"I have no goals whatsoever when it comes to the outside world." Holy fucking shit what a fucking legend. I wish I were free enough mentally and emotionally to say the same.
@@stonerdemon Haha. All part of the act I suppose. And it worked like a charm. We're still talking about it. I never had the honor of meeting him in person but what what I've heard he is quite a nice and friendly guy.
@@RadioactiveGoose At the very least, now he's just a man who likes to think, analyze things a lot. And in this modern world of idiotized people and Instagram frivolity, thinking people look dangerous and scary.
He drinks wine like a European. Probably a few glasses a day and doesn't get drunk because he doesn't consume enough in one sitting to become intoxicated. Wine is actually very good for you in moderation.
I was fortunate enough to visit the gallery and see his art in person. I've been exposed to art of a high standard through my career and I REALLY loved his pieces, regardless of who painted them. We chatted and he was amiable and shone with a deep sense of knowing. I really recommend visiting if you ever have the chance.
This feels like an honest heart to heart conversation in someone's living room and I love the familiar fine of it. You've done it again; your interviews are fantastic.
Frank has such an excellent rapport/back and forth with Gaahl. It's refreshing to see a once very introverted person express themselves through a conversational medium.
Every time I watch a Gaahl interview I am silently praying the interviewer doesn’t mess up.🤣. Those paintings are frightening. Its like looking at people who have died but didn’t actually go to heaven 🥴. Lost in limbo.
Such a beautiful man, to live a life naturally observing the loneliness in others. Painful. Red wine helps I'm sure❤. His upbringing brought such a path. Sitting in the dark, bringing forth light.......
I love and respect all forms of music but I'm not real big on black metal( I am fascinated by black metal) and I'm not real big on most modern art but I find Gaahal to interesting and engaging and I love his paintings, I mean I love them! Definitely fascinating!!
Amazing artist. A truly unique figure and person. I had this privillage to meet him briefly and would give much just to be the man worth to talk to and have this chat go on forever.
Well.. He seems to be a honest man. He just hates oppression. Although I am Christian, I have a very rebel- like- nature. Still I think Gaalh has not a complete and accurate picture of Christianity. I hate all forms of oppression, the most in religion, but I feel very free in this religion Although when it is true it is no religion but a relation that creates more and more life and respect of life. I also choose to follow but still I am free to choose. True Christianity can not be organised or instituted, it can not be forced or become a culture based phenomena, than it is in its own true form and not the raped form people to often make it, betraying the true roots of it: a trust- based system that can be verified, because it is an Entity that interacts and makes life, joy and freedom flow naturaly. This is a Faith of the heart and spirit. I am also an artiest, Explorer, critical thinker, opposer confronting against every form of unnessery blocking of life in its most original and natural order. It gives the room for me to be, to be free, to grow, to express myself, to examine and enjoy life to the fullest.In this sense I really understand and feel the wat Gaahl and Marlyn Manson do, Although Manson is a satanist. But the diffence is the frame of reference and believes about what is true and important, what to persuit and what to hate, what to let thrive and what to kill.
Pretty sure that for a long time after christianity was adopted in norway only some 200 or so years ago, it was the law of the land you had to go to church or face punishment. I doubt you understand the oppressive nature of faith anything like those people.
His style also reminds me of Salvador Dali's works. Not necessarily the pictures, but his use of colour and simple lines. He's a smart man who thinks about his answers to questions. Very good looking too.
He wasnt planning on opening a gallery "until im 72 or so", but then rumor spread about it and someone called and asked if he was interested in this space and so it happened
