Recent content by Northern Lights

Since there's no dedicated thread for discussing the summer festival dates, I will just vent my excitement here: I was so stoked to see that DT is playing the Global East Festival in Batumi, Georgia! I had no idea there was even a market for rock/metal festivals there (most people I met were...

With that same reasoning, you could also say it's pretty hypocritical not to respect them - we say that they need to respect people (such as immigrants and homosexuals) for being different compared to themselves, but refuse to respect them for having opinions that deviate from the majority. If...

I wouldn't call them far right extremists, to be honest, not in their current incarnation. They are more of a "back to the good old Swedish folkhem days, where everyone danced traditional dances, went to church on Sundays, where the men worked and the women stayed at home and gave birth all the...

I take it no one's going to be in Berlin then? While not exactly a regular anymore, I guess I still count as a forum member and will be at the Berlin gig with 95% certainty (haven't bought the tickets yet and am counting on possible unforeseen events). So if anyone were to have similar plans and...

Salmy: you don't have a national ID card as well? That works fine in the EU and from my experience it takes less time to get one of those than a passport. Though that's Swedish bureaucracy - don't know how it works in Finland. Anyway, congratulations on the job and finally being out of the...

Somehow, this reminds me of an article many years ago about DT in one of the Swedish metal magazines (either Sweden Rock or Close-Up, can't remember which) where the band's fans were characterised based on this forum - I think 'displaying higher intelligence than average' was one verdict after...

Haircutters. Hair quitters. Mine remains long. Thanatos, I'm glad the swine flu didn't get you. Whatever you do, you may live short-haired but not die as such, or it would surely be a crime against metal. :p

I went and saw At The Gates yesterday. Despite the fact that 'reunion' is, by empirical evidence, a dirty word in the music industry, it was a pretty damn good night. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they're one of the best live bands I've seen. Very energetic, very good fun. I think the hiatus...

I read an article recently which said that Caesar did not say 'et tu, Brute' but 'και συ τεκνον', and that in fact most famous Latin quotes were originally in Greek, because that was what posh people spoke. Latin was for peasants...

Yeah, that one came out of the blue. You'd expect it in California, in eastern Mediterranean, Indonesia, Japan, you name it - but England? It was quite strong for this part of the world, too. The whole house was shaking.

No shit, Sherlock. The difference is, however, that the Westphalian state system that is currently the order of things is, in a way, "native" to Europe because it evolved through wars, political interactions and the way nations were formed on the European continent. European colonisers then took...

As troublesome as Kosovo's independence is, I don't think there would've been any possibility of it joining Albania, ever. Serbs are infuriated by the claim to independence, but I can't imagine the rage if Kosovo had just become a part of Albania. That would have set an equally unsettling...

So how about Kosovo's recent declaration of independence? If memory serves me right there used to be one or two guys from the Balkans hanging around here, if they are still around it'd be great to hear their opinion on the topic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7256158.stm It's a tricky...

Perhaps that's more of an academic debate (what with clarifying concepts and everything) and I've been locked up with my books for too long.

What I am mainly referring to is the public debate in the US, where people who want a greater role for the state, socialised medicine, etc., basically a slightly more social democratic model of governance, are called "liberal" scum who want a communist regime (perhaps I'm exaggerating...