Okay, so here we have yet another "diary" of some guy who thinks he's a rock star, so what? These Navel Jerks, or whatever, aren't famous! They've never been on MTV, they've never been on the cover of Rolling Stone, so why should we care?

To be perfectly honest with you, dear reader, I've no clue! :) We're just an amateur rock band from a small town in Norway! But we thought it would be fun to get a web-site going. John is quite good at this HTML-thing, so he got the task of putting it together. Since many of our friends moved out of town this year, the Navel Net gives them a chance of keeping up with what's happening here in Navel-Land. So now we've had Navel Net up for a while, and I had to get this stupid idea of writing an online diary on "the Life and Times of Navel Flush"!!! Hasn't this thing been done to death already? And why the hell am I writing in English???

I've been reading other diaries on the net, in particular Tony Levinís Road Diary, full of strange tales from life on the road, and Ropert Fripp's notes on his life as a musician and manager of his own record company. So I thought to myself, what if I did something like that for my band? I was going to write it in Norwegian, sort of like a letter to our friends in Trondheim and Bodø and elswhere. Then I started to hear about people from Minnesota writing to our Fanclub Tzar Mats to say that Navel Flush looks like a cool band. Or something like that. After thinking about it for about two seconds, I decided that I should write this in a language that people in Minnesota understand. I believe that's English. :)

Now that I've spent over 300 words explaining why I'm writing, it's definitely time to start writing! So what have we been up to lately? Well, as it says on the homepage, we're finally going to play a gig again. The last one was in August, so we're very excited right now! This is a terrible town for bands to get to play in, so we're really lucky! December 29^th is the magic date. My cousin Håkon will get a kick out of that, it's his 25^th birthday. :) Anyway, we're going to play at Loftet ("The Attic") which is really more of a disco, but :

a)They have a stage

b)They said they'd like us to play there and

c)There's nowhere else to play anyway! All of our previously mentioned friends will be home for the Holidays, so we're guaranteed an audience of uhm, at least 20! I'm going out on a limb here, but perhaps we could hope for 25? Naaah! :)

So we're rehearsing with more intensity and focus, making sure that everyone knows what they're doing. I will remember the ending to "I Want To Be Seen"! Morten will not suddenly be one beat out of sync with the rest of the band on "Wild Side"! We're getting ready for the Big Night. Mats has interesting suggestions for what we should wear on stage, what the poster should look like (He'd better have it ready by the end of this week!). So now people can start speculating. What will they wear? Will they wear make-up this time? And who are those "special guests" I hear whispers about? Well, you'll all just have to be there on the 29^th!

For the unfortunate ones not being able to make it to the concert, we've been thinking of putting sound clips on the net, so everyone can enjoy getting their navels flushed Rana-style. But when? John? Are you there? Although we haven't been in a recording studio just yet, we do have a great recording of our debut concert at the Sjonstock Festival. So in the fullness of time, you'll probably get to hear some sounds! I just have to pester John long enough!

Final words for today: We'd like to know what you, dear reader, would like to know about us. Email me!

Oh, just one more thing! "Ken's Korner" is a really stupid name for this column, but I just can't come up with anything else. Anybody got any suggestions? Preferably, it should be something that ties together the words "diary" and "navel." If I get a good suggestion that I'd like to use, I'll probably want to send out some sort of gift to the smart brain who came up it!

Stay flushed!

Kentil'Zha

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