with the big orchestra go sign up for the newsletter. That way you’ll get it straight to your inbox, when it’s launched!

Bye

Owg

New Look

oneweeklygun — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:08:40 +0000

Hello One Weekly Freaks!

Welcome to the new oneweeklygun.com.

The blog was in heavy need of a facelift. This is what I came up with.
Some features might work a little strange to begin with. We’ll sort that out along the way.
The old wordpress blog is passive from now on.
Everything will happen here at www.oneweeklygun.com.

If you have subscribed in a rss-reader of some sort, you should change the feed to:
www.oneweeklygun.com/feed/

That way you will stay updated.

Cheers!

-OWG

Live-warning!

oneweeklygun — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:39:43 +0000

HI all.

A very exciting thing is happening friday and saturday.

The song ‘The Last Spark’ will be performed live at A Kid Hereafter’s
concerts in Copenhagen and Århus, Denmark. I’m told it’s prolonged with a guitar solo among other excentric musical elements. I can’t wait to hear it – although I’m not gonna be there myself, because I’m going to the Leonard Cohen show instead. Dang! If you happen to go, please bring a video camera and record the song, will ya? Anyway it’s a fucking great band!

Yours truly

OWG

Live

oneweeklygun — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:21:27 +0000

For the first time ever a song from One Weekly Gun was played live yesterday.
It was at my own private wedding party, the song was The Last Spark from THIS EPISODE.

The happy band that made my night was A Kid Hereafter. You should check these extreemely talented kids out!

www.akidhereafter.com

YIHUW!

oneweeklygun — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:35:29 +0000

For the first time ever, One Weekly Gun had more than 1.000 visitors in one day. The happy day was yesterday 7th of September 2008!