Weblog | I don't like the word blog, it's ugly. Anyway, new content happens here. (Swedish dito)
About me and the site | Twenty-something male who likes text. Obsessed with things such as books, reality, communication, and one or two tv-shows.
Archives | Things written here since... well, 2001. Some of it is good, some is utter shait.
Books | Books read, not books written. So far I've struggled to maintain unpublished.
Photo | I like my camera and it likes me.
Links | Outwards, away, flee.
e-mail | J. Nicklas Andersson
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One Intense Presenter
Full Metal Challenge on Discovery. 27 teams from all over the world compete in different ways (car bowling anyone?) with their homemade machines. Fun, but that’s not the kick. The thing is hosted by Cathy Whatshername from Scrapheap as well as... Henry. Henry as in Rollins. Funny, tattooed guy, kind of intense. Neat.
Search Requests
There seems to be an infection of a referrer-meme going through the blogverse. Tommy does it and so does Johan I’m jumping on the bandwagon, although I’ll annotate it as I go along.
Let’s begin with the good bits. Positive things that make me so much happier to know that some people actually are quite ok.
- colophon.php - pontifex type poppl
People who search for Pontifex is by default good people. It is a wonderful typeface. Use it more.
- cat_movies.php - inside your mouth-diagrams
Kind of odd and I probably ridicule it. This doesn’t mean that it’s bad, because these things can — once you understand them — actually be useful. But they’re alos fun if they’re made fun of.
- cat_movies.php - \”dave lally\” music
Does Dave have anything to do with music? The Prisoner or the Wicker Man I can understand, but music?
- 2003_12_13.php - firefly theme guitar tab
I got many of these, but if one wants to learn how to play the song, I’m happy. Firfly rules the sky.
- 2001_08.php - parts re-animator fanzine friday jones
If someone finds a fanzine about Re-animator, please, please, please send it my way.
That wasn’t so painful now, was it? Weird stuff:
- lostpages - utter
The Swedish word for “Otter” I suppose. The searcher came from these parts. Why?
- 2002_11.php - amish reality tv show
Get the fuck out of here. Can’t the whole reality show-crap just lie down and die die die and give us good tuff on the tv again. Like Firefly or Kids in the Hall or Spaced.
- lostpages - why firefly is bad
Heathen! May you boil in the hell-of-corpses-hanging-upside-down.
Last but not least, questions that probably didn’t yield an answer at the last search request.
- cat_comics.php - what does crack taste like?
I have no idea, which probably means it tastes like chicken.
- 2001_08.php - what pens does roman dirge use
I don’t know this one either. But if I have to guess, I’d take a chance with the Pilot Vball Grip Fine.
- 2003_01.php - what does a typewriter keyboard look like
There are many different looks to choose from. Some look almost exactly like a keyboard only thicker and more blocky. A really neat one — the Blickenderfer — looks like this (but normally mounted in a wood casket and with a space-key):
And there you have it.
On DVD soon
Things on DVD this year includes: Jeremiah season 1 in Januari, Angel season 4, Dead Zone season 2, Kung Fu season 1 and C.S.I. season 3 in March, Kids in the Hall season 1 wide release and Buffy season 7 in April and Invader Zim (with commentary track by Jhonen! Jhonen!) in May. I’m not too sure about getting CSI or Kung Fu, but still. And this is just the first half. Damn.
The Gilliam Movie That Never Were
This sunday, if you live in Sweden, you must watch SVT2 at 16:25. You must, because they’re showing Lost in La Mancha (imdb). The trouble is that afterwards, I’d probably would want to see The Man Who Killed Don Quijote even more.
Joss and X-men
Joss Whedon could very well end up writing the New X-men comic. He has confirmd this himself. So I might have to start buying the comics again.
[From Whedonesque]
Why Dave Lally deserve respect
He have a Wicker Man original poster. Christopher Lee saw it and wanted it. Dave said “no, but you can sign it for me.” Mr Lee signed the poster. Lally now have a signed Wicker Man original poster that Christopher Lee couldn’t have.
This is just a small fotnote. Lally also likes Slottskällans beer and for that alone we here at the Lost Pages salute him.
A link at noon
This was somewhat horrific at first glance. But it was only because of their referrer-list at the bottom. Five people had clicked on the Jeff Noon-link in my about section in the last 24 hours.
So people actually read the about page? Gosh.
the january trip
Have I told you about Gothenburg? Yes I have, but that was last year. This year however, things were a bit different. Not too different mind you but different none the less.
1 My train was early by fifteen minutes. This has never happened to me before so it was quite an experience. The ride itself was totally uneventful. I remember nothing except that we at times passed some beautiful scenery that kept its distance from outside the windows.
2 CD left the computer-related things behind him and is now persuing a geological career. As such, it was a bad bad idea for him to watch the Core. I can see why. He was later thankful that he also had avoided Tommy Lee Jones’ Vulcano.
3 You can fit a person inside one of the safe deposit boxes at the train station, but if you want to lock it it will cost 30 skr. So we didin’t. (But as they say: a blurry picture can tell a 1000 lies — so maybe we did.)
4 We didn’t watch Buffy, as the person at whose place we did this the last time wasn’t about. He was travelling around. It felt a bit weird, as he’s been there on every DFS in that town.
5 We ate Indian food and scones. Yay.
6 I had a cd burnt with all the Frantics episodes. An even greater joy would be if said cd didn’t have the large see-through area that renders it unreadable.
7 Johan has recieved an invitation from the Loy.
8 I didn’t buy any, but they had lots of nice and bizarre movies at SF-Bokhandeln. But I wanted to really bad.
9 CD — the secret identity of the super villain the Badness Man, who’s superpower is that he makes things worse and frighten children with his huge sock-outfit — thought it would be a good idea to have a DFS here, and just rumage through my DVD-collection.
11 But of course, all this was back in ‘Nam.
Road Waffles
Read Road Waffles. It’s not Goats, but sometimes not even Goats is Goats so there. Road Waffles can however come awfully close at times. It’s irrelevant, weird and doesn’t always follow the rules of a comic strip. Read it now — I do.
During the evening
This is Tommy early in the evening. I don’t think Ola had arrived yet.
Proof that not exactly everything in the next byline is 100% true.
Of course the photo just above and the one below, of the tv screen, were taken by this man who had a lot of fun with the camera. Ola is quite insane, but in a good way. He was alos the sole embodiment of live music entertainment for the evening since he’s a bit better than the Adam West Fanclub Experience. It also gave us the chance to relax and drink beer instead of trying to actually do something ourselves. And hey, free live music.
One of the many photos Ola took on the tv-screen during the end sequence of Fletch. Which reminds me about that Spies Like Us is about to begin.
Insomnia
The clock is about half past seven and I still haven’t been able to sleep. I’m tired, hungry and bored. I have nothing to watch on tv except MTV and really horrible cartoons. I’m a cartoon fan, so don’t get me wrong. I can watch halfbaked cartoons till my eyes bleed blue ink. But even I have to draw the line somewhere. And that line is here, animecrap and a dubbed version of Ice Age. Oh, and one of the channels had this “educational” cartoon that makes the Teletubbies seem like a good idea. No thanks. Had it been 11:30 I could have watched that Akira Kurosawa documentary, but that time is a few hours away.
Next update, which will happen pretty soonish today (unless I fall asleep because then it might be less soonish and more in the evening kind of way) will have pictures. Gosh.
Screw this, I’ll watch Firefly again.