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 …
Hall of Shame: Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bold Cutters (2020)
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 …
Populism & Carnival Culture: Power To The People? God Help Us.
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 …
Cake & Sodomy: Marilyn Manson, Porn, And Moral Degeneracy in The United States
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 …
Feeling Graceland – A Christmas Story
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 …
American Psycho (2000): A Visionary and Criminally Underestimated Work on Hyperreality & Trump
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 …
Fargo Season 5: The Giuliani Files
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 …
Alim Qasimov – A Spiritual Awakening from Azerbaijan
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). …
Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (2020) – Digital Fascism, Transhumans & The Triumph of Cosmic Order
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 …
How Director Daryush Shokof Hoaxed His Way Through Life, Staged His Own Kidnapping & Falsely Accused The Iranian Regime, And Now Wants To Scam 4 Billion Dollars
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 …