Sunday, September 30, 2007
einsturzende neubauten - blume
A great Einsturzende Neubauten song from 1992 and a perfect ending to this little back to nature and disintegration theme.
disintegration - four
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're whats happening
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're an ice machine
We see people brand new people
They're something to see
When we're nightclubbing
Bright-white clubbing
Oh isn't it wild?
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We're walking through town
Nightclubbing we're nightclubbing
We walk like a ghost
We learn dances brand new dances
Like the nuclear bomb
When we're nightclubbing
Bright white clubbing
Oh isn't it wild...
Iggy Pop & David Bowie - Nightclubbing (1977)
There's a hangman's knot at the end of the rope...
disintegration - two
The alternative Fiskis night club down in the basement of the Lännbo school. When I walked in a gray cat jumped up from the sofa and scared the shit out of me.
new order - confusion
New Order released Confusion in August 1983. As usual when it comes to New Order they never released it on an album. They had released their brilliant second album Power, Corruption & Lies in March 1983 but neither Confusion nor Blue Monday was on that nor any other of their albums.
back to nature - eleven
Back to nature - caravan on camping sand
Back to nature - glucose filled, and programmed to respond
It's gonna rain all night
But we'll be alright
Under the geodesic dome
Infrared heater, just like home
Sitting in the shade of a rubber tree
I'll kiss you and you'll kiss me
Back to nature - burning bodies in the sun
Back to nature - just like lemmings, every one
Back to nature - capitalist aircraft fill the air
Back to nature - aerosol sun breaks on air
It's gonna rain all night
But we'll be alright
Under the geodesic dome
Infrared heater, just like home
Sitting in the shade of a rubber tree
I'll kiss you and you'll kiss me
Fad Gadget - Back to nature (1979)
back to nature - five
Most of the old daycare centers are closed and their playgrounds are overgrown and empty.
back to nature - three
We've been sleeping in the garden
Breath of summer, breath of gold
As we turn against the sweep of hills
The sky's aglow
We fade away
She burns away in light and silver
Luminous through all these years
Every gesture filled with longings
I still feel
We fade away
I see you standing in the long light
Dress discarded, windows glow
All across the wild horizons
The sunset goes
We fade away
John Foxx - The Garden (1981)
back to nature - one
Nature is taking back more and more of Fiskis. It's almost like a story by J G Ballard. Grass, moss and trees are penetrating and disintegrating the asphalt and the concrete. Sometimes it's hard to see where nature stops and Fisksätra starts.
face off - buddhas in pakistan
There seems to have been another glorious victory for religious intolerance and oppression in Pakistan. Muslim extremists have tried to destroy a couple of 2200 year old Buddha statues in the Swat district in Pakistan. The first reports said that they didn't really succeed. I hope that's true, but there are rumours on the internet that claims that they actually did succeed after a second try. So far I haven't found anything that confirms that. But it's sad that religious extremists learnt absolutely nothing from the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan. I have to agree with Robert Fisk that the big threat isn't Iran - it's the religious extremism that flourish in Pakistan.
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US Today
Saturday, September 29, 2007
joy division - she's lost control
I've just watched an excellent BBC 4 documentary about Factory Records called "Factory - from Joy Division to Happy Mondays". They used the above Joy Division performance from Tony Wilsons So It Goes show. Brilliant stuff! Just watch Ian Curtis dance moves!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
californication - abstinthe makes the heart grow fonder
As you may have understod by now - I really like Californication. Episode six was just as great as the earlier episodes. It's like a zen experience for middle aged men who still likes to party and have fun or at least likes to believe that they still likes to party. From now on I will work hard to become a really successful nonsuccessful writer/person.
Monday, September 17, 2007
tv4 & svenska jägareförbundet
Swedish TV4 and Svenska Jägareförbundet (the Swedish version of National Rifle Association) have joined forces in the struggle to spread conspiracy theories, lies and prejudice about Swedens very few large wild predatory animals like wolves and wolverines. Sweden is Europes 4th largest country - only Ukraine, France and Spain are larger. There live approximately a hundred wolves in Sweden and the national goal is two hundred wolves. A goal that rabid poachers make more and more unrealistic. Compare these few Swedish wolves to the situation in other countries in Europe. Spain have 2000 (!!) wolves, Portugal 200, Italy 400, Romania has 2500 (!!!!), Poland 700, 800 - 1000 wolves live in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries have approximately 2000 wolves (!!!). They all manage to live with wolves. So my question to all Swedish hillbillies is - what's the fucking problem!!?? We live in a huge country and still you can't accept a tiny tiny wolf population. Maybe the government should revoke all subsidies to cattle farmers and their compensations for killed cattle if they choose not to have sheepdogs or other types of livestock guarding dogs? Would that make them more interested in some kind of a compromise? 200 wolves in a large empty country like Sweden is nothing. Especially if we view that in relation to the large amount of subsidies that we pay to these people to make it possible for them to stay where they are. Now I wonder - do we actually want these people to stay there? I don't even understand why they choose to live in the country if they hate wildlife so much? It's just stupid.
Monday, September 10, 2007
japan - swing
This is Japan from the Old Grey Whistle Test in December 1980. Just look at Mick Karn and David Sylvian they are so cool! I really loved Gentlemen Take Polaroids when it came and I still do. I think it's one of the greatest albums ever. Unfortunately I missed David Sylvian when he played in Stockholm last Friday. But since I saw Japan when they played in Stockholm 1982 I'm not totally depressed. Just a bit annoyed. Japan in 1982 was one brilliant concert.
the chemical brothers - the salmon dance
I've been dancin' the salmon dance for a couple of weeks now and I like it. That was kind of a surprise. I haven't heard a song by The Chemical Brothers that I've liked in a long time.
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