Look at this! It's my brand new pair of ice skates. My first pair in 25 years... I wonder if I still know how to use them?
Monday, January 31, 2005
Sunday, January 30, 2005
malte
My man Malte thinks about life on my brothers shoulder. There's a lot to think about... food... sleep... food... mother... sleep... dad... food... Astra the cat... sleep... crazy uncle with camera...
tv party today
This is from our (me & the preschool where I work) excursion to the Technological Museum in Stockholm. We found a small TV studio where we played. These two little ladies were my actors. We had a lot of fun and made a great show!
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Fiskayet
This is how Fiskayet looks when you come crawling through the snow on your way home from the night bus. Weird...
outhouse & la rock 01
This is your brain on crack...
Been listening a lot to Nathan Fake's most excellent "Outhouse" the Original Mix and to Vitalic's just as excellent "La rock 01" from his Poney EP. Dark and desolate electro with a powerful groove. Perfect for nightrides through boring old european cityscapes with their concrete sleeping cubes and factories. These songs give any worn out, dirty, boring project or suburb a cool sci-fi shine! With these songs in my ears Fiskayet has become even cooler.
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
number six & dr gaius baltar
This can't be true. I've seen all 13 episodes and now there's no more episodes left. I need more... just one small fix... please... This series, Battlestar Galactica, has made me feel like I felt as a kid when I watched Star Trek, Space 1999 and Japanese monster movies like Destroy All Monsters on TV for the very first time. The thrill and the excitement - this series has been truly amazing! Characters like the insane Doctor Gaius Baltar and the cylon replicant Number Six manage to stay alive in my subconscious, almost like old friends. Weird. Finally someone managed to make scifi for television that has beautiful SFX, spectacular production designs, great sound track (sounds like Dead Can Dance during the Serpent's Egg era) and actors that actually act. No more bad acting in fun clothing. This is scifi for grown-ups, not just for nerds. Don't miss it!
Sunday, January 23, 2005
wot do u call it?
2 Step, urban or UK Garage has been declared dead many times since So Solid Crew started to fall apart and go "commercial" back in 2001 or 2002. But the genre is still flourishing under the name grime. There are loads of interesting acts and artists. Shystie (it's her excellent Diamond in the Dirt album you can see above), the Streets, Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Lady Sovereign, Lethal Bizzle, Terror Danjah, Kano, Nasty Crew, Pay As You Go Crew and the Ruff Sqwad are just a few of them.
If you wonder what the f*ck grime is then think sound systems, pirate radio, Jungle and a bit of hip hop, electronica and ragga. It has a real street feel. No big money, big cars, gangstas, thugs, bitches or hoes - just geezers, eskimoes, east end, riddims, cider, rascals and hangin' at the local pub. It's a fresh breeze in these sad and boring times of retarded gangsta wannabes waving their guns and gold chains and their stupid ladies with their humongous silicone boobs dancing around them in bikinis. They suck big time. Grime is the opposite. The antidote. It's vital and exciting. The beats and bass lines are weird, dark and wild. The rhymes are often performed in ragga style but the lyrics are more about ordinary life than about the performers sexual capabilities. That's a welcome change. Vocal combat, battling, between artists and crews are very common. Especially on the pirate radio stations. They are usually very enjoyable and easy to find as mp3's.
Finally, Wiley's performance at Mondo were one of the best I've ever seen. It was most excellent. For more basic information about grime - check Stylus Magazines Grime : The Survival Guide.
Saturday, January 22, 2005
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
underground
I like the underground. The underground and old Gary Numan songs. Nothing quite like it... Afrika Bambaata, the hip hop/electro legend from South Bronx, made a nice cover of Gary Numans Metal on his latest album. Excellent!
Picture this if they could make the change
I'd love to pull the wires from the wall
Did you?
And who are you and how can I try?
Here inside I like metal
In you
All I know is no one dies
I'm still confusing love with need
Gary Numan - Metal (1979)
red rabbit
If you like street art then you should take a look at Sander Boschma's project Art in Cities. An excellent idea. Click at Stockholm and you'll even find some pictures by your own favourite Fiskis geezer. Support you local art hooligan!!!
Monday, January 17, 2005
battlestar galactica
I saw the original Battlestar Galactica movie back in 1978 or 79. Liked it a lot, but I don't remember much of it. Now I've just finished the first two episodes of sci-fi channels brand new vision of Battlestar Galactica. It's spectacular! The best sci-fi series I've ever seen on tv. It's dark and sexy. It has real characters, excellent actors and great photography (loads of hand held cameras!). Actually it's a lot like Homicide: Life on the Street or The West Wing in a sci-fi setting. Eventhough the characters live on board giant spaceships and fight against the Cylons, an android race created by humans (think The Terminator or Blade Runner), they use ordinary phones, they dress normal and use loads of normal today stuff. Weird, cool and very satisfying.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
new order
I don't know why, but suddenly I've been listening a lot to New Order. Mostly Bizarre Love Triangle and True Faith. We play them all the time at work. Excellent songs.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
take us downtown... fast!
These are the survivors on their way downtown to celebrate the fact that they survived. We had a fast and very tough celebration!
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