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 In 1982, Monty Python filmed a concert performed at the Hollywood Bowl, a concert with a perfect mix of their most famous sketches as well as new material written especially for the concert.It’s  a show with some of my absolute favorite sketches, including the Lumberjack Song, the Ministry of Silly Walks and Nudge Nudge, and some great new ones as well, for example the Crunchy Frog sketch, How Sweet to Be an Idiot and Comedy Lecture.The only thing avoiding it to receive 10 stars instead of eight is the non-includance of the Dirty Fork sketch and that it’s so damn short, 01:17 h.

 ********eight stars

I really don’t read much manga (anymore, I was a real diehard mangafreak in 2005-2006), but since this blog after all have the URL http://blog.mangaworld.se I thought I had to write something about manga just once. And btw, that URL it temporary, and if I could afford it I’d get another one (hopeswerehigh.com or whatever). In other words: Click the ads and bring me the sweet sweet money!

My favorite manga series right now (I don’t follow all of these, but I’ve read at least 5 or 6 tankôbons of each, mostly more)

• Case Closed / Detective Conan

• Love Hina

• Death Note

• Battle Royale

• Dragon Ball / Dragon Ball Z

• One Piece

• Kajika

• Naruto

I just had to write that list. Sorry. Now carry on with your lives, tiny mortals.

MY RACE WILL DESTROY YOU ALL (Futurama reference for teh win)

I have heard a lot of the original “The Twilight Zone” series, running from 1959 – 1964, and I finally downloaded it entirely (24,1 GB, gah) yesterday and watched the first episode (“Where is Everybody”), and it was great.

 The Twilight Zone was a series of  free-standing episodes of horror, fantasy and science-fiction, and lots of the episodes are afterwards copied by film directors, authors etcetera, and are referenced for example by The Simpsons (where I actually heard of the show at first).What I love about my family is how I’ve been raised with all these classic films, shows, comics, etcetera; my mother has renewed on a monthly Donald Duck comic since the late 1960′s and still renews on it (although at first it was in her father’s name while she lived there, and now it’s in her name while she lives here), and she’s learned me to love the Monty Python gang, and movies from the 1970′s and 1980′s, such as Indiana Jones, Star Wars and Back to the Future etcetera. Thus, I’m surprised my mother hasn’t even mentioned The Twilight Zone earlier. However, when I first told her that I had downloaded and watched it, her respons was that she was happy for me, since it’s among the greatest series ever, that she followed when she was younger (even though it ended a year before her birth it started airing in Sweden several years later).Anyway, a great show, recommended to EVERYONE! Watch it! 

 * * * * * * *seven stars

Yet another weblog created. I just started my new serial novel “Unburdened”, to be updated with one chapter every Monday and Friday. Read or become exterminated, fellows.

• Read the first chapter

- Aki