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Metal Pilgrim is essentially a YouTube channel that I have followed for a long time. Or at least that’s what I thought it was. I can tell you that it’s so much more. If it’s just this guy – Vlad Stadnyk, running the whole show is uncertain. I don’t know, but I think he’s at least the main part of the channel’s success. I want to include a disclaimer here since I don’t want to...
, Writer’s Block is something I suffer from time to time. It’s nothing I can predict in any way. I can go long periods of time when I write every day, and since I’ve writing this on Active Context you know what kind of texts I’m talking about. Here it’s all about haveing opinions on music, films or books. Ok, so I don’t write that much about books, but it has happened, and it will...
Mötley Crüe was one of those bands I grew up with. Their second album, Shout at the Devil was the first one I heard and I loved it! I still consider it to be their best album. The fact that they wore a little makeup on stage made them a little bit dangerous. They were not in full makeup like Kiss but still enough to make it a little bit exciting. Looking back at those...
I thought I should try something new. This is just a brief overview of the Listening and Music Impressions of albums I’ve listened to this week. Some have been rendered into longer reviews but I’m too lazy to write about everything. Every album might not be interesting enough or worth the effort either. First up was Mötley Crüe’s sophomore album Shout at the Devil. Still their best in my opinion. Nice riffs and nice melodies....
It is Halloween Month, Shocktober, or whatever you’d like to call it. So I thought a list with 31 Horror Movies you need to see was a good idea. None of these are in any particular order. They’re not listed from worst to best or anything like that. They’re just movies that I think you should see that fall under the Horror Umbrella. They’re not all core horror films and sometimes they’re mixed up with...
Ok, so Active Context goes Youtube? Well, yes! I’ve actually had a channel on therefore several years but didn’t really post anything besides a few clips a few years back of me just talking about this movie or that album. It was a time before ActiveContext as a concept didn’t really exist. I was writing on the blog The Flick Fanatics Companion and the Swedish equivalent Fanatisk Film. I wasn’t really happy with this approach...
Back in my youth Once upon a time, there was something called Guitar Heroes. This was long before the game by the same name so I’m really really old… Anyway, there was this phenomenon with guitar players that was kinda larger than life with their instrument. I don’t think that this phrasing is around anymore but I might be wrong. I don’t buy juvenile publications any more so I don’t know if there’s something like...
I loved the lyric of Suzanne Vegas Luka already when I heard it in the late ’80s. It had so much angst that I could identify myself with it even though I was not even close to being in the situation Luka is in, in the song. The first few years I listened to it I thought this was about a child living on the second floor that wasn’t allowed by his/her parents to play...
I listen to a whole lot of music but it’s only on occasion I have enough energy to write something like a review about it. I thought I would take this opportunity to very quickly describe what I have been listening to in the last week without going into any depth. But first, some background. When I was very young I listened mostly to what was played on the radio at the time. Later I...
Finally, there’s an official Music playlist on the site again. It’s not such a simple task as you might think to create one of those. At least not for me. I don’t know if you have more talent for choosing favorite songs than me. I would sure love to see and hear your lists! I had some rules when creating this. 100 songs, no more and no less Not more than 3 songs from the same artist...
When I grew up there was this great record in my mom’s record shelf. Not that she and I never shared any preferences and I figure this was bought by mistake. However, The Sweets Golden Greats was a record I came to love among those pieces of vinyl. So much, that I managed to convince her to give the album to me when I moved away from my childhood home. I still have it, but...
I’ve known about Frank Stallone for some years. But…I just thought he was the older brother to Sylvester Stallone and was an actor in a couple of B-movies. A sibling that cashing in on his more famous siblings’ Success. There are other examples of it or course. And I do emphasize that this might not be their intent. They’re basically not as successful as there siblings. I don’t claim that they willingly cash in on...
