Lena Lomkova

A Song a Day

Sugarloaf - Don't Call us, We'll Call You

This is an oldtime favourite. In the 70s it was played endlessly on the AFN radio station here in Germany. The song has lost nothing of its appeal.



A Long distance directory assistance, area code 212
Say hey, A and R this is mister rhythm and blues
He said hello, and put me on hold
To say the least the cat was cold
He said, don't call us child we'll call you

I said, you got my number
He said yeah, I got it when you walked in the door
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us, we'll call you

I got your name from a friend of a friend
who said he used to work with you
Remember the all night creature from stereo ninety two
Yeah I said could you relate to our quarter track tape
You know the band performs in the nude
He said uh huh don't call us child we'll call you

Listen kid you paid for the call
You ain't bad but we've heard it all before
And it sounds like John, Paul and George

Any way, we cut a hit and we toured a bit
with a song he said he couldn't use
And now he calls and begs and crawls
It's telephone deja vu
We got percentage points and lousy joints
And all the glitter we can use, Mama
So, uh huh, don't call us now, we'll call you

Listen kid you paid for the call
You ain't bad but I've heard it all before
Don't call us, we'll call you
Don't call us
Don't call us, we'll call you

Carole Bouquet

Indeterminacy 55

There’s a street in Stony Point in a
lowland near the river where a number of
species of mushrooms grow abundantly.
I visit this street often.
A few years ago in May I found
the morel there, a choice mushroom
which is rare around Rockland County.
I was delighted.
None of the people living on this street
ever talk to me while I’m collecting
mushrooms. Sometimes children
come over and kick at them before I
get to them. Well,
the year after I found the
morel, I went back in May
expecting to find it again, only
to discover that a cinder-block house
had been put up where the mushroom had
been growing. As I looked
at the changed land, all the
people in the neighborhood came out on
their porches. One of
them said, “Ha, ha!
Your mushrooms are gone.”

- John Cage

A Scan a Day

The Unsaid (2001)

After his son's suicide a psychiatrist's family falls apart, and he himself refuses to accept patients until he is confronted with the case of a complicatedly disturbed young man the age of his own son.

Above average psychoanalytical thriller with some suspenseful moments.

Ángela Molina

Cet obscur objet du désir (1977)

A middle-aged bourgeois falls for a young woman, who alternately tempts and rejects him.

Bunuel's final work is an ingenious and very ironic variation on amour fou and the femme fatale. He famously added an additional irritation to the story by casting the female lead with two beautiful actresses: Angela Molina and Carole Bouquet.

Natalia Vodianova

Koroshiya & usotsuki musume (1997)

A young woman is freed from kidnappers by a man obviously hired for the job. On the run the intentions of her liberator remain unclear till the end.

And unfortunately, that's it: we'll never really know what it was all about. This is a trashy and incoherent actioner only interesting, if you want to see Vivian Hsu.

Sigrid Agren