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Gunnar

I am here for Friends

About Me

Journalist, TV and print.Play a bit of guitar. A friend owns a farm i Todal, Norway. Some kids from the valley started Rock Mot Ras (The Rock Against Landslide festival) on his land and my friend insisted on playing, and I joined + a proper musicianfriend (we all used to write for Studvest - the studentpaper i Bergen). Three boys playing guitar and singing. Our name is Krank, this is our yearly gig!I was Best man for Banski, Las Vegas 2004! I covered the Roskilde Festival five times. Traveled round the world in 1997/98, eight months on the road: Thailand, New Zealand, Australia (3 months), Fiji, Cook Islands, USA: LA, to Banski in Carbondale, San Francisco, Seattle and then home to Stavanger.Have: Friends, 2 brothers, mum and dad, 5 unclekids, 2 sisters-in-law, apartment, two guitars. Membershipcard in Liverpool Football Club Supporters Club Scandinavian Branch and the ME/CFS-illness.Seeking: Better health and girlfriend. Can I have that?

My Interests

Beer and everything fun!

I'd like to meet:

Naomi Watts, Drew Barrymore, Jesus, Budda, Cameron Diaz, Ghandi, Uma Thurman, Irvine Welsh, Ã…sne Seierstad, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Joe Strummer, Elvis, Kurt Cobain, Pricilla and Rachel Sweet.
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Music:

Jokke, Iggy Pop, White Stripes, Clash, Pogues, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Dylan, Shins, Armitage Shanks, Ramones, Richard Hawley, Pixies, Neil Young, Nick Lowe, Led Zeppelin, Lone Justice,They Might Be Giants, AC/DC, Bowie, Blur, Franz Ferdinand.

Movies:

Trainspotting, Deadline USA, The Blues Brothers, Shaun of the Dead, Lord of the Rings, Goodfellas, The Color of Money, Mongoland, Sjokoladesaus, Rumblefish, Buddy, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction

Television:

Seinfeld, TV Vest, Sopranos, Team Antonsen, My Name is Earl, The Show.

Books:

Love is a Dog from Hell, Notes of a Dirty Old Man and all others from Charles Bukowski. Fear and Loathing on the Campain Trail, Generation of Swine and all others from Hunter S. Thompson. Ryszard Kapuscinski, Norman Mailer, Irvine Welsh, Charlie Williams, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, John King, Kevin Sampson, James Crumley.Books about rock: Hammer of the Gods, Rotten by John Lydon, Hell Bent for Leather by Sebastian Hunter.Comics: Rocky, Pondus, Peter Bagge, Frank Miller, Christopher Nielsen and Steffen Kverneland

Heroes:

Joe Strummer, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S. Thompson

My Blog

Ford Fairlane

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) Ford Fairlane: I could've been a rock singer, if only I hadn't been banned from MTV. Long story. But anyway, I only know that one song. Well, I do a me...
Posted by Gunnar on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:53:00 PST

300 is fascist

I guess many action movies have fascist tendencies, but not as bad as 300. Its sickening! A society that throws the disabled babies off cliffs, and this is somehow a good thing?I just dont joke around...
Posted by Gunnar on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:28:00 PST

The snake skin deal

The snake skin deal I was the deal of the century. I used to kill vipers (hoggorm) around the cottage. Same with dad, same with Karl Johan and Svein, my brothers. If you saw a viper, you beat it ...
Posted by Gunnar on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:43:00 PST

Repo Man

Repo Man I just saw Repo Man again. Harry Dean Stanton and others has a lot of great lines: Ordinary fucking people! I hate them! I dont care how long it takes, dildos! Repo Man´s got all...
Posted by Gunnar on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:51:00 PST

Lesbian Love

Happy birthday, Mia Hundvin! 30 years of age March 7, 2007 Who? Just this gorgeous girl that played on Norways National handball team for years. I interviewed her once, and Man! Those long eyelashes! ...
Posted by Gunnar on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:06:00 PST

weird dream

Weird dream When I was about six years old I had this dream: Me and a girl the same age is chased round the Circus by the director. He wears a tophat and black beard, he is very evil, we ar...
Posted by Gunnar on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:25:00 PST

Rasist hooligans- John Carew

Rasist hooligans - John Carew OK, its sunday night fotball (or soccer as you americans call it), a few years ago. Viking FK (me, us, our club!) against Rosenborg. We ruled in the 70s, they ruled...
Posted by Gunnar on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:13:00 PST

Gammal på byen

Cementen, Stavanger, laurdag kveld: Eg har gått her sida før puben blei Cementen, over ti år. I kveld er lokalet pakka vegg til vegg med vene unge menneskje, og eg kjenner ingen av dei. Men sjå ...
Posted by Gunnar on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:13:00 PST

Is it cool to be a journalist?

I always thought that being a journalist was a really cool thing to be. Just think of Walter Cronkite or Hunter S. Thompson. Hell, even Superman was a journalist when he was off saving the World!But l...
Posted by Gunnar on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 03:56:00 PST

Cool people 4

Cool people 4: Policeman Arne KlunglandSummer of 1999, early morning: The police go into a building in Stavanger, heavily armed, wearing helmets and bulletproof wests. I film the thing for my TV-stati...
Posted by Gunnar on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 05:45:00 PST