If you need to be told that Familiy Guy is funny, you shouldn’t be surfing the web, you should watch TV and fill the gaping hole in your life. Go. Now. All right, where were we? When Fox cancelled Family Guy after its third season, things looked as bleak for Stewie’s and Brians fans as […]
This movie exudes an almost physical sense of emptyness and ennui. Oddly, while not entirely successful, that is actually a good thing, as Nicholsons character has lost all interest and drifts along mindlessly, trying without success to find meaning in taking over other another person’s life. The opening sequence, unfolding in mysterious wordlessness in a […]
Das Meer ist Gemeingut, der Strand bis zu einem zweifellos in einer Verordnung festgelegten Abstand von der Flutlinie ebenso, aber direkt dahinter können Privatgrundstücke liegen. Aus diesem Grund steht entlang des Highway 1 oftmals der Strandzugang extra auf Schildern dort erwähnt, wo zwischen zwei Anwesen eine öffentliche Strasse sich zum blockierten Gemeingut abwärts schlängelt. Man […]
I recently remembered that a Leningrad Cowboys album was lying abondoned in some basement in Germany, and was happy to find that the songs I remembered so fondly still sound great. I was even happier when I learned that the Cowboys had just released a new album, but subsequently disappointed to find it badly cliched […]
I fondly remember the songs from my first Cowboys record, We Cum From Brooklyn, such wonderful playful sounds and humour. I was happy to find that much of this best of collection is taken off that older album. Together with the new album this unfortunately also confirms my suspicion that the Cowboys have lost their […]