Stranger than Paradise: the discreet charm of cassette players and desolate streets
Jim Jarmusch is a director one admires… Or gently laughs at, like when he treats us to films such as The Limits of Control, whose abstruse abstraction, made up of espressi, matchboxes and laconic discussions with a naked Paz de la Huerta in her hotel room, seem to boil downContinue Reading
Kerouac talks about Céline
In this 1959 Radio Canada interview with Pierre Nadeau, Jack Kerouac talks about his favorite writers and specifically Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Please find below our tentative English transcript of this beautiful document. I personally consider that the greatest writer in the world is Louis-Ferdinand Céline – his real name is Destouches…Continue Reading
Gabi Delgado: sex, violence and synthesizers
Only eight days after Genesis P-Orridge, a central figure in industrial music that would deserve several articles on them alone, we have learned of the sudden death of Gabi Delgado-López, singer and co-founder of the band Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF), who passed away at the age of 61, leaving behindContinue Reading
On the edge of the Ring
In Europe, the journey on the motorway to a major city is usually quiet and monotonous. We set our cruise control to one hundred and twenty, one hundred and thirty, one hundred and sixty kilometres per hour possibly, depending on our personal preferences, but still, we progress imperceptibly in theContinue Reading