Posted 12:50 PM by Roy

Something about New Years Eve.

Just a quick note to wish everybody a happy new year.
It's been a relatively good year, and I have gone from being a student, to finishing my dissertation and becoming, well, nothing, or unemployed. Something to that effect, but not in an entirely bad way.
The blog celebrated its fouth anniversary this year, and is closing in on 30.000 hits. Updates have become less frequent, and the number of guests have been declining. But on the plus side a lot of new blogs have seen the light of day, such as Stephan's, Jones', and Peter's.
Anyhow, I hope you all have a good one. Remember to mix different types of alcohol for maximum hangover-effect tomorrow, keep your head down, chin up, and hands over the blanket.
And for once, would it hurt the Queen to trade her old catchphrase at the end her speach to "Keep on keeping on, and never ever stop rocking."
I think that would totally work...

Posted 1:10 AM by Roy

So, a very merry Christmas was had, and on top of the excellent presents I got a digital camera from my parents, because I have officially passed my dissertation. Now I look forward to figuring out how to take proper pictures, and I imagine the old blog will suffer under those experiments during the next couple of weeks/months.
This is me trying to bring sexy back in front of the hallway mirror.

Posted 6:08 PM by Roy

Just a little post to say merry christmas to everybody, before I head home to the land o' plenty of snaps. Have a good one. 

Posted 3:56 PM by Roy

End of Year Lists, pt. II

It's time to come up with the best singles of the year. I haven't been listening to a lot of radio this year, so I've had a hard time coming up with any singles, but here is my top 10.

Top 10 Singles of 2006

1. Muse: Starlight
2. Wolfmother: The Joker and the Thief
3. Spleen United: She Falls in love with Machines
4. Muse: Knights of Cydonia
5. Henrik Hall: Bibis Mund
6. The Strokes: Juicebox
7. Trivium: Detonation
8. Iron Maiden: The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg
9. M. Ward: Chinese Translation
10. Magtens Korridorer: Morgan

Secondly, here's one of the more obscure lists. Because I bought my Ipod this year, it's relatively easy to see which songs I have heard the most this year, so here's the list. I have, however, decided that every band only gets one entry, otherwise Plans by Death Cab would fill up most of the it. Anyhoo, here's the list of the ten songs, by individual artists, I have heard the most in 2006.

Ipod List 2006

1. Death Cab For Cutie: Soul Meets Body
2. Nine Black Alps: Not Everyone
3. Walking Concert: Aluminum
4. The Almighty: Crank and Deceit
5. Spleen United: She Falls in Love with Machines
6. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American
7. Alice in Chains: We Die Young
8. The Arcade Fire: Rebellion (Lies)
9. Elliott Smith: Waltz #2
10. I Am Bones: The Ostrich Approach

So how's that for useless information? Feel free to emulate the lists, or make fun of my musical ignorance, as per usual.

Posted 4:14 AM by Roy

When it comes to semi-celebrity gossip, this is really as good as it gets. Classic!

Posted 12:47 AM by Roy

End of year lists, pt. 1.

Little known fact!: In the "blogosphere" it is punishable by death not to spend one's december nights making lists of what rocked and sucked in the past year. So we might as well get this show on the road.
I'll kick off with the top 10 best concerts of the year, and my top 7 of songs that were guilty pleasures this last year. I have to say that I'm not particularly proud of those, but honesty above all, and all that...

Best concerts 2006:

1. Alice in Chains, Vega
2. Death Cab for Cutie, Roskilde
3. Henrik Hall, Musiccaféen
4. Tool, Roskilde
5. The Strokes, Roskilde
6. Morrissey, Roskilde
7. Trivium, Roskilde
8. Sterling, Roskilde
9. Fear Factory, Train
10. Mercenay, Voxhall
    

Guilty Pleasures 2006

1. Jokeren: Gravøl
2. Lily Allen: LDN
3. Christina Aguilera: Ain’t no other man
4. Keane: Crystal Ball
5. Kanye West: Touch the Sky
6. Coldplay: The Hardest Part
7. Peter Sommer: Man hamrer løs på en åben dør
   

Ok, now it's out there, and can't be taken back....

Posted 12:46 PM by Roy

I still can't write in my own comments-thingy. How I've managed to get banned from my own comments is still beyond me, but that is why, for now, I'm not answering the comments. I'll have to look into that at some point.

On the plus side I'm glad to see that PTA is still alive, and blogging. His website is called Hiphop, The Simpsons and Wrestling. And that is pretty excatly what it's about too.
Between Pete, me and Jones, the good ol' AIH axxis of Evil are all now complete geeks.

Posted 4:10 PM by Roy

It really was just a matter of time before Discoteque Goggen in Hadsten made the news. Having spent several weekends there in my teens, I can't say I'm too surprised. It's crazy stuff...

Posted 11:03 PM by Roy

Quentin Tarantino has a limited vocabulary.

Posted 7:32 PM by Roy

Is this really the best headline for the story about Klaus Bondam and his sexcapades?

Nogen vil synke en ekstra gang.

Posted 12:23 PM by Roy

We Don't Need To Know This.

Denmark's most famously unfunny gay man, Klaus Bondam, has decided to share his gayness with the country in his new book Toastmasteren - Me so horny. Yesterday he declared that, despite everything we had been taught by Will & Grace, being gay is a conscious choice.
Today's story is that he stopped counting how many dudes he slept with after reaching 110, thereby underlining the stereotype that gays are promiscuous.
That's fair with me, but is there not a chance that he will piss off the gay community? As far as I understand, that's one angry mob you don't want on your back.

Posted 5:43 PM by Roy

Flying th'husky

Okay, I really like the new Trivium album, or at least most of it, but still this video taking the piss of them is really brilliant.

Posted 1:01 AM by Roy

Happy Thanksgiving.

I am thankful that A to the O cooks a mean turkey.
Also, the combination of Thanksgiving football and Championship Manager is not to shabby either.

Posted 11:36 PM by Roy

What Happened to Rock-Bottom?

Why is Eva Longoria selling every product on TV, and why is Eric Roberts popping up in hiphop videos? Are we truly running out of proper celebrities? Does it give a lot of streetcred to be Julia Roberts' ugly brother?

I'm getting pissed off by CDWOW. Whenever I order anything from Play I always get it in three days. I ordered some stuff from cdwow friday afternoon, and today, 5 days later, I got an email that they had just shipped it, and I should expect to get it within 7-10 days. Unles they keep their cd's in a warehouse on Pluto that is just lame, and even then it would still be pretty bad service. Bastards!

I handed in my dissertation monday, so I have officially started playing Championship Manager again, and will only leave my room for matters concerning food and drink.

Finally, because I'm getting adicted to YouTube, here's a superweird video clip of the little guy from King of Queens discussing the state of American politics with the very big Henry Rollins.

Posted 4:35 AM by Roy

Never return to the scene of the crime.

I was just at my 8 year high school reunion. My favorite part was when John Cusack stabbed a russian terrorist in the neck with a pen. Or something to that effect.


Either way, I'm not going back until I'm dating Minnie Driver. And that's it!
(PS: Ok, it was alright, and i talked to old teachers, but still...)

Posted 1:57 PM by Roy

Oh, Danny Tanner you little rascal you.

Posted 1:03 AM by Roy

Chicken don't clap!

I've just finished watching the first two seasons of Arrested Developement. I have to say that it is hands down the best comedy writing ever, and the cast is also brilliant. For some reason my favorite thing is whenever GOB does the chicken dance, so here it is.









And then of course Tobias Funke



In completely unrelated news, I'm almost finished with my dissertation. Yay!

Posted 12:12 PM by Roy

It's a beauty!

Happy Halloween.

Also, happy Helloween.

Posted 11:54 PM by Roy

Thanks to T-Bone I can show you this clip. And somebody's surely going to hell for this. Yet my money is still on Mel Gibson....

Posted 1:35 AM by Roy

Sacrilicious...

Oh, somebody is surely going to hell for this! My money is still on Mel Gibson though.

Posted 2:51 AM by Roy

Footballers with weird names are always funny, and there can be none weirder than Creedence Clearwater Couto. He plays for Belgian club Lierse, and there's a very interesting article about him here, which appears to be in Dutch.
Rumour has it his younger sister is named Joy Division Couto, but I don't now if that is true. Not to forget his cousin Crosby Stills Nash and Young Couto.
And the list continues....

Salami? Salami!

Posted 5:05 PM by Roy

Oh my God, you've killed music... You bastards!

The following people are slowly killing music:

Timberland: The most overrated producer since the days of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. Timberland is singlehandedly responsible for ruining Nelly Furtado. She's dead to me now.

Robbie Williams: If nobody has seen Guy Chambers lately, it's probably because he died laughing the first time he heard Rudebox. What the hell is Rudebox all about anyway?

Fergie: Six years of university later, and I still have absolutely no clue what it is Fergie is trying to say in London Bridge. But apparently the song is about dancing like a ho, and spraying mace up people's butts. Oh, and did I mention that she killed The Black Eyed Peas? They are also dead to me now.

Carlas: Kaptajn Amerika? Poetisk Protest Pop? My ass.

Feel free to join the fun in the comments.

*Update* Apparently I am not allowed to write in my own comments thing due to some spam filter thing, but Nordstøm and Buttenschön are duly noted. But why hasn't anyone said Scissor Sisters yet? That "I don't feel like dancing" is so boring that it could be a cause for coma.

Posted 12:06 AM by Roy

Robot Chicken!

I have just discovered Robot Chicken today. It's some crazy shit, and there's a lot of it floating around on YouTube, so it seems I won't get a lot of work done this weekend. For a taste of Chicken, go here. It's good stuff.

Posted 12:19 AM by Roy

Holy Smokes, Batman!

Thank You For Smoking is absolutely brilliant. Could it be the best movie of the year, I hear you ask. It very well could be! The cast is perfect, and even includes good ol' Champ Kind. Whammy!

And just for the record, Gu Gu the panda is my new hero. Actually it's a tie between him, and the guy who bit Gu Gu.

And just to prove that you can find everything on Google, here are two smoking pandas.

Posted 2:07 PM by Roy

If Al Pacino really wanted to get some sleep in that movie Insomnia, he should have walked down to the local Alaskan Blockbuster, and picked up a copy of that movie Insomnia. Or something. It worked wonders on me yesterday.

Lucky Number Slevin is however still very good.

Kevin Federline is also bringing sexy back now, which is just silly. Either that, or he's trying to look like one of the Dogs Playing Poker, who coincidentally are also bringing sexy back.

Finally, Cesc and Adebayor are bringing sexy football back. Brilliant stuff!

Posted 3:35 PM by Roy

Pluto under suicide watch after planetary status stripped away.

Posted 12:47 AM by Roy

Desperate times....

I've been watching a lot of the MTV awards (go here for a play-by-play), and I believe it's even crappier than usual. One thing that struck me as being immensely crappy was that it's supposedly a collection of all the cool, hip people in showbiz, yet the only one who was even remotely funny, intelligent, and capable of forming a sentence in English was Al Gore. That's just not good enough.
Also, a couple of months ago I considered bringing Sexy back, but now that lame-ass, no-good copycat Justin Timberlake stole my idea. What a complete bastard.
Uhhh, and Jack Black is not really funny any more.

Also, I'm a bit dissapointed that Tom Cruise has appologized to Brooke Shields. If you want to be a proper religious crackpot, you can't just start appologizing to people left and right. When Swaggart appologized for boinking those hookers, all his crackpot streetcred when down the drain.

Oh, and the new Simpsons episodes are pretty bad. And they probably don't get better when watching 13 episodes back to back.

Posted 6:23 PM by Roy

Let's Dance!



So cheerful...

Posted 11:31 PM by Roy

Come on, come on, Daddy needs a leftfooted defender....

Oh Cygan, why have you forsaken me? Another hero has left for El Submarino Amarillo. This is going to haunt us, since Cygan was a LOT better than Hoyte at left back. And we always need people who can play there.

And the Reyes/Beast swap is apparently official now, which is a relief. The only sad thing is it's only a loan deal, and Reyes is sure to be all crippled and useless when he returns, and then we'll never see any money for him. You know it's gonna happen!

So now we just cross fingers and wait for Gallas, Kanu, Overmars, Peter Marinello, and pretty much anybody who can bring some experience to the team. Oh, and some results please... Sylvinho? Yes, and Nelson Vivas. Anybody!*

(*Except Franny Jeffers...)

Posted 12:49 AM by Roy

My name is Charles Orville Jones, but you can call me C.O. Jones.

I was talking to my good friend Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas the other day, and he told me he had had a bit of a rough time doing that single with the Pussycat Dolls. Originally the song hadn't been censored, but after a while he convinced them to use the *beep* sound, so they could play it on the radio. The original lyrics, and this is straight from the mouth of my friend Mr. I.Am, went like this:

Balls (Featuring Will.I.Am of The Black Eyed Peas)
Ha, ha-ha, ha-ha
Ha, ha-ha, ha
Ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha
Ha, ha-ha, ha
[Will.I.Am]
It's funny how a man only thinks about the balls
You got a real big heart, but I'm looking your balls
You got real big brains, but I'm looking at your balls
Girl, there ain't no pain in me looking at your balls
[PCD]
I don't give a dang
Keep looking at my balls
'Cause it don't mean a thing if you're looking at my balls
I'm a do my thing while you're playing with your balls
Ha, ha-ha, ha-ha, ha-ha

Maybe there's a 'ha' to many, or not quite enough, it's hard to say, but overall I think we can all agree that Will.I.Am is a certified genious, and an inspiration to us all. I would go as far as to say he's the dog's bollocks!

Posted 4:41 PM by Roy

Boredom leads to strange discoveries.

I have just found out I share a birthday with Paul Newmann, Gene Siskel, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Eddie van Halen, Ellen DeGeneres, Andrew Ridgeley from Wham!, Wayne Gretzky, Sara Rue (known from crappy sit-coms), Matt Heafy from Trivium (yay!) and Jose Effing Mourinho!!!
Overall I wouldn't say it is the best of days.
And yes, I am supposed to be working right now.

Posted 3:01 AM by Roy

Hello Regis!

The new Miami Vice movie is incredibly dull, has no story, and dialogue that reaches a level similar to The Phantom Menace. It is of course beautifully filmed, just like Collatoral, but it's not worth the stupendously inflated cinema-prices. Bitter? Yes.
BTW, is Michael Mann and Werner Herzog the same guy? Well, pictures don't lie. What an amazing double identity.

This is a weird headline, somehow it sounds like they're mocking the polarbears.

Peter Travers hates Snakes on a Plane, which is a shame since he is normally pretty spot-on in his reviews: "SoaP is a movie of its time, best remembered not for its content but for its motherfuckin' marketing campaign."

As I'm sitting here watching late night TV it hits me like a ton of bricks that Mad About You is not even remotely funny, despite showing the semi-legendary 'Hello Regis' episode the other day.

And did I mention that Premier League starts tomorrow? Can't wait at all. Go Gunners!

Posted 4:13 PM by Roy

Hocus Pocus!

This is by far the craziest shit I've ever seen. It totally outragously out there.
But at the same time kind of beautiful. Without further ado, I give you Focus!

Posted 12:09 AM by Roy

I hadn't seen the highlights from the Arsenal-Zagreb game, but luckily the nice people from Gunners4life have made them available here. Please someone tell me what kind of funky accent it is the second commentator has. So weird.

I'm currently back in Søften working on my speciale. It's kinda amazing how much you get done when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

Posted 10:09 PM by Roy

Heavy Metal Gets Socially Conscious. It sure does, but Cattle Decapitation is the worst bandname ever!

Posted 7:15 PM by Roy

Film should be looked at straight on, it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates

If you're only going to see one bear themed docementary at the movies this year, make sure it's Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man. Honestly, it's quite good.
If you don't want to go, you can just kick back and watch Werner Herzog's Grizzly Bear Man here instead. It's not quite as good.

The Danish Superliga is still very, very silly. The only positive thing is that by the end of this season Rada Prica will play for Brøndby.

Posted 12:54 PM by Roy

It looks like Arsenal have signed some guy called Fran Merida (wasn't she The Nanny??), so here's a video of Fran Merida doing tricks, while rocking out to some Shania Twain.

Posted 1:12 AM by Roy

The Best Page in the Universe is very close to living up to its name. In the immortal words of Homer; I find your argument intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Anyway here are some witty and poignant thoughts on conspiracy morons. And there is a giftshop, which my site sorely needs.

In the departement of things that are not quite as clever, here's a video of a ladywho ruins her dress. Not just funny, Bob Saget funny!

PS: Walk the Line and The Assassination of Richard Nixon are both very nice movies. Really.

Posted 2:49 AM by Roy

Football's Coming Home (to Fly Emirates' place...)

I'm starting to be a bit restless about the new premier league season. I'm hoping Van Persie will make his impact on the new season in a good way, and not just by kicking people from Thun in the head again. Anyhow, here's a brilliant goal he scored last season courtesy of the good people of Soccerblog, whose readers, if you check the comments, are a bunch of bastards!

And can Arsenal meet FCK in the next qualifying round? Well, here's hoping...

Posted 4:32 PM by Roy

Oh so silly.

After years of ridicule and basically being called a (media)whore by Jones for having this weblog, it's nice to see that he has now started his own, which is basically a huge loveletter to Tommy T-Bone. And for those who are so inclined, he has started yet another weblog about his favorite womens footie team. Way to play on both horses.

Anderz, who is now the most prolific blogger around, found these two brilliant links, which I have now stolen because I am incredibly conlific these days.

Finally I would like to state that Pirates 2 is a very silly movie, and Superligaen is a very silly football league.

PS: And if anybody sees my Ray-Bans, that appear to have been brutally stolen, please drop me a line. I'm sure there'll be some kind of beer-related reward.

Posted 3:32 PM by Roy

Oh balls, it seems that every other day my computer acts as if it's about to blow up. Luckily it hasn't happened yet, but you'll forgive me if I'm a bit sick of it.

Anyway, for some absurd reason we saw Domino yesterday. What a load of crap that was. Easily one of the worst, most pointless films I've ever seen. We continue our miniature Keira Knightley-thon with Pirates 2 tonight. Hopefully it will be more entertaining fare.

Now I'm not suggesting that all stalkers are lunatics. Actually if you're standing in the bushes outside of Jessica Alba's house with a pair of binoculars, I can sorta see where you're coming from. But a woman obsessing about Klaus Pagh, that's just plain old crazy. In fact; that's sick and twisted. The first sentence of the article is not only crazy, sick and twisted, but also seems to suggest that Mr Pagh dresses as a pimp when he goes out for groceries.

Jon Stewart on the internets, on YouTube.

And that's bout it for now. Cheers.

Posted 9:35 PM by Roy

Now that's out of the way.

Ahh, the Roskilde Festival is over and done with, and a very good one it was too. So I figured i would do a quick round up of what I saw, and how it was:

• Editors (Very good, but left after 30min because it was too crowded)
• Trivium (Brilliant, and I entered the pit when they played Metallica and Megadeth)
• Guns n' Roses (Absolutely scandalous)
• Too Many Djs (A nice change in pace from the crapness of Gn'R. Saw 30 min. of DJ set)
• Veto (Very good. And they were visibly chuffed)
• Morrissey (Good set, great setlist)
• Bob Dylan (Yawnfest)
• Death Cab for Cutie (Absolutely brilliant)
• Scissor Sisters (Saw about three songs. Boring and crap)
• Spleen United (Seen them much better)
• Deftones (Seen better, but always good)
• Tool (Amazing, but even better last time)
• Wolfmother (Pretty good, and they were definitely into it)
• Franz Ferdinand (Seen better, but always good)
• The Raconteurs (Saw 30 min. but hat to leave. It was very good though. Way better than White Stripes)

So apart from Guns n' Roses, who I felt were absolutely taking a wee down my back for 3 hours, it was overall a very nice week. And I met a lot of cool people, so a good times was had.

Posted 4:22 PM by Roy

Again and again and again...

Jaaah, the Alice in Chains concert was pretty much everything I could have wished for. Probably one of the best shows I have ever seen. There's a very good review on Gaffa, in danish. It was one highlight after another, but if I had to mention two it would be Corey taylor from Slipknot singing Again, and Lars Ulrich playing on Man in the Box.
For a couple of days I was scared that I had done some serious damage to my left ear, but it's pretty much back to narmal now, although hearing has never been my strong side.

Tomorrow it's Skt. Hans, with everything that goes with that; burgers, beer and concerts. And then Monday I'll be heading for the dusty field in Roskilde. Not too shabby.

Following a couple of dissapointing games, and a lot of missed ones due to working in the shop, I'm recovering from my case of World Cup Fever. So now I just hope that Spain, Germany or Argentina win it, and that USA and Australia go reasonably far. I pretty much just hope that somebody kicks Brazil's arse thoroughly, since they're overrated and crap. The Pink Floyd of football.

Posted 3:49 PM by Roy

First lets get something to eat.

I handed in my last ever 20 page paper for school, and I have to say it's a nice feeling. Fish and chip of my shoulder. Now i just hope that it'll pass, because it really was not very good. And it was quite rushed. Fingers crossed and knock on wood.

When I haven't been feeling guilty about my crappy paper I've been watching a lot of World Cup footie, and it's quite brilliant! After the first round, when I've seen every team, I think I'll try to make a prioritized list of the teams I am going to support. It really is a shame that neither Denmark nor Ireland are there.

Speaking od Ireland, I'm a bit ambivalent about Roy Keane retiring. On one hand I would never wish for a guy to be so injured he couldn't play again, but on the other handI'm very pleased he won't play for Celtic again. He wil forever be a Manchester Utd player to me, and a bit of a bastard.

For now, and the next couple of days, I suspect the programme goes something like: Sleep, beer, football, sun, more beer, sleep, decompress, and then Monday Alice in Chains in Copenhagen. Dare I say: Yippee yippee???
If it hadn't been for that stupid speciale, this could have been my Summer of George.

PS: I've been trying to find the lyrics to Aluminium by Walking Concert, because it is the official feelgood hit of the summer. And because as far as I can hear it makes very little sense. Bu alas, it's not on the internet. Which ought to be unpossible!

Posted 2:20 PM by Roy

The thoroughly modern moustache? Finally! That's what I've been saying for years.

*Update: Show love for the 'stache for only £14.99.

Posted 10:08 PM by Roy

Unfortunately I haven't been a very good blogger for a while, with the Spot Festival and doing absolutely nothing while trying to get started on my paper consuming most of my time. Luckily one of my friends sent me these links, which I will then post for your viewing pleasure.

Unintentionally gay music videos.
And some dude making a The Thing costume out of, well, rock. - Just when we thought the internet had run out of stupid-ass ideas....

Uh-oh, Depche Mode on Wednesday. Dare I say Yippeee???!

Posted 4:29 PM by Roy

It's a bear eat monkey world.

The story about the dutch zoo-bears who ate a zoo-monkey, reached Denmark just now, some 4 days after it happened. But only after a detour through America, where Colbert has already picked it up. Simply click on the link that says Bears Eat Monkey (under Colbert Report Videos).

Posted 11:41 AM by Roy

Well, this is just crazy funny! 10 Things I Hate about Commandments. [via interestingstuff.dk]

Posted 4:47 PM by Roy

What a Stinker!

Well, apparently Arsenal lost yesterdays Champions League Final, and apparently it's all the ref's fault. Obviously I do enjoy Henry calling Barca's players women, but I think it's a bit harsh to say that the ref favoured Barca, since Arsenals goal came from a freekick following one of the most blatant dives I've ever seen.

Enough about football. I've decided that I really like the band Walking Concert, and you should definitely go to their MySpace site and listen to the song What's Your New Thing. Afterall, a band named after a line from Crossroads, starring Karate Kid Ralph Macchio, can't be bad. And just to make things more appealing, they're fronted by Walter Schreifels, the all-round nice guy from Rival Schools. Now, run out and buy the album.

I guess that's pretty much it for now. I'm still mildly bummed.

Posted 11:12 AM by Roy

Alice in Chains performing Would? with Pantera's Phil Anselmo. How nice.

Posted 5:34 PM by Roy

God damn, I'm bored. It's so like me, being stuck indoors working while all the other kids are out playing.

So after having searched the entire internet (danish and english websites) I have decided that this joke by Sebastian Dorset deserves a honorable mention.

The same goes for this rather lengthy article about Englands future national team coach. If only I had found it before McCla... Macclar....MacBare...BacMaren...Macca got the job. It's funnier than it sounds! Honest.

Also, I've gotten completely hooked on the song I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (<-not a download link) by The Proclaimers. It's absolutely brilliant.

That's it for now. Feel free to say something funny or interesting.

Posted 11:16 PM by Roy

I ain't no Hollerbach Girl...

Posted 5:30 PM by Roy

Movies.

Roger Ebert has a list of 101 movies that you should have seen in order to be somewhat "movie-literate." I think maybe I've done a similar kind of thing before, but just for kicks I have marked the ones I've actually seen from end ot end. Then you can laugh and point fingures because I often pretend to know anything about movies.


* "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) Stanley Kubrick
"The 400 Blows" (1959) Francois Truffaut
"8 1/2" (1963) Federico Fellini
"Aguirre, the Wrath of God" (1972) Werner Herzog
* "Alien" (1979) Ridley Scott
"All About Eve" (1950) Joseph L. Mankiewicz
"Annie Hall" (1977) Woody Allen
* "Bambi" (1942) Disney
* "Battleship Potemkin" (1925) Sergei Eisenstein
"The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946) William Wyler
"The Big Red One" (1980) Samuel Fuller
* "The Bicycle Thief" (1949) Vittorio De Sica
"The Big Sleep" (1946) Howard Hawks
* "Blade Runner" (1982) Ridley Scott
"Blowup" (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni
* "Blue Velvet" (1986) David Lynch
* "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn
* "Breathless" (1959 Jean-Luc Godard
"Bringing Up Baby" (1938) Howard Hawks
* "Carrie" (1975) Brian DePalma
"Casablanca" (1942) Michael Curtiz
* "Un Chien Andalou" (1928) Luis Bunuel & Salvador Dali
"Children of Paradise" / "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945) Marcel Carne
* "Chinatown" (1974) Roman Polanski
* "Citizen Kane" (1941) Orson Welles
* "A Clockwork Orange" (1971) Stanley Kubrick
* "The Crying Game" (1992) Neil Jordan
* "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) Robert Wise
"Days of Heaven" (1978) Terence Malick
* "Dirty Harry" (1971) Don Siegel
"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" (1972) Luis Bunuel
* "Do the Right Thing" (1989 Spike Lee
* "La Dolce Vita" (1960) Federico Fellini
* "Double Indemnity" (1944) Billy Wilder
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964) Stanley Kubrick
"Duck Soup" (1933) Leo McCarey
* "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" (1982) Steven Spielberg
* "Easy Rider" (1969) Dennis Hopper
* "The Empire Strikes Back" (1980) Irvin Kershner
* "The Exorcist" (1973) William Friedkin
* "Fargo" (1995) Joel & Ethan Coen
* "Fight Club" (1999) David Fincher
"Frankenstein" (1931) James Whale
* "The General" (1927) Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman
* "The Godfather," "The Godfather, Part II" (1972, 1974) Francis Ford Coppola
* "Gone With the Wind" (1939) Victor Fleming
* "GoodFellas" (1990) Martin Scorsese
* "The Graduate" (1967) Mike Nichols
* "Halloween" (1978) John Carpenter
"A Hard Day's Night" (1964) Richard Lester
* "Intolerance" (1916) D.W. Griffith
"It's A Gift" (1934) Norman Z. McLeod
* "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) Frank Capra
"Jaws" (1975) Steven Spielberg
"The Lady Eve" (1941) Preston Sturges
"Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) David Lean
* "M" (1931) Fritz Lang
"Mad Max 2" / "The Road Warrior" (1981) George Miller
"The Maltese Falcon" (1941) John Huston
"The Manchurian Candidate" (1962) John Frankenheimer
* "Metropolis" (1926) Fritz Lang
"Modern Times" (1936) Charles Chaplin
* "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975) Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam
"Nashville" (1975) Robert Altman
"The Night of the Hunter" (1955) Charles Laughton
* "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) George Romero
"North by Northwest" (1959) Alfred Hitchcock
* "Nosferatu" (1922) F.W. Murnau
"On the Waterfront" (1954) Elia Kazan
"Once Upon a Time in the West" (1968) Sergio Leone
"Out of the Past" (1947) Jacques Tournier
"Persona" (1966) Ingmar Bergman
"Pink Flamingos" (1972) John Waters
* "Psycho" (1960) Alfred Hitchcock
* "Pulp Fiction" (1994) Quentin Tarantino
"Rashomon" (1950) Akira Kurosawa
"Rear Window" (1954) Alfred Hitchcock
"Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) Nicholas Ray
"Red River" (1948) Howard Hawks
"Repulsion" (1965) Roman Polanski
"Rules of the Game" (1939) Jean Renoir
"Scarface" (1932) Howard Hawks
"The Scarlet Empress" (1934) Josef von Sternberg
* "Schindler's List" (1993) Steven Spielberg
* "The Searchers" (1956) John Ford
"The Seven Samurai" (1954) Akira Kurosawa
"Singin' in the Rain" (1952) Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly
* "Some Like It Hot" (1959) Billy Wilder
"A Star Is Born" (1954) George Cukor
"A Streetcar Named Desire" (1951) Elia Kazan
"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) Billy Wilder
* "Taxi Driver" (1976) Martin Scorsese
* "The Third Man" (1949) Carol Reed
"Tokyo Story" (1953) Yasujiro Ozu
* "Touch of Evil" (1958) Orson Welles
"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) John Huston
"Trouble in Paradise" (1932) Ernst Lubitsch
* "Vertigo" (1958) Alfred Hitchcock
"West Side Story" (1961) Jerome Robbins/Robert Wise
"The Wild Bunch" (1969) Sam Peckinpah
"The Wizard of Oz" (1939) Victor Fleming

Sadly I've only seen 48 of them, and curiously I once talked about Howard Hawkes in a lecture on auteur theory, without having seen any of his movies. How did you do?

Posted 9:39 AM by Roy

On Night in Paris.

So, I don't wanna jinx anything, but Arsenal look pretty good to go through to their first ever Champions League final. Now the question is; should I blow all my money on going to Paris to see it? Feel free to give any donations you can spare....

Posted 5:53 PM by Roy

I'm so Excited...

Can you feel the tension building? Actually I haven't quite gotten into hyper-excitement mode about tonight's game. Maybe it's just because I'm tired, maybe it's because I really care much more about the league, or maybe it's because I know in my heart of hearts that it should be impossible to beat a team called El Subarino Amarillo.

Anyhoo, there's not a lot more going on these days; I try to read some for my thesis, and watch as much stand up as I can. The Dennis Miller Live dvd is pretty funny, but I was a bit dissapointed be Lewis Black's Black on Broadway.

Oh, and if you ever get a chance, you should spend a night at Anderz and Stine's place: They cook a mean brunch!

Posted 3:47 PM by Roy

Smile like you mean it!




25.000 hits on the old blog has finally been achieved.
- So far, worldwide superstardom does not seem any closer...

Posted 11:50 PM by Roy

Hooray for Arsenal. I only saw highlights, but 3 of the goals were absolutely brilliant. Adebayor looks on top form, and could be a good bet to put the final nails in Juventus' coffin. (Update: That is obviously bollocks since he is cup-tied in the Champions League. But Persie also looked very good, so just change Adebayors name for Van Persies, and continue reading...)

Hooray for Roethlisburgers. 250 grams of meat could put the final nails in my coffin though.

And hooray for danish 1. division football next season, which will hopefully feature AGF, Brabrand and Aarhus Fremad, which means derby games every other week in Aarhus. AGF got another nail for a very tightly shut coffin today. More on that later.

And just an all-round hooray for coffins.

That's it, I'm going to bed.

PS: Plastic shotgun sold seperatly...

Posted 6:58 PM by Roy

You can't always get what you want.

Friend: Hey Roy, are you growing a beard?
Roy: I have a beard...

Oh well. Today is all about a multi-media football extravaganza, as there is Brøndby-OB + Lyon-Milan on the telly, radiosporten on the radio, and I'll keep track of Man United on that there internets.
Apparently Arsenal where pretty darn good yesterday, and I hate that I didn't get to see the game, but I was hard at work watching Fear Factory, and you can read my review right here.

This is brilliant journalism: He (Vieira) will remember being dispossessed by that renowned biting tackler, Robert 'Chopper' Pires, six minutes before half time.

Niall Quinn is apparently considering taking over Sunderland, which means that I will have to start supporting them, even if it is against my better judgement.

On a completely different note, Bill Maher is pretty funny, and John sent me this video of him reciting translated rap-lyrics. Good stuff!

And finally Brøndby Football Club have started a cooperation with Denmarks biggest chain of gyms, because surely the chances of getting your ass kicked by a Brøndby supporter aren't big enough as they are. Why don't we just start handing out guns to them as well.
Also I feel confident that the level of discussion at the stadium will be raised by the addition of steroids, to the already impressive list of drugs consumed there. Good thinking Brøndby!

Posted 7:01 PM by Roy

The Superficial has the entire banned Scientology episode of South Park online. God bless people who know how to use their bandwidth for good

Posted 2:10 PM by Roy

Changes you won't notice...

The more avid readers will notice that there has been a bit of spring cleaning in the links, most notably I've added The Superficial, which is at times an extremely funny resource for videos and gossip. Ever the optimist, I'm still hoping for a blogging comeback from Charlotte and John, so I'll give them some more time before they'll have to go.

In other news, The Wedding Crashers is a horrible movie, and not at all worth the 35kr it cost to rent. A History of Violence was better, without really deserving the great reviews it got. It does however contain great performances from Ed Harris and William Hurt, and the most gratuitous nudity you'll ever see. At first I was a bit dissapointed, because I had it confused with this movie, and thought it was a history of violins, but you live and learn I guess.

Oh, and Steven Gerrard just got a red card after 17 minutes. Good stuff, even if it means the game will end in a nil-nil stalemate.

Posted 12:44 AM by Roy

B For Bimsetøj.

V For Vendetta is very enjoyable. I can highly recommend going to see previews at Cinemaxx, since apparently you don't have to sit through 15 minutes of commercials.

Nothing, however, has been quite as funny as Bin Ladens guest appearance on Family Guy.

Nothing else going on. At all.

Posted 8:01 PM by Roy

So, I figured I'd better update this wasteland of a weblog sooner or later, because I know how worried Dennis gets when I don't make any sounds for a while. There's not a lot going on right now. For some reason my brain has mistaken writing my thesis for being unemployed, so I generally just sleep a lot, and do little else.

I saw the I Am Bones/Veto gig friday which was kinda cool. I won't even mention Gravy....

And in yet another case in a long list of the Gods mocking me, I won't be home to watch Arsenal take on Juventus, which could actually easily turn out to be a blessing in disguise. Don't wanna jinx this one.

Apart from this, all my energy goes into preparing myself for bikini season. It's quite a production.

Finally, it should be noted that the list of bands I absolutely do not get, has just been expanded with Anthony and the Johnsons, and Velvet Underground. The entire list should get up one of these days, but it'll probably take a while.

Posted 3:24 PM by Roy

Champions League Extravaganza.

Hurray, finally there's some fantastic footie action going on, that's actually worth wasting my time on. Arsenal played arguably the best football of the season, and the best european game since that night in Milano against Inter. Unfortunately I don't know a lot of Real Madrid faithfuls, so that takes away a bit of the fun.

Chelsea, however, lost to Barca, which is funny. Not that there's any shame in losing to the best team in he world right now, it's just great to see Mourinho crying like a little baby, making excuses like “The kid jumps and provokes contact with Del Horno and because of that the referee gives a red card", completely discarding the facts that a) Del Horno was a full yard away from the ball when clattering Messi, and b) Seconds before Messi decided to wipe his butt with Robben, Del Horny tried to make a pretty nasty tackle on Messi, but somehow missed. If those are not signals of intent then, well, bugger me with a lit cigar. The fans are apparently also a bit angry about the whole thing. I especially like the sentence: It was a shocking decision and UEFA should partially redeem matters by declaring the card null and void. Don't hold your breath, after all we're not a G14 club are we?" -Extremely whiny words from the second richest club in the world. Again, they don't seem to care that Terry later tried to dry-hump a Barca player, in the penalty area, whilst handling the ball. But fair game to them, we all get a bit biased now and then.

Suddenly there a bit of dignity to the guy at work who hung up a Liverpool banner Wednesday morning, saying: We only lost 1-0, so we're as good as through...

Posted 7:03 PM by Roy

I Gotta Have More Cowbell, Baby.

I've been watching the Chronicles of Narnia Rap and the More Cowbell videos today, and I have to admit their both still brilliant.

I've been using Pandora for a while, and even though it's a bit hit/miss I think it's quite cool. I've been dicovering some cool songs that I hadn't heard before, including Maureen by FOW, which is quickly becoming a FOW favorite, and Cheap Sunglasses from Radio Soulwax Essential Mix which mixes ZZ Top with Jay-Z's 99 Problems. If you can find it anywhere it's worthwhile. (And please give me a copy...)

Also I'm now on the Ronnie Atkins-diet, which is a lot like the regular Atkins diet, except with a couple of beers now and then, just for good meassure.

I think that's it for now.

Posted 1:25 AM by Roy

Warning: This is only (marginally) funny if you speak Danish!

If you want an energetic footballer, based on his last name I think this is your guy.

That's it for today, good night...

Posted 8:45 PM by Roy

Sacrilicious...

I was just out for some Diet Coke, when I realized that my local kiosk is actually selling the Dianetics book, which of course is some of the basis for Scientology. It struck me as kind of weird that if the shopkeeper was in fact a scientologist, and was able to command the full potential of his mind, isn't it a bit sad that he's spending his thursday nights selling Diet Coke to assholes like me? Shouldn't he be out stopping wars, or even better, shoudn't he be out making movies? Shouldn't he at least have some basic knowledge of the Danish language?

And anyway, who walks into a shop going: "Hi, can I have a diet coke, some Polos, eh, a newspaper, one of the glossy ones please, and the key to tapping into the last 90% of my mental potential, which my fellow people seem unable to."

Anyway, I've been surfing around Amazon for a couple of minutes, and it struck me that the user-reviews for books like Dianetics, The Koran, and the Bible indicate that people either love them or hate them. The best one I found was for The Holy Bible, and I have thus decided to steal the entire thing:

"Could Use a Sequal...
As a book 'The Bible' starts well, but you soon find yourself bogged down in the backstory and unable to grasp everything before you end up launched into the main plot almost half way through the novel.
As the main storyline goes there's not much to distinguish 'The Bible' from many other mainstream works of fiction or fantasy, there's betrayal, war, death, birth and lots of moral messages (some of which tend to contradict each other) but it's enjoyable to read. Unfortunately the ending is a little forced and almost seems like the whole 'End of the World' thing was tacked on to make the book sell. That said, however, it does show a good impression of Armageddon, though it does get a bit biblical in places.
I would recommend that younger readers be warned away from this book as, from the way it is written, they may have a tendancy to take it literally. Also there is a lot of sex (or 'Begatting') only a few chapters into the story. Overall the whole thing could use a sequel to tie up all the plot holes and contradictions, but it's still an enjoyable read.
If you loved this, try reading 'The Koran', it's a laugh-a-minute riot of a novel!"

Posted 7:11 PM by Roy

A Golfing Rebel, or a Rebellious Golfer?

I've never really had the need to have a favorite golfer before, but now that Ian Poulter has taken to wearing his very fashionable Arsenal shirt, he obviously has to be it. He didn't get fined for it, btw, which is a bit of a shame, since that would make it seem way more rebellious.

Also I'm happy to report that I passed both the papers I handed in in January. I actually managed to get another 10, which makes that two for two this semester. That has never happened before, and is very unikely to happen again, since I only have one exam, and my speciale, left. It would be nice though.

And Soulwax are playing in Copenhagen this May, which is perhaps even better news! Apparently it's free, and sponsered by Lee Jeans, and I have a weird feeling it will somehow go wrong. We'll see about that.

Also it has been confirmed that I will go see Fear Factory when they hit Aarhus in March. Incidentally it's 10 years ago that I saw them for the first time, at Roskilde '96, but I think they pretty much sound the same.

It' been a very nice day overall, and right now I'm listening to the quite brilliant Diefenbach album which I got for my birthday. Hopefully Arsenal will end this day in style by thrashing West Ham. I'm strangely optimistic.

Posted 10:21 PM by Roy

Bring that Brazil bootie on the floor.

Well, it's turning into a regular blogging frenzy today.

John showed me the following two videos, which are incredibly cool. First it's David Hasselhoff doing Hooked on a Feeling, and then James Lipton reciting the lyrics to PopoZao, better known as the Kevin Federline single nobody have ever heard.

Posted 9:08 PM by Roy

There Comes a Day Tomorrow.

So, I have officially turned 26 now, and I had a very nice birthday, and some very nice presents. All in all it was very nice. Tomorrow I'm going to stand in line for tickets for Depeche Mode, which will be incredibly expensive, and I don't have any money, which could turn out to be a problem.

Right now the best thing on TV is Just Married with Ashton Kutcher - I'm pretty sure I just got punk'd!

And what the heck is going on with The Arsenal? It's absolutely horrible. Every team hits a down cycle every now and then, and obviously all teams are bound to lose every now and then, but being kicked out of cups by the likes of Wigan and Bolton just doesn't cut it. If we lost to Chelsea or United it would be frustrating, but losing to Wigan is just plain silly. Hopefully Mr Wenger has a Plan B lined up for next season. Hopefully it involves winning the Uefa Cup since Champions League seems a bit out of reach at the moment...

Posted 8:20 PM by Roy

Do we really need headlines?

I had my last oral exam yesterday, which was basically just our group talking about our movie. We all got a 10, which is pretty good. It was a rather silly class, so I can't say it means the world to me, but it looks nice on paper.

I am growing increasingly weary with the Walcot-saga. It appears that Arsenal are close to signing him, but so far it's really just a lot of hype, and I have no idea if he's any good. It wouldn't be completely accurate to claim that AW has a perfect trackrecord when it comes to splashing big money on youngsters. And it would be nice to have some players that aren't in their teens.

This video is pretty funny, and courtesy of Søren at interestingstuff.

I'm not entirely sure what this company is selling, but I'm pretty sure it's something I need.

Also, but for completely different reasons, I'm pretty sure I need to buy the new album by Larsen & Furious Jane. I've only heard two songs, but it's quite brilliant.

Posted 12:51 AM by Roy

Conan gets involved in Finnish politics.

And how nice to see Arsenal absolutely destroy Boro yesterday. Not that I hate Boro, or anything. Actually they're one of the more agreeable teams in England. But still. I think this article, from a Boro fansite, says it all.

Finally, regarding the Colbert link from the other day, you can see the clip in question at Comedy Central. Find the clip called ThreatDown: Robots.

Posted 8:53 PM by Roy

Breaking Noosh.

So, as promised I'm back again. Two posts in a day, that hasn't happened in a while. I handed in my last paper for this semester today, and while I was feeling happy and relieved, I decided to write one of my teachers and ask him if he would consider being the superviser for my Speciale sometime in the future.
Quite surprisingly he had time to fit me in right now, so now I have semi-officially started working on my speciale. If everything goes according to plan, that means I won't run out of money in the next semester. Good stuff!

And just as I thought that all that stuff about Friday 13th was bollocks, I got fined in the bus for not having a ticket. 500 smackers out the window! Worst part is, I was actually waiting for the bus for quite a while, and considered taking a taxi, but then decided against it to save money.

Arsenal are going crazy, buying players left and right. I know that this may come out the wrong way, but it would be nice if we could get a player called Jones, Smith, Jensen or something that we can actually pronounce for once. If you are going for a player with a funny name, you can't beat this guy though.

Finally, last night while watching Liga DK i heard the song Breaking News by Mads Langer. Suddenly i realized that the guy has some sort of speech impediment, which means he can't pronounce an S-sound. So now all I can focus on, is when he sings "Picking daischies with a schmile". Oh well, it's pretty horrible anyway. But see for yourself here.

Posted 2:20 PM by Roy

Colbert fights Associated Press over 'Truthiness'. (Stephen Colbert, not Morten).

More later...
...no,really...

Posted 11:17 AM by Roy

Ok, I found this while I was looking for pictures for Rob or Fab III. I decided to wait a bit and use it, because really it's just so much more spot on.

Posted 2:25 PM by Roy

Rob or Fab III - Cygan or Psycho?



Back by popular demand, it's time for another installment of Rob or Fab?
Who is Cygan, and who is Psycho Ståle Solbakken?
Who is the only tall player to come out of Lille, and who is the fiercest coach ever produced by Hammar-Kammeraterne?
Who actually dropped dead on the training ground once, and who could sometimes improve his game by doing the same?
Who likes Serge Gainsburg and who likes Marduk?
Yes, it's France against Norway - and it could be harder than you think. Or not.
(PS: I've used a high-tech bluring device, so you won't recognize their jerseys.)