You wouldn’t think that record stores can be potentially dangerous places- except on Record Store Day, where people tend to beat each other up for the latest hyped limited colored vinyl or picture disc edition. But that is another Vinyl Wankers episode from the future. No, besides the RSD, record stores can be places where …
I keep a list of records that I wanna have on vinyl, mainly for the purpose of Christmas and birthdays, to avoid yet another senseless first-world present from my family and friends. But although I have many wishes on my vinyl list, I still get pointless presents such as cooking books, perfumes, or an Amazon …
It was my third day in the desert. Everything had gone terribly wrong.At the meeting point at the gates of the Sahara there had been a shootout between the ransom extortionists and government officials. The kidnappers dragged me into the jeep and drove into the desert. They cursed incessantly and decided that I was a …
It was strange to come back from my one-year Mossad training in the Middle East and return to my small life as a taxi chauffeur. In the end they decided that I should be the test person for a new super-spy-car that was supposedly better than Bond’s Aston Martin. From the outside it was a …
We were having our weekly meeting to discuss the latest operations.I starred at my people- those wankers, I hated them all. But since I had taken over my father’s crime syndicate after he passed away last year, I had to deal with them.Franco this loser was trying to explain the missing amount of protection money. …
Nobody knew Leelou’s secret and she tried hard to give the impression of a normal human. Sure, people noticed that she was different. Nocturnal and insomniac, free spirited, empathic but awkward to those she couldn’t feel. Hard even, cruel. The only things she liked about humanity were the children, punk, and the sea. With the …
bUniversal Pictures producers Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown purchased the film rights for JAWS in 1973, before the book by Peter Benchley was published and became a huge bestseller. They were fascinated by the thrilling plot, though in retrospect they admitted that if they had given the novel a second read, they would have …
by Saliha Enzenauer
Ian.
The nocturnal snowscape looked grey through the fog. It seemed to Ian that he had been wandering through the night for years, not feeling the cold anymore.
He remembered other lifes. Lifes in which he kept hearing the distant call while he was walking trough the distractions on his path. The voice wouldn’t go away, no matter how hard he tried to numb himself down. The voice would echo in his songs.
He remembered lifes that he had ended, unfulfilled.
Now he was in a place where everything came together, the earthly and rational world, heaven and mystery, the world of ghosts and spirits and dreams. It was the place to chase the distant call down in this center and edge of the world. The time had come…
Part 1: In The Pleasure Groove by Saliha Enzenauer / Yokomono It is a hot summer night and I go to a Duran Duran concert. I enter the arena and fight my way to the front row to see my Simon. The lights go down and ‘Planet Earth’ strikes up. I can’t hear myself screaming, …
