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Re: The Competition, Sweded (Anti-Dark Knight), And Sofia Talvik

craig — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:43:56 -0000

martin thanks for the comment, I also saw the movie in a bit of a disjointed setting, stopping and starting and getting interrupted so I may have missed that.

can't wait to see it again uninterrupted

Re: The Competition, Sweded (Anti-Dark Knight), And Sofia Talvik

martin — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:28:57 -0000

My understanding of the term "Sweded" is a bit different. Now I haven't seen the movie in one sitting yet, but I've seen most of it (on a plane!), and read a lot about it and watched just about everything I could online when it was first announced. And my understanding is that because they had to explain to their customers why the movies took so long, they came up with the excuse that they were being special ordered from Sweden and it always took an extra day or two to arrive. Thus "Sweding" became the term they used when they made their own movies, and eventually took on a greater meaning of "taking something you like and adding some other things you like" making it your own by redoing it yourself.... see their hilarious website for more info: http://www.bekindmovie.com/guide.html

Re: Detektivbyrån’s Back!! New LP “Wermland” Available For Pre-Order Now!

Simon Rumble — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:46:52 -0000

Wow. These guys are great!

Re: The Competition, Sweded (Anti-Dark Knight), And Sofia Talvik

patrick — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:28:28 -0000

kudos to the makers Dark Knight for their record breaking opening weekend... it's no wonder there's talk of another one coming out ASAP

Re: The Competition, Sweded (Anti-Dark Knight), And Sofia Talvik

cbonnell — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:36:07 -0000

cool

Re: The Competition, Sweded (Anti-Dark Knight), And Sofia Talvik

LMS — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:17:08 -0000

It was in reference to this group of filmmakers (http://www.dogme95.dk/) Seeing how it's a collective ran by a Dane, it's not a completely accurate term, but I'll let it pass . Also a vague reference to the much more Swedish Igmar Bergman, who was often rumored to use whatever was on hand to make his films.

Dang I knew film school would come in handy one day!

Re: Detektivbyrån’s Back!! New LP “Wermland” Available For Pre-Order Now!

Lauralee — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:16:23 -0000

I'm frustrated because I can't preorder this cd with my credit card. I've called my company numerous times but they don't know what to do either. Do you have any suggestions?

Re: Minxy Soul Models (West Side Fabrication, April 25)

Richard Eggers — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:01:33 -0000

I wish to purchase the album, "Christ, Marx, Wood, and Wei" by the Swedish group "This Perfect Day". After much diligent searching, I have drawn a complete blank. Do you have any leads that I could pursue to allow me to purchase this album?

Re: Spin Solves The Swedish Problem

DrunkCountry — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:01:44 -0000

Um, has a nerve been touched? Are we all now in the employ/under the control of paper media endorsement so much that polar opinions are censored? Dear, dear me.

Re: Swedesplease featured in Paste Magazine’s world issue!

Craig — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:32:41 -0000

thanks it's a nice piece of press in a major national publication so I'm psyched about it

Re: “No Song” by The Second Band (live blogging this sucker!)

Craig — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:27:05 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: “No Song” by The Second Band (live blogging this sucker!)

Craig — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:25:31 -0000

It looks like I pulled the old bait and switch. But the fact is I can't get the video commenting to work this morning. I'll try again but for some reason it's buggy today.

Re: Swedish Purge (warning - revolting!)

Carl — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:16:56 -0000

Hi Craig!
Thanks for giving us a listen. We apologize for our change of language to all international ears. It turned out as a poetic necessity. Hopefully our English vocabulary will still be with us in case we change direction again!

Cheers,

Carl & Skuggan
(Blog in Swedish at http://bandetskuggan.wordpress.com)

Re: Swedesplease featured in Paste Magazine’s world issue!

AlaskaFox — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:19:20 -0000

Congrats. It's a great achievement.

Re: Swedesplease featured in Paste Magazine’s world issue!

ccstirkjr — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:55:31 -0000

It is great you are getting the well deserved attention .....

Re: Lissi Dancefloor Disaster interview

JB — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:39:41 -0000

How has Apple not snapped this up for an ipod ad?

Re: Sweden’s Val Venosta charges onto the scene with their blend of Electro-punk!!

Craig — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:41:53 -0000

Oh and here's the lyrics to "Kaleidoscope":

i found a vhs
from 84
with music
i didn't know

with melting colors
on the screen
the corny tv actors
gave me self esteem

i found a vhs
from 84
with music
i didn't know

if i could rewind the tape
and turn back time
if i could dance like break machine
i would be someone

Re: The ParanoidGarageRock of Wired For Mono

Städ — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:35:29 -0000

Just wanted to say hi

Regards

Re: Tie a red ribbon around all those SUV’s - Blood Music’s "There Is A War In Almost Every Country"

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Re: New Feedback Drenched Shoegaze EP From The Greencoats

bradley — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:56:00 -0000

Wowzers as usual! We decided to play this track on my podcast. If you'd like to hear it just go to www.haveyouheard.net

BTW I linked you again

Re: Happy 4th

ccstirkjr — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:31:33 -0000

Thanks for the linguistic clarification ...

"Michigan the state has more coastline than Florida."

I had not thought about it but makes sense ......

Makes one think of Slartibartfast from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ...

Re: Happy 4th

craig — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:00:09 -0000

you got it - Lake Michigan. Michigan the state has more coastline than Florida. there's ton's of nice beaches and the water is blue-green like the Caribbean

Re: Happy 4th

ccstirkjr — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:06:21 -0000

This might seem the daft question but what the ... Back east the Atlantic is a safe bet

When you say "I’m at the beach couple days" in Chicago one means a ¿¿?? .....

The inland seas that are the great lakes , quick hop in the company jet to the coast ..... may be Slightly longer hop in the company jet to the Old family place in the Gulf of Bothnia

Re: New video from Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck

Scott — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:54:11 -0000

clara i love youu :)
(scott from cisv)

Re: Spin Solves The Swedish Problem

Drunk Country — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:50:30 -0000

I read the SPIN article while in the States recently & thought "what a load of bollocks". There's no real investigation involved, they speak to the same old same olds & nothing new is gleaned from the same question that's been popping up with much frequency overthe last 18months or so. Just because there's a glut of music programmes in place helping out aspiring artists doesn't mean that's the reason there's so much bloody good music out there (the UK has a ton of them too, but the 'been on a programme to making a kick ass record' ratio is well off beam). There was no actual proper investigation into the talent that has erupted between those lovely borders; where has this dexterity come from? What in the make up of the population, the culture, the social networks, the spirit of sharing, etc. etc. etc. has made this boom possible? What's the source? They don't know because they didn't bother to research properly, speak to far lesser known or unknown artists, look at the historical reasons for music as cultural scaffolding in the territory; SPIN are just another (printed, in this case) media with pages to fill & leaping aboard a bandwagon months & months after everyone else o the planet knows about this stuff. You know as well as I do this phenomenon has been aqround for a very long time, SPIN et al are using the global appearance of the likes if Lykke Li et al to further their own zeitgeist. If I want to know about Swedish music I come here. Because you can hear the origins & the influences & the cultural nuances in the music itself. That's far better analysis than jobbing copy writers earning their stripes on the back of other people's work.