Saturday, July 9, 2011
First Lines: Ludwig Feuerbach - The Essence of Christianity
Religion has its genesis in the essential difference between man and the animal – the animals have no religion.
Friday, July 8, 2011
William S. Burroughs: My Education. A Book of Dreams
On a plane and it is going down and I know this is reality.
No feeling of a dream...we are going down. Passengers across the aisle are all stading up now to see something I can't see because they block the view.
However, the plane lands safely and we disembark on a city street that looks like the Main in Montreal.
"I'm a dreamer Montreal?"
New Stuff: Fire! with Jim O'Rourke
This is Mats Gustafsson's most recent combo, on this recording Jim O'Rourke joins the fun.
New Stuff: Young Marble Giants
Recently, there was a poll on a popular Bavarian radio show (Zündfunk) on what were the best rock albums of all time. The audience put up a list where this album astonishingly appeared among the top 20. It's a great album, but I was wondering who still knows about the today?
Thursday, July 7, 2011
First Lines: Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
Those who strive to obtain the good graces of a prince are accustomed to come before him with such things as they hold most precious, or in which they see him take most delight; whence one often sees horses, arms, cloth of gold, precious stones, and similar ornaments presented to princes, worthy of their greatness.
New Stuff: The Beach Boys
Although they did create some great pop music and some true classics, I never was much intoThe Beach Boys, especially since I can't much stand their harmony singing. But neverthless I did need to have at least one classic in my collection.
Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
First Lines: Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spake Zarathustra
When Zarathustra was thirty years old, he left his home and the lake of his home, and went into the mountains.
Sublime (2007)
On the day after his fortieth birthday, a family man and successful computer analyst George Grieves goes to hospital for a routine procedure and finds himself locked in a ward where mysterious and horrific things are going on.
Well-intentioned and fairly skilfully told horror drama with some shock elements.
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed.
A mystery-comedy that has dated well and still manages to amuse.
