Last night, in a drunken delegation of one each Chinese, American, Swedish and German blokes and birds @ Franken I learned (from the German) that earlier this week Quentin Tarantino, who was in Berlin promoting Grindhouse, was asked who his favorite German director might be. Not Lang, not Fassbinder, not Herzog. He named Nazi propagandista [...]
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no comments) was created on July 28, 2007 at 14:08 and categorized under Berlin, Film, Germany, Propaganda, USA.
Expats in Berlin (and undoubtably Germany-wide) spent a good part of this summer losing the minds with the schizo weather patterns of dark/cold/rainy followed by bright/warm/windy (or some mixture of those) day-by-day and sometimes several times within one day, crying “What’s going on here?!?!” Mostly it was too dark for a long stretch of a [...]
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A few days ago these billboards showed up around the corner from my house where east Oranienstrasse intersects with Moritzplatz. They’re tags, writ large and in the lower right, unassumingly: tagger.biz, which it turns out is a blog (on Blogger). While the decidedly lo-fi blog seems to get semi-regular updates, sometimes with photos of other [...]
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If you didn’t already see it via Berliner Fenster on this morning’s U-bahn ride, Quentin Sharpchin Tarantino is in the city today, promoting the German release of Death Proof, his ode to 70s B-movies that is supposed to be manna for film geeks but otherwise bombed after its stateside release. Something about Bar 25, which [...]
This post (currently with
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I’ve been meddling with meditation for a while now but lately I’ve become more dedicated to taking mid-day mind-clearing sessions thanks to the near-crystal clarity I’ve been really needing as me noggin gets cluttered with distraction and bother. This visualisation, Eating the White Apple, from some guy at lifehack.org, is pretty darn effective for a [...]
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Not to borrow a title from the Berliner Zeitung but, wth, I’ll do it anyway.
Two Banks of Four is a jazz collective from London, where it rains and shines but rains more, something most Berliners are pretty familiar with these days. This is rainy day jazz interjected with shots of sunlight. Herr Walschburger says, to [...]
This post (currently with
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My friend Sara has a Croatian friend who has this clip prominently positioned on her myspace page. It’s a music video from 1981 by Oliver Mandić, a big-time 1980s eastern European pop star, transvestite, drug experimenter, orientalist (natch), perfectionist and all-around controversial guy.
The song, which translates roughly to “My Love Wants Only to Watch Kurosawa [...]
This post (currently with
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Proofing a master thesis, writing business articles a’plenty and frolicking with my Swedish guests in the past few days (thanks in part to Yuhang’s discovery of possibly the best tequila ever available in Berlin), I haven’t even given a thought to blogging. But I think there may be some quiet in the storm and why [...]
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The New Yorker celebrates George W. Bush’s birthday today with a gallery of its best Dubya illustrations from the past six years.
This post (currently with
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Oh, say can you see the embed codes of my online videos: rollingstone.com, currently rocking the magazine’s original sixties logo, man, has a well groovetastic video round-up of renditions of the US national anthem in all kinds of styles and attempts, from triumphant to embarrassing. Featured: Jimi Hendrix (the gold standard, imho), Phish, Whitney Houston, [...]
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but my stooopid provider only seems to be letting me in every 5 minutes… By the way, has anyone else noticed that this site is only “up” about 70% of the time. I think I’m gonna have to get to the bottom of this. For now, I’m going to have to recommend against getting a [...]
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