The now cryogenized Walt Disney, awaiting his resurrection at minus 180 degrees Celsius, conceived and realized a deep-frozen infantile world full of regressive imaginations and phantasms through his movies. Movies that taught especially American society on how to notoriously sugar-coat, and which established an entire unhealthy system of values and ideals, mostly beauty ideals that …
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light. Mephistopheles, from Faust. Wolfgang Voigt is back with a most complex and powerful work, cementing his status as one of the most captivating contemporary artists, not just in the field of electronic music, but as conceptional …
Jann Wenner’s boring biography Sticky Fingers is still an astonishing read because it is eye opening about the fact on how his Rolling Stone distilled and defined music history and basically laid down the rock canon with simultaneous corporate help from radio stations and major labels. The RS critics’ darlings were elevated into (super)star status …
With Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister and the algorithmic populist Five Star Movement led by Comedian Beppo Grillo, Italy did everything before any other modern populists did anything. That’s why Steve Bannon spent so much time over in Rome, studying closely what’s going on in the populist Capitol of the world to implement the recipe …
VCR’s and vaseline, tv-fucked by plastic queensCash in hand and dick on screen, who said God was ever clean?Bible-belt ’round anglo-waste, putting sinners in their placeYeah, right, great if you’re so good explain the shit stains on your face Marilyn Manson, “Cake and Sodomy” (from: Portrait of an American Family, 1994) *** It just took …
When I first heard Elvis’ voice I just knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody; and nobody was going to be my boss. Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. Bob Dylan There is a disrespect towards Elvis that does not fit his achievements and heritage of being the …
ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE (opening lines of American Psycho) Every time when somebody mentions the obnoxious Matrix films and babbles something about “taking the red pill“, I fantasize that Patrick Bateman comes along, presses play on “Sussudio“, and then does what he does best. The Matrix films are works of science fiction …
Just when I had finally decided to place a razorblade on my wrist to flee reality and end existential depressions, news broke that the 5th season of the Fargo series comes with the most thrilling TV lawyer since Saul Goodman. Man seeks hope, so I pushed the blade back into the rose soap one last …
He’s not well known in the West, but honestly I think he is probably the best singer alive in the world today. Technically and emotionally he is just incredible. Björk on Alim Qasimovic One of the most beautiful and powerful things in Muslim culture to me is the call for prayer, the “Ezan” (or Adhan). …
2020 has been a musical hunger year where most artists degraded their records to ‘products’ and delayed their releases because Corona stole the show, and the cash. Not just for the artists and crews, but also for fans it has been a massively fucked up year with no live culture and little new music being …
