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>On December 5 2006 I wrote:
” I don’t care much for the blood sports-thing…”
…when writing about Kombat Music Radio.

One year later, things have changed drastically.
I’m addicted to the MMA, the UFC, Pride FC, and whatever’s coming my way. I’ve become an MMA junkie. In April 2007 I downloaded 104 Gb of UFC material and I’ve seen it all. Now I’m catching up with Pride FC (currently watching Bushido 11). When I’m done with that there’s tons of more material, shows, events, documentaries, series, books, blogs and shit to watch, so I guess I’ll have things to do for a long time. And of course I need to experience the magic of a true UFC event. Too bad I missed out on the Pride FC thing; a trip to Japan and the Saitama Super Arena would have been amazing.


I’ve been thinking of writing about MMA on this blog, but I’m a newbie and there are thousands of people doing that better than me, so I thought I’d introduce you to some great blogs and sites I try to visit frequently.

Bullshido – Martial arts without the bullshit. Great forum!

MMA Junkie – Frequent updates, thorough articles… Pretty much has it all.

Payout: The Business of MMA – Very interesting reading about the economy and cash flow in the vast MMA empire.

Punch Kick Choke – A good blog, updated frequently.

MMABloggen.se – MMA in Swedish with loads of updates!

MMABloggen – Same name, but another writer. Not that many updates, but still worth a visit once in a while.

There’s also a bunch of Facebook groups worth checking out, but the Facebook staff still hasn’t worked out how to notify the users when there’s action in the forums, so… pretty stiff stuff, so far.

Addicted to The UFC
Pride Fighting Championships
MMA Sweden

Check the blog feeds and links in the right hand path as well.
If you know a blog or something that would fit in here, feel free to comment this post.

music

>Music that matters: Boris

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Boris.
This japanese power trio is probably most well known for the collaboration with Sunn0))) on the absolutely massive Altar album, one of last years best releases. Incorporating all the styles we all should obey and believe in – drone, doom, noise, psychedelia, shoegaze, ambient, metal and pure rock’n’roll meltdown – they are on my worship list forever.
They’ve released tons of tracks on tons of albums and EP’s with and without additional musicians and I haven’t had the time to listen to them all, but one of my favourite songs is definitely Evil Wave Form. Cheesy song title, but what the hell… The music speaks in tounges, and that’s what matters. This is raw blasting doom on the verge of destruction.
Download it here (31 Mb), and please, pretty please with sugar on top: LISTEN TO THIS LOUD ON A GOOD STEREO SYSTEM. Your worthless MySpaceymobilephonelike stupid little computer speakers won’t do, you dumb ass borninthe80’s-90’s new school freak with no sense of direction.

Here’s a breakdown of the song’s most vital parts:

00:00:00 …begin…
00:00:14 …now you know this is going to be something special…monotony prevails…
00:01:42 …the march of doom has begun…slow…gentle…
00:03:28 …breakdown… tension builds…
00:04:25 …warfare begins…slow, harsh…darkness arise…distortion to hell…
00:05:11 …hold up and analyze…
00:05:17 …WAAAH!!…your soul is being destroyed…your face begins to melt…
00:05:38 …hail Black Sabbath…turn up the volume…crushing power…
00:06:33 …brains collapse…families die…enter evil wave form…
00:07:06 …tune in to psychedelia…
00:08:00 …it kicks in for real…noisy wave form…
00:08:30 …crushing riff…
00:08:40 …drifting into ambience…coughing in the background…exhaustion…
00:09:37 …ambience alone…holy monotony…
00:12:30 …disappearances…
00:13:19 …FUCK!! …the return of darkness and evil…you shit your pants and worship once more…
00:13:50 …we will rock your sorry ass…
00:14:07 …guitars so damned distorted and weird it starts to transform into noise…the horror!
00:15:10 …drenched in filth…abyssic bass line…
00:15:24 …BAM!!…crushing your skull again…
00:15:30 …guitar frenzy…Satan’s sirens…
00:16:00 …transformation into blackened noise again…melting riffs…
00:16:19 …psychedelic chaos…
00:16:28 …the song of sirens…
00:16:48 …hail Jimi Hendrix…
00:17:22 …the ending is near…infernal attack…drop out…
00:17:57 …noise…mayhem…worship…
00:18:30 …shrieking guitars…insanity’s dawn…
00:19:04 …breakdown…evil wave form…turn up the volume…kill the christians…and then you die…
00:19:40 … end…

Evil Wave Form was released on the Dronevil – Final – double cd on Inoxia Records (2006).

literature

>Eldreomsorgen i Øvre Kågedalen

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>Owners and readers of the paper edition of Ny Moral will probably recognize the cover illustration of the Norwegian translation of Nikanor Teratologen’s fantastic text Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen (2007, Damm Förlag (originally published by Norstedts Förlag 1992)). Yes indeed, it’s Andreas Kalliaridis’ awesome art right there, which he made exclusively for Ny Moral back in 2004. Happy time!
I consider Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen to be one of the very best Swedish books ever written, and now when it’s available in Norwegian translated by Stig Sæterbakken… wow, that’s just amazing. “Perleporten skal knuses!”
Go get it here. The Swedish version can be found here.

philosophy, quotes, religion

>Nietzsche – Morality as anti-nature

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All passions have a phase when they are merely disastrous, when they drag down their victim with the weight of stupidity — and a later, very much later phase when they wed the spirit, when they “spiritualize” themselves. Formerly, in view of the element of stupidity in passion, war was declared on passion itself, its destruction was plotted; all the old moral monsters are agreed on this: il faut tuer les passions (“One must kill the passions”). The most famous formula for this is to be found in the New Testament, in that Sermon on the Mount, where, incidentally, things are by no means looked at from a height. There it is said, for example, with particular reference to sexuality: “If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out.” Fortunately, no Christian acts in accordance with this precept. Destroying the passions and cravings, merely as a preventive measure against their stupidity and the unpleasant consequences of this stupidity — today this itself strikes us as merely another acute form of stupidity. We no longer admire dentists who “pluck out” teeth so that they will not hurt any more.
To be fair, it should be admitted, however, that on the ground out of which Christianity grew, the concept of the “spiritualization of passion” could never have been formed. After all, the first church, as is well known, fought against the “intelligent” in favor of the “poor in spirit.” How could one expect from it an intelligent war against passion? The church fights passion with excision in every sense: its practice, its “cure,” is castratism. It never asks: “How can one spiritualize, beautify, deify a craving?” It has at all times laid the stress of discipline on extirpation (of sensuality, of pride, of the lust to rule, of avarice, of vengefulness). But an attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life: the practice of the church is hostile to life.

From Twilight of The Idols (1889).

politics, quotes

>War is menstrual envy

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The world spent 1,3 trillion dollars on military expenses in 2006. Half of that sum was American.
Hans Blix

One trillion dollars = one million million dollars = 1 000 000 000 000 dollars.
That’s a lot of fucking money being spent on killing a lot of fucking people in the name of a fucking God.
And that massive pile of blood-drenched dollars is growing every minute.
Yet some say we’re heading for a bright future. Well… I simply do not agree with your bullshit, baby.

humour, tv

>Top Gear and the caravan holiday

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>You know about Top Gear? I hadn’t even heard about that show until I stumbled upon these clips on YouTube a couple of days ago, but apparently there’s millions of trillions watching it, and it’s one of the most pirated shows ever. I never watch TV, so maybe that’s why I’m left in the cold when it comes to such high quality stuff as Top Gear.
Mind you, I have seen nothing but these three clips, so I might be totally out of it here, but I found them really funny. Three old goofballs trying to pimp their rides. So very much anti-bling-bling-MTV I just had to like it.
And I can relate to that evil shit that is caravan holidays as well. I was born and bred in a trailer park. Well, not really, but I’ve sure spent my fair deal of darkness on the road and in them bloody caravans. I think I hated every minute. The worst thing was going abroad and missing Rockbox.

Check these clips from start to finish, and then tell me I’m wierd. I find them funny. Am I getting old?



humour, music

>StSanders shreds!

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>These videos have been floating around on YouTube for a while now, and they are really too good to be missed. This StSanders fella who makes these “shreds”-videos is a genius at what he does. I still laugh my ass off to the Metallica video, and I’ve watched it twenty times already.

Enjoy!

Metallica shreds

Jake E. Lee shreds – Ozzy rules

Iron Maiden shreds

by Mattias Indy Pettersson