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!