[swedes and the kool]

our trusty,battered cable picks up swedish television from across the border...most significantly,their coverage of music and culture news are unrivalled...we could only dream of that sort of intelligent journalism and the ability to sniff out new ideas and trends...that said,i think the swedish have to be the most pop-bitch peoples in the world...painfully cool hipsters and retrochicks down to the tender age of 11...bizarre...and where do they get all those clothes?
-i’m sure their parents aren’t too happy either,all the time they spend their hard-earned money on planet of the apes-figures and US skating trends...the kids these days...
but just in the period of two-three months,thanks to national swedish broadcasting,i’ve seen programmes on every subject imaginable,hour-long documentaries and insider reports...about german photographers...teenagers with hand-held cameras and insecure poses documenting their lives...aboriginal rites-of-passage...obscure asian films...dave eggers and mc sweeneys...the anxiety of death...war...kids from palestine...the history of outdoor bath architecture through the ages...a sad clown from a doomed circus sharing the joy of performing...technology...city planning...journalists and racism...(-and even more perplexingly, err, grime(!),with in-depth interviews with dizzee,lady sovereign,pirate stations crew,wiley!...i’m shocked and surprised..!-)the list goes on and on,until tomorrow's end...thank god that we scandinavians all understand each others languages...i wouldn’t be without it. and maybe,just maybe we will follow suit someday. (in the meantime: switch over your tv sets boys and girls,put on the black turtleneck and get mum to pop you some popcorn...we’ll laugh with jealousy and feel the need to mock their shameless americanisation...hah! no fiddle players,have they? we shake our heads in collective pity and schadenfreude...)
-ho hum...now,kids,will you excuse me while i get my slippers and smoking coat...i think the cup of earl grey is getting cold,and there’s that new ballard novel i haven’t even started yet...praise britannia!...may odin curse the queen. -g’day sirs.

and oh,lest we forget:check out this sweet little disc: THE KNIFE- DEEP CUTS [rabid]
...very entertaining and amusing geeky electro-pop thing with recorders,depeche synths with steeldrum presets and wannabe-kate bush vocals!...you just know you want it!


...but:


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-nah...



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