Od on pop-culture

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One thing with having lived for a while is that one has so much pop-culture in the head. This is my favorite exemple must be that it’s now trendy to travel by train (obvious for climate reasons, you know that) and that made me listen to the song Cherry bomb with the Runaways. See the train thing reminded me of the time I and two friends were interrailing in Europe. That was back in 1998. 1998 was also the year when the movie Show me love* premiered. The soundtrack to Show me love was made by the best Swedish indie pop band ever: Broder Daniel. Another Swedish band from the same era was Sahara Hotnights. Sahara Hotnights second album was called Jennie Bomb. So, yeah, you see the connection between trains and Cherry bomb.

Wanna read another? If not stop reading. You likely have heard of the HBO show about Chernobyl, right? Directed by Johan Renck. He has apparently made videos for some artists called things like Beyonce, but who cares about that? The important thing is of course that Johan Renck apparently has dated my favorite participant in a celebrity version of a reality show: namly singer Camilla Hedemark. Then I learned that Camilla Hedemark has asperger syndrom, making me wonder if I liked her since we have the same diagnose?

Btw, am I the only one who looked up the woman who wrote Orange is the new black, just to see if she made her living producing aristinal soap? Well, that’s the world we live in, factories turn whole jungles of oil palms into soap. But there’s still a market for some artistinal soap. The supermarkets are full of dairy - the land of milk and honey. But there’s still a market for lookal, organic, goat cheese at the farmers market. It’s almost like I am wondering if I could make a living selling handmade drawing charcoal of hazelnut wood?

* Swedish title Fucking Åmål, but you can’t say "fuck" in the English speaking word? And no one outside Sweden knows Åmål is a small town. Other might think about the name Amal.