Turning heads (and torsos) in Malmo

[imomus]

Newspaper Sydsvenskan has today published a little video report about Krets, the gallery in Malmo where I'll be performing a little action called Down With Fun! tonight. Click the picture to see the report, and if you're in Malmo come to the gallery to see the performance -- it's at Kristianstadsgatan 16 and starts at 7pm.



In the background of the report (which starts at 1min 30 and ends at 4mins 30) you can see drawings by Matt Furie, and tonight is really a finissage party for the end of his show at Krets. You can also hear the Swedish language (naturally) in the clip. It's currently spoken by nine million people worldwide, which makes it too small, apparently, to warrant a place in Google Translate.

You can tell Swedish is a minor language because absolutely everybody here speaks excellent English. Unlike in Germany, where English-language TV programmes are all dubbed into German, in Sweden they're subtitled, which allows Swedes to learn the kind of English spoken in bad comedy shows. (By the way, did you know that up to 90% of the 6000 languages that exist today will have died out by the end of this century?)

I must say this Swedish daily paper shows better taste in its choice of music than a British paper would -- the soundtrack to their report on Krets seems to be Maher Shalal Hash Baz covering "Georgie Girl". Okay, I'm off to see Calatrava's Turning Torso, out in the Malmo harbour.

Comments

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

Tja, diglossi är ett rätt jobbigt problem för vissa svenskar, kan jag tänka mig. En del använder försvenskningar av engelska ord. Fast det är ungdomar som gör det mest mer eller mindre.

Eh, oops!

Well, diglossia is a quite srenuous problem for some swedes, I can imagine. Some use Swedificiations of english words. Though it is mostly teenagers who do that more or less.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

I think I could understand 20% of that!

Do all Swedish people dance so lasciviously?

[rodebrecht.livejournal.com]

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

I would guess that most of us do, yes. Unless we are eay too drunk! Full like a kastrull! (Drunk like a saucepan!)

[(Anonymous)]

Hah, the dancing scenes in these videos are wonderful. Great cuts, and exceptional dancing. I feel like giving Sweden a call very pronto.

[cap-scaleman.livejournal.com]

You bet mister ananas! There is a party in Sweden's pants and you're invited!

[(Anonymous)]

My biggest problem with young swedes talking english is that they tend to throw in the word "fuck" in every sentence when they can't find the right word...

[(Anonymous)]

That is only because they imitate native English speakers, who use "fuck" a lot. In fact, it's now by far the most common word in spoken English (articles like "the" don't count). But it's also very curious how some people, for example yourself, have some sort of aural blinkers and do not notice how native speakers talk, but get offended when foreigners imitate them. Have you ever listened to hiphop? An average Hollywood movie? Footballers?