There will be a new album from Jóhann Jóhannsson! Check this out:
After IBM 1401, A User’s Manual, Fordlândia is the second instalment in a proposed trilogy based on technology and iconic American brand names. Whereas IBM 1401, A User’s Manual was a personal response to technology and its inevitable obsolescence (inspired by his father’s work [...]
Overheard yesterday evening, while six people tried to choose a film to watch.
“What, Brokeback Mountain? Nah, I want a film that’s more hetero than that.” – A bit more searching follows. – “Oh, what about Interview With the Vampire? That would be so cool!”
Cue a grin from my side.
I am totally in love with indie flick Socket, a kind of body horror/scifi tale of people who get addicted to electricity and mod their bodies to suck up current better. Apparently when you get struck with lightning (at least in this movie) you are left with a hunger for more. Unfortunately, the most pure [...]
Don’t mess with me I’ll shoot you down Don’t mess with me ‘Cause all your heads are gonna roll I’ve made your misery my goal So if you want survival Kneel on my arrival for this is how I rule the world
Obviously I had [...]
Goldfrapp’s Happiness. Someone jumpy here? [via swissmiss].
And just to compare: Björk’s It’s Oh So Quiet:
The thing about 10000 BC is the fact that it’s so beautifully transparent.
Your main character is called D’Leh, backwards Held (German for Hero).
His main interest is called Evolet, so we realise that she is t[h]e love.
The baddies look like very bad people.
And the really bad people come either from the stars (therefore being aliens) or [...]
Could have happened if Saul Bass had his hands in it. [found via core77]
… I just love how John Barrowman almost keels over laughing.
Look at those pictures – the first from the Battlestar Galactica Mini Series, the other from the episode Lara from the current season of Smallville.
Notice anything familiar? Yeah, right, those computer console props apparently manage to traverse several story universes as well as time …
Der folgende Artikel wurde für das Magazin ensuite geschrieben. Der Artikel erschien in der Ausgabe vom Januar 2008 unter dem Titel «Absolut Züri – Der Wahnsinn hat System». Er ist hier zu archivarischen Zwecken.
Fortsetzung folgt
Es gibt gewisse Zeiten an gewissen Tagen, an denen man gar nicht erst versuchen muss, mit jemandem etwas abzumachen. Jeder wird [...]
Der folgende Artikel wurde für das Magazin ensuite geschrieben. Der Artikel erschien in der Ausgabe vom Januar 2008 unter dem Titel «Blick hinter verschlossene Mietwohnungstüren». Er ist hier zu archivarischen Zwecken.
Domestic Disturbances
Bitte nicht stören: Das Schauspielhaus Zürich inszeniert Anja Hillings Mein junges idiotisches Herz. Ein Stück über die Distanzen, die sich zwischen den dünnen Wänden [...]
I just finished reading Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials Trilogy – and wow, it’s a really beautiful story.
Whenever I regret to close a book because it would mean to leave those worlds and its characters I began to love, then I know that it has been a story that deeply moved me. So it was with [...]