After the Brexit in 2019 the Great British Empire’s citizens had voted for me as their new leader. As first official act I had sent Teresa May and the rest of the parliament into Gulag and replaced them with my relatives and friends. On Christmas Eve’s Teresa was allowed to go out and serve us …
The Verve were a British band that were at the outset lumped into the shoegaze circle. They had all of the trappings of shoegazers like My Bloody Valentine – a strong reliance on guitar effects and other electronic devices that could alter the sound of the traditional rock instruments. The Verve, however, had something which …
Independent cinema usually takes risks that don’t always guarantee the desired effects in the overall calculation of a film. This type of films are produced outside the major film studio system, they’re distributed by independent entertainment companies, and they usually have a limited release. They are distinguishable by their content and style and the way …
Brendan Benson is a singer-songwriter from Michigan, USA. He is best known in the UK for his work with the famous singer-songwriter Jack White, as part of the adequate, so-called ‘supergroup’, The Raconteurs. I am familiar with his first three solo LPs and would aver that of these, his sophomore* album “Lapalco” is the finest. …
It’s a mishmash of rubbish Keith Richards If Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the perfect soundtrack of the 60’s as Beatles fans and demented rock critiques all around the world would make us want to believe, then this decade must have been really horrible. It is the most horrible, worst, and most overrated …
Work was never really finished for the employees of Rextel Corporation. So when R24 and Q103 would glaze out beyond the huge window of their Life Dome, they knew they were taking the time. Both lived within a vast territory called “Life Dome 3”. By 2050 most of the world’s population lived within similar facilities. …
“Donnie Darko”, directed by Richard Kelly; is a fascinating cult coming-of-age film that calls to be experienced and solved many times. The plot is full of intriguing mental riddles that involve parallel realities and dreams, as well as feelings that transcend the definitions of “nostalgia” or “mystery”. Above all, this film has a kind of …
Popular music did not have much impact on me as a child. I attribute this to the fact that 1970s pop was universally dreadful. Moreover, my limited exposure to it was either via light-entertainment programmes such as the Two Ronnies, or through children’s TV such as Crackerjack. The former would feature the likes of Dana and …
It was night and I was listening to Mozart’s ‘The Abduction from the Seraglio’ and dreaming of Vienna. It was my biggest dream to live there one day, an impossible dream… The men with bloomers and sabers arrived at midnight and dragged me out of my parents’ frugal house. I was a poor peasant girl …
The year is 1989, and The Cure is about to reach an unexpected peak of recognition and creativity by creating an album that until this day by many is considered as the masterpiece of their discography and one of the best albums of all times. In their mystical trilogy of albums released between 1980 and …
