"When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Hog"
Oh no! Poor Jens!
Mr Lekman has contracted the nasty “swine flu” virus. Hero of TLOBF caught the virus whilst out on tour in South America earlier this month. He’s currently recovering at home in Sweden.
As he does with most things, Lekman first revealed his illness on his blog:
“I picked home one last souvenir from South America, it’s called the H1N1 virus. Wrongfully known as the Swineflue.
“I was crossing the Atlantic when things started getting really bad, the fever was hallucinogenic and shaking me like a leaf and I grabbed the sleeve of the Air France steward. ‘I’m not feeling well, I should see a doctor’ I said and the reply came as a brilliant mix of death anxiety and french rudeness: ‘Uh, yes… Terminal D… go there maybe… when we land’. After that the stewards and stewardesses took long detours. A ring of empty seats formed around me. Peoples eyes were kind but determined, they read ‘Poor you, I really wish you all the best but if you come near me or my kid I will have to stab you with this plastic fork’. I got up and went to the bathroom where I fainted.
Now I’m in quarantine for ten days. I can see the summer through my window and it’s just perfect. Summer is always best through a window.”
Lekman is still scheduled to play Norway’s Træna Festival next month, as well as a pair of shows in Portugal.
Get well soon Jens! If you get bored, why not make us another one of your mixtapes? Two Thousand & Fine is still on heavy rotation round these parts.
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If Jens dies, I will never listen to music again.
this has actually shocked me more than michael jackson’s death. poor jens.
You beat me to it Rich, I was going to say something along the lines of Jens being to me like MJ is (was?) to others. Honestly, if he died (which realistically, he probably won’t) it would affect me like no other musicians death, so here’s wishing him a speedy recovery!
Hope you recover soon Jens!
Is that what they are calling Tig Notaro nowadays?
Very simple for Jens. Stay away from lame phony creep, Tig Notaro, and maybe health will return. Be honest, she’s disgusting. Notaro is something that only belongs on forensic files.
Tig Notaro is cursed. She’s a raving lunatic who should be locked away!