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About Me


films (of all kinds: from low budget indies to mammoth blockbusters), film-making, photography, art, music (especially Nordic/Scandinavian/Icelandic) travelling...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

people

Music:

a-ha, savoy, magne f, the cardigans, a camp, pink floyd, the doors, radiohead, royksopp, jenna reid, anneli drecker, tangerine dream, brian eno, dido, joy division, new order, kronos quartet, susanna and the magical orchestra, moby, the sounds, bjork, nine inch nails, emiliana torrini, sigur ros, nirvana, kate havnevik, air, deep forest, clint mansell, elliot goldenthal

Movies:

Blade Runner, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, The Godfather, Alien, Once Upon A Time In The West, Dune, The Keep, Manhunter, Heat, The Insider, Collateral, The Terminator, Terminator 2, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, Klaus Kinski - My Best Fiend, The Shawshank Redemption, Seven, Donnie Darko, Memento, The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, Even Dwarves Started Small, The Seventh Seal, Nosferatu, Hidden Fortress, Wild Strawberries, The Virgin Spring, The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Near Dark, Strange Days, Point Break, 1492 Conquest of Paradise, Legend, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Fight Club, Amelie, Alexander Nevsky, Ivan the Terrible Pts I & II, Fanny & Alexander, Rushmore, Conan The Barbarian, Apocalypse Now, United 93, The Bourne Supremacy, Die Hard, Map of the Human Heart, The English Patient, Lawrence of Arabia, JFK, The Last of the Mohicans, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Manhattan, Annie Hall, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Unforgiven, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Gladiator, Withnail and I, The Fisher King, It's A Wonderful Life, The Return (Russia), Wings of Desire, Dances With Wolves, Ran, Seven Samurai, Paris Texas, Badlands, The Thin Red Line

My Blog

October

Dawn awaits a sleepless, English townof coloured greyHere I roam the streets without youas summer fades away ...down in the city at nightsThe cold winds blow Wherever you may be right nowit must be ge...
Posted by mark on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:46:00 PST

Apocalypse Spears

Hilarious. And so appropriate.
Posted by mark on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:12:00 PST

Blogger

so i've just set up a new blog page which i'm gonna (try to) update now and again... http://magnusnomad.blogspot.com/ not much there just yet but i'll let you know when the interesting stuff starts to...
Posted by mark on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:59:00 PST

Worst film?

What's the worst film you've ever seen? I narrowed it down to a few: Speed 2: Cruise Control (worst sequel ever made, so bad even Keanu refused to do it. Sandra Bullock had no such reservations though...
Posted by mark on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:56:00 PST

ebay...

...the destroyer of disposable income. Damn it.
Posted by mark on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:27:00 PST

And now...the silence - Ingmar Bergman 1918 - 2007

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, local media reported. He was 89 years old. Bergman died at his hom...
Posted by mark on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:59:00 PST

Laszlo Kovacs 1933 - 2007

Laszlo Kovacs, one of Hollywood's most influential and respected directors of photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74. Kovacs lensed the landmark cinematic achievement "Easy Rider" an...
Posted by mark on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 01:04:00 PST

The Annual Ernest Hemingway Lookalike Contest

Bizarre. Pretty cool though. The annual Ernest Hemingway Lookalike Contest saw 123 men competing for the title in Key West, Florida, where the writer lived in the 1930s. Winner Larry Austin, who has b...
Posted by mark on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:59:00 PST

The Verve reform! Where did that come from?

British rock group The Verve have announced they are reforming, eight years on from their acrimonious split. According to a statement on lead singer Richard Ashcroft's website, the 90s band were back...
Posted by mark on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:56:00 PST

Further evidence the Labour government has totally lost the plot.

The identity card scheme will become a "great British institution" on a par with the railways in the 19th Century, Home Office minister Liam Byrne says. He said it was "time to get on with it" and pr...
Posted by mark on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:04:00 PST