Podcast appearances and mentions of Malik Bendjelloul

Today's episode is on "Searching for Sugar Man", a 2012 film about the long-forgotten Detroit balladeer Rodriguez, his mysterious fame in South Africa, and his rediscovery. This Academy Award-winning classic was directed by Malik Bendjelloul. Sixto Rodriguez, who recorded as Rodriguez, had a brief recording career from the late 60s and early 70s. He sold "about 6" records in the U.S., but, unbeknownst to him, his music became wildly popular in South Africa. Rumors abounded about his ultimate fate. Finally, a few intrepid South Africans decided to try to track the man down. The rest is rock docs history. Rock Docs is a Treble Media Podcast hosted by David Lizerbram & Andrew Keatts Twitter: @RockDocsPod   Instagram: @RockDocsPod   Cover Art by N.C. Winters - check him out on Instagram at @NCWintersArt  

This week on the #WatchTowerFilmPodcast we jump into another exceptional story as part of our Documentary month!Join us as we dive into the mystery of a man named Rodriguez! Despite not selling many records in the United States, this enigma of a man was highly regarded as a favorite among record executives and producers. He has been described as being bigger than Elvis in South Africa selling half a million records unbeknownst to him! Malik Bendjelloul's 2012 Oscar Award Winning documentary, “Searching For Sugar Man” is this week's topic of discussion! Have you seen this documentary? Tell us what you think! Please help us by SUBSCRIBING, LIKING, COMMENTING, and SHARING.

FILMBRANSCHPODDEN - A PART OF ACASTING VEM: Jakob Abrahamsson YRKE: VD för tre bolag inom filmbranschen SÄSONG: 1  EPISOD: 7 EN PODD AV: Simon Kölle www.linktr.ee/simonkolle Om episoden:  Jakob Abrahamsson är VD för Distributionsbolaget NonStop Entertainment, VD för Bio & Bistro Capitol och VD för produktionsbolaget Mylla Films. Med stor kärlek till film och ett entreprenöriellt sinne berättar Jakob om sin mångsidiga karriär och hur det är att driva sina tre bolag. När episoden spelades in var Anette Novak VD på Svenska filminstitutet. SPONSRAD AV: Ritualen -  www.ritualen.com NÄMNER BLAND ANNAT:  Bio Capitol, NonStop Entertainment, Mylla Films, Otänkbart att jobba med film, Hitchcock, hyrde filmer, Casablanca, Västertorp, Bodils Video, Silverscreen, Fruängen, Video Nord, Hornstull, Walter video, video invest, KTH, Filmvetenskap, Stockholm Filmskola, Regi, Stockholm Filmfestival, Tidnigen Cinema, Midnattsvisningar, Hong Kong-film, Ringu 1 och 2, Popcorn festivalen, Abbe, Patrik Andersson, Anna Lindström på Lucky Dogs, Nicola på Njuta, Programansvarig, Tonårskomedier, thrillers, drama, B-action, mix av filmer, Tarantino, anti-censur, Skärholmens loppmarknad, Laserdisc,  Carl Göran Andersson, Ignas Scheynius, Turner Broadcasting, Warner, Kabelkanal, ComHem, Abonemang, Discovery, HBO, Searching for Sugar Man, Malik Bendjelloul, Möten i London, HR, Ekonomi, Underchefer, Köpa NonStop, Flytta ut samma dag, Jag är Ingrid, Fin start, Tvod, EST, VOD, SVOD, Hyr och köp-video, Streaming, Netflix, AVOD, FVOD, Sälja till TV, Köpa rättigheter, Tidsbestämda rättigheter, Värderingen, Discounted cashflow, Köpa sälja bolag, filmhistoria, Grosshandlare i filmrättigheter, Göteborg Film festival, Sundance, Nordic Film Market, American Film Market, Paris Rendezvous, Berlin Film Festival, European Film Market, MIPTV, International Television Market, Cannes, London Screenings, Venedig film festival, Toronto Film festival,  MIPCOM, Ekosystemet inom Indiependent film, Röda Mattan, Pre Sales, mer om filmfestivaler, Buda på projekt, Svårt att göra film i Sverige utan att ha många med dig, Nordisk film och tv fond, Finansiering av film, Pitchar, EPK, digibeta-Kassett, Stärka kreatörer, Mylla och NonStop, Scanbox, Aurora, flera hattar, NonStop sist i kön för Mylla, MG, Mestadels roligt, VD för Bio Capitol, Permitering, B-Reel, Lisa Langseth, Pernilla August, TV-serier, Midsommar, Ari Aster, Datapunkter, Estimat, väldigt hemliga i Sverige med data och tittarsiffror, FilmWeb, Dungeons and Dragons, Filmbudget, Box Office, Streamingplattformer hemlar, Status på svenska filmbranschen, Kalibrerat om branschen,Allmän kostnadskontrollvåg, VIAPLAY, Beställare kommer beställa mindre, pendeln håller långsamt på att svänga tillbaka till långfilm, Barbiefilmen, självförtroende, nedåtgående spiral, Sonet, Josef Fares,  Johan Falk, Göta Kanal, Sällskapsresan, Joker, Strul, En runda till, Solsidan, Ove, Felix Herngren, Lasse Åberg, Feed, Bränn alla mina brev, Scandinavian Content Group, Svensk genre, Avgrunden, Katastroffilm, Vinterberg, Ruben Östlund, Anna Croneman, Riktning och initiativ och mod, Top Gun 2, Genreberättande, Låt den rätte komma in, Efti, Carl Molinder, Gräns, Art House, Nordic Noir, FLX, Gräva där man står, Internationell marknad i bakhuvudet, Dalarna, Norberg, Mormor, Harold and Maude, The Graduate, Cinemateket, If you want to sing out, sänka priset på medlemskort, Mission impossible,  Klassiker och specialvisningar, After Sun, Kärlek och Avund, War Pony, Disco Boy, Bruce Willis, Art House, Snabba Cash, Streamingintäkter, Ledarskap, Förtroende, Tillit, Trygghet, Hållbarhet, This is England, Mark Herbert, Shane Meadows, Warp X, Inside Pictures, David Cronenberg, Crimes of the Future, Naked Lunch, The name of the game, Julia Short, UIP, Polygram, 12 apornas armé, Mentor, att ha egen bio, Svenska filminstitutet, Anna Serner, Anette Novak, Öronbedövande tystnad, en kraft för kontinuitet och reaktivitet, SVT Drama, Mikael Marcimain, Tyst från kulturpolitiken, Werner Herzhog, Egghead Republic, Galna på bästa sätt, Per Faxneld, Ockultism, public intellectual, It Follows, Den där Mary

Con Filippo Timi parliamo di “Mi fanno male i capelli” il film con Alba Rohrwacher diretto da Roberta Torre che è anche un omaggio dolcissimo alla figura indimenticabile di Monica Vitti.Kasia Smutniak esordisce alla regia con “Mur”, documentario durissimo che racconta la costruzione in Polonia del muro che divide l'Europa dalla Bielorissia.“Foto di famiglia” è un film diretto da Manu Boyer, con Justina Machado e Elisabeth Rohm. Lo ha visto per noi Chiara Pizzimenti.Con il nostro Boris Sollazzo parliamo di “Killers of the Flower Moon” diretto da Martin Scorsese, con Leonardo DiCaprio e Robert De Niro e di “A passo d'uomo” diretto da Denis Imbert, con Jean Dujardin e Anny Duperey.I Wonder riporta nelle sale il documentario “Sugar Man” diretto da Malik Bendjelloul che racconta la storia incredibile del musicista Sixto Rodriguez. Ne parliamo con Andrea Romeo, fondatore e presidente di IWonder

Down on the Docs - Ep. 60 - Searching for Sugar Man (2012) Part 2 Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/VykasRN974 Down on the Docs, starring comedians Chris Neff & Dave Sarra, is a weekly podcast breaking down the latest documentaries on Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime the only way they know how, with lots of dumb jokes. Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/downonthedocs⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/downonthedocspod/⁠⁠⁠ Chris Neff: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/chrisneffcomedy⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/horsetooth⁠⁠⁠ Dave Sarra: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/davexhale⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/dave.sarra⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/DaveSarra⁠

Down on the Docs - Ep. 59 - Searching for Sugar Man (2012) Part 1 Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/VykasRN974 Down on the Docs, starring comedians Chris Neff & Dave Sarra, is a weekly podcast breaking down the latest documentaries on Netflix, HBO, and Amazon Prime the only way they know how, with lots of dumb jokes. Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/downonthedocs⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/downonthedocspod/⁠⁠⁠ Chris Neff: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/chrisneffcomedy⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/horsetooth⁠⁠⁠ Dave Sarra: ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/davexhale⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/dave.sarra⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/DaveSarra⁠

Although ekphrastic poetry (‘poetry about art') has been around for a long time, the majority of ekphrastic writing does little more than recapitulate and describe a painting. In ArtiFact #36, Alex Sheremet is joined by Jessica Schneider to discuss her recent book of ekphrastic poetry, “Ekphrasm”, and how her approach is different. From the use of recurring characters, to combining observations on photography with those on painting, to characterizing her various poetic narrators, to the use of psychological tricks, there is more to ekphrasis than meets the eye. Painters covered include Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne, Hilma af Klint, and others. Buy Jessica Schneider's “Ekphrasm”: https://www.amazon.com/Ekphrasm-French-Painters-Paintings-Natures-ebook/dp/B0B53ZB2TV Jessica Schneider's first poetry collection, “Wordshapes”: https://www.amazon.com/WordShapes-Selected-1999-2009-Jessica-Schneider-ebook/dp/B07HRDL58B/ To get the patron-only B Side to this conversation, support us on our Patreon page and get patron-only content: https://www.patreon.com/automachination B Side topics: Enneagram Type 5 & over-preparation; the role of enjambment, punctuation in poetry; does YouTube have an unfilled niche for great short poetry; Alex makes plans for capturing footage of the old brothel he grew up next door to; how footage of the 1945 Victory Day parade in Russia suddenly veers into greatness for 30 seconds; Bruce Ario as the most commercial and viral of poets; Jessica's earrings interfere with the show; “you're only as good as your last poem” as a psychological motivator; Alex's first draft of his Lunar New Year (2023) poem; exclusivity in the arts; Alex and Joel Parrish traveling to Minneapolis for footage related to Bruce Ario; on Malik Bendjelloul's “Searching for Sugar Man”, a biopic on Sixto Rodriguez; Sixto Rodriguez's excellence as a singer-songwriter; the emotional dilemmas of great artists; why animals can serve as a great example for human beings; Americans take the wrong lesson from Office Space; why every Twitter personality, no matter their politics or beliefs, sounds exactly the same; Russia Russia Russia; what gets lost in translation; Jim Morrison, The Doors, The Beatles and commercialism; Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Nassim Taleb snipes at Lex Fridman; do we need 6 months to read & digest The Brothers Karamazov; pitfalls of highly commercial marijuana legalization Subscribe to the ArtiFact podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3xw2M4D Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3wLpqEV Google Podcasts: https://bit.ly/3dSQXxJ Amazon Music: https://amzn.to/2SVJIxB Podbean: https://bit.ly/3yzLuUo iHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/3AK942L Jessica Schneider's interview on ekphrasis with Ethan Pinch of  @AnthropomorphicHorse  – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbjuQX_r_ho Vivian Maier footage used in video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDewAU-rgIM Read more from the automachination universe: https://automachination.com Read Alex Sheremet's (archived) essays: https://alexsheremet.com Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/automachination Timestamps: 0:18 – an icebreaker: Jessica Schneider's disrespectful emails in preparation for our show 3:18 – how Jessica's approach to ekphrasis is different; Jessica's initial frustration with her poem on Mariupol & how it was improved 9:22 – Jessica Schneider's poem “Manet's Mirror”, after Edouard Manet's famous “A Bar at the Folies-Bergère”; how the introduction of Landon at the end of the poem takes it out of the painting's own diegetic universe; the Wallace Stevens / Sunday Morning connection; why memorizing poetry is excellent for poets 21:40 – Jessica Schneider's poem “What Monet Said”, after Claude Monet's “Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and Her Son”; Leonard Shlain's “Art And Physics” 29:35 – the drawing of Paul Cezanne's son; Jessica Schneider's “A Young Paul Asleep”; how details totally outside of Cezanne's drawing make their way into the poem 36:37 – Jessica Schneider's poem on Mariupol; how Cezanne's paintings of a forest serve as a ‘spiritual' backdrop to a seemingly unrelated poem 42:28 – poem on Paul Cezanne's father reading a newspaper; there has always been a lack of family support for artists; “reading” Cezanne's painting vs. writing the poem 50:54 – Camille Pissaro's Voisins; extracting (unexpected) value from a title 56:27 – Jessica's poem after Vivian Maier's photography; on the nature of “selfie” / self-portrait poetry; Alex gets in touch with his feminine side 01:05:34 – a poem after Hilma af Klint's “swan” series; how a series can change individual artistic objects; speculation on Hilma af Klint's desire to publicly release her work only after a substantial amount of time passed after her death 01:14:08 – discussing the patron-only show & a final, autobiographical poem from Jessica Schneider; a non-ekphrastic poem that nonetheless taps into some concepts of ekphrasis Tags: #poetry, #painting, #photography, #artpodcast, #cezanne, #monet

[Searching for Sugar Man] reżyseria: Malik Bendjelloul  || muzyka: Sixto Rodriguezlubię filmy / lubię je oglądać i je robić / ale ten podcast przede wszystkim jest o muzyce filmowej / bo to taka szczególna forma, która powstaje po to żeby wspierać film / ale czasem, naprawdę rzadko, nagle taki soundtrack staje się dziełem samodzielnym  i wtedy ma się do czynienia z prawdziwą sztuką / a to jest dokładnie to - czego szukam w życiu.utwory wykorzystane w dzisiejszym podcaście:1. I Wonder - Sixto Rodriguez | 2.342. Sugar Man - Sixto Rodriguez | 3.493. Crucify Your Mind - Sixto Rodriguez | 2.324. I Think of You - Sixto Rodriguez | 3.26wszystkie utwory wykorzystane legalnie na mocy umowy z ZAiKS. 

You know when you hear a song and are like I love this! I need to know more about this artist but there is absolutely no information to be found. Searching for Sugarman directed by Malik Bendjelloul tells the story of two South African men who are trying to track down the American Folk Rock artist known as Rodriguez. Will they uncover the truths about his rumoured public suicide, or will it be the drug overdose or will it be another mystery unlocked entirely? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/threedudespod/message

Dans ce nouvel épisode les frangins se retrouvent pour débattre du film documentaire "Searching for Sugar Man" de Malik Bendjelloul sorti en 2012. N'hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos avis sur ce film par mail à contact@franginsvideoclub.fr et à visiter notre site internet franginsvideoclub.fr pour plus de contenu. Retrouvez le podcast sur YouTube, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify et Deezer. Suivez Adam sur les réseaux sociaux: sur Youtube "Adam Bros", sur Instagram @adam_bensoussan et sur Twitter @Adam_Bros Suivez Nathan sur Instagram @natebensoussan

Regresamos a una película del 2012 que nos fascinó desde su estreno, tanto por la historia que cuenta como por la forma en que la narra. Todos coincidimos en lo trágico que es no poder ver una obra más de su director. En noticias, no mucho corona, pero sí algo de cine. Menú 03:09 - Toma Tres se presenta 04:43 - Toma Tres comenta 58:25 - Toma Tres informa

Regresamos a una película del 2012 que nos fascinó desde su estreno, tanto por la historia que cuenta como por la forma en que la narra. Todos coincidimos en lo trágico que es no poder ver una obra más de su director. En noticias, no mucho corona, pero sí algo de cine. Menú 03:09 - Toma Tres se presenta 04:43 - Toma Tres comenta 58:25 - Toma Tres informa

We had the privilege of speaking to Searching For Sugar Man producer Simon Chinn, one of the key figures in helping take the movie from director Malik Bendjelloul's kitchen table all the way to Oscars success. Simon gave us fantastic insights - from how a last-minute conference call decided the movie's name, to how a special appearance from Rodriguez helped create the buzz around the film at Sundance Film Festival. He also spoke with great eloquence about Malik Bendjelloul himself, who tragically took his own life the year after his Oscars win. Simon explained how Malik's infectious personality and amazing creative spirit made Searching For Sugar Man special, as well as his memories from working with such a dedicated and unique mind. We have another great interview as well this week as we chatted to South African music expert Tecla Ciolfi. Tecla is the editor and curator of TexxAndTheCity.com and has also recently launched the podcast TexxTalks - she told us about Rodriguez's ongoing cultural influence in South Africa, as well as the difficulties in being a politically-motivated artist today. We'd love to hear your thoughts on this week's episode, so please send us any feedback to hi@travellingsymphony.com, or drop us a DM on our Twitter (@TSMovieClub) or Instagram (also @TSMovieClub).

On this debut episode of Air Castles, Johanna explains to Olivia why Liechtenstein is the greatest tiny nation in the world. Then Olivia unfolds the story of Rodriguez, the mysterious musician who made it big in South Africa without knowing it. Air Castles is a cultural anthropology podcast where hosts Johanna Schöllauf and Olivia Schmitz try to learn more about world cultures one topic at a time. Questions/Comments/Compliments/Corrections? Email us at aircastlespodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter @AirCastlesPod Johanna's Sources: 17 Interesting Facts About Liechtenstein: https://everything-everywhere.com/facts-about-liechtenstein/ Liechtenstein government website: https://www.liechtenstein.li/land-und-leute/gesellschaft/bevoelkerung/sprachen/#https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/liechtenstein-population/ Die Fürstenfamilie Liechtenstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzsTRPlrYLE Europas Kleinstaaten Teil 2 - Liechtenstein - Tal der Glücksseligen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roWQo0IEWRM Prince to People: 'I'll sell to Bill Gates': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/liechtenstein/1322192/Prince-to-people-Ill-sell-up-to-Bill-Gates.html Olivia's Sources: Searching for Sugarman. Directed by Malik Bendjelloul, Red Box Film, 2012 The Great Rodriguez Hunt: http://www.sugarman.org/rodriguez/archive.html

Episode #148 - Finding Sugarman in Cape Town Pt: II V1.0 20.02.2020   Sawabona abangane! (Zulu for 'Hello friends!')    Welcome back to The Radio Vagabond for Part II of my interesting conversation with Cape Town local Stephen' Sugar' Segerman, amateur music detective and inspiration behind the Academy Award-winning feature documentary Searching for Sugarman.  If you haven't listened to or read Part I of this fantastic story, then I suggest you go back and do so before continuing, otherwise much of what is to come will not make any sense. So, let's just jump back into it and start where we left off in Part I – front row center of Rodriguez's 2013 sold-out concert in Cape Town.  Wow, what a delight! The concert was surreal. The audience kept chanting, "RODRIGUEZ! RODRIGUEZ!" between each of his songs. We were all witnessing a legend perform remarkable songs with his backing band. At some point, he joked, "Hey, come on. Just relax and treat me like a regular legend". We all obliged, myself included.   FIRST-HAND HISTORY The day after the concert was the night of the BAFTA awards in London. I didn't even know that the film was nominated, and it was a pure coincidence that I had my TV on in the background. And all of a sudden, the Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul was on stage accepting the award for best documentary feature. During his acceptance speech, Bendjelloul said, "Rodriquez couldn't be here this evening because he is in Cape Town kicking off a big tour of South Africa." I immediately felt a part of the story, as if I had been involved in something special. I soon realized that each and every South African felt the same way, perhaps a little more. The film was selected to open the Sundance Film Festival in Los Angeles (where the film went on to win two awards), and Bendjelloul took Sugar and Rodriguez along with him to experience the award ceremony and press circuit. After winning numerous awards, the film then went on to achieve something special – a nomination for best documentary feature at the Academy Awards. Sugar wasn't even thinking about going – a trip like that to Los Angeles from Cape Town would be super expensive. But then the City of Cape Town Tourism Board came knocking on his door, offering him a flight to LA and accommodation for the ceremony because of what the documentary had done for Cape Town tourism. Sugar tells me stories about what it was like being thrust into the spotlight and rubbing shoulders with Hollywood celebrities at the Vanity Fair afterparty – an exclusive winners-only award party where your entry ticket is an Oscar statue. Here he met Buzz Aldrin, who gave him some sage advice.   FROM SUCCESS TO TRAGEDY It's truly an epic story. Not only for Rodriguez but also for Sugar – the owner of a small vinyl record store in Cape Town – and for Craig Bartholomew Strydom, a journalist from Johannesburg. And even though Craig and Sugar worked together in finding Rodriguez, they rarely found themselves in the same room. It was only after the film was complete that Craig moved from Johannesburg to Cape Town, buying a house just around the corner from his good friend Sugar. It was also a fantastic story for Malik Bendjelloul, the dirt-poor Swedish filmmaker who, seemingly overnight, achieved so much success and recognition from the film and music industries, and beyond. Naturally, the documentary was a huge commercial success, scoring over $3.6 million at the box office, and made Malik an overnight millionaire. He now had no problems finding people to work with as everybody wanted to collaborate and fund his next project. Unfortunately, Bendjelloul's career would never reach the heights of success it promised. At age 36, at the peak of his career with the world at his feet, Malik was struggling with depression. On 13 May 2014, at a busy rush hour station in Stockholm, Sweden, Malik Bendjelloul threw himself in front of an oncoming train. Like the rest of the world, Sugar was shocked at the news. He tells me that he and Malik became very close during the 5-year production project of Searching for Sugarman, and the pair would speak on a daily basis. They were friends, close allies, and will forever share the bond they created working on such a meaningful project.   THE SWEETEST SUGAR When Sixto Rodriguez gave up music two weeks before Christmas in 1971, after his record label dropped him, he lived a tough life as a construction worker in Detroit, Michigan. He was married and divorced twice yet remained a wonderful father to his three daughters. He rented an old, dilapidated house for $50 a month. So strong was his drive for social justice that he ran, unsuccessfully, for regional government in Detroit. A complex, introverted drifter, calloused by a lifetime of injustice and missed opportunities, Rodriguez's story is remarkable on every level. Although at the time he didn't receive a penny for his two albums recorded in '70 and '71, through Sugar, Malik, and Craig's intervention Rodriguez has made more than treble what he was previously owed. He and his family are finally able to live the life that was stolen from them by record label executives all those years ago. And if it wasn't for Sugar's determination, Craig's investigating, and eventually, Malik's stroke of documentary filmmaking genius, Rodriguez's story would never have been told.  In 2015, Craig and Sugar published a book entitled Sugar Man: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez, which details the odyssey of two fans trying to find out what had happened to their hero, and Bendjelloul's pursuit to bring the story to celluloid.  The whole story has been a huge part of Sugar's life for so many years, and I couldn't help but wonder if he ever gets tired of talking about it. "It's such an honor to be a part of the Rodriguez story that I will never get tired of talking about it," he says. "I mean, I was given my nickname 'Sugar' over 20 years ago, so in a way, I have always been close to the story of Rodriguez. Now when I see the man touring the world and finally getting the credit he so richly deserves, I am so honored to have been a part of the journey". After I stopped recording, Sugar and I continued chatting for three hours. He is truly a really nice guy, and I am so happy I got to spend an afternoon with him at his home in beautiful Cape Town. If you haven't already, please rent the documentary (you can stream it online). And please also buy one of the albums – you won't regret it. And when you pay for any of Rodriguez's music, a big part of the money goes to Sixto Rodriguez himself, who still lives in the same old house in Detroit.   LINKS:  Sponsor Hotels25.com  The Radio Vagabond is produced by RadioGuru. See pictures on TheRadioVagabond.com   You can follow The Radio Vagabond on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

Sawabona abangane! (= 'Hej venner!' på zulu) Velkommen tilbage til del II af min spændende samtale med Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, lokal vinylplade-butiks-ejer, amatørmusikdetektiv og inspiration bag Oscar-prisvindende dokumentarfilm Searching for Sugarman. Hvis du ikke allerede har lyttet eller læst del I af denne fantastiske historie, foreslår jeg, at du går tilbage og gør det, før du fortsætter. Ellers vil meget af det, der kommer her, ikke give så meget mening. Okay, klar? Så lad os bare hoppe tilbage og begynde, hvor vi slap i del I – i midten af første række til Rodriguez' udsolgte koncert i Cape Town i 2013. Wow, hvor var det fantastisk at opleve. Men samtidig også surrealistisk. Publikum råbte "RODRIGUEZ! RODRIGUEZ!" mellem hvert nummer. Vi var alle vidne til en legende, der var kommet til live. På et tidspunkt siger han: "Hej, slap nu lidt af. Ka’ I ikke bare behandle mig som en ganske almindelig legende".   HISTORIE PÅ FØRSTE RÆKKE Dagen efter koncerten var aftenen, hvor BAFTA filmpriserne blev uddelt i London. Jeg vidste faktisk ikke engang, at filmen var nomineret, og det var en ren tilfældighed, at jeg havde mit TV tændt i baggrunden. Og pludselig var den svenske filmmager, Malik Bendjelloul på scenen og tog i mod prisen for årets bedste dokumentarfilm. Under sin takketale sagde han blandt andet: "Rodriquez kunne ikke være her i aften, fordi han er i Cape Town, der starter en stor turné i Sydafrika". Jeg følte mig som en del af historien, som om jeg var involveret i noget helt specielt. Jeg indså hurtigt, at hver eneste sydafrikaner følte sig på samme måde, måske endnu mere. Filmen blev valgt til at åbne Sundance Film Festival i Los Angeles, hvor de også gik hjem med to priser. Bendjelloul tog Sugar og Rodriguez med sig så de kunne opleve prisceremonien og møde pressen. Efter at have vundet adskillige priser i løbet af året, opnåede de noget specielt – en Oscar-nominering. Sugar ikke så meget som overvejede, at skulle med til Hollywood – sådan en tur fra Cape Town ville koste en formue. Men så bankede Cape Town Tourism Board på hans dør og tilbød ham at betale for fly og overnatning i Los Angeles som tak for hvad dokumentaren havde gjort for Cape Town turisme. Sugar fortæller mig historier om, hvordan det var som at blive kastet ind i rampelyset og være så tæt på de største Hollywood-stjerne ved Vanity Fair-afterparty – en meget eksklusiv fest, hvor indgangsbilletten er en Oscar-statue. Her mødte han blandt andre Buzz Aldrin, anden mand på månen. En oplevelse, der satte tankerne i gang.   FRA SUCCES TIL TRAGEDY Det er virkelig en episk historie. Ikke kun for Rodriguez, men også for Sugar – ejeren af ​​en lille vinylpladebutik i Cape Town – og for Craig Bartholomew Strydom, en journalist fra Johannesburg. Selvom Craig og Sugar arbejdede sammen med at finde Rodriguez, var de sjældent i det samme lokale. Det var først efter, at filmen var færdig, hvor Craig flyttede fra Johannesburg til Cape Town og købte et hus lige rundt om hjørnet fra sin gode ven Sugar. Det var også en fantastisk historie for Malik Bendjelloul, den ludfattige svenske filmmager, der pludselig opnåede kæmpesucces og anerkendelse fra både film- og musikbranchen. Dokumentaren var en enorm kommerciel succes – indtjente over 3,6 millioner dollars og gjorde Malik til millionær. Nu havde han ingen problemer med at finde folk til at samarbejde med og finansiere sit næste projekt. Men i en alder af 36, på toppen af ​​sin karriere med verden ved hans fødder, kæmpede Malik med depression. Den 13. maj 2014, på en travl metro-station i Stockholm, kastede Malik Bendjelloul sig ud foran et tog. Sugar var, som resten af ​​verden, dybt chokeret over nyhederne. Han fortæller mig, at han og Malik blev meget tætte under den 5-årige produktion af Searching for Sugarman, og de talte sammen dagligt. De var nære venner, allierede og vil for evigt dele det bånd, de skabte, gennem arbejdet på et så meningsfuldt projekt.   DEN SØDESTE SUKKER Da Sixto Rodriguez opgav musik to uger før jul i 1971, efter at hans pladeselskab fyrede ham, levede han et hårdt liv som bygningsarbejder i Detroit, Michigan. Han var gift og skilt to gange, men var en god far til sine tre døtre. Han boede i et gammelt, faldefærdigt hus – som han havde lejet for $ 50 om måneden. Han kæmpede for social retfærdighed, og stillede også op til lokalvalg i Detroit. Dog uden at blive valgt. Rodriguez' historie er om en bemærkelsesværdig, indadvendt ’drifter’, der er berørt af et liv fyldt med uretfærdighed og uudnyttede muligheder. Selvom han på det tidspunkt ikke modtog en øre for sine to albums fra '70 og '71, har han (med Sugar, Malik og Craigs indgriben) tjent tre gange så meget af det, han ikke fik. Han og hans familie er endelig i stand til at leve det liv, der blev stjålet fra dem af en grådig pladeselskabsdirektør for mange år siden. Den dag i dag optræder den aldrende Rodriguez overalt i verden. Havde det ikke været for Sugars beslutsomhed, Craigs efterforskning og til sidst Maliks geniale dokumentarfilm, ville Rodriguez historie måske aldrig kommet så bredt ud. I 2015 udgav Craig og Sugar en bog med titlen ”Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez”, som beskriver odysseen om to fans, der forsøger at finde ud af, hvad der var sket med deres helt, og om Bendjellouls arbejde med at bringe historien til celluloid. Hele historien har været en enorm del af Sugars liv i så mange år, og jeg kunne ikke lade være med at tænke over, om han aldrig bliver træt af at tale om det. ”Det er sådan en ære at være en del af Rodriguez-historien, at jeg aldrig bliver træt af at tale om det,” siger han. "Jeg mener, jeg fik mit kælenavn "Sugar" for over 20 år siden, og så pludselig er jeg med til at finde ham. Hvor underligt er det ikke lige? På en måde har jeg altid været tæt på historien om Rodriguez. Nu er vi venner og jeg kan se manden turnere verden rundt og endelig få anerkendelse og belønning, som han fortjener. Nej, jeg er meget beæret over at have været en del af rejsen”. Efter at jeg stoppede med at optage, blev vi ved med at sludre i over tre timer. Han er virkelig en rigtig skøn fyr, og jeg er så taknemmelig for, at jeg fik muligheden for at tilbringe en eftermiddag med ham privat i hans smukke Cape Town. Hvis du ikke allerede har gjort det, bør du leje dokumentaren (du kan streame den online). Og køb da også et af albummerne - du vil ikke fortryde det. Og husk, at når du betaler for noget af Rodriguez's musik, går en stor del af pengene til Sixto Rodriguez selv, som dog stadig bor i det samme gamle hus i Detroit.   LINKS: Radiovagabond er produceret af Radioguru. Sponsor Hotels25.dk  Se billeder på Radiovagabond.dk   Følg også RadioVagabond på Facebook, Twitter, Instagram og YouTube.    

Efter at have kommet ned igen fra min vin og gin-gennemvædet eufori efter at have modtaget den fantastiske nyhed om, at jeg officielt er kræftfri (yay!), fik jeg muligheden for at sludre med Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, inspirationen bag Oscar-prisvindende dokumentarfilm Searching for Sugar Man. Hvis du ikke har set dokumentaren endnu (hvor har du gemt dig?), så se lige traileren, så du kan være ajour med hvad denne episode handler om. Gør det nu. Jeg venter her imens.   Færdig? Okay, lad os så komme igen. Sugarer en af ​​hovedpersonerne i dokumentaren. Han ejer en vinyl pladebutik i Cape Town kaldet Mabu Vinyl. Butikken er et ikonisk mødested for byens kunst- og musikscene og ligger lige rundt om hjørnet fra, hvor jeg bor. Så jeg gik indenfor, købte en t-shirt og bad spurgte om det var muligt at møde Stephen til et interview. Et par dage senere modtog jeg et opkald fra manden selv, og da et par dage senere ringede jeg på dørklokken i hans hjem her i Cape Town. Han åbnede døren og hilste mig velkommen med et varmt smil – og selvfølgelig en klassisk sydafrikansk ‘howzit’. ”Jeg er Sugar,” sagde han, som om jeg ikke allerede vidste (jeg har set dokumentaren flere gange, end jeg vil indrømme). Sugar fik sit kaldenavn fra hans tid i militæret, da hans venner foretrak at kalde ham Sugarman i stedet for Segerman – og hurtigt blev det til bare ”Sugar”. Henvisningen kommer fra sangen 'Sugarman' et af de største hits fra en utrolig populær musiker i Sydafrika på det tidspunkt – den amerikanske singer-songwriter Rodriguez.   DE KOLDE FAKTA Sixto Rodriguez var en bemærkelsesværdig musiker fra Detroit, USA. Selvom han var yderst dygtig, var hans musikkarriere en kæmpe skuffelse i USA, hvor hans første album Cold Fact (1970) kun solgte en håndfuld kopier. Men ved en tilfældighed eller ”guddommelig indblanding” fandt bootleg-kopier af Cold Fact hele vejen til Afrika i starten af 70'ere, hvilket resulterede i en massiv fanbase i Sydafrika. Cold Fact LP’en var en fast del af de fleste sydafrikanske pladesamlinger på det tidspunkt, og sangeren var mere populær end The Beatles og The Rolling Stones i Sydafrika. Han anede det bare ikke selv. Og hans sydafrikanske fans vidste heller ikke meget om stjernen. Den eneste information, som de kunne få om Rodriguez, var fra musikken på Cold Fact. Musikerens identitet var et mysterium, og så begyndte rygter og fortællinger at svirre om ham, og al den mystik var bare med til at gøre ham endnu mere populær i landet. Det kan lyde underligt, men du skal huske på, at det var før internet og at Sydafrika på det tidspunkt var meget isoleret under ​​Apartheid. Landet var isoleret fra omverdenen gennem handelstakster og embargoer. Så kun meget lidt information kom ind og ud af landet. Sugar var, som enhver sydafrikaner i den tid, en kæmpe Rodriguez-fan og forsøgte at finde ud af mere om sangeren, blandt andet ved at kigge efter skjulte beskeder og geografiske referencer i teksterne til sangene. For at gøre lang og fascinerende 30-årig historie kort – som bliver beskrevet så fantastisk i dokumentaren, så kom Sugar og journalisten Craig Bartholomew til sidst på sporet af Rodriguez i Detroit. De kunne fortælle ham, at han var en kæmpe berømthed i Sydafrika. Sixto Rodriguez havde boet i det samme lille hus i Detroit hele tiden og arbejdet som bygningsarbejder meget en meget lille indkomst. Selvom han solgte hundreder af tusinder af plader – måske millioner – i et andet land, så han aldrig en krone af de penge. I filmen antydes det kraftigt, at nogen ved hans pladeselskab ”glemte” at sende nogle af de penge, der kom fra Sydafrika, videre til Rodriguez, så han ikke fik det stjernestatus-liv, han fortjente. Da han blev fyret fra pladeselskabet i 1971, stoppede han sin musikalske karriere. Efter år med at prøve at finde ham, lykkedes det at få Rodriguez og hans familie til Sydafrika, hvor han spillede 6 udsolgte shows i arenaer fyldt med jublende fans – noget sangeren aldrig havde oplevet før. Det er en absolut hjertevarm historie, der stadig giver mig kulderystelser – og den er langt fra forbi.   MUSIK-DETEKTIVER Lad os gå tilbage til begyndelsen af ​​historien om, hvordan Sugar fik muligheden for at møde hans idol. Da Rodriguez' musik kunne høres fra enhver stue i Sydafrika, troede alle hans fans, at han var lige så berømt i sit hjemland, som han var i Sydafrika. Og hvorfor ikke? Når alt kommer til alt, var hans talent ubestrideligt, hans tekster fantastiske og politiske, og han blev betragtet som en værdig rival til Bob Dylan og Simon og Garfunkel. Hans navn var omgivet af mysterium på grund af manglende information om kunstneren og mange mennesker troede, at han var død. Nogle sagde, at han skød sig selv på scenen i en underjordisk bar i Moskva, andre, at han havde sat ild på sig selv og brændt ihjel før et publikum et andet sted, eller at han var død af en overdosis. Andre rygter sagde, at han var i live, men i en mental institution, en anden om, at han sad i fængsel for at have myrdet sin kæreste. Efter at apartheid slutter i midten af ​​90'erne, slår Sugar sig sammen med journalisten Craig Bartholomew om at finde ud af sandheden og løse mysteriet om den gådefulde sanger, især hvem han var, og hvordan han døde. Det startede, da Rodriguez-eksperten Sugar, blev bedt om at skrive et par linjer til bookletten, da det sydafrikanske pladeselskab udgav Rodriguez' andet album, Coming from Reality (1971) på CD for første gang. I den anden ende af landet, i Johannesburg, så journalisten Craig Bartholomew dette som en invitation til at deltage i søgningen efter den Rodriguez. Det var ikke let, og efter næsten to års frustration og blindgyde gav de næsten op. Men så fik de et gennembrud. Deres detektivarbejde førte dem til sidst til Detroit, Michigan og til sidst til Mike Theodore, der producerede ​​Rodriguez' Cold Fact LP. Craig formåede at få ham i telefonen, hvor han fik at vide, at Rodriguez faktisk stadig var i live og levede et tilbagetrukket liv i Detroit. Han havde arbejdet som bygningsarbejder i over 25 år siden den dag, han blev droppet fra sit pladeselskab. Et år senere i 1998, efter de havde talt med Rodriguez og fortalt ham om sin bemærkelsesværdige historie, fløj Sugar og Craig Rodriguez og hans døtre til Sydafrika, hvor han spillede 6 udsolgte shows for flere tusinde måbende fans, der så en død mand komme til live. Men stadig var der ikke mange mennesker uden for Sydafrika hørt om Rodriguez og hans bemærkelsesværdige historie. Det var indtil den svenske filmskaber Malik Bendjelloul hørte historien fra Sugar.   BRING FARVERNE TILBAGE TIL MIN DRØM Det tog Bendjelloul tæt på 5 års hårdt arbejde – næsten uden budget – at lave filmen. Den blev udgivet i januar 2012, og et år efter hørte jeg selv historien fra min ven Toby under mit første besøg i Cape Town. Jeg fik også at vide, at Rodriguez var på vej tilbage for at spille flere shows i Sydafrika, mens jeg boede i Cape Town. Jeg ville være i Cape Town på samme tid som Rodriguez, så jeg ville naturligvis se om jeg kunne få fingrene i en billet. Jeg var utrolig heldig, at alle koncerterne var udsolgt så hurtigt, for de havde besluttet at lave en ekstra koncert og starte salget netop i det øjeblik jeg gik på nettet. Jeg slog straks til og købte den bedste billet, jeg kunne finde, og det lykkedes mig at sikre mig en billet i midten af første række. Mit sæde var ”A1”. Selvom jeg på dette tidspunkt endnu ikke havde hørt en eneste sang fra manden. Dagen efter gik jeg ned i en pladebutik og købte CD’en og filmen på DVD (ja, det var i 2013 – og dengang, hvor vi faktisk købte CD'er og DVD'er). Og herefter havde jeg stort set albummet til at køre på repeat, så jeg kunne forberede mig. Og jeg blev grebet af musikken. Det er virkelig et fantastisk album. Rodriguez er en ægte kunstner, og hvis du endnu ikke har oplevet musikken, opfordrer jeg dig til at gøre dig selv en tjeneste og gøre det. Du vil ikke fortryde det. Er du spændt på at høre, hvordan det var at være med til koncerten, hvor jeg hørte Rodriguez spille live for første gang på denne tourné? Så gå ikke glip af del 2, som kommer i morgen.   LINKS: Radiovagabond er produceret af Radioguru. Mabu Vinyl Sponsor Hotels25.dk  Se billeder på Radiovagabond.dk   Følg også RadioVagabond på Facebook, Twitter, Instagram og YouTube.

After coming down from my wine and gin-soaked euphoria after receiving the amazing news that I am officially cancer-free (yay!), I got the opportunity to chat with Stephen ‘Sugar' Segerman, the inspiration behind the Academy Award-winning documentary Searching for Sugarman. If you haven't seen the documentary yet (where have you been hiding?) then take a quick look at the trailer so you can be up-to-date with what this episode is all about. Go on, I'll wait. Finished? Alright, let's jump into it! Sugar is one of the main characters in the documentary. He owns a vintage record store in Cape Town called Mabu Vinyl, an iconic meeting spot for the city's art and music scene. The store is just around the corner from where I am staying, so the other day I walked in, bought a T-shirt, and asked to interview Sugar. A few days later I received a call from the man himself and soon I was ringing the doorbell of his home, eager to hear more from the amateur music detective. He opened the door and welcomed me in with a warm smile and, of course, a classic South African ‘howzit!'. “I'm Sugar,” he said, as if I didn't already know (I have watched the documentary more times than I care to admit). Sugar got his nickname from his army days when his friends preferred to call him Sugarman instead of Segerman, and it soon became Sugar for short. The reference comes from the song ‘Sugarman' by the American singer-songwriter Rodriguez, an incredibly popular music artist in South Africa at the time.   THE COLD HARD FACTS Sixto Rodriguez is a remarkable musician hailing from Detroit, Michigan USA. Although immensely gifted, his music career had a disappointing start in the US, with his first album Cold Fact (1970) selling only a handful of copies. However, by chance or divine meddling, bootleg copies of Cold Fact started making their way to African shores in the early 70s which resulted in a massive fanbase in South Africa, unbeknownst to the singer. The Cold Fact LP was a fixture in most South African's record collection, and the singer was more popular than The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in South Africa. However, the only information South Africans could get regarding Rodriguez was from the Cold Fact LP. The musician's identity was a mystery, and so rumours and tales started surfacing about his possible whereabouts, furthering his popularity and mysticism in the country. It's important to consider that during this time South Africa was in the height of the Apartheid regime, which saw the country being isolated from the world through trade tariffs and embargos, and the like. So very little information about the goings-on of the rest of the world trickled into the South African public's radar. Sugar, like every South African in the 70s, was a massive Rodriguez fan and so attempted to find out more about the singer, finding hidden messages and geographical references in the lyrics of his songs. To cut a long and fascinating 30-year story short – which forms the basis for the documentary – Sugar eventually tracked down Rodriguez in Detroit, almost penniless working in construction, and informed him of his celebrity in South Africa. The singer-songwriter had been toiling in obscurity due to his record label's inability and lack of desire to promote the artist as he deserved to be. Add to this a fair bit of thuggish dishonesty and limitless greed by record labels in the US, and the result was a musical genius relegated to a lowly construction worker, deprived of a life of stardom he so desperately deserved. Rodriguez quit his musical career in 1971 and even though he sold hundreds of thousands of records – maybe millions – in another country, he never saw a dime of that money. After years trying to track him down, Sugar and his accomplices managed to fly Rodriguez and his family over to South Africa where he played 6 sold-out shows to arenas filled with cheering fans - something the singer had never experienced before. It's an absolutely heartwarming story that still gives me chills - and it is far from over.   MUSICAL DETECTIVES  Let's go back to the beginning of the story of how Sugar eventually got the opportunity to meet his idol. When Rodriguez's music could be heard from every living room in 1970's South Africa, his fans believed he was just as famous in his home country as he was in South Africa. And why not? After all, his talent was undeniable, his lyrics layered and politically poignant, and he was seen as a worthy rival to the likes of Bob Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel. Surrounded by mystery due to lack of information about the artist, many people believed that he was dead. Some said he shot himself on stage in an underground bar in Moscow, others that he'd set himself alight and burned to death before an audience someplace else, or he died of a drug overdose. Some rumours said that he was alive but in a mental institution, another that he was in jail for murdering his girlfriend. The mystery grew rampant. After Apartheid ends in the mid-'90s, Sugar teamed up with journalist Craig Bartholomew to find out the truth and solve the mystery about the enigmatic muso, particularly who he was and how he died. It started when Sugar, the Rodriguez expert, was asked to co-write the liner notes for the booklet when the South African record company released Rodriguez's second album, Coming from Reality (1971) on CD for the first time. On the other side of the country, in Johannesburg, Craig Bartholomew saw this as an invitation to join the search for the elusive singer-songwriter. It was not easy, as the pair explained, and after nearly two years of frustration and dead ends they nearly gave up. But then they had a breakthrough. Their detective work finally led to Detroit, Michigan and eventually to Mike Theodore, the producer of Rodriguez's Cold Fact LP. Craig managed to get him on the phone where he informed the elated journalist that Rodriguez was in fact still alive and well, sane, not suffering from burns, living a quiet life in Detroit. He had been working in construction for over 25 years since the day he was dropped from his record label. One year later in 1998, after eventually tracking down his number and getting to speak to Rodriguez himself on the telephone telling him about his remarkable story, Sugar and Craig flew Rodriguez and his daughters to South Africa to perform 6 sold-out shows for adoring local fans. But still, not many people outside of South Africa had heard about Rodriguez and his remarkable story of stolen fame. That was until Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul heard the story from Sugar.   BRING BACK THE COLOURS TO MY DREAM It took Bendjelloul close to 5 years of hard work with hardly any budget to finish the film. It was released in January 2012, one year after I myself heard the story from my friend Toby during my first visit to Cape Town. While I was living in Cape Town my friend told me that Rodriguez was on his way back to perform more shows in South Africa. I couldn't actually believe how I could be so lucky to be in Cape Town at the same time as Rodriguez. My friends quickly told me that the tickets to his shows would definitely be sold out, but my stubborn Danish charm permitted me to dig deeper to source a ticket. After scouring the internet I eventually found newly-released tickets for an additional show due to the high demand. I jumped to buy the tickets - but not just any ticket. I managed to secure the front row, center. My seat was A1. I couldn't believe my luck. Even though at this stage, I hadn't heard a single song from the man, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to experience it. After I bought the ticket to the concert, I went down to a record shop and bought the album and the movie on DVD (yes, this was in 2013 and the time where we actually bought CD's and DVDs!). And then I basically had the album playing on repeat in order for me to prepare myself. And his music was everything I expected and hoped for, and more. Rodriguez is a true artist, and if you have yet to experience his musical mastery then I urge you to do yourself a favour and do so. You won't regret it.  Are you eager to hear what it was like to be at that concert hearing Rodriguez play live for the first time? Then you don't want to miss part 2. Stay tuned.   LINKS:  Sponsor Hotels25.com  The Radio Vagabond is produced by RadioGuru. See pictures on TheRadioVagabond.com   You can follow The Radio Vagabond on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

Hey Dude, on International Podcasting Day my old friend Paula Small reminds me of the inspirational early days of podcasting and the "spiritual experience" I had with Sugarman.CHARACTERS: Individual One,Dan Klass, Joseph Dougherty, Malik Bendjelloul, RodriquezLOCATIONS: Coffee Fix,Studio City, Palm Springs, South AfricaPODCASTS: The Bitterest Pill, The Dan and Lance Podcast Experiment, Lance Anderson Podcast Experiment, Handwritten Theatre,NPRTV/MOVIES: Thirtysomething,Pretty Little Liars, Searching for SugarmanSTUFF: Story Salon,Ponzi scheme, peak experience, Unitarian Universalist, calling,CBDSOUNDS: sirens, saw, wind, cars, plane, crowGENRE: storytelling,personal narrative, personal journalPHOTO: "Paula's Tweet" shot on my iPhone5RECORDED: September 30, 2019 on the observation deck at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena,California DISCLAIMER/WARNING: Proudly presented rough, raw and ragged. Seasoned with salty language and ideas. Not for most people's taste. Please be advised.

Hey Dude, on International Podcasting Day my old friend Paula Small reminds me of the inspirational early days of podcasting and the "spiritual experience" I had with Sugarman. CHARACTERS: Individual One, Dan Klass, Joseph Dougherty, Malik Bendjelloul, Rodriquez LOCATIONS: Coffee Fix, Studio City, Palm Springs, South Africa PODCASTS: The Bitterest Pill, The Dan and Lance Podcast Experiment, Lance Anderson Podcast Experiment, Handwritten Theatre, NPR TV/MOVIES: Thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars, Searching for Sugarman STUFF: Story Salon, Ponzi scheme, peak experience,  Unitarian Universalist, calling, CBD SOUNDS: sirens, saw, wind, cars, plane, crow GENRE: storytelling, personal narrative, personal journal PHOTO: "Paula's Tweet" shot on my iPhone5 RECORDED: September 30, 2019 on the observation deck at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena, California  DISCLAIMER/WARNING: Proudly presented rough, raw and ragged. Seasoned with salty language and ideas. Not for most people's taste. Please be advised.

Anyways Dude, I had a wacky weekend that was thankfully saved when I found the DVD for Searching for Sugar Man. (If you listen closely with headphones, you might hear me have a peak experience.)CHARACTERS: John Wayne, John Ford, Jimmy Stewart, Blayney F. Matthews, Bob Dylan, Sixto Rodriquez, Malik BendjelloulLOCATIONS: Los Angeles, England, South Africa, DetroitMOVIES/TV: Netflix, The Searchers, It's a Wonderful Life, The FBI Story, The Americans, Searching for Sugar Man, Dont Look Back, No Direction HomeMUSIC: "United States of Whatever"PODCASTS: LA Podcasters, podcastingSTUFF: DVD, Jenga (not Jumanji!), parallel universe, anti-establishment, ApartheidSOUNDS: wind, palms, sirens, cars, leaf blowerGENRE: storytelling, personal narrative, personal journalPHOTO: "Sugar Man Found" shot on my iPhone5RECORDED: September 16, 2019 on the observation deck at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena, California DISCLAIMER/WARNING: Proudly presented rough, raw and ragged. Seasoned with salty language and ideas. Not for most people's taste. Please be advised.

Iván Noble presenta un bloque de música, folk rock estadounidense, que abre con Sugar Man por Rodríguez, el enigmático Sixto Díaz Rodríguez de origen mexicano cuya historia dispara el recomendable documental sueco-británico Searching for Sugar Man, escrito y dirigido por Malik Bendjelloul. Luego Sweet Surrender por Tim Buckley, del álbum Greetings From L.A. (1972)  

In this episode: finally seeing Rodriguez live in Concert, Jose Delbo, did we meet Stan Lee 20 years ago?, selfies vs. autographs, the death of Searching for Sugerman director Malik Bendjelloul, celebrity deaths (Jerry Vale, Bob Hoskins, and Maya Angelou), Mrs. Ellis, Canterbury Tales, Barnes and Noble, Advanced Placement exams, junior high school antics, reading adult-oriented novels as teenagers in high school, Sean Patrick Flanery's tweet, and Road to Hell (sequel to Streets of Fire) starring Michael Pare. 77 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com

Bart dons his Kaiju Guru cap as he and Daley dig into the second American attempt to bring Godzilla to the masses. While it's not exactly the home run they were hoping for, there's still a whole lot to love. As always, SPOILERS ENSUE. The boys also chat about the first image of Ben Affleck as Batman, the recent passing of H.R. Giger and Malik Bendjelloul, and the future of the X-Men franchise including Channing Tatum future as Gambit.

Malik Bendjelloul verstorben // Startschuss für globale Migrationskonferenz // Neues Europäisches Friedensinstitut: Interview mit dem schwedischen Leiter

Lindsay and Jess take their first foray into documentary film and are blown away. Malik Bendjelloul's story of American folk artist Rodriguez is compelling, uplifting, and a total inspiration. Jesse doesn't even make any butt jokes! Check us out on twitter @MovieheadCast

Dokumentärfilmare Det var första gången sedan 1951 som en svensk vann en Oscar i dokumentärfilmsklassen när Malik Bendjelloul och Searching for Sugar Man år 2013 tilldelades det finaste av filmpriser. I Sommar i P1 berättar Bendjelloul om den långa processen bakom filmen och hur nära det var att hela projektet lades ner. - När filmen var 90% klar, efter att jag suttit och klippt i tre år, sa plötsligt filmens huvudfinansiär att filmen var skit. Den "höll inte för de krav som ställs på filmer som ska upp på vita duken". Malik Bendjelloul berättar i programmet att han, i tron om att nya pengar var på ingång, hade använt alla sina sparpengar och dessutom börjat låna pengar av folk han kände för att finansiera filmen. Men när huvudfinansiären backade ur hamnade Bendjelloul i trubbel. - Jag satt på riktigt i skiten och insåg att det här var dödsstöten för projektet. Om Malik Bendjelloul Oscarsbelönad 2013 för sin dokumentärfilm Searching for Sugar Man, den första svenska dokumentärfilmen sedan 1951 som belönats med det finaste av priser. Filmen, som handlar om den amerikanske sångaren Sixto Rodriguez, har gjort succé världen över och sammanlagt vunnit ett 20-tal priser, däribland en Guldbagge. Bendjelloul har tidigare jobbat på Kobra på SVT. Har även varit barnskådespelare och gjorde rollen som Philip i filmen Ebba och Didrik 1990 som regisserades av hans morbror Peter Schildt. - Mitt sommarprogram handlar om sammanträffanden, simbassänger, smörpapper och om vad man ska göra för att inte behöva elda upp alla sina pengar. Malik Bendjelloul levde 1977-2014. Producent: Johar Bendjelloul

Emitido el 28/02/2013 en www.radioutopia.es ¿Qué ocurre cuando nadie compra tus discos? ¿Cuando todo tu esfuerzo no tiene recompensa? Rodriguez lanzó dos discos en los 70 pero no fue hasta los 90 cuando se le reconoció su buen hacer. "Searching for Sugar Man" es el documental de Malik Bendjelloul que ha logrado llevarse un Oscar y que nos cuenta una preciosa historia. Contamos con la presencia de Miriam Faraj, colaboradora habitual del programa y culpable de descubrirme a la figura de Rodriguez. Nacho Rodriguez que nos da una amplia imagen técnica del documental. Y Chincho Navarro, satélite de B90 que siempre aporta una visión realista y sincera del artista. Una bonita charla entre amigos sobre un artista incomparable.

Emitido el 28/02/2013 en www.radioutopia.es ¿Qué ocurre cuando nadie compra tus discos? ¿Cuando todo tu esfuerzo no tiene recompensa? Rodriguez lanzó dos discos en los 70 pero no fue hasta los 90 cuando se le reconoció su buen hacer. "Searching for Sugar Man" es el documental de Malik Bendjelloul que ha logrado llevarse un Oscar y que nos cuenta una preciosa historia. Contamos con la presencia de Miriam Faraj, colaboradora habitual del programa y culpable de descubrirme a la figura de Rodriguez. Nacho Rodriguez que nos da una amplia imagen técnica del documental. Y Chincho Navarro, satélite de B90 que siempre aporta una visión realista y sincera del artista. Una bonita charla entre amigos sobre un artista incomparable.

CFD Oscars-special där Malik Bendjelloul berättar om sitt nästa "project". Sara har träffat Oscarsbelönade ljud-Per och Isa rapporterar om fulla sjökaptener direkt från TT-Line. La Camila är arg på Army of Lovers, Paolo Roberto är arg på La Camila. Gina Dirawi avslöjar nästa sketch i Mellon och som vanligt är Cirkus Kiev med på ett hörn!

Söker sanningen om SugarmanPrisregnet över dokumentären Searching for Sugarman bara fortsätter. Totalt 16 filmpriser förra året och i helgen kanske den toppar allt med en Oscar.Men i utkanten av alla hyllningar har det kommit envisa nålstick av skavande frågetecken. Hur mycket av en persons verkliga liv kan man välja bort innan dokumentären om honom upphör att vara just dokumentär? En stor framgång i Australien?Mattias Pleijel har försökt få diskutera det med regissören själv. Vi skulle kunna ge hans reportage rubriken: Searching for... regissören Malik Bendjelloul.Tidningarna som inte bidrar till pressetiska systemetFlera stora tidningar - bland annat Dagens Nyheter - bidrar sedan årsskiftet inte längre till finansieringen av pressens självreglerande system - pressombudsmannen och pressens opinionsnämnd. Mindre pengar har redan lett till att PO minskat personalen. Det som utlöst situationen är beslutet förra året av DN, Dagens Industri och Sydsvenskan att från årsskiftet lämna Tidningsutgivarföreningen, TU, som står för närmare 90 procent av kostnaderna för PO-systemet. Men beslutet har fått ännu mer konkreta följder för allmänheten - den som i dag PO-anmäler en artikel som publicerats på Dagens Nyheters eller Dagens industris webbplats kommer att få en kalldusch, berättar pressombudsmannen Ola Sigvardsson.Kvällstidnings-TV rycker framJust nu gör kvällstidningarna ett ryck för att locka över fler tittare till sina tv-sändningar. Redan nu har Aftonbladets TV 2,1 miljoner tittare på webben varje vecka- medan SVT Play ligger under - med 1,4 miljoner. Frågan är om snabba, hungriga kvällstidningsjournalister med kameran i handen kan bli ett verkligt hot mot tungfotade gammeltv-jättar som SvT och TV4. Det tror i alla fall Aftonbladet själva - som i veckan invigt en ny livestudio och sänder flitigt varje dag. Inga drev i sportjournalistiken - där kör alla soloDrev som inte går och makthavare som kommer undan. Den situationen råder i sportjournalistikens värld. Det menade sportjournalisten Robert Laul på sin blogg i veckan och passade även på att ge sin egen tidning - Aftonbladet - en rejäl smocka för att vara en del av den tystnadskulturen.

Searching for Sugar Man är en dokumentär om musikern Rodriguez som utan att veta om det själv blev synonym med kampen mot apartheid i Sydafrika. Filmen öppnade den stora internationella filmfestivalen Sundance och fick två priser, juryns internationella specialpris för dokumentärer och internationella publikpriset. Regissören heter Malik Bendjelloul och är uppvuxen i Ängelholm och gäst i Hallå Skåne.

Han är musikern som upptäcktes men som försvann för att sen bli en megastjärna, utan att veta om det. Nu är han på allas läppar: Rodriguez. Svenske dokumentärfilmaren Malik Bendjelloul har skildrat hans historia i filmen Searching for sugarman som vinner priser världen över på olika filmfestivaler. Den 24 augusti har den premiär i Sverige. P4 Premiärs reporter Tina Mackic träffade Rodriguez när han var på Sverigebesök. Hör även Malik Bendjelloul berätta om mysteriet som fortfarande inte är löst.

Först ut i vårens fullbokade festivalsäsong är amerikanska Sundancefestivalen, som arrangeras i skidorten Park City i Utah. Den som har Robert Redford som ordförande och tjänstgörande skyddshelgon. Årets dokumentärfilmsserie inleddes av den svenske regissören Malik Bendjelloul och hans debutlångfilm Searching for Sugarman. Följ med vår kulturkorrespondent Gunnar Bolin på Sundancefestival. På Golden Globe-galan förra helgen var en av de stora vinnarna där var The Artist, en stumfilmshyllning som inte nöjer sig med att beundra forna dagars stilsäkerhet i Hollywood på lite avstånd. Nej, The Artist blir verkligen det den hyllar. Det är fantastisk stilövningi stumfilmsestetik. Något som blev ett av samtalsämnena när Karin Svensson fick en pratstund med filmens huvudrollsinnehavare Jean Dujardin och Bérénice Bejo för Kinos räkning. En av säsongens alla prisgalor är ju Guldbaggegala som arrangeras på måndag, och gömt bland årets nomineringar finns ett märkligt mysterium. Det faktum att Liv Mjönäs blivit nominerad till en birollsguldbagge för en roll som alla andra uppfattat som en huvudroll. För det är ju både hon och Ruth Vera Fernandez som blir kära i varandra, och lämnar respektive partner för lycklig lesbisk romans i filmen Kyss mig. Jag ringde producenten och manusförfattaren Josefine Tengblad för att kolla vad det var som hänt...och hon var lika förvånad som jag. I helgen har den svenska dokumentären Love During Wartime av regissören Gabriella Bier biopremiär. Det är en sorts nutida Romeo och Julia-berättelse, om paret Jasmine och Osama som inte kan leva tillsammans. Hon är nämligen israel och han palestinier, och enligt israelisk lag så får han inte bo hos henne, och skulle hon vilja flytta permanent till Palestina så måste militären ge sitt tillstånd. Allt utspelas i skuggan av den andra intifadan - det palestinska upproret mot Israel - och dess våldsamma efterspel. Det är alltså en minst sagt komplicerad verklighet att försöka få kärleken att fungera i. Gabriella Bier gästar Kino-studion för att berätta om sin film. SVTs miniserie "Hinsehäxan" blev en stor framgång, den sågs av 1,1 miljoner tittare, och blev en riktig snackis på sociala medier. Bland annat skickades klipp med verklighetens Lillemor Östlin runt, det är hennes självbiografi som tv-serien bygger på, och så jämförde man och diskuterade hur pass mycket tv-serien och huvudrollsinnehavaren Vera Vitali hade lyckats fånga hennes personlighet. Hinsehäxan handlar om småbusar och storskurkar, prostitution och preludinmissbruk i en undre värld där även maktens män rörde sig. Den mest kände var väl förre justitieministern Lennart Geijer som också har en central roll i TV-versionen - här spelad av Göran Ragnerstam. Nina Asarnoj har träffat Lillemor Östlin och regissören Molly Hartleb och pratat med dem om autenticitet och Offerroller i verkligheten och på tv. Programledare: Roger Wilson Producent: Lisa Bergström

Kosmo om staden Detroit som försöker resa sig ur ruinerna och där en kulturell boom är på gång. Detroit är kanske den stad i USA som mest kommit att spegla den ekonomiska krisen. Från att varit en tvåmiljonersstad så har den idag krympt till dryga 700 000 invånare. På vissa håll står vart tredje hus övergivet, skolor, bibliotek, fabriker och sjukhus ligger öde och i spillror och fattigdomen är stor. Men för många amerikaner har det här blivit en perfekt grogrund att skapa något nytt och idag har konstnärer och musiker gjort att staden genomgår en kulturell boom. Marcus Hansson och Mikael Funke porträtterar staden som försöker resa sig ur ruinerna och har bland andra träffat Phil Lauri som driver konstkollektivet Detroit Lives! Kosmo har mött Malik Bendjelloul vars film Searching for Sugar Man  - ett porträtt av artisten  Sixto Rodriguez som floppade i USA men blev stjärna i Sydafrika – är en av öppningsfilmerna på filmfestivalen Sundance i nästa vecka. Och så vänder och vrider Fredrik Wadström på den obesvarade gåtan varför Detroits musikliv i femtio års tid stått för de mest häpnadsväckande innovationerna inom flera genrer. Från Motown och garagerock med Stooges och MC5 på 60-talet och vidare genom technons födelse på 80-talet. Estradpoeten och musikern David Blair dog alldeles för ung, 44 år, i somras. Men han lever på webben och inte minst hans långa dikt Detroit, while I was away. Kosmos Anneli Dufva tecknar ett miniporträtt. Programledare: Cecilia Blomberg Producent: Marie Liljedahl