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During the last couple of days I have read The Satanic Bible by Anton Szandor LaVey (I have also been listening a lot to Simon & Garfunkels The Sound of Silence, quite a weird retrospect to the late 1960’s I guess.). All in all, an interesting book about a philosophy (or religion) with quite a [...]

Yesterday I found this little goldmine on the Web, the Mercury Theatre on the Air website featuring many original recordings.
The Mercury Theatre was founded in 1937 by Orson Welles and made top notch radio entertainment. Most famous is of course the rendition of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds.
The recordings on the site are [...]

Finished reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson. I won’t spoil it by trying to summarize, but I can say that this is one of the most original works I have read for a long while.
I found this quote from Everything2.com very true:
Reading Wilson is like standing in the eye [...]

During the last weeks I have watched:

The Trial, based on the novel by Franz Kafka. Very underestimated movie starring Anthony Perkins and directed/co-starred by Orson Wells. Some of the scenes reminded me of The Third Man.
Abre los Ojos, maybe the american re-make is more famous, but I have declined to watch that one [...]

I bought new portable headphones for my Mp3 player. I decided upon The Plug by Koss as they seemed to be comfortable, have good sound quality, and weren’t very expensive.
My old headphones, the ones that came bundled with the player was, as always, utter crap. The sound quality wasn’t any good, but decent for [...]

A little more than a year ago I bought “The Dark Side of the Moon” by Pink Floyd. This was one of those album I buy because it’s an artist I have heard much about or has a big place in music history but not something I personally have listened much too. (Most of the [...]

I recently bought a Shuttle PN31 Infrared USB Remote Control to use with my computer, specifically to use when I watch movies using the TV output. I used to have an old gamepad for this, but as I have moved and don’t have the TV as close to the computer the cord isn’t long enough. [...]