The Power of The Dark Side

I see this and I melt!

Amazing!
/ M

Lights, Camera, Action!

Today, my new camcorder arrived. A Sony HDR-HC9. And so it begins. My friend and co-producer Johan Kronlund is in Greece for a week. So we've put the studio sessions on hold and will pick it up this weekend. Which is good, cause I'll get a chance to really check it out and learn how to use the camera. This whole filming buisness is kind of making me a bit nervous. I've never done anything like i before. Hopefully it'll work out fine. I'm throwing a party this friday. I guess that would be a good thing to start off the film with!

Here's a list of songs we are recording for the third album:

1. Welcome to Stalingrad
2. Last Year in Marienbad
3. One Kiss
4. Click Click
5. Dancing Shoes
6. 10 years ago, 10 years from now
7. Unknown Pleasures
8. The Stares of The House That Haunted This Town
9. My Valentine
10. Anything can happen in California
11. Do You Remember Annabelle?
12. I Love You Annie

Looks good.
/ M

Bergman

Today, Linda and I are going to the Nobel Museum. We are going to have a look at an exhibition about Ingmar Begman, entitled Bergman In Focus. I studied film when I was 20 and (just like everyone else) I fell in love with Persona and especially Cries and Whispers. That's when I started collecting his films, books of him and about him and also a lot of screenplays. I'm really looking forward to the exhibition, as I'm sure they've put together a nice coffee table book with all the pictures of him. It would look so good in my bookshelf.
/ M

Once every Autumn

No matter how much you try, you just can't plan days like these. They just happen. For me, once maybe twice each year. See, I got off work early and my plans to have lunch with Patrik Berg got cancelled, so I thought I'd just stop by my favorite book shop, Papercut, before I'd head home to get some more work done. But then I found myself turning left, instead of right by the end of the street and as the leaves slowly fell towards the pavement I put on Miles and Sonny Stitt, live in Stockholm '61 on my iPod. I walked around for two hours, inhaling the architecture in the south part of my hometown. This awkward, grand, small-minded, embracing, inhibited, anxious and beautiful city. I bought three issues of The Believer and some OJ. I'll spend the rest of the day on my balcony, reading.
/ M

Are you ready to Believe?

I'm an addict. Dave Eggars, you bastard! I picked up one of the latest issues of The Believer a couple of months ago and I just couldn't put it down. Now my collection of the back catalogue is slowly growing and I must say, it's probably the best magazine ever. In the fifthy fourth issue, there is an awesum interview with Kristen Schaal (Mel from Flight of The Conchords). Brilliant! They have also published parts of Michel Houellebecq's "Against nature, against life" about H.P. Lovecraft. Very intreging and well written.
Here's a clip with Kristen Schaal from the Edinburgh Festival. Hilarious!

She's my idol. Anyway, The Believer. You really should check it out. Well, anything published by McSweeney's Publishing is worth both your money and your time, I promise you. They also make a terrific DVD magazine, Wholphin. It's collections of short movies and documentaires. What can say, I'm swept off my feet.
/ M

Modesty Blaise in a new suit!

I'm proud to announce that you can now hear the re-recorded single version of the song "Modesty Baise" on my myspace. It's released in the UK only by the beautiful lable Ruffa Lane.

Enjoy!
/ M

Your right to Comment!

My god! I had no idea that my blog had the "only-google-members-can-leave-a-comment" nonsense. Anyway, it's gone now. Thank you Erika for mailing me about it. And please speak your mind! / M

When will we start writing real songs again?