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A 10-volume / 10-Year

MassiveMultiMedia Project

by

John Lundberg

Volume 1

Forthcoming 2012

From LWBP®

Books/Music/Film/Art

LWBP proudly presents the  

ALL THE KINGS OF THE WORLD EVER

project

Part One:

KINGS OF SWEDEN

J Lundberg - following the "Incongruitie" (bland limit plotline-chapter) in U.N. Houx's Regent's Entropy (vol 1) manuscript (1983, unpublished) - has, as of 2012, undertaken the task to paint a series of large scale oil paintings of all the kings that ever lived in the world. 

The image above is a rough sketch (done in pencil and acrylic) of the first painting: Karl XV (King of Sweden: 1859-72). 

...Yes, yes, we know. So many unfullfilled promises. We are sorry. Really.


(That's life, though.) 


But, now, finally, soon (do hold your breath, but maybe sit down):

LWBP

Presents

5-years in the making

"blockbuster"

"Inscrutable"

"junk-epic"

John Lundberg's

COOKING WITH ERYSICHTHON

Some photos from the recent LWBP/Books launch-party.

As you, our public, are well aware – vague and well-meant, but ultimately futile, promises aside – the publishing wing of LWBP has been dormant. That is, until now!

 The 26th of September of 2011, saw the launch of LWBP/Books, with the publication of the first volume of the Some Words series, entitled simply “The First Book”, conceived, written, and designed by our stalwart collaborator John Lundberg. The fist edition run numbers a total of 1 (one) copy, and is now, as of this moment, for sale.

 Later this week, we will have a report from the launch-party, complete with photos, and some choice words from the LWBP-team.

(Image from CWE, J Lundberg, 2011)

We publish today a short excerpt from an interview with Swedish writer and artist John Lundberg about his latest work: the feature film “Cooking With Erysichthon” (part of “The Erysichthon Project”) produced by LWBP.

There seems to have been certain problems… “Cooking With Erysichthon” (CWE) was supposed to have come out in 2010. Can you tell us about this?

There are certain… aspects… of the production – the postponing of the release date being the most obvious – that I have been advised not to discuss publicly at this time. These things will be revealed, however, at a later date.

What about the rumours that you don’t really exist?

The rumours that I am a fictional character, although appealing – especially to me – are false. Well… depending on your definition of “fiction”, I guess one should add.

What can you tell us about the process of making your first feature length film?

The process has been interesting. The general direction of the movie was quite finalized from the start – the only significant addition to the structure of the narrative, after the initial proposal, has been the inclusion of certain material inspired by the works of A. Crowley. That is, much of the material (everything from specific images to whole sequences, and much of the music) included in the finished film was invented during the three year long production, but these additions, although by no means mere embellishments, did not affect the general structure of the piece.

Do you consider CWE to be an experimental film?

I have discussed it previously as a “decentred” film, not a generally accepted category, but useful nonetheless. To give you some context I would include, for instance, Takeshis’ (2005), Inland Empire (2006) and Hotel Monterey (1972) in this category. I don’t think the term “experimental” when applied to any of the arts is really helpful.

What about the rumoured sequel?

It’s uncertain at this time if it will happen. We are talking about it – you guys here at LWBP seem very keen on it. The basic ideas for the sequel exists – nothing very elaborate yet, some drawings, and a very short plot outline – but I’m not sure how much more time I want to devote to this project. It’s been three years with the movie, and the original text, and I’m still working on “Walking With Erysichthon” [the graphic novel – red. ], and “Breakfast With Erysichthon” [a short prequel to CWE – red. ]. I might wait a while. Do some other work in-between. I’m not sure.

A Message from LWBP Board of Directors:

At LWBP HQ (to be relocated in November – more information, on this completely unrelated topic, to follow shortly) we have received several requests for more information concerning what is still (as of October, 2010) our largest ever project: The Erysichthon-cycle. This largely ignored, poorly received, and mostly misunderstood, multi-media[1] endeavour, by Swedish exile John Lundberg, stands as the inaugural bid for fame by a production company (yes, us) that refuses to play downstream (come on, that’s where the pee ends up, and you know it). Art, we feel, is not about expression, communication, or to be understood. That is for political propaganda and ads about diapers (no, not a redundancy, the latter is for controlling and limiting the former). However, given the ever-plummeting levels of education amongst today’s youth (yes, that could be you), we agreed to try to get the artist to give some initial introductory information, to ease the reception of his opus. He flatly refused: “There is no such thing as an introduction”, said a hand-scrawled note in a soiled brown envelope thrown through our office windows shortly after midnight.

Some time later, at the LWBP-vaults, we found a brief text, and a VHS-cassette labelled “Introduction - or: the problem at hand.” The short film included on the cassette[2] turned out to be a summary of the entire project in the most lucid, clear and direct form. We present it here for your viewing pleasure.

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[1] Including, but not limited to, works in film, comics, painting, poetry, and, hopefully one day, a MFA.

[2] Other items included (mostly audio material) will be released at a later date, together with the text. They are of little interest to the problem at hand.

COMING SOON:

Part 1 of the Erysichthon Interviews...