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Here is my submission for Greedmont Park Art Competition.

My Submission: Greedmont Parks BIG BADASS EPIC ART CONTEST

Greedmont Park is now doing our first monthly artist competition to find some badass artists who know how to murder it creatively, and what better way to find some real killers than through some  healthy competition. This is a sucka free competition. The themes are meticulously designed to weed out suckas and jive ass turkeys who bring shame to the game, while  bringing out epic creativity from awesome  visionaries who don’t simply phone it in.

Before you submit your  artwork, or even get started, ask yourself  ”WOULD CHUCK NORIS APPROVE OF MY ARTWORK?” Is your art good enough that Samuel L. Jackson would give you a fist pound? Would Rambo hang it on his wall? If you answered NO to any of those questions, then you aint’ bringing the thunder.

[Theme:] Take a sissy, lovely dovey chick flick, from the selected list, and  ’REMIX’ it into a “BADASS GRINDHOUSE” styled movie poster.  Simple! The works will be judge on creativity, awesomeness,  execution but mostly how BADASS they are. + For more Information!

Anthony E. Zuiker ist der “Schöpfer von CSI“, wie es gross vom Cover prangt – und das merkt man.
In “Level 26″ erfahren wir, dass die amerikanische Bundespolizei Gewaltverbrecher in 25 Kategorien einteilt, von 1 für Gelegenheitstäter bis 25 für die abscheulichsten Serienkiller. Und nun raten Sie mal, warum das Buch “Level 26″ heisst…
Mit den schlimmsten Verbrechen beschäftigt sich eine Sondereinheit des FBI, die “Special Circumstances Division”, einer ihrer besten Agenten war Steve Dark. Doch Dark kam vor einigen Jahren dem schlimmsten aller Verbrecher zu nahe. Dafür musste er einen furchtbaren Preis zahlen – und quittierte den Dienst.

Dieser Verbrecher wird vom FBI “Sqweegel” genannt, er mordet seit Jahrzehnten, hinterlässt nicht die geringste Spur (da wären die Jungs und Mädels von CSI ziemlich ratlos!) und ist – natürlich – extrem grausam. Nun plötzlich wird er in die Kategorie 26 eingestuft, die es eigentlich garnicht gibt. Politischer Druck macht’s möglich, der Verteidigungsminister der USA fühlt sich angegriffen. Und so setzt er Darks ehemaligen Chef Riggins darauf an, Steve Dark wieder ins Team zu holen. Was noch keiner weiss: genau das ist Sqweegels Plan…

- Wenn Sie das Buch noch selbst lesen möchten, sollten Sie hier nicht weiterlesen! -

Natürlich ist “Level 26″ genau so überzeichnet, wie man es von Fernsehserien wie “CSI” kennt. Allermodernste Technik, hingebungsvolle Ermittler, gnadenlose Killer. Unser Held, Steve Dark, ist so nah an Sqweegel herangekommen, weil er sich in dessen Gedankenwelt einfühlen konnte, einfach wusste, wohin sich der Mörder als nächstes wenden würde. Warum das so ist, bleibt offen – allerdings hat der aufmerksame Leser nach Lektüre des Buchs eine ziemlich gute Vorstellung von der Ursache dieser “Seelenverwandtschaft”. Jedenfalls wird Dark wieder mit dem Fall betraut, weil er diese besondere Begabung hat. Nur blöd, dass er sie nicht braucht! Zweimal trifft er auf seinen Gegner – beim ersten Mal dank eines Handys, beim zweiten Mal dank einer aufmerksamen Kollegin. Nichts mit Einfühlungsvermögen. Jeder einigermassen kompetente (TV-)Polizist hätte das so hinbekommen.
Und überhaupt: der Gegner! Sich einen Kriminellen auszudenken, der schlimmer ist als alles, was man sich ausdenken kann, ist schwierig. Genau genommen geht es nicht. Auch nicht in diesem Roman. Sqweegel ist grausam, brutal, gnadenlos – aber das sind hundert andere Roman-Killer auch. Seine besondere Begabung liegt darin, in kürzester Zeit in winzigen Verstecken zu verschwinden, dort stundenlang bewegungslos zu verharren und dann plötzlich und bestialisch zuzuschlagen. Wie genau das gehen soll, bleibt der Fantasie des Lesers überlassen. Ebenso wie einige andere Kunststücke – wie zum Beispiel schafft er es, mit einer Kugel in der Schulter ungefähr drei Stunden schneller als der ermittelnde Beamte durch Amerika zu jetten? “Mit viel Geld” ist die wenig inspirierte Antwort. Aber eigentlich kann er es, weil es sonst mit der Geschichte nicht weiter geht. Es gibt einige solcher Situationen im Roman. Auch Sqweegels Motivation bleibt – selbst nach dem Show-Down – im Dunkeln. Hinter den ganzen Effekten verbirgt sich – nichts. Wer auf einen Roman in der Qualität der “Hannibal Lecter”-Bücher von Thomas Harris hofft, der wird masslos enttäuscht sein. Wer nur auf billigen Nervenkitzel aus ist, der könnte auf seine Kosten kommen. Denn schnell und spannend geschrieben ist “Level 26″ schon. Man darf nur sein Hirn nicht bei der Lektüre einschalten…

Oh, fast hätte ich’s vergessen: “Level 26″ ist ja die erste “Digi-Novel” der Welt! Heisst: etwa alle 20 Seiten erhält man einen Zugangscode um auf der Seite “level26.com” (nach einer kostenlosen Registrierung) einen kurzen Filmclip (“Cyber-Bridge” genannt) anzuschauen, der Teil der Handlung ist. Diese Filme sind durchaus professionell gemacht und vermitteln einige zusätzliche Informationen. Mein Problem ist dabei, dass ich keine Lust habe, ständig meine Lektüre zu unterbrechen um online einen Filmclip anzusehen. Also habe ich mir die meisten nachträglich angesehen. Nun kann ich sagen, dass keine wichtigen Informationen verloren gehen, wenn man sich die Cyber-Bridges schenkt. Einiges erscheint sinnvoller (z.B. die Schnecke aus Kapitel 62, von der im Roman nie wieder die Rede ist, deren Schicksal man aber in Cyber-Bridge 12 verfolgen kann). Wichtige Infos werden später immer noch nachgereicht. Wie zum Beispiel hier: Kapitel 66, Seite 279 und Cyber-Bridge 13 – exakt die gleiche Information erhält der Leser dann auf Seite 339, vorher spielt sie auch keine Rolle.
Ein besseres Buch wird “Level 26″ durch die “Digi-Novel”-Technik nach meiner Meinung nicht. Aber vermutlich richtet sich der Titel auch an eine Zielgruppe, der ich nicht angehöre – die kurze Leseeinheiten & multimediale Inhalte zu schätzen weiss…

Fy faen sier jeg bare. Luftslottet som sprengtes var en utrolig bra avslutning på en utrolig bra serie. Om du fortsatt ikke har sett Menn som hater kvinner, synes jeg du burde gjøre det så snart som mulig. Mange vil ikke se filmene fordi de er svenske, men de går virkelig glipp av mye. Svenskene kan film, og disse tre filmene er så utrolig gripende at jeg flere ganger får lyst til å rope ut til kinolerretet av ren frustrasjon, gråte av sinne og klappe i hendene av herlig skadefryd.

Les bøkene, se filmene, og fortell meg hva du synes!:D

On my flight down to Houston Friday night, I carried my Audiovox personal DVD player and my Netflixed copy of the US adaptation of the BBC miniseries “State of Play.” Through being kicked by some French four year old sitting, sleeping and being a general pain next to me, I did my best to appreciate and not simply identify the ways in which this film fell short of the miniseries.

Ultimately, it’s hard to not compare the two because this is hardly a reimagining. It’s a near true copy (with Americanized characterizations) of the UK roles, plot lines and mannerism. The main differences are really quite simple:

• the black victim killed in the opening scene is an actual junkie, as opposed to a falsely accused innocent (hardly a spoiler there);
• there is less depth to Dominic Foy’s character;
• Della Frey and Cal McCaffery aren’t truly co-workers;
• Hellen Mirren’s editor has no hotshot reporting son as was played by James McAvoy in the BBC version; and
• the corporation being investigated by Stephen Collins’ subcommittee, Pointcorp, is a thinly veiled version of Blackwater, whereas the BBC version condemned evil oil conglomerates, in general.

Oh, and another difference is that the miniseries is actually good.

There are some strong updates to the UK story. Most notably, the use of a Blackwater proxy proved topical and a more natural fit for misdirection and demonization. It was a solid update over the miniseries’ oil company.

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Also solid is the segregation of Russell Crowe’s Cal as a traditional (if not overly slovenly) ink reporter from Rachel McAdams‘ Della, as an online content contributor (read blogger) for the same dying old media empire (the Washington Globe). The interplay of old and even corporate new media works well in a modern journalistic drama.

But that really is where the positives end. Ben Affleck is stiff and unbelievable as a rising political star (although some Dems suggest that’s his real future). Meanwhile, Crowe is too much the stereotype and presents too stark a contrast from Affleck.

One of the strengths of State of Play on the BBC was the triangular relationship between Cal, Stephen and Anne Collins. Part of that functionality was Cal’s role as then-campaign manager and current-senior political scribe. It fit for a possible close relationship forced apart by circumstance. In the US version, we’re to believe that a similar relationship could exist among old college roommates who had long since distanced. There’s just no reason to believe a magnetic Congressman wouldn’t have found someone else to trust in the prior 20 years.

Another major problem is that the plot twists are telegraphed to make up for the lack of developed story segments. If you’ve seen the UK version, you also get nothing new here. Every Grisham movie will have at least one head fake off the book; however, you’re usually better off enjoying the original source first both in story line and delivery. That’s true here. The miniseries format and delivery is just far superior. Though in a concession to the producers, it would be hard to tell this story well in anything but a four to six hour miniseries.

Perhaps due to personal bias and a general disdain for all post-Voyage of the Mimi Affleck work (Chasing Amy actually was also good), I never could get into this or be surprised by the plot twists. It just fell short despite a solid turn from McAdams (who surprised me by being good). Jason Bateman is also completely wasted on a Dominic Foy that isn’t deeper than the film on soup that’s been sitting too long on the stove.

Ultimately, if you have access to both, there is zero reason to see this over the miniseries. For that reason, it rates a lowly 5 out of 10. It’s not terrible or anything, it’s just nowhere close to be as good as the miniseries.

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Jag fullkomligt avgudar programserien Sommarpratarna på ettan. Slår gammelfarmor Stjärnorna på slottet med hästlängder. Fy fan vad bra det är. Komprimerat, fulländat, perfekt mix av folk. Impad.
För den som inte sett det går det ut på att en sådär fem pers som varit sommarpratare i radio genom tiderna äter trerätters och diskuterar livet. Det är så fascinerande att se det sociala samspelet och hur förvånansvärt stora ämnen som kommer upp, utan att de känner varann sen tidigare. Självklart hör det till och självklart spelas några “moments” från radioprogrammen upp, som sedan följs upp vid matbordet. (Parantes: Ann Heberlein var med idag, tycker hon gjorde nåt otroligt modigt i att ge ut den där boken.) Jag känner sån ömhet inför dem alla. Och varje maträtt kopplas till någon av personerna. Can’t stop lovin it.

Nästa vecka är det bland andra Mia Skäringer och Helena Bergström. Lär bli gråt.

by Lewis Manalo

Really? I read about Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School in tandem with this promotional noise for Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. But really?

It claims to be “not for the faint-hearted; it is for those who have travelled on foot, who have worked as bouncers in sex clubs and wardens in a lunatic asylum, for those who are willing to learn about lockpicking or forging shooting permits in countries not favoring their projects. In short: for those who have a sense of poetry.” It doesn’t seem very oriented towards technique.

But do you really need Werner Herzog to tell you how to do anything if you’re the type of ruthless soul his film school is for? If you need Herzog to tell you how to lie, cheat, and steal to make film, you probably don’t have the cajones to lie, cheat, and steal to make a film.

Just make a damn movie if you feel like it. Why pay to attend someone else’s publicity stunt?

Mens jeg venter på ny epost, enten fra familien i Florida eller fra en ny vertsfamilie, (over)redigerer jeg bilder. Jeg spiser smågodt, hører Röd på Spotify, ser That  ’70s Show uten lyd, og ofrer ikke husarbeidet en eneste tanke. Om et par timer stikker jeg på kino for å se 2012, og jeg må vel legge igjen mobilen i bilen om jeg skal la være å sjekke eposten hundreogørten ganger i løpet av filmen.

Har noen av dere sett 2012?
Har du noen gode tips for å få tida til å gå fortere?

First proper blog post. I really wanted this to be something big but if there’s nobody out there actually reading this blog it’s more likely going to be grain of sand in a massive digital sandpit.

My first post is going to be about film making. I am a media student currently studying at city college coventry. My tutor offered the opportunity to go onto a film shoot for an advert. I took this opportunity and ran with it.

Most people believe film making to be easy and that’s where most people are wrong. It’s not and I have found this after just a year at college making really low budget films and with very little professionalism(although we like to fool ourselves they are).  The problem people have is they think that making a film is just point a camera at something and shoot. This could not be further from the truth.

Pre-production work is part of film making. Pre production is basically sitting down discussing and organising logistics. The shoot I was on would have taken at least 3 or 4 months to do all the pre production work including hiring staff and equipment. On the shoot they were using red one camera’s which to people not in the media industry is like the most state of the art photo copier being placed in the office and it being able to make your job a lot easier and the results are a lot better.

The Red One (and if you fancy some extensive reading on the red camera click here) is an amazing camera which helps productivity.

The Filming process took 2 days. This was 2 full days as well and all this just for a 90 second advert.

Don’t get me wrong it’s amazing fun, but hard work as well.

Then once you have all the shots for your production you take it into a edit suite. There the editors capture all the footage, if on tape, or transfer it if it’s a digital camera. I use Final Cut Pro for editing and this makes it very easy to edit. THe editing process normally takes about three days for a 90 second advert, as one day is spent capturing everything you shot, another is actually putting the images together to make some kind of story and then last is actually exporting the high quality version ready for broadcast.

But it doesn’t stop there oh no. Production now aren’t worth anything without graphics. So thats another day or two. Don’t forget colouring the video as well to give it that professional feel.

Overall thats the production process and this can take months even years to do and involve hundreds of people. I don’t confess to being an expert of these things but next time you sit down to a movie or watch an advert or sit down in front of the TV, spare a thought for all those people who worked hard on whatever your watching.

Bo i stor stad, besöka konstiga gallerier som man också recenserar i sitt jobb som kulturskribent och besöka (tadaaa!) filmfestivaler och se den typen av filmer som man aldrig annars skulle se, som man sedan kan recensera för vänner eller i sin blogg eller för den som vill. Ska det vara nåt det?

Jeg er nok en gang tilbake etter en herlig, herlig helg. Jeg fikk haike hjem med Maria fra Flekkefjord til Farsund på torsdag, vi var på verdenspemieren på New Moon og traff heldigvis null stk politi med min lovlige scooter på veien. Kjempe Da jeg var hjemme klokka fire om natten, og hadde vekket hele Hananger og alle på veien dit bort, var det rett i seng og opp fem timer senere. Da var det tut og kjør til Kristiansand og litt salgs-shopping før Sindre ventet på meg med middag og roser. Vi så New Moon på kino :-) Jeg kunne fint lukke øynene litt nå og da (Filmen anbefales!)

Vi var hjemme til Russens Moteshow på Farsund Kino og da fikk jeg litt tid med Maria og Ingrid igjen. Det føltes godt! Moteshowet blir bedre og bedre som årene går. Ellers har jeg bare slappet av med venner, familie og kjæreste!

Jesper i en søt taxi i Liverpool i Mars.

The producers of Zombieland were very pleased with the reception the film got in theaters.  The problem they had was the amazingly strong reception the movie got on Bit Torrent.  I’m going to ignore that second fact by noting that I plan on purchasing the DVD when it’s available on Amazon, so we’ll ignore exactly how I came across a copy for my return flight from Houston on Sunday.

This movie is fun.  It’s no high art, but it has many of the elements that have made teen or buddy comedies a success and installed them in a quick and clever zombie genre adaptation.

The film succeeds mostly on the back of its excellent cast, the male half of which is amazingly typecast.  Woody Harrelson plays zombie-killing bad-ass Tallahassee.  He is pretty much drawn as a mix of his Mickey Knox from Natural Born Killers and Roy Munson from Kingpin.  And it plays amazingly well.  In a reflective scene, when asked by Columbus if he’s one of those guys who listens to a story and automatically has to one up it with one of his own, he says, “No, but I know a guy just like that.”

As Columbus, the sidekick, Jesse Eisenberg plays his patented neurotic, but oddly identifiable teen (think Michael Cera with less awkward quirks and more psychologist bills).  He rocks this role out far more effectively than he did playing the exact same character in Adventureland.  He’s a witty, believable if ironic survivor who serves also as the narrator of the movie.

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As the female love interest, Emma Stone’s Wichita is very alluring in a ZooeyDeschannel -kind of way.  She’s quirky, clever and hot without being insanely and untouchably good looking.  Her interplay with her young, whippersnapper sister (played by Abigail Breslin) works well (making this, really, a double buddy movie).  Breslin, in particular, is great both in providing a storyline motivator while filling the role of the snarky and smart preteen.

The brilliant cameo (which somehow has avoided being spoiled en masse on the internet) is just awesome.  Very effective and funny.  And I will say no more on that.

The movie lacks any real highbrow moments, but it does give traditional nods to certain common themes of the lonely pseudo orphans coming together and finding a home in each other, along with short dollops of love and reclaiming loss.

What made the movie interesting from a zombie genre perspective is that they actually provide a better explanation for zombies than most.  28 Days Later had the rage virus and I Am Legend had its amorphous virus, but most genre flicks ignore the science, despite a rise in technical theorizing on the subject thanks to the success of movies and books like World War Z and The Walking Dead graphic novel series.  In Zombieland, a throwaway line explains that the condition is caused by a mutation of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (AKA mad cow) while jumping to humans when patient zero eats contaminated beef.  Not saying the explanation is realistic in any regard, just that they at least gave the explanation.

[If you want a serious look at zombies from a scientific standpoint, take a look at the statistical analysis of zombie outbreaks done by some Canadian researchers.  It doesn't look at the science of creating the walking dead, but on modeling an outbreak's spread based on genre stereotypes.]

Overall, the script ranks highly on the quotability factor.  The actors clearly are having fun playing roles that are well within their range and the film makers keep things moving along.  Most importantly, it’s a zombie flick that transcends the genre and is really more of a fun, adventure-comedy.  People aren’t going to get grossed out or frightened.  This is great, easy bubble gum fun with enough good comedy writing to keep things fresh.

Because I can’t give a non-film too high a grade (this is definitely a movie and doesn’t have any real art to it), I’m going to stick Zombieland with a very strong 8.5 out of 10.

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I’ve been following the podcast WTF with Marc Maron since its inception a few months back on the internet. It’s a weekly podcast that allows Marc to showcase his unique brand of comedy that borders on black comedy to satirical observations with a little political commentary sprinkled on top. The great things about podcasts in generally is they are as regulated to the degree of the Wild west, any shit flys on them. Podcast land is generally where comedic personalities can be unleashed and go to work  like rabid pitbull(kinda alike what I fantasize mainstream media would do!) Itunes is perfect place to see mild mannered comedian that love from tv  present their unique perspective on everything raw and unfiltered. It’s a beautiful thing, and Marc Maron is part of it.

I saw that he was coming to Atlanta to do a gig at The Laughing Skull Lounge, so I decide to buy a ticket and check it out. And I got the great idea to show my admiration to do a illustration of Marc. Boom! I guess you’d have to follow to the podcast to truly get the greatest of my illustration.

Marc Maron and I

Det finns inget ämne som är för tragiskt eller allvarligt för att rubriceras enligt “sex säljer”. Uppenbarligen.

Ser på dokumentären Blybarnen just nu. Jävligt bra. Några extra bröstvårtor är inte bland det värsta barnen i Chile har drabbats av.

2 CBS
Survivor: the Andean Mountain Uruguayan Soccer Team Challenge

4 NBC
Tina Fey delivers another awesomely written episode of 30 Rock that you won’t watch because you’d rather see Ray J drink champagne off the nude body of a developmentally disabled cocktail waitress.

5 E! Entertainment
Slowing Down For the Kardashians

6 ABC
From the Nokia Theater, the American Music Awards featuring Taylor Swift. Swift and Kanye West perform a unity medley of Elmo’s greatest self-esteem songs.

6 ABC
On Oprah, porn star Jenna Jameson shows she doesn’t know the difference between good attention and bad attention.

7 PBS
Frontline examines how medical marijuana is now being prescribed for glaucoma, hyperactivity in children, anal expulsive personality disorder, low self esteem and poverty.

7 CNN
Lou Dobbs puts up a fence in his own back yard and declares his own house free of Mexicans, at least the ones he’s not married to.

7 CNN
On Larry King, former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean continues to show that she doesn’t know the difference between good attention and bad attention.

9 The History Channel
Catherine the Great is remembered for also being a great lover of animals. A really great lover.

10 MTV
If The Hills were really unscripted, somebody certainly would have killed somebody else by now.

11 CW
Gossip Girl: OMFG! A 3some! WTF? LOL!

11 CW
Gossip Girl: Oh no! ABRT!

11 CW
Two Gossip Girls, One Cup

11 CW
Gossip Girl does not know the difference between good attention and bad attention.

11 CW
Gossip Girl: Hey, did anybody notice that the “threesome” entry on Wikipedia has completely gratuitous threesome pictures? A little off topic, but hey, I’m just sayin’ …

12 Fox News
Glenn Beck doesn’t know the difference between good attention and bad attention. Yet that lack of self-awareness is refreshing, and has allowed us all to relax a bit and once again feel OK enjoying manifestly racist invective. Thanks, Glenn!

13 AMC
After watching Mad Men’s Don Draper drink, womanize and verbally and physically abuse people, do any of us remember why we ever liked him in the first place?

14 Fox News
After watching Sarah Palin lie, back stab, quit her job, pander to idiots, mangle language, manipulate her family, infight with co-workers, exhibit total ignorance about global affairs and exploit her looks to cover up her lack of substance, do any of us wonder why she’s not starring on AMC’s Mad Men yet?

14 Fox News
Sarah Palin doesn’t know the difference between good attention and bad attention. Or that Africa isn’t a country.

15 HBO
Boogie Nights, a rip-off of Martin Scorsese movies with no ending

15 HBO
Magnolia, a rip-off of Robert Altman movies with no ending

15 HBO
There Will Be Blood, a rip-off of Stanley Kubrick movies with no ending.

15 HBO
The Dukes of Hazzard, a rip-off of the William Shakespeare classic, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

15 HBO
The Muppet Movie, a retelling of the legend of Galahad, in which a knight of pure heart in the form of a frog seeks the cup of glory, a frog who embodies a code of chivalry and romance that none of his peers can match and which engenders in him a contempt of the world and it of him, his unworldliness both holy but also cold and tragic.

16 Cinemax
Fellating For Godot

17 HGTV
Martha Stewart Presents: How To Throw A Family Fight That Tastes Like Christmas

18 We
We is the channel that celebrates women. Next up, a bunch of catfighting, money grubbing bitches from Great Neck going through the Change.

Per Mathias Høgmo fortalte en historie fra Gratangen kommunestyre på direkte-TV fra en fotballandskap.  Historiefortellingen ble gjenfortalt og rekonstruert i humorprogrammet Golden Goal. I går kåret jeg innslaget til det morsomste på TV i år (se blogginnlegget nedenfor).

Men hvor har Per Mathias Høgmo historien fra?  Henry Høgmo, far til Per Mathias og kjent fra Eldrebølgen hos NRK for noen år siden, skulle bidra med diktopplesing da 1000 harstadværinger var samlet for å markere Eldredagen i Harstad kulturhus 1. oktober. Det var i mitt lodd å sy forestillingen sammen, og da jeg snakket med Henry på bakrommet like før vi skulle scenen, spurte jeg ham om hva som egentlig skjedde i Gratangen kommunestyre.  Jeg fikk vite litt da, og mer da jeg ringte Henry i går. Han forteller:

- I 1959 gikk jeg ut av lærerskolen og var blitt gift med Gerd fra Farsund. Nordover tok vi kystbåten fra Oslo til Bergen og derfra og heim til Sørreisa skulle vi ta hurtigruta. Gerd er glad i å løse kryssord, og i Trondheim kjøpte hun VG. Et av spørsmålene i kryssordet var: Hva består Gratangen kommunestyre av?

- Og hva var løsingsordet?

- Idioter!

- Ja vel.

- Noen år senere flyttet vi fra Sørreisa til Gratangen for å jobbe som lærere. Da fikk jeg en anledning til å spørre skoleinspektøren om opptrinnet. Det var slik at det var vedtatt at Gratangen skulle få egen distriktslege med kontor i Gratangsbotn, men et mindretall hadde anket saken inn for Fylkesmannen. Da saken skulle behandles på nytt i kommunestyret, var distriktslegen i Ibestad kalt inn som ekspert.

-Talefør?

- Ja, og det var alle. Og han var en hissigpropp. Det var han som sa ordene: “At kommunestyret i Gratangen består av idioter, det visste æ, men at de består av kronidioter, det hadde æ ikkje trudd.”

- Men han fikk svar på tiltale?

- Ja, en frittalende ishavsskipper, rutinerte gamlingen,  ga beskjed: “Nu har vi lest skriverian i Fremover og i Harstad Tidende at vi måtte se og  få oss mentalundersøkt. Og nu har vi fått det. Og det attpåtil gratis!”

- Men VG, Henry, hvordan kunne et opptrinn i kommunestyret i Gratangen i 1953 havne som løsingsord i kryssord i Verdens Gang (som vi kalte avisen før)?

- Det har seg nok sånn at VG leste lokalavisene, og hadde klippet fra referatet fra møtet i Harstad Tidende.

Så sånn går historiene, de moderne eventyrene: Fra kommunestyret i Gratangen til Harstad Tidende, til VG, til gjenfortelling og latter i samfunnshus (der også den unge Per Mathias er til stede for å høre pappa Henry snakke), til fotballstudio hos TV3,  til humorprogrammet Golden Goal hos TV2. Og ble det årets morsomste? Utvilsomt.

Lyst til å se det én gang til? Se her!

FORTELLER HISTORIEN BAK HISTORIEN: Henry Høgmo fra Gratangen. Foto:Harstad Tidende

Besviken.

Årets morsomste TV-innslag handler om Gratangen. Per Mathis Høgmo og Golden Goal-gutta får 99 av 100 oppnåelige poeng.

Ja, bokstaver og ord er ikke enkelt. Gidder du ikke lese lenger, kan du se vinneren her.

Humor er vanskelig. Det meste som skal være morsomt, er det ikke, og motsatt kan så mangt alvorlig bli ufrivillig komisk. Utgangspunktet for årets morsomste TV-innslag kan  plasseres i denne sistnevnte kategorien.

Fredagshumoren hos TV2 med Johan Golden og Henrik Elvestad rekonstruerer minneverdige idrettsøyeblikk. 7. oktober 2006 spilte det norske fotballandslaget bortekamp mot Hellas.  I TV3s «Onside Studio» satt Erik Solér, Jan Åge Fjørtoft og Per Mathias Høgmo (fra Gratangen!) og slo i hjel tiden med diverse fotballprat.  De greske værgudene hadde åpnet slusene, og det ble mye ventetid i studio før kampen kunne gå videre. Lite ante  Solér, Fjørtoft og vi seere hva som skulle komme da Høgmo plutselig skar inn med en «god historie».

Anekdoten handlet om et heftig oppgjør i Gratangen kommunestyre en gang på 60-tallet, og verken Solér eller Fjørtoft så ut til å skjønne bæret av den to minutters ramsalte historien fra Nord-Norge. Hva som var poenget med den, og hva den gjorde midt oppe i Norges EM-kvalifisering, forble et mysterium for herrene Solér og Fjørtoft.

Golde Goal tok ballen, og 19. mars i år gjenskapte de studioinnslaget sammen med Per Mathias Høgmo selv. Og mer: De rekonstruerte også den snart 50 år gamle historien fra kommunestyret i Gratangen, fra den gang daværende journalist Jarl Ivar Berg-Olsen (Jibo) i Harstad Tidende syklet fra Harstad til Gratangen for å referere. Harstad Tidende spiller forresten en birolle selv i historien, uten at det er derfor den er morsom, verken frivillig eller ufrivillig

Men hvorfor liker vi Golden Goal-innslaget så latteren velter frem gjennom alle kroppens kanaler?

1.  Historien karikerer klar nordnorsk tale og frodige beboere av den nordlige landsdel.

2. Historien driver gjøn med lokalpolitikerne.

3. Historien demonstrerer sosiokulturelle forskjeller. Det er langt fra Gratangen på 60-tallet til det livet Jan Ivar Fjørtoft og Erik Solér lever 50 år senere, i tid, i rom og i levemåte. For dem kunne historien like gjerne ha vært fra Madagaskar på 1890-tallet.

4. Historien har fremdrift og en gnistrende dramaturgi, toppet av strålende skuespillerprestasjoner.

Nok om det.Nå har du vært så flink at du fortjener å se det drøyt fem minutter lange tablået (på nytt): Over til studio!

PS: Rent teoretisk kan du være uenig i min vurdering. I så fall: Skriv inn din kommentar, foreslå din egen vinner.

PS2:  Forresten: Historien er based upon a true story. I morgen forteller jeg historien bak historien. Forts.følger!

Tittar på kulturnyheterna och åldersgränsen för New Moon har alltså överklagats. Den kommer inte bli 15 som biografbyrån ville. Undergångsstämningen var alltså inte tillräckt oroväckande! Jag tyckte det var ett vettigt beslut, det enda rätta. Inte för att jag har läst böckerna filmerna baseras på. Eller ens funderar på att gå och se filmen. (Jag skulle hellre se Paranormal activity, åtminstone av det sf visar i Umeå.) Men sen när skadas unga av mörka skildringar? Det är som om man skulle skydda dem från livet. Dessutom har väl undergångsstämningar aldrig någonsin varit tabu i filmer som riktas till män/pojkar, snarare varit en självklar del. För att män kan ta det.

Jag stör mig nåt så otroligt på detta!

Så nu har jag bestämt mig för att hitta saker att glädjas åt istället: Beslutet blev ju faktiskt positivt den här gången. Massa nördtjejer är på tv just nu. De får komma till tals och framställs i första hand som nördar och inte som tjejer. Befriande. Sen upptäcker jag – trots att jag varje år känner åtminstone en gång att jag vill stryka ett streck över det här med julen – att det är underbart att känna doften av kaffe den här tiden på året. Det doftar så mycket godare tillsammans med tända stearinljus och mandarin. Tyvärr regnar det, men det är nog snart också blott ett minne. Precis som min pms.

I kveld skal jeg på premieren av New Moon, en film jeg har gleda meg til å se helt siden jeg så førpremieren av Twilight i fjor. Og mens alle andre sikler over Edward og Jacob, skal jeg nyte hvert sekund vi får se Emmett. Kellan Lutz er en av de kjekkeste skuespillerne jeg vet av. Han er blond, har glimt i øyet, og ser utrolig bra ut når han kaster skjorta, så what’s not to like?

Skal du se New Moon i kveld?