Wednesday 16 June 2010

Musik för självömkan (Anathema at Tavastia @ Mon 2010-09-27)

Kämpegöj!

Inkommande höst dyker Anathema in för att spela sin hurtiga självmördarprogg (eller gååttiproge?) för oss. 

Roligare än Riverside! Skojigare än Sylvan! Positivare än Porcupine Tree! Men inte mycket! F... öh, mer rakt-fram än Frost*! Senaste skivan producerad av Steve Wilson! (och gästad av Ville Valo -- precis som Fem Femton!) Tjo i luren! Fram med sparrisen! Här ska hurtas!

Biljetterna säljs utav Tiketti imorgon (torsdag). Sprid ordet.

Friday 4 June 2010

On deep water

When i was little, BP was known as British Petroleum. When i first read about the Gulf of Mexico <Crisis|Response>, depending on the spin), it was referred to as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, after the oil rig that sank.
 
Particularities are generalized and in time, forgotten about. We'll remember Blackwater but forget Xe. We'll remember Watergate (even if we're too young to even know what it all was about) but we'll forget... well, a lot of political scandals that... just didn't get a name. One that stuck.
 
I'm sure it's just what the spin doctors had in mind.