Moments Preserved in Music – Tell Me About Yours

May 17, 2012 · Posted in Art & Entertainment, Music · Comment 

Music is like amber that traps moments, moods and events. What are the songs that do this to you? Go to the comments, link a song and write a short piece about where does it transport you.

I’ll start off with this: Fever Ray: Concrete Walls.

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Terra Nova – Or How NOT To Write TV Sci-Fi

March 6, 2012 · Posted in Art & Entertainment, Movies & TV · 3 Comments 

According to the latest news Fox has cancelled the time travel series Terra Nova, and good riddance to bad rubbish, I say. I’ve been ranting about the series online out of all proportion, because the whole deal makes me angry: Terra Nova was both an incredible waste of potential and a possible kick to the nuts for big budget sci-fi series in the future.

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The Problem With Piracy Is Ignorance – Or Artists: Stop Whining And Tell The People How You Make Money

What has pissed me off royally lately is the amount of ignorance and “knowledge” in every damn discussion about piracy lately – and on both sides of the fence. I have made my living mostly from copyright fees and in TV and media for about a decade. In spite of that I’ve been very very critical about the current copyright systems, the mostly inefficient fight against piracy with block lists and ruining school kids’ lives with multimillion euro fines, and generally how outfits like MPAA, RIAA and their local counterparts function. Internet has been a game changer and the media industry dropped the ball in a pretty epic way.

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