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Orkhon, Mongolia [25 Nov 2009|04:32pm] [ mood | calm ] [ music | Mon Frere - Drain ] 4 comments|post comment

Somewhere in the Mongolian outback [24 Nov 2009|03:08pm] [ mood | artistic ] [ music | Busdriver - Wormholes ] While on our way to where we would spend the night in the Mongolian wilderness the guide stopped our car by some local Mongolians who were butchering a slaughtered horse. I'm pretty proud of these photos but I'm well aware that most people wouldn't want graphic images of a slaughtered horse plastered all over their friendslist so I'm putting the images behind a cut. ( Graphic (but beautiful) Images Of A Slaughtered Horse Behind This Cut ) 2 comments|post comment

Kharakhorum, Mongolia [23 Nov 2009|10:42am] [ mood | exhausted ] [ music | Balstyrko - Regn ] I'm in Beijing, China at the moment having a lazy day after 4 days of partying. I'm tired as hell but I've had such a great time. Every public place closed at 9 pm in Mongolia so we spent pretty much the entire time in the Mongolian wilderness. We left Mongolia last friday and spent the 30 hour train ride drinking beer and vodka with americans, french people, mongolians and canadians. I recommend everyone being shitfaced while crossing the border into China. It made filling in the millions of forms a whole bunch more interesting. I've taken over a 1000 photos now so here's a first batch from the mongolian outback and the site of their old capital city Kharakhorum. post comment

Transsiberan - Moscow, Russia to Ulan-Bator, Mongolia [15 Nov 2009|06:22am] [ mood | horny ] [ music | The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash ] The the people on the train and the russian countryside was alot nicer than in Moscow. We met a whole bunch of nice and interesting people. As we didn't stop at the stations much more than maybe 10-20 minutes I wasn't able to take that many good photos. But these were some of the more OK ones. Next up a crapload of photos taken in Mongolia. post comment

Moscow, Russia [10 Nov 2009|01:21pm] [ mood | excited ] [ music | Aim - Downstate ] Moscow is a really really rude city. Beautiful, but oh so rude. Photos! At the moment I'm in a kick-ass hostel in Mongolia for only 6$ a night with free wi-fi. Tommorow we'll go and live in the wilderness like the locals for two days. Should be interesting. 4 comments|post comment

Should I upgrade my LJ account to Plus? [18 Oct 2009|12:13am] [ mood | curious ] [ music | Blur - Fade Away ] I've always used photobucket for posting photos och pictures but recently I've started to get a bit worried about the the fact that they apparently own everything you upload on their site. Because of this I've started thinking about upgrading my LJ-account to an Plus account. Apparently you can upgrade to Plus for free if LJ can post ads or something on your blog. Is anyone of you using an Plus account and is it worth it? Is the LJ photo storage any good? Is it anything like Photobucket where they own everything you upload? I'm also thinking about maybe (but probably not) upgrading to a paid account. I've been thinking about changing the name and stuff. I would really appreciate some input on this. 2 comments|post comment

Keeer-aaaye-zeee! [13 Oct 2009|08:21pm] [ mood | bouncy ] [ music | The Billy Nayer Show - Man On The Moon ] The date of my trip is getting closer and closer... Only two weeks of work now and then one more week before I'm off. It's a really strange thought thinking that I will be on the other side of the world in just under one month. I might not even come back for years! :S (I might get killed for organs or decide to study where I end up) Our boss has started to complain about us talking about the trip all the time, he says he's getting way too much information about VISA's and the weather in Mongolia. :D Only three weeks! Keeer-aaaye-zeee! :S Next up: A list of cool steampunk stuff! post comment

A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART FIVE! [13 Sep 2009|08:10pm] [ mood | confused ] [ music | Abney Park - Child King ] This first part of the year has been an awful movie year. The only new movies I've really enjoyed is probably Inglorious Basterds and District 9 and the fact that I saw both this past week really shows how crappy the year has been in movies. But fear not! The future looks mighty fine, as you will see from this following list of movies I really really real... damn, that really isn't a catchy title for these lists. I guess I didn't expect this to become regular thing.. Oh well. GET TO DA LIST!!! Fantastic Mr. Fox This is Wes Andersons latest movie, and everybody loves Wes Anderson right? Life Aquatic is one of my favourite comedies ever and I've enjoyed every movie he's made. This one is based on a Roal Dahl book I know nothing about and it's stop-motion animated. It has this kinda of scruffy look to it which I love. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo Solomon Kane I haven't read the books but a story about hyper-religious puritan slayer of evil monsters set in the 1600's sounds like a hoot. It looks a bit like Van Helsing which isn't a good sign but I guess Van Helsing stole his look from this. Rumours say it's pretty great so I'm in! http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/solomon-kane/trailer The Book of Eli I have mentioned I love post-apocalyptiv stories right? I even post news some times at pamedia.com, the friendliest post-apocalyptic site on the net (you're all invited!). Anyway, this post-apocalyptic movie starring Denzel Washington and Gary "made-of-awesome" Oldman is about this guy (Denzel) trying to protect some mysterious book which can save humanity (please don't be the bible, please!). Gary Oldman does what he does best and plays the bad guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfFkVrmEkA Mr. Nobody Now this looks like an interesting movie. I think it's from Belgium but it seems to be in english. I'm not entirely sure about the plot but I think it's about this guy who is the oldest living person in a future where everyone is immortal. The movie will be about him telling the story of his life, but as he's telling it he starts changing facts, exploring how his life might have beeen if he'd done different choices. It seems really quirky and beautiful. Hopefully we'll have another Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQLPK_iHPM Infestation Now this just seems like insane fun. Giant bugs attack a town and hilarity ensues. I actually think this was aired on the SyFylis Channel this august but it should be pretty good I've heard. It looks hilarious from the trailer anyway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTvKpx_x1Bw Tron Legacy Man, I haven't seen Tron since i was very little. I remember thinking it was really weird and wild. This sequel seems really solid and Jeff Bridges even returns and is apparently evil this time. And imagine, all of this is actually going on in all of our computers and video games right now! Amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwvuirSEAA Sherlock Holmes Say what? Guy Ritchie is doing a Sherlock Holmes action comedy? And it actually looks like a lot of fun? No way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI Kim-ssi-pyo-ryoo-gi / Castaway on the Moon South-Korea is really churning out a crapload of good movies these days aren't they? Like this absurdist-comedy about a business man getting trapped on an island in the middle of a city after a failed suicide-attempt. No one notices him there and he has to survive on the island like some kind of bizarro-Crusoe. The stills I have seen from this looks stunning and I love the whole concept. (even though it reminds me of that JG Ballard book I've been meaning to read) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrGvhwwWP8Q Adás / Transmission This post-apocalypt(-ish) movie from Hungary is about people suffering from withdrawal symptoms after all the screens and means of telecommunication have inexplicably stopped working. It looks damn fascinating. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20OWhcp-8BM http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=51428672 The Pack The french has really started making great and interesting horror movies lately. While this french movie about a family getting attacked by mutants didn't seem that special.. until I saw this still of the mutants and now i can't wait. That is just a really cool monster. No trailer yet.. ;( Les Derniers Jours Du Monde / This Is The End Another french movie. It's about this guy trying to get to the love of his life before the world ends. While I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic movies I really love these movies set just before the end too. Especially if there is no way of escaping it and you know everyone will die att the end. It creates some really fascinating drama. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te4chW9OkgE Shinboru / Symbol And finally, I have no idea what this japanese movie is about but it looks like pure insanity. It seems to be about this guy stuck in some kind of white room and things just start getting surreal. And there's a guy barking like a dog or something... I really have no idea what's going on. (and I really need to get around to watching the directors previous movie Big Man Japan which is a mockumentary about this guy battling giant monsters in Tokyo) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUSxF3R8zYA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqIhrmS0iI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAO52xo46LE Only 50 or so days left now until I'm off on my own personal expedition to Russia, Asia and Asutralia. I'm hoping to do a couple more of these posts about stuff I find cool before I go. I've had a couple of different ideas for posts. We'll just have to see. 12 comments|post comment

Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass Brass [05 Sep 2009|11:19pm] [ mood | cheerful ] [ music | Munly - Tried And True Against Law ] The same weekend we were out looking at rune stones we were also over at the my brothers place, and that place is just filled with cool crap. Including this old movie projector which I took some quick photos of. post comment

Missing out on the best film festival autumn ever.. ;S [03 Sep 2009|08:01pm] [ mood | freakin' out!! ] [ music | Warsaw Village Band - Woman In Hell ] As I'm going backpacking this november I'm going to miss the Stockholm Film Festival for the first time in like five or six years and I'm starting to freak out! :S As I'll probably head over to Australia and maybe New Zeeland next year does anyone know of any good film festivals i could go to over there? Or maybe even in any other country around there in asia? post comment

Whores are fucking scary. [01 Sep 2009|08:29pm] [ mood | drained ] [ music | Beats Antique - Mission ] Last week was supposed to be my last week at work but then they asked if I could work a bit more. I said yes to work one more month and then maybe for october as well because you can never have too much money. But damn if it doesn't suck so damn much. I had been counting down the days since May... ;( post comment

Viking Rune Stones Beeeeyotch!! [29 Aug 2009|09:22pm] [ mood | hungover ] [ music | Gods and Generals on tv ] My sister and her english boyfriend was over visiting and wanted to see some viking stuff so we drove around and looked up some local rune stones. I figured it might be of interest to some of you nerds out there. I find it pretty cool that these stones has stood there for almost a thousand years. 4 comments|post comment

Survival expectancy: Zero [10 Aug 2009|06:01pm] [ mood | headache ] [ music | Beats Antique - Slapdash Era ] My glasses just made this stringy sound and fell apart by itself. So now I need to buy new ones. A friend recommended buying your glasses over the internet as it should prove alot cheaper. He was right and I'm going to pay like 500 kronor instead of 3500. (500 kronor is about 55 USD) How the heck can they be so expensive in the stores?? The internet proves itself yet again. By the way.. I've decided on what I will do this Fall as I'm losing my job in about 3 weeks. I'm going on the flippin' TRANSIBERIAN! Booyah! (or it's actually the Transmongolian but anyway..) So this november I'm going with two friends over to Moscow and then we'll take the train towards Mongolia where we'll stay about a week. After that we'll continue towards China and beyond! I'll probably be away for about 6 months with a survival expectancy of zero. I'm hoping to see most of the countries around there.. Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, South-Korea (maybe even North-Korea, that would be something), Japan and whatever other country there is over there. Then on the spring next year we'll probably go over to Australia and find some temporary work. Should be a hoot. post comment

A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART FOUR! [ZOMBIE EDITION] [21 Jul 2009|08:30pm] [ mood | busy ] [ music | Beirut - A Sunday Smile ] I'm doing this list a bit different this time. As there are trailers out there for all the movies I'm posting them instead of just some interesting photo. And you might notice I've already written about a couple of these movies before but I think they're all worth mentioning again. Oh yeah, and it's ALL ZOMBIE MOVIES!!! this time... To the list-mobile!!! Zombieland I mentioned this movie on my first(-ish) movie list months ago but back then there wasn't any photos or footage out. Now there's a trailer and while it wasn't really what I was expecting or hoping it would be like back then (running zombies.. ;/), it looks kick-ass and fun in a whole other way. Woody Harrelson and a bunch of other people tries to survive after the zombie apocalypse. Mutants A french zombie movie I don't know too much of. But it looks to be alot like 28 days later only in northern france. Early reviews aren't too positive but I'm hoping it will be worth a watch atleast (there's too few zombies apparently). My tolerance to crap is extremely high regarding zombie films. Mutants [REC] 2 Booyah! There's finally footage out for this! I truly love the first movie. It's one of the few truly scary zombie films. Some of you might be more familiar with the american remake Quarantine but the original spanish movie is really the one to see. This sequel is made by the same people and I really like the way they've decided to make the sequel. It keeps the same idea as the first movie but there's a slight change which makes it totally different. I pray to his noodly holiness that this won't suck. The Dead Holy crap a zombie movie from africa! And it looks pretty great too! It's about an american soldier (of course, we can't have them africans starring in their own movies) trying to get home after getting stranded in africa after the zombie apocalypse. Axed An australian zombie flick which I don't really know anything of the plot of but it looks like a rip-roaring good time from the trailer... Get it? Rip-roaring? You know, because there's a crapload of zombies in the trailer ripping and.. uh.. roaring? Doghouse Another movie that I've mentioned before. And it still looks awesome. It's from the director of Evil Aliens Jake West and the writer/artist of Dogwitch Dan Schaffer. A group of male friends makes the mistake of entering some village or something where all the women have turned into man-eating zombies! (so no change there.. ha! take that ovary-people!) Colin Here's an interesting one. It's a low-budget movie which is getting praised right and left. It's a zombie movie from the perspective of a newly turned zombie. He shambles around and we get to explore this strange new violent world through that. Colin Teaser Trailer La Horde Holy crap I'm only through half the movies... Anyway, here's yet another movie I've already mentioned but now there's a trailer out. In this french zombie flick a group of criminals have to work together with a group of cops when the building they're in gets overrun with a horde of zombies. Teaser_La_Horde by blankytwo Salvage While this british zombie film might not have the biggest budget it looks extremely good and it's getting great reviews. Hopefully there's enough zombies. A cargo container gets stranded on some beach and I guess it contains Trioxin 245 or something as people start turning into.. Can you guess it? Yes, zombies. Pontypool And this is the last repost of a movie I'm doing. You should already know of this highly praised canadian zombie film. The movie takes place in a radio-station as the infection spreads through the english language. I actually think the DVD of this is out today in the states so run out and get it immidiately. I'll just wait here until I find some other way of seeing it. Paris By Night Of The Living Dead Oh I love that title.. and this just looks like insane gory fun! Just check out the trailer and pray those crazy frenchies can keep it up for an entire movie. ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction No this isn't the adaptation of the comic but rather a political zombie indie comedy which looks like a mighty good time. There's some fine gore and zombies in it and it actually seems pretty funny. Survival of the Dead And this just got a proper title. It's the latest movie from creator of the genre, the one and only George A. Romero. There isn't really a proper trailer out for this yet but I managed to find this often removed early trailer on youtube. So take a look now before it gets removed again. His latest movies might not be the best (I really do like Diary though) but I still have faith in the old man. He hasn't screwed up as much as George Lucas yet. Lifeless And lastly here's something that isn't even a movie. It's a great looking tv-show that has been in production for years. It's pure Romero and it looks pretty great. Rumours say they're close to getting a distribution deal (but I guess they missed out on being the first zombie tv-show to Dead Set which aired in the UK last year) so lets hope for the best. If you head over to the main site at http://www.lifelesstheseries.com/ you can check out a couple of clips. So to conclude this list.. Let's hope you're not too tired of this genre yet. Ha! 13 comments|post comment

Fucking danish. [11 Jul 2009|04:00pm] [ mood | contemplative ] [ music | Anita Tjioux - Gol ] I've had an amazing three week vacation.. Road trip to Copenhagen, Denmark to see Gogol Bordello. (first week) The car was gone the first day so we went to the police who knew nothing of it. We assumed the car got stolen. We didn't let that dampen the mood and managed to have a fantastic time in Denmark getting drunk at amusement parks and getting rides by strangers to Christiania in the middle of the night. After we had returned home by train on friday the danish police called and it turned out they had indeed towed the car away so Marcus who was the owner had to go back and pay fines and stuff. Fucking danish. Arvika Music Festival (second week) We got there on tuesday and went home on Sunday. I felt absolutely terrible the first three days or so (probably due to the tonsilectomy i did a bit over a month ago) and had a pretty crappy time. But eventually I ate a whole bunch of fruits and I felt alot better. The rest of the festival was amazing madness (even though i missed pretty much all the bands I wanted to see). Short 3-day visit to Berlin (third/this week) I just got back from this trip last night and I had such a great time. I went there visiting my two friends Jessica and Cajsa. Unfortunately Cajsa was working every day but I got to spend a lot of time with Jessica who guided me around the city for cool stuff to take photos of. I borrowed a bike and we went around all over and I took these photos: Jessica in front of an abandoned building. Unfortunately we were stricken with hunger and then forgot to enter the building after we had eaten. :S Another abandoned building.. But it was impossible to get in during the day. ;/ Berlin is a paradise for urban explorers. I thought the piece on the sign was pretty impressive just for its location. An artist painting on the Berlin wall. And on the last day we got sporadic moments of intense rain (and city photos with rain in should always be in black & white). And on monday I have to be back at work again. -sigh- 2 comments|post comment

Vacation bitches! [22 Jun 2009|03:13pm] [ mood | anxious ] [ music | Gangpol und Mit - Deep Sea Adventure ] Today starts my summer vacation!! Woo! Or it really started last friday as midsummer is a national holiday here.. but my three weeks off from work starts today. Woo! :D - Tommorow I'm going on a 4-day road-trip to see Gogol Bordello play in Copenhagen, Denmark! Rockocalypse guarenteed! - Then on monday next week I'm going to the Arvika Music Festival for a week. A couple of the bands that are playing are; Nine Inch Nails, Mars Volta, Eagles of Death Metal, Röyksopp, Korn, Fever Ray and many many more. - And then I'll rest up on sunday-tuesday and then fly over to Berlin for three days. My vacation is planned to the extreme! Woo! After that I'll start working again. But only for 1.5 months.. then I'll have nothing but time and money to spend on months and months of traveling. This year is shaping up pretty nicely I think. :) A strip... Just to clear things up, this Stina (who is actually named something else) is just a friend so there's no real drama going on here. I just found the randomness amusing. 4 comments|post comment

Xenobiology is the new zombie. [19 Jun 2009|03:26pm] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | A Whisper In The Noise - As We Were ] Recently I've started to get more and more into xenobiology. It's the study of how life might evolve on other planets under different environments that of earth. It can also be called exobiology or astrobiology. But the word xenobiology tends to be used for aliens that are a bit more alien. You could say there's a bit more imagination at work. It's the study of weird-ass aliens. I think my interest in it has grown with my ever growing disinterest in all these damn humanoid aliens that plague mainstream science-fiction. I have found myself getting more and more annoyed with aliens that are pretty much just humans only with some small physical difference like a ridge on the nose or something (I'm looking at you Bajorans!). I find it very unimaginative and extremely unrealistic. Seriously, if there are aliens they will probably not look human. That is just very unlikely. I've started trying to convince myself that all these humanoid aliens are just regular humans that has been changed after living on other planets. Humanoid aliens have actually started to distract me from the stories they're in now. That is how unrealistic I find them. But I do understand why people like to make aliens look like humans in fiction. - It's easier to make them relatable if they look human. - It's cheaper. - And they can use them as an excuse to tell stories about humanity. But they're not really aliens. They're just humans with deformities living in a variation of some random culture from human history. Only really over-exaggerated like the viking/mongol Klingons. With all this said, here's a list of cool people who's doing some awesome xenobiology(-ish) stuff: ------------------------------------------------------------------ Wayne Barlowe Let's start with the master. Wayne Barlowe is the guy that has inspired pretty much every artist who's doing xenobiology stuff. He's the writer/artist of Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the 2358 A.D. Voyage to Darwin IV. A travel diary of a character based on Barlowe himself that is on an expedition to the first other planet where we have discovered life on. It's filled with gorgeous illustrations of the different animals they find there along information on the creatures. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find this book. I've been searching for about a year now but I guess I have to hope for a reprint. Here's one of my favourite creatures of his called a Bladderhorn: Discovery Channel also did a pretty great (although a bit shallow) "adaptation" of the book called Alien Planet. It had pretty impressive CGI and can be found on DVD. It's also highly recommended. http://www.waynebarlowe.com/expedition_pages/index_expedition.htm http://www.amazon.com/Expedition-Account-Artwork-D-Voyage/dp/0894806297/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/alienplanet/splash.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453446/ Nemo Ramjet I'm not sure if this is his real name but Nemo Ramjet is an Turkish artist who has created the world of Snaiad. You can see that he's been influenced by Wayne Barlowe but he has his own distinct style I think. There hasn't been a book published yet but it's just a matter of time. In the meantime you can check out all the animals of Snaiad at the main site. Like this group of animals called the Pescidonts; http://nemo-ramjet.deviantart.com/ http://www.nemoramjet.com/snduterus.html Gert van Dijk Another world-builder here. Gert van Dijk is the creator of the planet Furaha. Unlike most designers of alien life he has also created some alien fauna apart from all the animals. Here's two Jinogoes from Furaha; http://members.casema.nl/gertvandijk/ http://planetfuraha.blogspot.com/ Karl Kofoed And this guys makes some cool stuff. He's the writer/artist of Galactic Geographic Annual 3003: Earth Edition which is like this fake National Geographic from the year 3003 but about humans meeting aliens and stuff. It's a collection of something he did on the Heavy Metal Magazine. I recently found a danish bookstore online that had the book listed so I ordered it. But then last tuesday it turned out they didn't have the book at all and the order was cancelled. I've never been so dissapointed in my life. I guess this is another book I have to hope they'll reprint. Here's a picture of our first contact with this species which I can't seem to find the name of right now. http://users.rcn.com/kkofoed/ http://users.rcn.com/kkofoed/geographic.html http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1843400707/qid=1082904709/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-7212009-4096664?v=glance&s=books Alex Ries And here's one of my favourites! Alex Reis hasn't had anything published yet but he's so damn talented that he'll definately get his book out when it's finished. The reason I like him is that he seems to do intelligent aliens instead of only animals. I find it extremely fascinating seeing how a culture would be by some intelligent creature that isn't humanoid. This species is called the Birrin and it's damn cool; http://www.alexries.com/ http://abiogenisis.deviantart.com/ http://exozoo.blogspot.com/ Matt Pattinson Matt Pattinson is the author of the Culprit Tech blog where he has posted small snippets from an expedition to an alien planet. It ranges from goofy humor to just strangeness. It just has this really great mood and is very inspirational. http://culprittech.blogspot.com/ Edd Cartier Edd Cartier was an artist that did alot of pulp and sci-fi book covers. But he also did these really strange but cool alien drawings in a segment called The Interstellar Zoo from the short story anthology Travelers of Space from 1951. You can look at most of the drawings at this blog-post here; http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/2008/08/travelers-of-space-published-by-gnome.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edd_Cartier Leo Leo is a comic writer/artist originally from Brazil but who currently lives in France. He's the creator of a series of comic books that takes places on alien planets. He started with the planet Aldebaran and has then moved on to Betelgeuse and now the first issue of Antares should be out in france this year. The UK publisher Cinebook recently started releasing the books in english and the third book from them should be out this month. I've only read the books set in Aldebaran but they're fantastic. The dialogue might be a bit off but that is usually the case with english translations of european books. But the world he has created is really interesting. The people living on Aldebaran are colonists that was mysteriously abandoned by earth a 100 years ago. The technology they use is this interesting mix of new and old as they've been forced to survive on the planet by themselves. http://www.mondes-aldebaran.com/ http://www.cinebook.co.uk/catalogue~cat~A-008-011B.asp http://www.dargaud.com/front/auteurs/auteur.aspx?id=1053 Matt Howarth Amd finally here's a comic creator I had no idea existed until recenlty when King City author Brandon Graham wrote about him in his blog. Matt Howarth has been doing indie comics for over 30 years and is the creator of Keif Llama. Keif Llama is the name of a woman who is a Xeno-tech which are people who can understand the intent of aliens that are very different physically and mentally from humans. She travels around in space meeting all these really strange aliens and tries to figure out what they want. Here's a page I found from Keif Llama: Gas War which I hope the author don't mind me sharing as it's so damn amazing; You can buy digital copies of his comics at his website. http://www.matthowarth.com/ http://www.matthowarth.com/keifllama.php http://mupress.com/catalogpg02.html# And that is all I have for now, hopefully someone found it interesting and not too many people got their friendslists messed up. 16 comments|post comment

A strip.. / What the hell should I do?! [01 Jun 2009|07:16pm] [ mood | anxious ] [ music | Parov Stelar - Wanna get ] Here's a strip about a conversation I had with my dad over the phone. Parents huh? Aaaanyway... Due to the state of the economy these days the bank where I work at have been forced fire alot of people. As my contract would run out by the end of august I get to work to the end of that. Not a big deal for me as I was thinking about quitting at that time anyway. Now the question is... What the hell should I do this fall? I've saved up ALOT of money.. I could travel for a pretty long time and study for the amount I've saved up. So this fall I will have total freedom combined with money. And it's just months away! :S So I really need to decide on something to do. I plan on studying something on Fall next year so these plans will be for this fall/winter and for spring/summer next year. I'll probably seek into some film school during the spring. A couple of ideas: - Travel around Europe going from hostel to hostel. This would probably be a bit expensive and the fall/ winter isn't the most fun time to travel in europe. However it would probably be the safest and easiest way to travel by yourself. - Go to asia and backpack around there (Thailaind, China etc..). This would be cheap and warm. But the thought of traveling alone in places like that scares me. A friend plans on traveling around these parts starting November and into the next year so I might meet up with him later on. - Study french in France for about half a year or something. I've been thinking about this for some time. I've liked france since I was little and I would really like to be able to read all the kick-ass comics that are in french. But a trip like this would probably be the best to do after you've traveled around as there's a high posibility that you would like to stay longer when you've settled in. - Road-trip through America. I'll probably do this next summer just before I start studying. Two friends have showed interest in doing this as well.. Also I don't have a drivers license yet. Anyone else have any ideas or any input? I have to say though, that the thought of traveling alone like this scares the crap out of me. But I really think this would help me get out of my shell. I'm way to scared to do new things and talk to new people. I think doing some kind of trip like this would really be good for me. If I end up just sitting around here at my parents house for the rest of the year doing nothing I will be forced to spend all my money on some really expensive suicide contraption as I don't deserve the privilege of living. 5 comments|post comment

A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART THREE! [21 May 2009|01:55pm] [ mood | hungry ] [ music | Balstyrko - Ravn ] I'm not sure I've mentioned it but for almost a year now I've been suffering from sleep apnea.. it means you stop breathing while you sleep. This really messes up your, well sleep, and you're pretty much tired all the time. The stress on your body from suffocating on a regularly basis also increases your chances of getting a heart-attack or stroke in the future. So two days ago I finally did an operation removing my tonsils and parts of my throat to clear up my airways or something. The operation took about an hour and I got to spend an hilarious night at the hospital getting tubes yanked in and out of my private most special orifice to release large amounts of previously delicious liquids. Good times. Anyway, I had heard so damn much about how horrible I would feel afterwards and was preparing for a terrible two weeks of recovery. But now afterwards I'm not feeling particularly bad at all. Sure my throat hurts a bit and I can't eat solid food. But all in all I'm not really feeling too bad. And my snoring is apparently pretty non-existant so everything points to the operation being a success. So to celebrate here's another list of movies I'm looking forward to! The previous two lists can be found here: http://barbarpappa.livejournal.com/48579.html http://barbarpappa.livejournal.com/49952.html DA LIST!!! Daybreakers The second movie from the two brothers who did the (in my opinion) awesome australian zombie film Undead. Undead was a low-budget movie with really good effects by the two brothers. And the effects wasn't just good because they did it themselves. The effects were seriously good. Daybreakers has been in the making for years now and is about a future world where most of earths population has turned into vampires. The movie centers on a group of vampires trying to save the last few living humans. (for food I guess) La Horde An upcoming french movie about gangsters vs cops vs ZOMBIES!!! The plot doesn't really have any originality at all but the movie is getting a great buzz. And the little footage I've seen looks awesome as there were an insane amount of zombies. You could almost say there was a horde of them. Viy Here's a really sweet looking steampunkish movie from russia. It's about this british cartographer that travels to russia and encounters a bunch of mystical fantasty stuff. It looks fantastic. Just check out that carriage in the photo below. Beautiful! 9 This was orginally a post-apocalyptic CGI short but has now turned into a full-lenght movie with Tim Burton and Night Watch director Timur Bekmambetov producing. The movie is set in a future where the only things remaining after humanity has died of are these sweet-looking sentient dolls and the creepy robots that wants them dead. The Wolfman A remake of the Wolf Man movies starring Benicio Del Toro as the.. wolf man. This looks like wonderful victorian horror gold. There's lots of photos of Del Toro in full wolf mode but the photo below with the sweet looking costumes makes me want to see the movie more. Thirst The latest movie by Oldboy director Chan-wook Park about a priest that turns into a vampire. While the trailers hasn't really thrilled me I'm looking forward to this only on the strenght of the director. I have loved ever movie by Chan-wook Park and I have faith that this will be epic greatness. Sleep Dealer A mexican low-budget sci-fi movie where workers in mexico control robots in the US so that they can get, and I'm quoting the movie, "all the work but none of the workers". The CGI might not be the best but this looks and sounds like a solid little sci-fi flick. Franklyn I'm not 100% sure what this movie is about. But there's apparantly four different storylines intervined and it takes place in our world and this great looking steampunk dystopic world. I've heard the story is just okay but that it looks pretty. I'm okay with movies just looking pretty. 1 Here's a pretty interesting russian movie. It's from a book by Stanisław Lem about this bookstore where all the books are transformed into this other book titled 1. And in these books are an almanac or something which describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of one minute. And hilarity ensues! (or something) Inglorious Basterds Tarantinos latest movie about nazi-killing soldiers in WW2. I have enjoyed all of Tarantinos movies so I'm really looking forward to this. Should be interesting to see what he'll do when he can't cram in as much pop-culture stuff as possible in a movie. I spent hours looking for a screenshot of this guy running with a machine-gun in the movie as it is awesome. Creation It's about damn time someone did a movie about Darwin, i guess it's because he would turn 200 this year. The below photo was enough to make me really excited for the movie. Bunny and the Bull And finally here's a movie by the director of the excellent absurdist british comedy The Mighty Boosh. This will even star the two guys from that show so I guess this is the closest to a Mighty Boosh movie we'll have at the moment. It's about this guy who goes on a road trip.. in his own mind. More lists coming! 8 comments|post comment

Vermillion Lies Live! NOW!!! [16 May 2009|09:19pm] [ mood | bouncy ] [ music | Vermillion Lies Live Webcast ] The lovely Vermillion Lies are doing a live webcast of their concert. NOW! Check it out: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Vermillion-Lies-Live I was going to watch the eurovision song contest but screw that! It's Vermillion Lies time. post comment

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