In my Other Life, i’m the vocalist for a Finnish underground black metal industrial noise band Älymystö. We are right at this moment working for our new album, and our thereminister, Mr. Honkonen (also known for his roles as Fukov and Festerbester in Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning) has been working on our video diaries from the Band Camp sessions. Just thought that I wanted to share the latest one with you guys und gals.
Archive for March, 2008
Hitler Kaput!
March 27th, 2008 by Timo VuorensolaTwitch Film wrote about an interesting Russian nazi comedy called Hitler Kaput, that’s under production at the moment. Production values seem to be satisfyingly high, and/but the comedic style slapstique. It’s yet one more Nazi comedy coming out from a country that has had their own umm… should I say ‘history’ (yeah, I’m talking about Germany’s Hitler-comedy Mein Fuehrer: The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler). Here’s the trailer – hard to say is it going to be any good or just another ZAZie, but I sure hope to get to see it. The Russian premiere is 20.4.08, if somebody hears when it’s out somewhere with English subtitles, please let me know. There’s not too much info available on the net about the film, but at least they have an IMDB entry (which we, with Iron Sky, don’t have yet – or do we? There’s this one entry that’s mysteriously hovering on IMDB, but none of us knows what it is – if somebody with IMDB Pro access reads this, can you maybe check what’s actually there…)
Oh, and in other news, Inside Steve’s Mind, a YouTube web comedy series of short fiction films has an episode about a love affair between Hitler and Steve, that’s from time to time actually pretty funny. Go check it out here:
(Thanks to Mike for this.)
Revolution Roulette
March 26th, 2008 by Timo VuorensolaFinland’s most prominent rock band Poets of the Fall has just released their new album, Revolution Roulette. To get a taster of POTF’s new album, go and visit their MySpace page and listen the song Ultimate Fling.
To those not familiar with Poets of the Fall, they popped up for stardom by doing the wonderful end credits song for Max Payne 2, Late Goodbye.
Piracy is genocide!!!11
March 22nd, 2008 by Jarmo PuskalaIf there’s something that pisses me off is BUYING a dvd and having to watch trough and an anti-piracy ad. I mean, it’s not just that they say downloading movies is as bad as stealing a car or mugging old ladies, but I’ve BOUGHT the freaking disc and these asshats think I’m a pirate. Not to mention that if I had downloaded the movie, it wouldn’t have any messages insulting me…
And yeah, I know this is old news, the thing is just that I already thought the messages had vanished. I haven’t seen them on Finnish DVD’s in a long time – but discs bought from England still seem to have them.
And more than that that rant was a good excuse to post a video from either Bruce or Sheila:
To think of it, if stealing a car is as bad as downloading a movie then, well, I’d like a nicer car…
Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90.
March 19th, 2008 by Jarmo PuskalaThis morning the news reached me that author Arthur C. Clarke has passed away. He was known as the author of 2001 as well as the father of satellites.
What is not so widely know is that Arthur C. Clarke was the most influential writer of my youth. In my childhood I lived in the countryside. Every saturday a library bus laoded full of books would stop by our house and I would loan a big bunch of comics, Asterix, Lucky Luke, Valerian (there was even one album signed by Mézières himself) and pretty much everything I could find. I think tv had already made me a scifi geek so I eventually started reading trough all the scifi books the book mobile would carry. I think I started with John Carter of Mars but soon I found myself reading Arthur C. Clarkes 2010. It blew my mind. After that I bugged the driver to bring everything Clarke had written and I think I’ve read pretty much every single book of his that the local library had at least three times. Well, with the exception of 2001 that I still haven’t read – the shadow of the movie is just too heavy.
Of all the books I’ve read my all-time favourite is Clarkes The Songs of Distant Earth. I remember one summer night, we we’re returning from a family road trip to Lapland and it was late, the sun had set but there was enough light to read. In the distance there was lightning and I was reading The Songs of Distant Earth. That is the most perfect literary moment I’ve ever had.
So, rest in peace mr. Clarke. You’ve earned it.
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