The sad and touching story of sexually challenged Norwegian ex-teens coming to terms with instant gratification! We eat, drink and smoke cigars, discussing Celine, Schopenhauer, Wilhelm Reich, Bertolucci’s “1900” and Hanoi Rocks. Men of the world, fearless intellectuals in the twilight. Happy-Tom: We (Turbonegro aka TRBNGR aka Stierkampf) spent the summer of 1995 wisely. We went on our ‘Nambling …
My guess is that many people don’t recognize the name Meiko Kaji. However, assuming they have ever seen a Quentin Tarantino film, especially the KILL BILL series, they have already been greatly influenced by her. Meiko Kaji is the actress and singer who stared in three highly memorable Japanese cult film franchises in the early …
Two albums have changed my life forever. About one I have already spoken very often: the recordings of the french Jazz musician Django Reinhardt, who was capable of virtuoso top performances on the guitar despite his completely mutilated hand. That gave me the courage to continue my music career at the time when I lost …
It is on Depeche Mode‘s smoldering masterpiece Violator (1990) where you find Personal Jesus, released as the album’s lead-single and becoming the biggest-selling 12-inch single in Warner Bros. history to that point. According to Johnny Cash a ‘gospel’ and “the most evangelical song I have ever recorded”, it remains to this day the perfect song …
Elias Rahbani is a composer, arranger, lyric writer, conductor & producer from Lebanon. With his Mosaic Of The Orient album, Rahbani has created a mix of Eastern and Western sounds. It’s a record like few others. Strong melodies accompany the use of Arabic instruments with the more Western use of organs and drums. I hope the …
10. Mommy (2014 / directed by Xavier Dolan)In a fictitious Canada, a new law allows parents to lock their problematic children inside a special center. But Diane “Die” Despres (Anne Dorval), a widowed mother, decides to educate her hyperactive and violent teenage son Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon) herself. Steve has insanely violent episodes and suffers …
Director: Bobcat Goldtwaith Recovering alcoholics with coulrophobia, brew yourself some chamomile tea and go rewatch Steel Magnolias. For the rest of us normal folks, Bobcat Goldthwait’s 1991 Shakes the Clown will entice you to down an entire bottle of Wild Turkey in one go and then sucker punch a mime in the head. If you …
At best, a good year-end list can feature a few albums that may have gone unnoticed. So let’s take a look at the 10 albums that are worthy of a second glance. Do not pay too close of attention to the order- almost all of these could have fit into the top spot. 1) Pere …
It may surprise one or the other reader, but I am not the most confident musician when it comes to my own lyrics. I don’t consider myself a genius there. Michael Stipe from R.E.M. is a genius. A master when it comes to conveying impressions. His lyrics are like a car ride along a street …
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Three cars are driving on a winded road through the rural Anatolian landscape, over hills and through plateaus, with their yellow headlights being the only illuminators of the unfolding night. Two of the men inside the car are convicts that have confessed to a murder and are accompanied by a group …
