Music, interesting people, movies, food, drink and a good conversation, travel, books (novels, biographies, graphic novels, comic books), creativity in general, listening to records late into the night after a few too many drinks. Favourite cities: Stockholm, New York and Amsterdam. I have no interest in sports whatsoever. ......
I'd like to meet:
Friends, co-writers and - if possible - a female soul mate for further investigation. (I know she's out there!)
Music:
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: The Beatles (+solo), David Bowie, early/mid-period Genesis (+Gabriel solo), Kevin Gilbert, Camel, Jan Johansson, Kate Bush, Sigur Ros, Todd Rundgren, Neil Young, Cornelis Vreeswijk, The Beach Boys, Jellyfish, Midlake, The Pixies, Prince, XTC, The Band, AC/DC, Prefab Sprout, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, The Church/Marty Willson-Piper, Ray Charles, Antony And The Johnsons, Steely Dan, Monica Zetterlund, Roger Rönning, Rickie Lee Jones, Gil Scott-Heron, Bruce Springsteen, Nils Erikson, Stefan Sundström, Astor Piazzolla, My Morning Jacket, Teitur, The Essex Green, The Feeling, Pink Floyd, ELO, Flaming Lips, Norrland, Ian Hunter, Kiss (make-up era!), Paul Simon, David Sylvian/Rain Tree Crow/Nine Horses, Toy Matinee, The Cardigans, The Who, The Blue Nile, Nick Lowe, Aretha Franklin, Patti Smith Group, Marvin Gaye, Robbie Robertson, Foo Fighters, Supertramp/Hodgson, Faris Nourallah, Big Star, Lost Van Goghs, Talk Talk, Led Zeppelin, Cheap Trick, Nick Drake, Faces/Ronnie Lane, Jonatha Brooke, ABBA, Rush, Jeff Buckley, Sofia Karlsson, Belle & Sebastian, OutKast, EST, Tom Waits, The Secret Machines, Rainbow, Sufjan Stevens, Ilse DeLange, Di Leva, Brett Bixby, Consequences, Groupa, Under The Influence Of Giants, Tomas Anderson Wij, Steven Lindsay, Jane Siberry, Radiohead, Povel Ramel, Joni Mitchell, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Randy Newman, 10cc, U2, Lisa Dalbello, Rupert Hine, Roger Karlsson, Brazilian Girls, Supergrass, Stevie Wonder, Chic, Noctorum, Freddie Wadling, Pernilla Andersson, Brian Eno, Curtis Mayfield, Harry Nilsson, Yes, Iggy Pop/Stooges, Robert Plant, Porcupine Tree, Lisa Lindal, The Flower Kings, Peter Björn & John, Jon Brion, Air, Opeth, Al Green, Tom Petty, Can, Townes Van Zandt, Jimmy Webb, Hellacopters, Anders F Rönnblom, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, John Hiatt, Bacharach/David, Thin Lizzy, Animal, Zan Clan, Sam Cooke, Staffan Hellstrand, Earth Wind and Fire, Wendy McNeil and Björn Skifs (my childhood idol as a singer, certainly not for his movies...).I have also written a blog of additional favourites. A "director's cut", if you like. So, for those not faint of heart - please see the EXTENDED version...
Movies:
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Alien (Ridley Scott)
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
Clerks (Kevin Smith)
Crash (Paul Haggis)
Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau)
Das Boot (Wolfgang Petersen)
Elizabethtown (Cameron Crowe)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)
Fanny & Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Hedwig And The Angry Inch (John Cameron Mitchell)
Lantana (Ray Lawrence]
Lost In Translation (Sofia Coppola)
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Match Point (Woody Allen)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallstrom)
Solaris (Andrej Tarjovskij)
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese)
The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick)
This Is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner)
Traffic (Steven Soderbergh)
Transamerica (Duncan Tucker)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Lasse Hallstrom)
Television:
TV SERIES: Arrested Development, Classic Albums, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fawlty Towers, I Claudius, Little Britain, Love My Way, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Seinfeld, That 70's Show, The Newsroom, The Office, The Prisoner, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Soap, The Sopranos, The West Wing, and countless BBC series. Any documentary catches my eye. I choose to have only three TV channels, the others (dating shows, docu soaps etc) almost make me lose my faith in humanity the same way Swedish evening papers do.
Books:
Mostly biographies, autobiographies, novels and comic books, graphic novels and magazines. I wrote quite a few favorites here, but I did something wrong and they just disappeared. I'll be back with another batch soonish...
Until then, I would like to recommend Paul Auster's New York trilogy and Joe Jackson's awesome autobiography A Cure For Gravity. I wish I was able to just sit down and read more, but I've become increasingly restless over the years. I am highly amused (and slightly disturbed) by cartoons by people like Nina Hemmingsson, Berglin, Ulf Lundkvist, Martin Kellerman and Lena Ackebo.
Heroes:
Mom & dad, my son, Hasse & Tage, Cameron Crowe, decent people in general. I admire people who maintain the balance act between work/personal aspirations, family, and being a good friend.
