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Martin Rundkvist's blog. Archaeology, skepticism, Sweden. And books and music and stuff.
Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Introspection
In close to five years of blogging, I've never talked specifically about my drug abstinence, though I've mentioned a few times that I'm tee-total. So I thought now I might say a few words on the subject.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 54 Comments •
Category: Humour
"The one great truth which underlies all human experience, and is the key to all the mysteries that philosophy has sought in vain to solve, flashed upon me in a sudden revelation."
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
I found this sign at the Slussen commuter train station the other day....
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
Somebody calls you and you answer quite slowly: a girl with kaleidoscope eyes....
Posted by Martin R at 2:44 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Music
One of the major influences that combined to form Western psychedelic rock was traditional Asian music. But musicians in Asia picked up the vibe pretty quickly and started to play their own versions of it. Lately I've been listening...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 9 Comments •
Category: Music
Here are some excellent albums I've been listening to lately on my trusty smartphone. If you're into power pop, alternative rock, US folk and psychedelia, then check them out!Brendan Benson. Alternative to Love. 2005. Grand Duchy. Petits Fours. 2009. It's...
Posted by Martin R at 5:17 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
After over a year's near-invisibility on the net, cyberculture guru R.U. Sirius resurfaces as editor of H+ Magazine, a web zine about transhumanism. Explains Wikipedia, transhumanism is a "movement supporting the use of science and technology to enhance human mental...
Posted by Martin R at 6:32 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Music
Yes he is extremely lewd, yes he is psychedelic, yes he has a plastic synth sound...
Posted by Martin R at 8:33 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
The R.U. Sirius Show is/was a great weekly counterculture podcast that aired 88 episodes until about a year ago. Then it went on unannounced hiatus. I miss the show! Can anybody offer information on what R.U. is up to, and...
Posted by Martin R at 7:37 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
So it's the 80s, Estonia is under Soviet rule, and your job is to direct movie commercials. And when you get the assignment to promote kana-hakkliha (processed chicken meat), you know exactly what it will take to make the...
Posted by Martin R at 2:51 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Humour
Over at Podcastle, I just heard an amazing reading/performance of an amazing surrealist love story, "Fourteen Experiments in Postal Delivery". It was written by John Schoffstall, first published as text two years ago, and read by Heather Lindsley at Random...
Posted by Martin R at 1:32 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Tech
The micro-SD flash memory chip that came with my new smartphone has some interesting issues with data integrity. I mostly use it to store sound files in the mp3 format, both pop songs of a few MB each and podcasts...
Posted by Martin R at 3:11 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Film
There was a time, around the age of twenty, when I saw some pretty weird movies. First I lived a short bike ride from the Swedish Film Institute, where I caught Kenneth Anger and Luis Buñuel (neither of whom I...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Film
I'm spending tomorrow in a cultic field with Per Vikstrand and a metal detector. So I reckon it were best if we all had a look at the druggiest bit in all of Monty Python first....
Posted by Martin R at 4:42 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Archaeology
Having done some surface investigations with non-destructive methods, a group of volunteer investigators including Patti Hearst's Sharon Tate's sister calls for the excavation of the Manson Family's last hideout."Vass said that, considering the quantity and the types of markers of...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Music
After work today I had dinner with my friends Asko & Eva and then went to the Cirkus concert venue to hear the Mars Volta. For those of you who have missed them, they're a US psychedelic progressive rock...
Posted by Martin R at 6:02 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Health
It's a weird kind of snow crash in your visual cortex.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Music
Some of these angels have the face of Gods / Some of them the face of dogs
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Music
Three good albums, listened to in the car when driving to & fro the Djurhamn dig.
Posted by Martin R at 2:34 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
This dictionary was in every home with any pretentions to literacy and social respectability.
Posted by Martin R at 4:18 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Humour
"Oh my, that's a thick book! Is it maths?"
Posted by Martin R at 8:51 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Music
Andy's joke reminded Gerard that his sloth balloon was owned by Turkish moths.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Music
My generation is releasing divorce records.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
A product way off the scale on the weirdometer.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Music
They rocked! Really good drumming and blues guitar, tightly rehearsed.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 4 Comments •
Category: Music
Here's a translation of one of my first brushes with absurdism.
Posted by Martin R at 12:38 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
My crappy camera actually enhances the visual effect of this day-glo monstrosity.
Posted by Martin R at 4:55 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Music
A charming interview with Apples in Stereo front man Robert Schneider.
Posted by Martin R at 4:23 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Language
The naming of Swedish places has long been regulated by the authorities.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Music
Dungen ("the Grove") combine psychedelic 70s prog rock with Swedish ethno, fiddle and flute.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
The R.U. Sirius show is good, smart, addled leftie fun.
Posted by Martin R at 12:42 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
Have a look, lots of album recommendations!
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Music
Extraterrestrial party animals titter and croak madly in the background.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Music
This triangular old man came in.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 6 Comments •
Category: Music
I keep an eye open for pop lyrics having to do with archaeology.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
Sex sells, so here's a pic of my new psychedelic undies.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Photography
Work by Sally Mann, Henrik Saxgren and Alphonse Mucha is on display in Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted by Martin R at 9:05 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
Stoner rats display brain changes and graduate to smack.
Posted by Martin R at 4:16 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Music
Robert Schneider, one of my favourite neopsychedelic musicians, has a new album out, this time with his main band again, The Apples in Stereo. His previous album Expo was issued in 2005 with The Marbles and is an excellent...
Posted by Martin R at 3:13 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Psychedelic
I am an admirer of all things psychedelic in art and music. My wife recently bought a second-hand copy of Disney's animated feature film Dumbo -- dubbed in Finnish of all languages. But we're a multilingual family and the...
Posted by Martin R at 11:29 AM • 8 Comments •
