He first made a name for himself as a script-writer by copying works from two great directors of the time Federico Fellini, and Pier Paolo Pasolini, changing the names of the characters and some situations and presented them to his father as his own works, which made his father believe he was a genius. From …
One of the worst presents I ever got was a copy of Thom ‘with an H’ Yorke’s Anima. Released in June 2019, Anima was instantly hyped as a “masterpiece“, followed by an aggressive PR campaign involving Netflix streaming a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson where Thom Yorke plays the lead “in a …
The whistling… this fucking whistling. Only a few seconds into the song, and you’re already in some twisted Land of Oz- finished, fucked up and destroyed. Throwback to my first introduction into torture: early 90s in gray Germany- the Berlin Wall has fallen and the Scorpions’ “Wind of Change” is all over the place, and …
“It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.” Thomas Bernhard, Gargoyles September 2020: Corona and the endless rule & policy insanities connected it are still going strong in Germany and many other countries across the globe. In what seems to be a sharp paradigm change towards …
John Carpenter doesn’t know that his glorious theme to “The End“ is leading a parallel existence in Turkey. It is detached from the horror genre which is no thing over there, but serves as rape music in many films. More precisely, as the onset to an indicated and invisible rape after a K.O. pill was …
There are two kinds of conspiracies- those of events like John F. Kennedy’s murder or 9/11, which to this day remain highly suspicious and factually left too many questions open for the countless scientists and historians on the search for truth. Such conspiracies are valid, since history is full of lies and collusion by two …
My name is Heidrun Elisabeth, and I am a German transsexual living in Brazil. I was born into the wrong body but the right dynasty, namely the famous and honorable Goebbels family. My father Joseph was the Reich Minister of ‘Public Enlightenment and Propaganda’ in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Laying the groundwork for …
We need to talk about Kate Bush. Kate Bush did 22 dates at London’s Hammersmith Apollo in 2014, her first live shows in 35 years, and the tickets sold out in 15 minutes. Now guess what you got for the hype? Dancers dressed as fish skeletons, a wooden puppet child walking round the stage,a band …
And yet, all things that touch us, you and me,bind us together like a violin bowdrawing but one sound from two strings.On which instrument though are we both strung?And what violinist holds us in the hand?Oh, sweet, sweet song. Rainer Maria Rilke, Love Song If I had to describe to anybody the special beauty and …
Big was the excitement when in 2016 HBO announced a mini-series which would be directed by the Italian Paolo Sorrentino (La grande Bellezza), one of the greats in contemporary arthouse cinema. Curiosity grew when title and topic were announced: „The Young Pope“. And the confusion was perfect when it was revealed who would play this …
