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John Fogde

There Is NothingTo Not Be Amazed At

About Me


I was a cop, and good at my job. But then I committed the ultimate sin and testified against other cops - gone bad. Cops who tried to kill me, but got the woman I loved instead. Framed for murder, now I prowl the badlands. An outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter - a renegade!
I'm obsessed with popular culture, which not only had an impact on my choice to study Media Science, but has now also helped me get a job at the Danish music magazine GAFFA, where I am the GAFFA.dk News Editor and a Contributing Editor to GAFFA.
Obviously, I'm very interested in music and have worked with music journalism in one form or the other for about 15 years. I'm also very interested in modern art (I used to run the Andy Warhol website warhol.dk ), modern literature, movies, and television.
I wrote my thesis on weblogs, which looked at the development from the earliest logs to the development of online communities and the commercial potential weblogs are only being to see now. Ironically, after having given interviews and lectured on weblogs for a couple of years I have since then pretty much dropped out of the weblog-world and I'm currently struggling to keep my music weblog frekvens.dk alive.

My Interests

Festivals, traveling, music, modern art, writing, and football

I'd like to meet:


Lou Reed, Bret Easton Ellis, and Heidi Klum.

Music:

Honestly, there are just too many to mention, but a few which stand out are Death Cab for Cutie, Built to Spill, Guided by Voices, Pavement, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Wilco, The Dandy Warhols, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Local H, Art Brut, Aimee Mann, Nine Inch Nails, Arcade Fire, Interpol, Ben Folds (Five), Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Fountains of Wayne, Mark Kozelek, The Smiths, Morrissey, Nick Drake, Queens of the Stone Age, The Shins, Rival Schools, The Flaming Lips, Nada Surf, Belle & Sebastian, and Duran Duran.

Movies:

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Clerks, Office Space, Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, Out Of Sight, Say Anything, Singles, Crash, The Station Agent, You Can Count On Me, Edward Scissorhands, Magnolia, State & Main, Short Cuts, The Big Lebowski, Good Will Hunting, A Simple Plan, 28 Days Later, Ghost World, Lost In Translation, Desperado, Beautiful Girls, Sling Blade

Television:

Seinfeld, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, The Boondocks, Everybody Hates Chris, The Sopranos, The Wire, The X-Files, Twin Peaks, Letterman, The Daily Show, The Office, Black Books, The West Wing, Little Britain, Black Adder, The Young Ones, Arrested Development, The Colbert Report

Books:

Generation X, Microserfs, American Psycho, Glamorama, Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Word Freak, The Corrections, A White Merc with Fins, High Fidelity, About a Boy, On the Road, Bright Lights Big City, Model Behaviour, Awaydays, Slaughterhouse 5, The Bonfire of the Vanities

Heroes:

Andy Warhol, Douglas Coupland, Bret Easton Ellis, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Billy Name, Lou Reed, Nick Rhodes, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Woody Allen, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, Cameron Crowe, Shepard Fairey, Thierry Henry, Robert Pires, Ryan Adams, Bob Dylan, Denis Leary, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard

My Blog

Pics from Los Angeles

I took a heap of pictures during my recent stay in Los Angeles, but I haven't gotten around to upload them yet. But I've picked out a handful, which you can check out here on MySpace - mostly they're ...
Posted by John Fogde on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:45:00 PST

Roskilde pictures

I finally got around to uploading pictures from last week's Roskilde Festival and as a bonus I added a few pics from my trip to Amsterdam.If you go to the gallery's main page you can also find shots f...
Posted by John Fogde on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:32:00 PST

Watch Musikprogrammet tonight

Arctic Monkeys played a gig in Copenhagen on the 8th of March and the next day I did an interview with the for the cover of the April issue of GAFFA.We brought along our star photographer Søren Starbi...
Posted by John Fogde on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:14:00 PST

The Sun Always Shines On TV

Maybe one or two of your weren't glued to the screen Wednesday night, when the local TV2 station aired a segment about why bands from this area are doing so well right now and why so many are nominate...
Posted by John Fogde on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:22:00 PST

The Hold Steady Crew

I was talking to this girl on Friday, who apologized profusely for not having had the time to listen to the records I had recommended her last we met. But she ensured me that at the first possible fre...
Posted by John Fogde on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:11:00 PST

I Woke Up With The Power Out

I went out into the night, I went out to find some light. Kids are swingin' from the power lines, nobody's home so nobody minds.I woke up on the darkest night, neighbors all were shouting that they fo...
Posted by John Fogde on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:49:00 PST

More pictures

I took a bunch of pictures at Skanderborg 2006 and a few on the trip I made to London a few days later, which are all available in the gallery.
Posted by John Fogde on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:58:00 PST

Where the fuck was Jan Hammer?

We just came back from seeing Miami Vice and I must say I was pretty disappointed. Where were the white suits? Where was the yacht? Where was the alligator? Where was the Ferrari? Where was the gratui...
Posted by John Fogde on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:06:00 PST

Man, I just realized how noisy MySpace is!

That's what a friend of mine said to me recently and he was absolutely right. Even if you stay clear of band profiles everyone seems to have the song du jour by the band du jour (which is not a bad ba...
Posted by John Fogde on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:27:00 PST

Deciding on new glasses

I've finally gotten around to start looking for new glasses and much to my surprise opticians will let you bring home frames, so you can get use to them at home. Just for fun I've taken a few picture...
Posted by John Fogde on Sun, 06 Aug 2006 12:46:00 PST