Three weeks ago I interviewed film critic Dave Canfield in Chicago, IL. Today the newspaper Dagen published the article which was a little bit more progressive before they decided to shorten it a bit. Hence, Dave’s comments on beheading girlfriends with shovels (Evil Dead II) and other people with weed wackers (Friday the 13th) were left out. Instead they found another dude, from Sweden, who also lectures in film and he had some oppinions on the matter.
All in all it was a good twist I think, still due to that they had to leave out some great pictures so I decided to throw some of them out here.
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.
Director: David Cronenberg / Starring: James Woods, Sonja Smits, Deborah Harry
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.
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.
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.
Three weeks ago I interviewed film critic Dave Canfield in Chicago, IL. Today the newspaper Dagen published the article which was a little bit more progressive before they decided to shorten it a bit. Hence, Dave’s comments on beheading girlfriends with shovels (Evil Dead II) and other people with weed wackers (Friday the 13th) were left out. Instead they found another dude, from Sweden, who also lectures in film and he had some oppinions on the matter.
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.
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.
I got a letter the other day.