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 So far I've struggled to maintain unpublished.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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Re-Designed

Tom the plasticbag organisation redesigned Barbelith — one of the two best messageboardy communities on the Internet. It looks colourful yet simple, where the pages loads really fast and one just wants to jump in and post more. And I promise, I will. I must. The Barbelith tells me so in that cryptic voice as its red stare gazes down at me.

Carnivàle

I’ve seen four episodes of Carnivàle and damn. HBO knows how to do these things. Serious supernatural drama without going all pretentious. It’s basically good versus evil but with a whole lot of gray areas set in teh middle of the 1930s. I think it will all go down to that it doesn’t matter where you got your powers from, but how you use them and that everything has a price.

And I can’t stress this enough, best title sequence ever. I kid you not. I need to see the other episodes now. I’m a tv-show junkie and damn proud of it too.

Commentary notes

Why Steven DeKnight is one of the good guys: on the “Inside Out”-commentary track (Angel 4x17), he says he stole everything from Joss Whedon, Tim Minear and bad Kung-Fu movies (such as Master of the Flying Guillotine which he mentions several times.) And a person who gathers inspiration from the old “You killed my teacher, you swine!” sort of kung-fu can’t be bad.

American Splendor

American Splendor — where to start? Just the fact that they had Harvey Pekar himself to narrate it, made me almost instantly aware of what kind of movie this was. (Apart from being really really good that is.)

I’m a sucker for these “real life”-things such as Larry Flynt, 24 Hour Party People and the Man on the Moon. There’s a line from 24 Hour Party People that describe this sort of film pretty well: “When you have to choose between the truth and the legent, always print the legend.”

Anyway. Harvey Pekar writes the comic American Splendor which is about his own life. He’s sarcastic and negative and well, not that people-friendly. Unlike the other movies in this genre, this is not about big things that happens. It’s ordinary life and no matter how much change, it always stays pretty much the same. But damn, it’s a good movie.

Alive?

Hello people of the future! When you read this, it will probably be a few days old even though it appears on the first page. When this was written, people still lived above ground and they didn’t have extra limbs due to radiation.

And also, we didn’t have a record by the Adam West Fanclub Experience. You lucky people of the future.