Today west coast “sister” newspapers Hallands Nyheter and Hallandsposten published my article about Meshuggah and Dick Lövgren along with some three or four pictures. Between the two of them I think they have an average circulation of 62.000 copies/day so this could very well be my biggest newspaper feature so far.
Read the whole thing online. [swedish only]
Elin and I ended up watching David Cronenberg’s Videodrome (1983) tonight. A superb film about a porn peddelin’ dude and an S/M chick. 25+ years old it has a lot to say about our desire (or even need) to tv-comsume.
What is moral or immoral to watch? And who is to decide? You?
I must admit that David Cronenburg is one of the great filmmakers of our time. I remember seeing Re-Animator on Super 8 projection at the Arvika Festival a long time ago. Between this and that I guess maybe I have seen six, seven of his films but I really should dig deeper.
I just realised that I never posted any pictures from the King’s X show in Belgium in january. It so happened to be one of the best (if not the best) shows I ever saw.
When they played the Sweden Rock Festival back in 2000, or whatever year it was, they were crap. I think their bass technician got electricuted the day before the gig and destroyed two bass guitars so they were all out of them; bass guitars and bass technicians. This time around it was simply amazing and the set list was incredibly sharp.
Home at last. Caught an american cold – super duper heavy this one – half dead I am. Really psyched about the trip though. It was mostly work but I was able to do some pretty fun stuff as well. Not much time or energy to write about it, need to finish the Meshuggah article for a west coast article before the end of the day.
Ears are messed up pretty bad. Hurts a lot and I’m half deaf. Might have to check it up actually.
Watched some good movies lately, by the way. The Midnight Meat Train (2008) and Shutter (2004). The first one I watched together with film critic Dave Canfield and friends in Chicago, and I’m writing an article about him this month too. Will be a good one. Shutter I saw together with Elin. Not all are blessed with a wife who enjoys horror movies but I am.
And what a wife!
Just saw this awesome clip from last weekend. It hits home with any heavy metal duderino, and we’re all heavy metal duderinos, right? (Or duderinas…)
James Hetfield of Metallica hands a guitar over to the members of Acrassicauda – the band from the documentary “Heavy Metal In Baghdad”. The guys have been granted refugee status and are about to apply for green cards in a year.
I got a letter the other day.
To say the least it was the kind of letter everyone wants. There are squares and triangles, earth and sky, flesh and blood.
I snapped a picture but I really can’t tell you much more about it because I would assume these people have ways of dealing with people who rat them out.
Track them down.
Take care of ‘em good.
Medieval style.
Dear friends,
A couple of months before Elin and I got married we decided to lose some weight. Said and done, I lost about 5 kgs (11 lbs) and Elin did a good job too.
After that it has all been downhill and I have since become a lard ass. So extreme circumstances call for extreme methods. And extreme over weight call for The Pig Race!
Starting today I am a pig racing towards health. I will blog about eating habits, the aerobics class, ten-beers-or-not-ten-beers, my weight, my waist-line and outdoors activities such as hiking, running and walking to the mail box.
Perhaps a few of you will even be inspired to grab yourself by the waist-line and start hunting that hog.
Goal:
a) To lose 15 kgs (33 lbs) before my birthday on 1 July.
b) To have 90% of my t-shirts fit instead of 10%
Terms:
a) I will bring updates at least once every week.
b) All my friends are allowed to bully/mock me here on the blog.
c) You may also cheer on if you feel like it.
Weight: 88,2 kg (194,3 lbs)
Waist: 102 cm (40,8″)
BMI: 26,1 (“over weight”)
Comment: “It feels good to sit after walking up the stairs.”
With those numbers the Race is on!
And the joke is on me.
Weight: 86,4 kg (190,5 lbs)
Waist: 100 cm (29,4″)
BMI: 25 (still ”over weight”)
The Pig on “working out”: No doubt about it, after almost one full week I’m off to a slow start. I have lost almost 2 kgs (4,4 lbs) though just by walking a lot. (Got a flat tire on the bicycle on my way to a bar actually – I intend to fix the tire but more than so I need to exercise properly.
The Pig on “food”: Since work started again after the holidays I do watch what I eat. Lots of salads, some low calorie shakes, cooking without too much oil etc. This will give heavy effect soon.
The Pig on “friends”: Well, the mocking is off to a good start. The lot of you took the chance at sucker punching. Good for me coz I need the daily fisting. Also, I must say that I have inspired some. No less than three friends have signed up to join in or compete with me but before all that I’m off to work.
If you can’t be good, be bad, baby!
Stats: Day 12 Weight: 84,6 kg (186,5 lbs)
Waist: 99 cm (38,9″)
BMI: 25 (still ”over weight”)
My only exercise so far has been walking which is a shame. To my defense I can say that I have a bad cold and that I have been walking an aweful lot. So the 3,6 kgs (7,9 lbs) I have lost so far is an effect of better eating routines.
I eat stuff like the above and it’s not fair but it’s healthy. I also make sure I eat something every 2-3 hours. Fat-free stuff, no candy, no soda, no nothing.
The good old bad habits. While cleaning out a room we are renovating I found a picture of me from years and years ago. Though partially staged it says something about which lifestyle lead to this pig form of mine.
Now I’m walking out to do some work.
Might as well lose some weight while at it.
Weight: 83,2 kg (183,4 lbs)
Waist: 97 cm (38,2″)
BMI: 24,6 (”normal weight”)
This is going all to well. Piece of cake! Without the cake. It’s been easy: I can’t have the cake and I can’t eat it. Period. I’m down 5 kgs (11 lbs). It’s almost like I’m losing weight too fast! I’ll end upp looking like that skin-stealin’ alien from Men In Black.
I have inspired quite a few people allready: One friend has written down “life rules” and Sandor is bloggingabout the very same things as me. He was even in local paper about it two days ago. Then there is Jo. He was joking when he said: “I should join the pig race”.
Two seconds later he was drafted.
Stats: Day 30Weight: 82,2 kg (181,2 lbs)
Waist: 97 cm (38,2″)
BMI: 24,3 (”normal weight”)
Down by 6 kgs (13,2 lbs). Sandor has his own diet blog called Fat Donation and he’s raving about losing weight through just eating fat; kind of what they call Atkin’s Diet. I’ve been toying with it a bit and I haven’t gained anything at least.
Me and Elin are considering going to Israel together some time this year. I was there almost three years ago. Don’t know if going there made me thin but the above show’s evidence of my not-quite-so-piggy self.