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KONTORET - "THE OFFICE" COMES TO SWEDEN

I have always said that Swedish TV is for the most part...complete shite. It's either people sat on sofas chatting about shite, people that think they are/are desperate to be/once were famous eating dinner and talking about shite or some shite that's a Swedish version of something else. A few exceptions do make me laugh or are good TV. But they are a few.

Now, in 2012....over 10 years since the original, Swedish TV has decided to re-make "The Office". I mean really? Really? Really......

Have we not all already seen The Office? I mean this concept has already been done....twice! Seven times if you count the French, German, Chilean and Israeli versions too. Now, I have only seen the UK and the US versions but even if you don't speak Swedish you can watch this trailer and see the same jokes from the US and UK version. Hop to 1.02 and see the Dwayne counterpart do his standing at his desk joke from a recent US episode. Hop to 1.55 and see the cast sing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" from the first episode of season 2 of the UK version (they sing The Muppets theme).

Will we see the funny dance too? All the same stuff. Has not everyone in Sweden already seen The Office?

Who sits in an office in the TV headquarters and decides this shit?

ELK'S CRINGE-WORTHY ROCK VIDEO LIST pt1

You know how it is, you're sat round with some friends, a few drinks and suddenly you feel the urge to put on something that you'll all laugh at on Youtube. In my case this is usually 

A) Something only I find funny or

B) Something everyone has seen 100 times before, from me.

My favourite is of course the cringe-worthy rock videos! The videos where the band comes off more like David Brent than their desired goal and one must ask.....what were they thinking!? So we'll kick off this list today with one I discovered just yesterday. The band from my current town - SANCHEZ.

Now, I must admit that I have a bit of a personal connection to the band as (although he hasn't spoken to me in over a year now) I do know the bassist. He's moved on and up and now plays in the band EGONAUT who's latest album is awesome and should be checked out!

The singer in Sanchez (who I believe IS Sanchez and the rest is just his backing band) looks like he would have been awesome in another band in another time, but somehow in this town this is the best he could get. I will be running down a "wtf" of the lyrics and video afterwards.

"Saturday night and I take a ride in my cadillac".....didn't the start of the video tell us this was Friday?

"Suddenly you appear on the corner of 6th street"....I've Google mapped it. There is no 6th street in Borås"

Now for some reason some girls show up and have a fight, and a smoke. For no reason.

"Still Saturday night and I'm standing outside the Rainbow Bar"...or some sort of youth club in Borås.

"Suddenly you appear"....the drummer and the bassist? 

"Sunset Blvd is looking hot indeed"...nope, it's still a youth club in Borås. And you're wearing jackets.

Now "Mikey pick up that guitar and talk to me"....I don't need to point out that A) if he is in the band he should already have his guitar. B) He does not talk, he plays a solo. C) Poison already did that. Good solo though!

at 2.08 in the video a "dad's car" shows up, some sort of family car for taking the kids to school. What happened to the Cadillac?

"Your mamma told you not to run with those bad bad boys"...sorry but the girl that gets out of the car and has a smoke looks like she could be the mum of most of the band. Maybe she is, come to pick them up from band practice.

So, what we can assume from this video is that Sanchez is most possibly talking about ANOTHER Saturday night when he was in some fantasy American world where glam rockers are still cool and not a practice room in Borås....

MORE CRINGE.WORTHY VIDEOS SOON!

GOOGLE YOUR LIFE

A while back I wrote about how Facebook is just becoming more and more the bigger big brother and how someone should really come up with another type of simple social network, seriously first person to invent a social network that is like Facebook but isn't Facebook will be a very rich man indeed, I am surprised there isn't a cluster of them!

I wrote about how impressed I was with GOOGLE+ here thinking it had answered the call but...hmmm well let us see.

It seems that Google is trying to be the bigger puppet master - mixing together all sorts of websites such as Gmail, Google Calender, Google Chrome, Youtube and so on.

I wrote an email to a friend a few days ago, we spoke of swords, and bees and the Isle of Skye and music. I noticed beside the email was a little box of adverts about swords, bees, the Isle of Skye and the bands we had been talking about. Seriously? Is that not the same as my postman opening my letters, reading them and then stuffing junk mail through my letter box based on it?

Google's big plan is now to just collect as much information as they can about it and use it to sell back to you of course, with many different apps and pages that Google is taking over.

This very blog I write on now is powered by Google.

When will this big brothering stop?

ARTCORE - TERMINAL DECAY

Got this through the post this week from Welly, the creator of what is (I'm pretty sure) the longest running print fanzine in the UK and possibly one of the longest running in the world, established way back when you were all fields in 1986. The brand new issue of ARTCORE which comes with a free compilation album (or the album comes free with the fanzine, or 50/50, take your pick).

Welly's been doing this for as long as I have known of him which must have been way back in the mid 90s with his band FOUR LETTER WORD that played regular round the Bristol and Wales area. FLW ended up on BYO, I have their album and 7" and then if I remember rightly there was this major record label with money that wanted to form a boy band called "Four Letter Word" and there was a law suit and court cases and lots of money involved.....this is another story for another time. But I do remember when I interviewed Four Letter Word for my own fanzine "FUCKYOUALL" back in the 90s (a literal cut-and-paste printed zine written on a typewriter and photocopied), Welly sent me the interview back typed up and copied to the right sizes and format and everything, very thoughtful and helpful!

So yes - this new issue is a belter, and the comp album is ripping, 20 tracks, mostly exclusive unreleased with bands such as Night Birds, Arctic Flowers, Off With Their Heads, Pettybone and Burnt Cross. The zine features Night Birds, Arctic Flowers, 1981, Hygiene, Ruidosa Immundicia and my own contribution, Amebix.

There is also "the vault" covering some old classic standard such as Agent Orange and reviews, art, scene reports - you basically can't go wrong with Artcore.

Go check it all out and get your self a copy: http://www.artcorefanzine.co.uk/

ZOMBILORD AT BRISTOL PUNKS PICNIC

Quite happy to say that Crypt Of The Zombilord will be coming over to the UK for a few dates in the summer, plan is to stop off on the way and do some shows through Denmark, Germany and France as well maybe. Good stuff! 

See the Punks Picnic line up and details here!

SON, DO YOU LIKE GLADIATOR MOVIES...

This was an advert for the new "Gladiators" TV show in Sweden. What? Was it only me that noticed?

I'd also be scared of the size of his right arm compared to the left one...

Elk out!