Picking up on postponed concerts which are now finally taking place, you can be up to a few surprises. After being postponed for two years because of the Corona pandemic, and with the tour now being called Year of the Rat Year of the Ox Year of the Tiger, the Einstürzende Neubauten concert in Cologne …
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 …
All music or art just wasn’t created for everyone to understand or share equally. That may sound harsh in our altruistic age. Nevertheless, pretending that art doesn’t exclude strikes me as rather ridiculous and frankly a lie. Some music, like other activities, requires certain surrender. A need for self-submission before the greater discovery. Those blissful …
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot In the middle of the 1970s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions. Iggy …
When Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself, his body was discovered with Iggy Pop’sThe Idiot still spinning on his turntable. The choice made sense, as the record directly inspired the dreary post-punk that Joy Division was beloved for. It’s odd then, that The Idiot was actually a stylistic detour for Iggy, an outlier …
The TX9000 understood that it wasn’t possible for its feelings to be real. Any sense of happiness, revenge, or even jealously was a creation of the Tyrell Corporation using the most advanced AI technology known. Whatever was “felt” within its hardware was merely a programmer’s description of a human emotion. Nevertheless, this programmed emotional responses …
