Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007

Wild Strawberries is one of my all time favourite movies. Victor Sjöström (1879 - 1960) is absolutely brilliant as Isak Borg.

tangerine dream - ricochet part II

Part Two of Ricochet. Go kosmisch!

tangerine dream - ricochet part I

Ricochet Part One from Tangerine Dreams 1975 live album Ricochet. I think it has a nice swedish summer evening sound. It's most definitely kosmische musik.

big fat summer moon part II

Sunday night.

flat rock

Flat rock, pine trees and moss.

boundary

A couple of rocks that show some old boundary out in the forest.

crooked

A crooked old pine tree.

ice age left overs

There are plenty of ice age left overs scattered around the forest. Like these small boulders.

deep forest

A steep mountain slope deep inside the forest.

wild raspberries

Went out in the forest on Sunday morning. Found some very tasty wild raspberries out there.

big fat summer moon

Went out to the country for the weekend. On Saturday night there was a big beautiful fat orange full moon hiding behind the trees.

david sylvian - orpheus

Orpheus from David Sylvians masterpiece Secrets of the Beehive.

erstavik

Spent my day on a nice warm beach.

water snake

Went to Erstavik for a nice day in the sun. Saw this beautiful Water Snake swim by really close to the shore.

old school

Went out with my old colleagues from ISN - David, Britt-Marie and Hanna. It turned into a really fun evening. Food and beer at Debaser and more beer and wine at my place when we came back to Fiskis.

pau

Pau brings the noise...

leenus vs ondska

I played at Debaser with Leenus, Nasty Nate & Pau. They have a club there on tuesdays called Bring The Noise! I had a great time.

weeds - don't do drugs

Episode two of Weeds season three was very frustrating and depressing. I really would have liked to see Nancy kick Celias drunk ass - but instead I got to enjoy watching a piss drunk Celia telling some kids not to do drugs. That was a classic Weeds scene. U-Turn, Celia, Silas and Andy are really making Nancys life miserable right now. I hope the writers of the series brightens her life up a bit in the comming episodes.

weeds - season three premiere

I love all these preair leaks on the internet. First Dexter and now Weeds. I've just finished watching the premier episode of season three and fortunately Weeds is just getting better and more surreal for every episode. Shane Botwin (played by Alexander Gould) totally rules - he ought to have his own show! If you wonder why Nancy Botwin looks so pissed in the picture above she has her reasons. Very good reasons I must say and I'm off to episode two as soon as possible because I really hope she'll be kicking some really annoying ass in that episode.

vacation on holmen

This is where I spend most days during my vacation.

under the bridge

You usually can find a lot of old bikes under the bridge. Sometimes even new ones. If you need a bike this is a good place to go fishing for them.

fishing

Fishing is super popular here in Fisksätra. The name Fisksätra originates from the viking era and means something like Fish meadow. Is it just a coincidence? I think not.

stretching

This little cygnet was doing some serious stretching down at Holmen. The parents are pretty damn hostile and usually chase me when I swim to close. Bastards!

friday night

Strange how things just start to move when you've been out having fun.

the selecter - missing words

This is one of my favourite songs from the 2 Tone era - Missing Words performed by The Selecter. Pauline Black really kicked ass.

little stuffed hyenas

Suddenly when I stood there in the bar I saw the little stuffed toy hyenas on the shelf...

dexter - waiting to exhale

Dexter again. I'm happy to be able to say that season two's first two episodes are great. Maybe not fantastic - but very promising. I'm not sure if they will focus on the mess Dexter is in now or if some new super villain will appear and replace the Ice Truck Killer. That's what happens in Dearly Devoted Dexter. In season one they hinted that Sergeant Doakes, who's now following Dexter, had somekind of dark secret from his days in the US Military. Now Doakes is the only one who acts suspicious towards Dexter. Is it because "it takes one to know one" - a killer can spot another killer? Has Sergeant Doakes also done some bad shit that he repents and want to have undone? We'll see.

dexter - it's alive!

Finally the first two episodes of Dexter season two have leaked out to the internet! The digital life is good sometimes. I've just viewed the first of these two episodes and it was good. Things start to go really bad for Dexter. Nothing is as it was before he killed his brother Rudy aka the Ice Truck Killer. Sergeant Doakes is watching his every move and he's not really sure about himself anymore. But then something happens that makes Dexter feel alive again. I'm really looking forward to a new season with Dexter. Unfortunately - or not - season two is said to be an original work and not based on Dearly Devoted Dexter. We'll soon see if this is true or not. So far there at least seems to be some likeness between the two. But only some. I hope Showtime don't screw this up.

düsseldorf 1970 - 1975

organisation - ruckzuck (live on WDR TV in April 25th 1970)


kraftwerk - ruckzuck (live on WDR TV in 1970)


kraftwerk - radioactivity


Kraftwerk in the beginning of their long and weird career. It's strange that it's only months between the first video with Organisation (did Rowan Atkinson really play congas with them??) and the second video with Kraftwerk performing the same song.

vacation mode

This is me in vacation mode. Spent five hours down at Holmen and I'm feeling pretty fried right now...

grace jones - libertango

Grace Jones has never been better than this. "I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango)" is from her 1981 album Nightclubbing.

my fridge

Summer in the fridge.

saturday fun

There was some strange things going on at the square today.

fiskis

One more Fiskis shot.

slumber

Slumbering in the sun,

clouds

Laying there in the grass and watching the clouds go by...

saturday at holmen

Another sunny and great day at Holmen. This is how I like my vacation.

my balcony - episode twelve

Sunflowers & cornflowers. It's like a jungle out there.

ozzy - mr crowley

Now it's all so clear. This is where the Spinal Tap got most of their inspiration. Ozzy is totally zombie awesome! I think it's Randy Rhoads (no, he wasn't a porn actor) on guitar - brilliant solos there. Unfortunately he died in an accident back in 1982. What can I say - Blizzard of Ozz is a great album.

das testament des dr mabuse

When humanity, subjugated by the terror of crime, has been driven insane by fear and horror, and when chaos has become supreme law, then the time will have come for the empire of crime.

Fritz Langs 1933 masterpiece "Das Testament des Dr Mabuse" still feels uncomfortably contemporary. Watch this movie first and then Adam Curtis BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares and freak out! This is a perfect movie and it will always be one of my absolute favourite movies.

dj ondska

The Supreme Ninja of the PowerBallad technique will play at Debaser 24 July and at Snotty's 3 August.

liaisons dangereuses - los niños del parque

This is Liaisons Dangereuses performing Los Niños del Parque live in Manchester 1982 - actually 7 July 1982. This is 25 years ago. Is it just because I was seventeen back then and am kind of nostalgic - or does this shit totally rock?

the dark side of country life

There's one bus each hour... one bus!

shark fishing

This is the little dude out fishing sharks while the big dudes builds a house.

roof

Vacation is also a lot about building roofs...

country life

Vacation = country life

frankie valli & the four seasons - beggin' pilooski rmx

Even Pilooskis remix of this Frankie Valli song is old now. But it's a great summer tune and I'm sure I will play it a lot. If anyone wonders - Pilooski is a part of the French Dirty Sound System. Now - get out and have fun!

the lone hero vs the collective

I've recently reread Frank Millers "The Dark Knight Returns and Paul Popes "Batman: Year 100". Batman is the typical lone hero. A vigilante and a dark knight. Therefore I think it's kind of interesting that Frank Miller have almost neoconservative views and Paul Pope have libertarian views. Paul Pope even let Ludwig von Mises have a part in his "Berlin Batman". Why is that interesting? Because both these political and ideological movements contains elements of the classic hero cult. People should strive to become heroes. This goes to the extreme among the objectivists and their "worship" of the Randian hero - the entrepreneur. Bruce Wayne is almost an Ayn Rand like hero. This made me think about the lone hero and the collective in popular media like comics and movies. I haven't been able to find one movie or comic book where a collective of people have been the "heroes". But in some movies the collective is the threat. Just look at the Borg in Star Trek or the space seeds that take over human bodies in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It's kind of ironic that most horror movies work just because the characters in them choose not to cooperate against their common enemy. Instead they usually choose to work alone with the now classic comment - let's split up! We all know how that ends. The result is plenty of death and one surviving hero. Even in Frank Millers 300, which sounds like it's about a group of people cooperating to fight a common enemy, there's a hero - King Leonidas of Sparta. Sometimes I feel like it would be really refreshing to see a group of people cooperate on film or in a comic book and actually have some success in doing so.

the black ghosts - anyway you choose to give it

The Black Ghosts show us that synthpop is alive and kicking.

friday night at carmen - seven

Fredde and Birte... it seems like they discussed something very deep and serious... UFO's or modern russian poetry maybe?

friday night at carmen - six

Here I think things start to turn weird... I kind of recognize that strange dude in the middle...

friday night at carmen - five

Juffe entertains Patrik and Simon... or something...

friday night at carmen - four

Ali Esbati walked around at Carmen with this t-shirt. I don't really know how to translate the slogan on it - I'm not sure the word "socialize" has the same double meaning in english as it has in swedish. And nationalize and municipalize isn't quite the same. But it says "Socialize (nationalize/municipalize) it all!" After the recent privatizations of the electricity market and parts of the public transport system in Stockholm I'm bound to agree to some extent. I'm tired of this senseless privatization wave we have. It only benefits the rich - not our society.

friday night at carmen - three

Juffes and Spakkes sister Birte (?) giving me her evil eye. Scary stuff and damn these Icelandic names - they are so hard.

friday night at carmen - two

Tobbe, a friend of Spakke and Juffe.

friday night at carmen - one

Where do you go to celebrate your first day of vacation? Carmen of course.

colours

The wall on my house has been decorated...

akala - electro livin'

A great tune by London rapper Akala and the home made video shows what an impressive movie Fritz Langs Metropolis still is. It was released in 1927 and Fritz Langs vision was bolder, darker and more beautiful than most movies released during the 80 years that have past. It's time to buy the DVD box sets that are available.

Fritz Lang Box Set

Fritz Lang Epic Collection

plastics

plastics - copy


plastics - top secret man


Is it possible not to love the Plastics? I remember when I first heard them - it was in the early eighties in one of Faluns few record stores and it was their 1981 album "Welcome Back". It was excellent and kind of different from the other Japanese bands you could find back then like YMO, Ippu-Do and Sandii and the Sunsets. A reissue of their albums on CD would be very welcome.

hammock

I tried my new hammock today. It was awesome!