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Ragnar K

Member No 191 of the Commotions Original Fan Club.. Defines Me? Sadly...

About Me

Family Father, Psychiatrist and veracious Lloyd Cole/Maurice Ravel admirer.. Seems to be an average man in a sparsely populated country with over 200 years of absence of war or (external) conflicts...We..re narrow-minded and self-conceited, but there are some advantages to speak of for that matter too... We could never have had started a conflict. We..re simply too organized and introvert for that to happen, though we certainly could..ve bored our enemies to insufferable pain and ultimate death! The Swedish election is now history, and I doubt there ever will be any politicians willing to enforce the psychiatric care in real life. They talk about efficiency , but never what it should cost, or how many physicians to employ... Well, I guess that it..s worse in "Otherland"... ..

My Interests

Film, Music, Football, The Sea

I'd like to meet:

Dave Derby, Jeanne Moreau, Werner Herzog, Robert Zimmerman, Ingmar Bergman (Not possible, since this was written before July 2007) and Zlatan IbrahimovicBut why do I really want to meet these personalities in reality? I..d probably just throw up with anxiety, feeling much more comfortable in front of the LCD-screen of my computer... Yes, why longing for this when ideal virtual friendship seems flawless? Go-Betweens - Streets Of Your Town
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Music:

ASIE (MAURICE RAVEL), Rattlesnakes (Lloyd Cole & the Commotions), She Belongs to Me [Demo] (Bob Dylan), If You See Her, Say Hello (Bob Dylan) Morgen! [Sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf] (Richard Strauss), Magnet (Yo La Tengo), The Devil Has All the Best Tunes (Prefab Sprout), Sunset Sublet (Dave Derby), Kindertotenlieder [Sung by Kathleen Ferrier] (Mahler), Lyrische Sinfonie (Zemlinsky), Kind of Blue (Miles Davis), Nu är det gott att leva (Olle Adolphson), Some Other Time (Monica Zetterlund & Bill Evans) Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
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Movies:

Faust (F. W. Murnau!!!), The Return (Zvyagintsev), Captain Blood & The Seahawk (Curtiz), Le Samouraï (J-P Melville), Kwaidan (Kobayashi), People on Sunday (Siodmak/Wilder), The 400 Blows/Les Quatre Cents Coups (Truffaut), La Peau douce (Truffaut), Plenty (Schepisi), Himmel über Berlin (Wenders), Vertigo (Hitchcock), Thief of Bagdad (1940 transcendent version by Powell/Whelan/Berger & Z. Korda), White Heat (Walsh), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (LeRoy), Das Kabinett des Caligaris (Wiene), The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner), The Wizard of Oz (Fleming/Vidor/Cukor), Come and See/Idij i smotrij (Klimov) All Things Fair/Lust och fägring stor (Widerberg), Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau) AND SO ON...

Television:

European Cup Qualifying Football, Inspector Morse, Fanny and Alexander (5 Hour TV-version!) by Ingmar Bergman, Sherlock Holmes TV-series with transcendent Jeremy Brett! Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
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Books:

Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse), Strändernas svall "The Odyssey" (Eyvind Johnson), Pastures of Heaven (Steinbeck), Hemsöborna (August Strindberg), Cyberiada (Stanislaw Lem), Contes de ma mère l..oye (Charles Perrault), Chronicles (Bob Dylan), 'little song'

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Heroes:

Olof Palme, Maurice Ravel et Maurice Delage, Orson Welles, Susan Sontag, Hasse & Tage MARIO BAVA Abba - Mama Mia
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My Blog

Henrik Larsson is back! Swedish retaliation ahead?

Henrik "Henke" Larsson, popularly dubbed the .."King of Kings" in Celtic has decided to play for the Swedish team again. Why a blog about this? Well, since it..s of greatest importance for the Swedish...
Posted by Ragnar K on Wed, 14 May 2008 05:02:00 PST

Dating techniques..

Well, In my Youth.. Fortunately not so very much long ago, I´d dismiss any girl, not knowing of Lloyd Cole or the Go-Betweens.. Now (39 years of age) I know (much) better, and hail the women drinking ...
Posted by Ragnar K on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:59:00 PST

Swedish Cinema... Stinks, or perhaps.. Stank?

First good Swedish film for an eon, or something like that.. The Norwegians and Danes have unfortunately made better movies the last 20 - 30 years...I..ve never seen anything interesting from Sweden &...
Posted by Ragnar K on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:00:00 PST

Single B-sides... Part 4?

ok... I must admit that this single b-side mission might seem a little bit self-conceited and... vain, but what the heck! It´s all account of trying to share the sense of wonder after all.. I mean.. M...
Posted by Ragnar K on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:40:00 PST

Are You a Heathen or Christian Christmas celebrator?

Let´s see! (The current "B-sides-reviews" are under labour... literary speaking...) This a very short thought on the the forthcoming holidays... My modest fake-blog ever.. (ha-ha-ha..) .The Anglo-saxo...
Posted by Ragnar K on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:38:00 PST

Insanity and Artistry - connections and common prejudices.. PART 1

They say that Vincent van Gogh suffered from a bipolar disorder, but... wasn´t that much more of a chaotic story to it??? combined schizophrenia (schizo-affective syndrome!)There are more great artist...
Posted by Ragnar K on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:09:00 PST

Single B-sides (Part 3) - The Mystery of the A-side Paradox

Yes, The vinyl era created some paradoxical singles, where the a-sides and b-sides were inseparable, and sometimes the b-sides were the morally a-side... cd-singles are really difficult to evaluate in...
Posted by Ragnar K on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:47:00 PST

SWEDEN - SPAIN 2 - 0 - Revanche for World Cup Fussball Mishap

SWEDISH RETALIATION! A perfect embodiment of a concept. 2 paragon attacks + defensive play of excellence or perfection of a kind; having no equal since the "good old defensive days" of Swedish bore-fo...
Posted by Ragnar K on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 03:46:00 PST

Swedish Heatwave Part 2 - Single B-Sides part 3 Will Have to Wait Further

The warmest end of September in Sweden for over 100 years.. Autumnal Equinox - Yes, in Sweden that usually means cold and damp weather, but 25 degrees Celsius in the shade, and fairly good bathing tem...
Posted by Ragnar K on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:10:00 PST

Single B-sides - The Case of Lloyd Cole Singles and LP-Extras

This will mark my downfall in MySpace history... As a compulsive and obsessive geezer, I nevertheless hope that my objectivity will be credible... The b-sides of Lloyd Cole (Commotions and Negatives) ...
Posted by Ragnar K on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:46:00 PST