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Michael 's Interests
General
Creating magazines, magazines, television, books, movies, music, gals (some of them japanese), good food, chocolate, icecream. Google SLICE and you will find my magazine. And on my Atlantis Online site you will find a bunch of interviews, like Deep Purple, Nightwish, David Coverdale, Black Sabbath, Ingrid Pitt, Judas Priest and Ladies of rock. This MySpace page represents my interests well and I hope to find many more interesting friends in time. One can tell that MySpace was originally geared for artists but I think that this whole thing with creative people creating profiles about things like classic tv-shows, authors and so on is a great thing. That is why I finally gave in and decided to jump onto the ship, now I'm pretty much addicted. This really is a lot of fun and I'm surprised over how many real stars you can find on this thing that are actually taking a personal interest. Not all of them does, some has personal assistants for the purpose (or companies), but some are out there every day like you and me. Good fun. MySpace really is a revolution of sorts, it makes life for an independent publisher a hell of a lot easier for starters. I would say if you ever thought about creating a magazine, now is the time. I'll support other independent publishers when I find interesting titles out there on this page.
Music
Deep Purple, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Nightwish, Black Sabbath (non-Ozzy years prefered), film score magicians like Henry Mancini. Hardrocker at heart, but open to just about anything except rap and modern dancecrap. Finding new music is a never ending journey, MySpace is a good place to explore the unknown and I have found some very good artists lately here. The Ladies of rock series on my Atlantis Online site came about because of this MySpace thing. Got the idea in january 2007 and it is an ongoing thing now. Great fun, so check that out. Oh, one more thing. Deep Purple MK 4 rocks! Coolest band ever! Shame it lasted less than a year though.
Movies
Old and new, as long as it gives me something. Have a bit of a thing for Audrey Hepburn and swedish actress Sickan Carlsson, the world has taken a dive since those days. Lucy Lawless and Jennifer Love Hewitt brings hope though. I do enjoy to write about certain favourite movies in my publications. "Barbarella" with Jane Fonda in fab gear and Ingrid Pitt from "Where Eagles Dare" comes to mind. Great fun to have a go at classics like that.
Television
The Addams Family, Bewitched, High Chaparral, The Saint, The Persuaders, The Avengers, Xena Warrior Princess, Hercules, CSI, LEXX, Married With Children, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Soap, Drew Carey, According To Jim, Get Smart, All In The Family, The War At Home, Battlestar Galactica, Ghost Whisperer, The Rockford Files, McCloud, Columbo, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, Sir Lancelot, The Buccaneers, The Onedin Line, The Baron, Dave Allen At Large, Buck Rogers, The Fugitive, lots of good shows out there. The late night shows with guys like Jay, Dave and Conan is enjoyable. I enjoy writing episodeguides for my magazines and so far I have had Xena (70 plus pages!), The Addams Family, Relic Hunter, Hercules, Catweazle, High Chaparral, Sir Lancelot and Married With Children in print. Next show will be Alias Smith and Jones. Have also done articles on classic shows like The Avengers and The Persuaders in my publications.
Books
Lots and lots and lots of them. Everybody should own a private library. I enjoy reviewing the best in my publications, comics, pulp, politics, music, history, whatever. On a more personal note, I have some pictures in a couple of recent books about Black Sabbath and some quotes was lifted from my Atlantis Online site to the new Ritchie Blackmore biography "Black Knight" by Jerry Bloom. Nice. I also have a chapter in Nikki Staffords 2002 book "How Xena Changed Our Lives", which was good fun. I will link to authors on this page and I hope that fans of classic pulp will create more profiles in time.
Heroes
In real life, real people that go to their jobs every day no matter how they feel. In entertainment, the Deep Purple lads for sure (when I was a kid they were Gods). Many fine people out there though. Any band that can deliver live is OK in my book. My first big show was Rainbow back in 1980 and my first major interview followed in 1981 when Whitesnake came along. I spent the eighties on trains and planes getting to concerts and meeting rockstars, writing for many major publications around the world (and I still managed to hang on to a more ordinary job, had to pay those darn bills). Nirvana tartarus descended in the nineties so I did other things for a while then. Published 32 issues of a magazine called Deep Purple Forever (1991-2003), followed by a Lucy Lawless/Xena publication called Lucy In The Sky (2000-2003). Branched out with SLICE and other titles for the pure fun of it in 2003. Today I publish all my magazines with brand new titles and logotypes and I am probably the only guy in the world that does that! Started out with four issues of SLICE, branched out with a sisterpublication called Pizza, and then I went a bit nuts. But it's all for the fun of it, and I think I probably have the best hobby in the world. One thing to keep in mind about stars, they are actually human. Try making something good out of an interview when the star has just been informed by his wife that there is a major plumbingproblem at home. If you can pull that off, you're probably quite good. Here is a tip, be professional, kind, try to ease yourself into a conversation with a joke or two if you can. Show them interest in their current career, then fire off the questions about other things towards the end (could be the best bits, when Ronnie James Dio tells you about a UFO encounter, you know you are alive!). Why am I ranting? Probably the writer in me taking over, so I will leave you to check out the friends then. Cheers. MIKE
About me: Swede, born in 1961, living in Östersund. Publisher of SLICE magazine and other independent titles (see "pics"). You can see the cover of SLICE (global edition 2008) here to the left, which is out now. Contact me if you want a copy for your collection. BELOW - IAN GILLAN in Östersund 1992, filmed by myself and a friend with permission at the time. We recently transfered the old VHS tapes to DVD and edited a two camera version together at the same time. All three versions have now been sent over to Ian Gillan. This clip represents the gig well.
Who I'd like to meet: More interesting people. The list is growing. Have done so many artists in music that tv and film people interest me more at this point. My magazines reflects this, any issue can have Audrey Hepburn and Black Sabbath side by side. I dear say I do what I want these days. As for FRIENDS COMMENTS - no large pictures or ads for products, these comments will more likely than not be deleted. Also, I probably wont chat with you using the commentstool. Nothing personal, just lack of time. Business is another matter. BELOW - Michael Johansson filmed an interview I made with David Coverdale a few years back, and I found this on YouTube, so I will bloody well use it here! If I recall this right we shot about 30 minutes. This interview can be read on my Atlantis Online site at http://hem.bredband.net/b136339/
Hello Michael Thank you for counting us among your MySpace friends. We hope you enjoyed the music and please don't be a stranger :) All the best to you and yours, from Pegasus in Bonnie Scotland.
Hej Micke! Kanontidning som vanligt! Särskilt kul var intervjun med dig. Mina söner var dock mest imponerade över att du träffat Lordi.... Vi hörs./ Jonas
Grattis Micke! Jag glömde ringa innan jag lämnade stan. Ungar och familjer kan lägga hinder ivägen.... Grabbarna uppskattade dock kassen med tidningar. Jag tillbringade gårdagen med att läsa för dem. Inskolningen har börjat!!/ Jonas
