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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 find the name of right now as the main website doesn't work for some reason; I'm not sure why the links aren't working, but they worked only days ago so hopefully they'll be up again soon. http://users.rcn.com/kkofoed/newGGpage/contents.html 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. 12 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

Extreme Traileridge!!! [15 May 2009|10:36pm] [ mood | sleepy ] [ music | Balstyrko - Kaffe Mdma ] I just came back from watching Star Trek. While the movie went by extremely fast I thought it was a bit meh. It was funny and pretty, and really entertaining. But there wasn't really much of a story there. But I have high hopes for the sequel. Aaaanyway, a bunch of trailers has been released for some of the movies I talked about on my movie lists. Check them out! Stay tuned for another list or two of cool upcoming movies. 2 comments|post comment

I feel like being more creative.. [03 May 2009|01:18am] [ mood | blah ] [ music | Kudu - Physical World ] I'm thinking about starting a photo-blog where I post one of photo every day (or atleast a week). I'm hoping this will force me to be more creative more regularly. I might start a new blog for this or just post it here. But if I post it here it might be better to limit myself to one photo every week. Now I'm going to watch the 6th Day with ahnold schwarznegger. They're airing it on TV and I haven't watched that for years. GET TO DA CHOPPA!!!! post comment

A list of movies I really really really really want to see.. PART TWO! [29 Apr 2009|09:33pm] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | Fischerspooner - We Need A War ] I really enjoyed doing my last list of movies I was looking forward to but I felt there were so many more movies worth mentioning so I've decided to do another list. If you missed my last list you can find it here: http://barbarpappa.livejournal.com/48579.html Now, enjoy part 2 of movies I really want to see; (and so should you) The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus Terry Gilliams (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys) latest movie starring Heath Ledger, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrel and many many more. Heath Ledger was supposed to be the only lead but when he died they decided to use many different actors for the role. The movie will deal with imagination and dreams so it should apparently work. Cargo Upcoming swiss space sci-fi that I don't really know much of, but damn if I don't look forward to more space movies. I'm hoping this will be more serious as it's from europe. Iron Sky In this upcoming finnish movie nazis secretly colonized the moon and in the year 2020 (or something) they are coming back! This sounds so damn entertaining. Apocalypse, CA The world will end from a meteor or comet or something and a group of friends head out on a road trip. This just seems like such a nice little film about the destruction of all life on earth. Doghouse This british zombie movie written by Dogwitch writer/artist Dan Schaffer looks hilarious. All the women in a town have turned into murderous zombies and a group of male friends tries to survive. Metropia An animated swedish dystopia set in a near future where an underground subway system runs all through europe. The animation is done using distorted photographs. Battle for Terra Sweet, more space sci-fi. This is a low-budget CGI animated alien invasion movie, only the "evil" invaders are humans searching for a new planet after earth is destroyed. The aliens looks a bit too cute but the movie looks and sounds solid anyway. Gentlemen Broncos Latest movie by Napoleon Dynamite director. This time he teams up with Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords. All the viral clips of him in character have been hilarous. Let's hope this turns out better than Nacho Libre. The Slammin' Salmon Latest movie from The Broken Lizard comedy group. I've really liked all of their previous movies, especially Beer Fest which I seriously rate as one of my favourite comedies. This is rumoured to be their best movie yet. Paranormal Activity I have no idea when we'll be able to see this horror movie. It's about a couple that sets up a camera for the night to film what the hell is going on at night. What they film is apparently pretty scary as I have only read about how scary the movie is. I watched the trailer a long time ago and I do remember being a bit freaked out. Unfortunately the studio that bought the rights don't have any plans of releasing the movie but wants to do a remake instead. :S Assholes. I Sell the Dead This seems like a fun little movie. It's about graverobbers in the 1800's that encounters zombies or something. It stars Ron Perlman and Dominic Monaghan and has got great reviews. The Clone Returns To The Homeland A japanese super-serious sci-fi movie about an astronaut that gets resurrected by cloning. The astronaut then reverts back into the memories of his childhood where his twin brother sacrificed himself to save him. And there's still more! Ha! :D Maybe I'll do another list. 7 comments|post comment

This seriously brought tears to my eyes. [15 Apr 2009|10:59pm] [ mood | cheerful ] [ music | Therapy? - Clowns Galore ] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY 4 comments|post comment

My first actual comic. [13 Apr 2009|02:53pm] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | Therapy? - Crooked Timber ] Here's a comic me and my sister have been working on. I wrote and drew up how each panel should be and then she drew it all pretty. It's my third comic script I've written but the only one that has actually been "finished" with art and stuff. I wrote a non-related story some years ago but we never finished that. And then I wrote the first part of this story which actually started from the start. But I decided to start with this story instead which is pretty much in the middle. We'll hopefully do more parts of this with the same character. It's the story of this homeless person that travels around europe (maybe outsite of europe too in the future) and learns all kinds of strange things about the world. I'm aiming for a sort of magical realism universe. Where everything is pretty much like our world, only with small bizarre almost magical differences. I've written the second part which my sister is (hopefully) drawing now. She's pretty busy with school and I'm just tired of work all the time so it might take a long time between finished parts of this story. Keep in mind that this isn't really finished. I just did the speechbubbles quickly so i could see if this worked at all. We'll hopefully do the panels nicer and then maybe even color it. Oh and it's a pretty short story of only 6 pages so do try to not read through it too fast. I tend to read my comics pretty slowly and look att every panel closely. I think that's how I write my comics to be read as well. ( Read the rest behind this cut. ) I haven't really decided on a title for this yet. The working title is just Vagabond which I might stick with. I'm also thinking about Trashcan Vagabond or Trashcan Odyssey. So, what did you think? 2 comments|post comment

Those homeless are sneaky bastards.. [11 Apr 2009|01:34pm] [ mood | amused ] [ music | Mamani Keita - mali Denou ] Last night me and a friend got attacked by a homeless person with a nail-bat or something. Someone just hit me in the back when I took a leak under a bridge. Weird. Good thing I was really drunk at the time. (my back hurts a bit now) post comment

Oh, Omegle... catalyst of funny. [10 Apr 2009|05:53pm] [ mood | enthralled ] [ music | Tiamat - Ancient Entity ] hehe, http://omegle.com/ is hilarious! It's this chatsite which connects you to some random stranger and you chat as You and Stranger. Here's my first go: Connecting to server... Looking for someone you can chat with. Hang on. You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi! Stranger: hi You: good evening Stranger: how are you You: i am perfect Stranger: thats perfect You: it really is You: how are you? Stranger: agreed, i am 90% You: what happened to the other 10%? Stranger: 91% now... You: sweet Stranger: well it lowered after my cat came into my room wanting to be fed You: i am 5/5's Stranger: chaffing You: did the cat feed of you? Stranger: where are you located? Stranger: not quite, he tried You: I am within everyone and everything Stranger: nice You: it really isn't Stranger: i am located in Greenland You: why not.. BLUEland? You: ha! Stranger: oh you cheeky swine!! You: i crack myself up Stranger: i bet yo do You: I do drugs that is Stranger: what sort Stranger: oh crack Stranger: lol Stranger: i'm slow today You: zing! Stranger: i just woke up, please forgive me Stranger: now where did i put thar red bull... You: is it because of the coldness of greenland that lsows down your stoms? You: slows You: atoms Stranger: yes You: dang You: I thought so Stranger: it is a very liberating Country Stranger: although not much to do it has to be said You: good thing though that it makes time move slower too Stranger: oh yes You: you will outlive us all, but always be un-trendy Stranger: haha Stranger: so true You: but that is your burden Stranger: our Women do look Beautiful though! :D You: yes maybe, because they will be young for a longer period of time, but then they will look old even longer as well Stranger: hehe yes Stranger: hey i must go, breakfast is calling me Stranger: nice to speak to you You: you so crazy! food can't speak Your conversational partner has disconnected. Good times! 6 comments|post comment

Global warming makes life more interesting. [05 Apr 2009|04:06pm] [ mood | artistic ] [ music | Beirut - In The Mausoleum ] Last week there was a snow storm and now it's pretty much summer. Weird. Photos! 4 comments|post comment

A list of movies I really really really really want to see. [03 Apr 2009|06:04pm] [ mood | bouncy ] [ music | Phoebe Killdeer & the Short Straws - How Far ] Moon Indie sci-fi starring Sam Rockwell as a man stuck on the moon for years alone. It has this really nice 70's sci-fi feel and it uses old-school model effects made gorgeous through CGI. Splice The latest indie sci-fi by amazing director Vincenzo Natali (Cube). I stars Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley playing two scientists that create this strange human/animal hybrid. This movie has been in the making forever because they want to make the effects (the creature) as fantastic as possible. Hunter Prey A great looking 80's star wars-ish sci-fi movie. The debut movie of fan film director Sandy Collora. The costumes looks so damn sweet in this. This is how the new Star Wars movies should have looked like. The Road I haven't read the book but I absolutely love post-apocalyptic movies. This one sounds wonderfully bleak which I guess my swedish genes respond to. It helps that it has a great cast with Viggo Mortensen, great director with John Hillcoat and great music by Nick Cave. Pontypool I've only heard good things about this upcoming canadian horror film set on a radio station during a zombie outbreak. The zombie infection spreads through the english language. Cold Souls Paul Giamatti plays himself in this kaufman-esque movie where he does an operation to remove his soul. His soul then gets stolen. Where the Wild Things Are I don't really know anything about the source material but the poster, photos and trailer of this looks so damn sweet. And I've always been a fan of the director Spike Jonze. Micmacs à tire-larigot Ah finally, I've loved every single movie by Amelie From Montmartre director Jean-Pierre Jeunet (including Alien: Resurrection, it's so pretty). And I can't wait to see this movie about gun traders or something. Centurion Every single movie by director Neil Marshall have been kick-ass. The Descent is one of the best horror movies I've seen and Doomsday kicks all kinds of post-apocalyptic ass. And now he tackles another one of my favourite subjects, ancient rome. Centurion is about "A splinter group of Roman soldiers who fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is decimated in a devastating guerrilla attack.". District 9 Aliens lands on earth and gets put into ghettos where they are treated hideously. It will apparently be shot kind of realistically, sort of like a documentary. The director did a short film about it first which is damn good. No images released of this yet but here's a cool related picture. Zombieland this is a zombie apocalypse movie starring Woddy Harrelsson that doesn't sound that original at all.. but for some reason something about this movie just seems really perfect. I've always had a thing for the survivalist part of zombie apocalypse movies and this seems to be about that. No images released yet of this. Avatar James Cameron. Space sci-fi. Rumoured mindblowing 3D-effects. Need I say more? I soooo want to see what this looks like but there hasn't really been anything released. And there's so many more promising movies being made. The coming years will be so great! 6 comments|post comment

Looking forward to losing my job. [29 Mar 2009|08:48pm] [ mood | angry ] [ music | Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl ] The bosses at my work have discussed ways to cut costs and will do an announcement on thursday. Everybody is pretty sure they will lay people off. I'm pretty much doomed. Not only am I the last one in, I'm also pretty non-essential.. also I really suck at my job. I'm surprised I haven't been kicked earlier. I guess I'll have a nice long summer break. Good thing I've been saving crazy amounts of money since I started working and was pretty much planning on quitting later in the summer to go traveling. And on a non-related point, here's a list of the very few good swedish movies in existence. It was something I posted on a movie blog on the topic of "Let the right one in" some days ago. Maybe some of you might find it interesting. Fyra nyanser av brunt (2004) (by the same director as “let the right one in”) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342636/ Tic Tac (1997) (huh, just found out it’s by the brother of the director of “let the right one in”) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120329/ Smala Sussie (2003) (like a swedish pulp fiction.. set in a small town out in the middle of nowhere) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323998/ Farväl Falkenberg (2006) (You either hate this one or love it. I was really really moved by it. Very much aimed at men in the 20's.) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0855805/ Sånger från andra våningen (2000) (very special movie, check out the other movies by the same director, he's a one of a kind) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120263/ Psalmer från köket (2003) (Ok, this might be more norwegian, but I think it’s co-produced with sweden and one of the leads is swedish, it’s great anyway!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323872/ Lilja 4-ever (2002) (the director started making some annoying arty-farty movies after this one, but his previous movies are truly fantastic too) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/ Den Osynlige (2002) (not great but pretty good, hollywood did a remake called “the invisible” or something) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298491/ Vägen ut (1999) (haven’t seen this comedy for ages but I do remember really liking it) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177347/ Stockholm Boogie (2005) (might not be the deepest movie but I was really entertained by it, some really nice stockholm summer scenery too) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488853/ Hamilton (1998) (one of the few okay swedish action films.. and there’s really really few of those, Mark Hamill plays the villain (!) This might not be that good really, haven't seen it in years. But some of you might find a swedish action film to be neat) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119249/ Masjävlar (2004) (just a well-made good and fun drama set in the far north of sweden) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439695/ Enjoy. post comment

God Hates Sweden... [25 Mar 2009|08:54pm] [ mood | annoyed ] [ music | Iron & Wine - Innocent Bones ] Seriously... we had spring for like a week and then BAM! It's winter again with snow and cold. Everywhere else is having spring.. except Sweden. We get it God, you hate us. But we still won't believe in you! Bah! But I do like the winter.. really. But we've had it cold and dark for almost 6 months now... I can't take it anymore. ;( post comment

I just saw Shoot 'Em Up... [22 Feb 2009|12:08am] [ mood | giddy ] [ music | Emilyn Brodsky - Always Mean It ] BEST. MOVIE. EVER. 4 comments|post comment

It's a disaster!! [19 Feb 2009|11:01pm] [ mood | anxious ] [ music | Lisa Papineau - Shucking Jiving ] Hmm, I have to realize I'm not really too fond of concerts. The sound is usually worse than on the CD (*cough*MP3*cough*) and it's a pain to stand for over an hour. (I'm weak) And it doens't help that I'm usually much shorter than most people so It's a constant struggle to see anything of the band. However, the Amanda Palmer show I saw in london about a week ago was pretty sweet. I didn't see ANYTHING and I probably drank a bit too much because my memory of the show isn't the best. I seem to do that alot with concerts. At the time, the concert actually feels better if I'm a bit drunk. But afterwards when I hardly remember anything it feels kind of pointless. I don't think I'll bother much with concerts anymore. The band playing before Amanda Palmer turned out to be this great swedish band (group?) Detektvibyrån (the detective agency). They sound pretty much exactly like Yann Tiersen (he did the Amelie soundtrack) only with a bit of an electronic sound. (Yann Tiersen fucking rocks so that really is a compliment) I've listened to them since their first EP so I was extremely happy and surprised to see them play before Amanda Palmer. I ended up talking to them a bunch after the show and got two (of three) of them to sign one of their shirts they were selling. Then two days later in London I planned to see Chrome Hoof but it was sold out. We tried finding some club but it turned out impossible to get into any after 11. Very strange. They don't want customers in their clubs in london apparently. I've had similar problems in London before and I have to realize it actually isn't that good of a nightlife city. I finally read Watchmen and it rocked. Wasn't the best thing evah, but really good. I guess you have to look at it in the context of how american comics had been prior to it to see its genius. I have my doubts about the movie though. But we'll see i guess. Oh, and I just found out fucking Dresden Dolls have played in sweden. I did it by seeing this photo: That's Amanda Palmer wearing a shirt from one of the bigger swedish clubs in Stockholm. I did some research (google) and found out that Dresden Dolls played at the club in 2004. I missed a Dresden Dolls show in SWEDEN... by 4 years!! ;( I had no idea. AAAnyway. Me and my sister have started to do a multi-part comic where every part is about six pages long. She did a killer job with the art on the first part and demanded I would write some more scripts. So I did a second part and is in the progress of scripting the third one now. I might post it here or maybe even do a new blog and make into a proper webcomic. I'll just have to see how the end product turns out. I'm actually quite excited about writing comic scripts. I've started to learn how to do it more or less painless. Would be cool if I actually had a future in writing. I had almost given up on a creative job even though I've slowly started realizing I really can't stand doind something I hate most of the day. It really is horrible. God damn I'm just babbling on here aren't I? I'll see about scanning in some of the comic pages so people can see my sisters amazing art. And maybe, hopefully enjoy the stories too. The new Scott Pilgrim book was highly enjoyable. And todays movie to watch is Timecrimes. One of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in a long long time I think. 2 comments|post comment

Moriarty rocked the casbah! [01 Feb 2009|08:22pm] [ mood | accomplished ] [ music | Rockettothesky - The Dead, Dead Water Lily Thing ] Moriarty did a fantastic show in Berlin last week. Though I wish I hadn't gone out the day before going to Berlin because I felt sick the entire trip. I didn't really do much except going to the Moriarty concert. But it was nice catching up with my friend who lives there. We went to a flea market and checked out some stores and just talked and stuff. It was a great trip anyway. But it felt weird to be in Berlin and not party at all. I managed to take some photos of the show. Even though it was packed and I was pretty far back. I managed to climb up on a edge and could see over everyone. But that left me with only one hand to take photos with which made most of the photos way too blurry. Unfortunately all the photos where the singer actually looked into the camera was blurry. But here's a couple of photos I think are okay anyway. Next I'll go to London on wednesday to see Amanda Palmer and then hopefully Chrome Hoof on friday. I won't bring my expensive system camera for that. Way too risky bringing that to a hostel. post comment

Amanda Palmer here I come! [06 Jan 2009|05:11pm] [ mood | anxious ] [ music | Abney Park - Rebirth ] Bookah! Amanda Palmer (of Dresden Dolls) and the Danger Ensemble plays in London on February the 4th. The tickets were sold out yesterday but then I noticed you could book some today. I checked flights and found som super cheap, like ONE dollar there and back WITHOUT TAXES. (they added a VISA-fee then for about 15$. But still, super cheap!) I just finished booking everything. So in February I'm going to London to see Amanda Palmer! Booyah! --- Then I'm thinking about seeing Moriarty play in Berlin on January the 25th. Found some flights just as cheap as the ones to London. I'm not sure I can get two more days of from work so close to the others though. I'm hoping the flight prices haven't been raised when I check with work tommorow. Listen to Moriarty here. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=56877030 I have a crapload of other bands I want to see all over, but I guess I have to prioritize. post comment

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