Where's Lesley Rankine...

and what is she doing?
A long time ago, when I lived in Kolding, I bought an issue of UK music magazine Select, that included a promotion cassette - yes, a cassette - from Creation Records. One of the tracks was Vitriola by Silverfish and I loved it right away - especially the vocals by Lesley Rankine. I later got me a cd-player and went on to buy all the Silverfish albums. Then Silverfish stopped, split up or whatever it is bands do when they stop releasing records.

Then one morning(ish) a couple of years later or so I'm reading my newspaper and see a review of Salt Peter by Ruby with vocals by Lesley Rankine. I finished my tea, jumped into my beach sandals or whatever I was wearing that summer and ran down the stairs to the record shop (yep, I had a record shop in my house) and bought the cd. I loved it too, though completely different from Silverfish. Some months later Ruby played at Pitstop and that's probably the best gig I've seen there.

And now I have a question: What is Lesley Rankine doing today? I love her music and I want to hear more! An invistigation is underway. Stay tuned for news or non-news on the situation

Vinyl Terror & Horror

Vinyl Terror & Horror (1)
Originally uploaded by Laurits.

This was some great noise.
Yeah, I know. It's a bit late, since the concert was on 26. november - but hell, it's my blog.

The concert was arranged by Bragagild.

"Supportband is Vinyl Terror&Horror, this band has made one release with CD and LP versions, the members of this group are working with sound and sculpture, and made some of the sculptures presentet together with the Steven Stapleton exhibition at Charlottenborg 2002. They use analog soundmodeling of modified turntable loops to generate rythmic noise and soundscape." (Quote from Bragagild)

Unbeliveable!

That's what I thought (and said to a security guy in the supermarket) when I went to buy a newspaper and saw this new magazine called Plastique.

I love magazines and I think it's great that there are so many different and weird ones. Too bad there really aren't any I feel like reading - well exept for Lettre Internationale.

I've been working

It's been a rough couple of weeks (there has been work to do at work - ususally I've got time to do all sorts of important stuff, but the last two weeks or so it's been work, work, work) and there has been no time to blog. But from now on, I'll try to post at least every other day.

Jesus hates us all

I really, really don't want to be mean and poke fun of ordinary americans, who voted for George Bush. I mean, I disagree stongly with them, but it's their choice (and by the way, I'm very, very tired of "Bush is stupid" jokes/flash animations/movies/games. Please don't ever send me any of that again, thank you).

This letter to the editor from a guy called Earl is a bit far out and it might be a joke, but nevertheless, I believe, it explains why George Bush was elected again. I laughed when I fist read it, but it's really not funny at all.

I hope the election of George W. Bush is seen as a wake-up call to all the liberal Democrats who oppose God's will.

Link stolen fra Fark.com

Did man ever set foot on the Moon?

There has been a lot of debate over the last decades about the alleged moon landings. I'm not sure how convincing this (new?) evidence is, but at least its something. And its fun too.
Link found at I Love Everything.

Single Orange Muppet

What if other popular movies were performed by puppets, Fark.com is asking. Here's the answer.

I love the Apocalypse Now, Single Orange Muppet and A Nightmare on Elmo Street posters.

Thank you Fark.com - you make it easier getting through a looong day at the office.

Armageddon in Kolding

Well, I did hear more on the Us election yesterday - I even talked about it - and my head did not explode. But in my hometown Kolding a fireworks factory exploded and devestated the neighbourhood of Seest.

My brother, who lives in the centre of Kolding, told me, that his whole apartment was shaking several times by the eksplosions.

My parents live about eight kilometers from the factory, and they told me, that the sound of the eksplosion was enormous even that far away.

Here's some pictures of the situation - from JyskeVestkysten, the local paper.

Meanwhile back in the rest of the world

US election blah blah blah... four more years blah blah blah... That election is everywhere and I think my head is going to explode if I hear anymore about it today. There are other things happening too, you know.

Yesterday I was visiting a Palestinian familie, that lives in Copenhagen. We were watching TV (they have 50 or 60 arabic channels!) and while we were doing that it was announced, that president Sheik Zayed of the United Arab Emirates had died, and soon it was top news on many of the channels. For my friends and for many other people from or in the Middle East that meant a lot, because Sheik Zayed was seen as a wise and generous leader and a friend of the Palestinian people. Most people in Denmark have never heard of him before and probably didn't pay any attention to the news of his death. I'm sure that goes for the rest of what we call the western world.

So, what's my point?

My point is, that there are huge differences between what is seen as important news from the view of people from one culture to people from another culture, who might live right next to each other. That means, that we often don't know anything about what is going on outside Europe and North America, and then when the shit hits the fan somewhere else on the planet, we go: What the fuck? Why are they doing that? Why was the fan started? And who threw that shit?

Out and about

Saturday night I went out to listen to some music. I don't get out as much as I'd like to, but this saturday I did.
I went to see the the Cologne-based Danish singer/musician Alice Rose perform at Barbarellah in the centre of Copenhagen. It was a positive experience - the place is quite funky and the music was good. Alice Rose's style is something like a mix of Björk, Moloko and Portishead. She's got a good voice and she's a good musician. Apparantly it was her first gig in Denmark.
At the venue this guy was selling his own indie-comic. I bought one because I love comics and becuse I like to support indie art and media. I liked the comic.

Lazy

I spend most of my working day in front of a computer, so why don't I post more often?
Don't know.

Election time

Copenhagen is pretty far from Washington DC. and the rest of the United States. Still the US election campaign is taking up so much time and space in the Danish media I use - and I don't even watch television anymore. But that's ok, I think, because it's important (even though most Americans don't seem to think so). It's important because US foreign policy has such a huge impact on the lives of everybody else on the planet.
I hope the majority of the Americans that can be bothered to vote will vote for John Kerry. It's not that I believe that he will do much better than George W. Bush, but I think that, at least he can't do any worse.

Super Preis

I just recieved Super Preis - the new cd from K&A (Kirsten Reynolds and Ashley Davies). It's out on Phono Erotic. Part of it is recorded at Komponent in Copenhagen, where I usually spend a lot of time.

Satanists are as good soldiers as anybody

For the first time the British navy has let its first registered satanist onboard, BBC reported today.

A spokesman for the Royal Navy said: "We are an equal opportunities employer and we don't stop anybody from having their own religious values."

Link

Private military companies

A couple of days ago Denmarks Radio Radio1 aired a documentary on private security personel in Iraq. Link (in Danish). In short, it told, that there are about 30.000 private security people in Iraq at the moment. They guard people, building and infrastructure - such as harbours. In March this year four employees of a security company, Blackwater was killed and mutilated by an angry mob in the Iraqi city Faluja. Among Blackwaters recent jobs are - according to BBC - the training of the bodyguards, that protected Paul Bremer (the former US head of occupied Iraq) and providing security for food deliveries in Iraq.
One of the many companies mentioned in the documentary was Vinnell, which I have been doing some research on, but I have never gotten around to write the story that I meant to do. I still have a load of material about the company and its doings, so I guess I should get myself together and do it asap.
I will post some more information about Vinnell and other private military companies (there are many of them) in the future.

K&A Live in Copenhagen

Two weeks ago Kirsten Reynolds and Ashley Davies performed as K&A together with Apeiron, nomadstation and Martin Picton at Komponent in Copenhagen as part of the D.O.R Motion and Time tour. It's always a pleasure to see Kirsten and Ashley.
Check out some of their other stuff: Project Dark

First time...

Lets see how this thing works...