New Cut

”New Cut : True Stories from Life” (Pan Norstedts, 336 p.), is a collection of essays by the infamous infant terrible, Robert Aschberg from the time he writed in the magazine Z, a swedish formerly vivid popular extreme magazine, now shut down. The Z-TV national-TV-channel is still broadcasting in the cables.

Mr Aschberg rants and describes topics like travelling to trade fairs, visiting fancy parties, bowling with his workfriends, tie and smoking wear, see the royal family, kicking on cars, watching soccer in Albania, preparing christmas etc. all in his sarcastical ironical way. A minor theme in the book is disgust, presented like this in a passage: ”As if that was not enought with disgust, I can tell you that I myselfe at a visit with school at Vallingby [Vixton/Wix] Police Station in 1965 [13 years old] succseeded in throwing up, hold everything in my mouth, and in little gulps swallow it again” (Aschberg, p. 142).

The author also write on the combination booze, sex and sports. Like this, a remark on a world leading runner’s girlfriend: ”She is known to be sexy. She shure is. She is sexy like a vise [a big iron tool on a planing bench].” (p. 103)
The beers you get are mostly too weak, so you could try this instead, the habit of drinking wiskey with cola to the supper, like a old friend of his in the music business usally does.

By the way, as a footnote, I did some quite bad immitations of Aschbergs style of excessive well-designed, a bit self-righteous, magnificent ways of presenting his self in the crime-night show ”Insider”, in my radio show this spring. Btw once again. I met a famous leading Brommapojkarna premier national leag soccerclub supporter at Krukan in Stockholm. He was angry at Mr Aschberg. Why? Because the supporter had heard that Aschberg has a monthly sallary of USD 70.000 (SEK 500.000)