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12 Rules for Life (2018) – Jordan B. Peterson
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The patient himself must triage between a somewhat morally stiff and judgemental narrative and another one directed to the self that´s sympathetic and truly helpful.
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Black Frost (2019) – Nailed to Obscurity
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Cool-covered dark matter album that pulsates with rhyming drums while guitars bend long and calm together between clear-gutter vocals in tension-releasing punctuation.
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Unmountable Stairs (2014) – Witchrider
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An indirect-listening that can beautifully rock just so long as one does not pay too much attention. A promising commercial knockoff-band that’s decent.
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Mid90s (2018) – Jonah Hill
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Profound motion picture of short stature that proves itself large by showing with stunning, sympathetic sharpness how a pre-adolescent masochist jumps into intentional idiocy.
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“Hereditary – Movie Review” (2018) – Chris Stuckmann
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“Hey, you guys: me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me. This movie is about me.”
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Hereditary (2018) – Ari Aster
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Childhood-scary, sating and harrowingly haunting. It bends the mind in all directions while stiffing the body with soul-breaking terror that is just awesome.
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“Spaceship Bedroom Ambiance – Sleeping Quarter Stargazer (White Noise ASMR, Relaxation)” (2016)- The ASMR Geek
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Nerdy visuals and title aside this “autonomous sensory meridian response” video does reliably replay the perfect soundtrack for the thought-turbulent mind looking for clarity.
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John Carpenter´s Halloween (2017) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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Popular-music covers tend to work their best when close to source material spawning thusly fresh spokes instead of an almost always shittier new wheel.
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Vistār (2019)- Amotik
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Bass based arachno-rythmic techno stylings from Berlin that heavily drum the ear as a last vibration-stop coming from the rich underground shaking below.
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“Mantra” (2013) Sound City – Real to Reel
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The slow turning sonic framework of experienced formulas firming each other up in mature cooperation. A compound-track that for once does not sound condescending.
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Circumambulation (2013) – True Widow
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Deep, directional bass-foundation that hunters & gathers multiple singing flavors while firmly but timidly fermenting basically the same rhythm with the warmest of distortions.
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Beasts of No Nation (2015) – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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The automatic acid rain that comes with being a voiceless victim with no other choice but gravitational travesty. A perspective-enforcing film of monumental caliber.
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Holy Roller – Spiritbox
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Excellent low-budget music video self-presentation that further & heavily exploits its innate-tentional limitations by adding a wonderful found-footage vibe to itself.
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The Pandemic Special (2020) – South Park
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Only a real life pandemic-craze of biblical proportions could stop the world long and deeply enough to let South Park truly be funny again.
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Ghosts V: Together (2020) – Nine Inch Nails
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Merely and really the mono-thematic ghost of the former “Ghosts I-IV” (2008) album. Diluted while stringed together by ludicrous cries for emotional positivity.
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Guidance (2016) – Russian Circles
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An instru-metal journey that positively both ascends and descends with heavy ease while knitting mind-deserts that stay tarp-ed under a sepia sky.
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The Piano (1993) – Jane Campion
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Kurt Cobain´s last watched film: kiwi period piece that is really about prostitution rather than repressed passions juicing through the colourful cracks of dark colonialism.
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Seventeen Seconds (1980) – The Cure
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Remarkable techno-pop depth coming from an age-old youngblood with a voice that never changed and a background that should have stayed this pure.
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Midsommar (2019) – Ari Aster
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Cliches are nothing but dosed up bait in an artistic horror film of compensatory length that lightens up instead of darken while blooming us away.
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Berghain Nightclub – Berlin, Germany
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Best crèche I´ve ever been to. Disco biscuit selection extensive. Tantalising techno and tank tops, or lack of. Don´t think I´m the same after that.
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Harold and Maude (1971) – Hal Ashby
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This film makes me believe in love. Connection that knows no age, class, or reason. Through each other’s love, both characters become their best selves.
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Berghain Nightclub – Berlin, Germany
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Illegitimate children of Plato and Pandora unite on hallowed techno altar floating in chasmous powerhouse. Serotonin saturated oscillations; razor light beams pelt our naked souls.
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The Kitkat Club – Berlin
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Renowned diversity jamboree behind mad hatteresque door. Decent techno. Liebfraumilch and gimps who don’t care which pronouns you use. Lack of disco biscuits. Not Berghain.
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Driving Miss Daisy (1989) – Bruce Beresford
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Widowed & wizened,
Jim-Crow-South,
Jewish-Princess “Outsider”
Enjoys commanding
Subordinate Blacks,
But learns to FEEL
Kinship w/ black chauffeur
While her son
Assimilates.
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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Judy sang “Born in a trunk”.
Rudy danced “Born on a train”.
Trunk or train, it’s an old refrain:
“Survival of the cutest on stage”.
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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“Equality & Fraternity” ?
NO.
“Liberty (w/ follow-spot)”
YES.
“I was born to excell.
(Let the rest go to Hell.)
Signed,
Nureyev,
“King of Ballet”
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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“For me, no more
‘Espree d’ cor’ ”
Says Rudy to
Soviet nursery.
“In Paris France
I’ll take my chance
For fancier pants
And fat-pursery.”
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The White Crow (2018) – Ralph Fiennes
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The Soviets expect gratitude from
a “lump of coal” they polished into
a diadem for their chandelier of
mock-French Ballet.
But Pinocchio renounces Gepetto.
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Kiefer Taking a Picture of a Polaroid of a Chicken – The Sandino Chronicles
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The great metamorphosis into absurdity near-actualised, a bandana wielding maniac descends into frantic study into the psyche of the bird. It´s our only hope.
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Fuck it. Why not? – The Sandino Chronicles
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Just incase you wanted to know what it’s like here,
There’s a chicken camera projected on a TV in the living room.
Welcome to Sandino.
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Sandino World Improvement Network
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Friendly stoner viking on the couch. 24/7 chicken cam. Magical sausage factory with extraordinary carpets and a few too many volcano bongs. Return flights recommended.
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Blueprint for Armageddon – Dan Carlin
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A modern radio show that is definitely worth a dollar and however many sacrificial hours of lifetime this gentleman-and-a-scholar demands from us.
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Yamaha Arius S34 B
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Unpretentiously elegant, distraction-free electric piano that plays the role of a servant rather than an ivory tower one has to climb up and worship.
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Opium
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Easier to procure in western Europe than a proper tradional pipe which would prevent overdosing on desperate consumption measures after failing to get famously high.
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Acid for the Children (2019) – Flea
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The audio form of this book never flees aways from emotional attachment while the author reads his own words with out-louding choked-up laughter.
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Hof Hauptbahnhof – Hof, Germany
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Single most depressing Bavarian train station that sits strongly still, endorphin-free but not majesty-deprived. It reproaches itself with agonizing ghost-town building ferocity.
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To You Don – October 25, 2019
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Pride doesn´t let me be anymore, I’ve wasted enough life with mine.
I’m calling you. Feel free to fume because I’m letting my shit go.
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German Sülze – First Time Tasting
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Very few acquired culinary tastes can act so quickly on a mind sitting close to an open stomach that awaits patiently in gelatinous timeless amber.
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Berliner ZOB (Central Bus Station) – Berlin, Germany
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They kick you when you´re down and they Flix you when you feel dumb-enough already. A central hub that denies kindness to anybody within.
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The Irishman (2019) – Martin Scorsese
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Crème de la crème of a celebrated lifetime of Midnight Espressos that cinematically pushes every right Benjamin-Button with medically accurate gore and passive wrath.
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The Meaning of Life
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To spread itself beyond everything that‘s false and half-done, like ego itself which is nothing more than a joke on the slowest among us.
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Oliver James – Electric Toothbrush
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What could go wrong at 40.000 vibrations per minute? Nothing at all so far but the feeling of guilt for not having used this before.
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Gladiator (2000) – Ridley Scott
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Twist-less crowd winner that Hellraises Oliver’s lion-faced redemption out of bloodied vistas like a fat Phoenix that Reeds of condescending soundtracks and cutting.
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Colosseum – Rome, Italy
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Entertained? Sure: I couldn’t possibly be more inter-stained by the thick glory of a 2000-year old ruin that drools dreams of dormant brawls.
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Simply Market – Rome, Italy
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Simply & sickly bereft. Zombie apocalypse jokes? Simple to make from the outside, but no doubt a nightmare for those gladiators about to be engulfed.
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Squisito Cook – Rome, Italy
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In the shadow of the valley of shit: mannerless gouching of tourist-gore that kills all buzzes from all over the world. Shame in you.
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Rauch Bakery – Berlin, Germany
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Stressed-out little man whole-wheat sandwiched between two strong ladies who sport tattoos and run the show where the thickest sausages vanish always early.
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Sandino World Improvement Network – Berlin, Germany
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A hostel run by a bunch of woke, very loveable social introverts and a viking cook. Love and good vibes all ’round…and beautiful chickens.
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Boy Erased (2018) – Joel Edgerton
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The camera focusez mostly on the “Boy” who’z “script” describez hiz harrowing encounter w/ evangelical “Converzhion Therapy for Gayz”.
The camera “Erasez” hiz erroneous
parents.
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Dennis Haysbert as a Student
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In high school Dennis Haysbert both acted & played football (note crutches). Here he grudgingly listens to “Camille”, notorious courtesan, who has “seduced” his son.
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Fight Club (1999) – David Fincher
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Childless & sleepless, guy asks mirror, “What’s it all about, Alpha? Is it just for Ikea I live?” Mirror answers: “Oil & water mix explosively.”
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Moonlight (2016) – Barry Jenkins
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Born-queer little midnite-black-boy survivez Macho Cult-shure w/ brief fostering support & ritual “baptism”
Into a long
quest for
one
Tru
Luv.
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The Power & the Glory (1940) – Graham Greene
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The author leads us to FEEL the inner conflicts of a “whiskey priest” in Mexico when the government has condemned priests to apostasy or death.
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Happiness in Slavery (1994) – Nine Inch Nails
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I get the feeling that back then it would be weird not to break your instruments on stage so one just had to do it.
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Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht 101-Year Memorial March (1.11.20) – Berlin, Germany
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A very eager but meager chanting crowd for such a clear winter day in which manifested mantras were encased by a comically large police force.
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Freebase N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)
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Colorful perception-ride that feels bittersweet but too short despite all the promise and self-advertising. One’s guts keep being tested even after repeated use.
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) – Vince Gilligan
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A pastrie-bone of an off-spinning movie for those nostalgic fans who for years waited long between seasons. A cultural phenomenon that gives back.
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Night Walk – Johnny M
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Surprisingly effective rhythmic assembly line by the Joseph Haydn of techno music. It slowly grows solid into the listener’s headspace until the promised “deep” arrives.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Few people truly dig his musical stylings. Most who try succeed only in short spurts while finding him dry like he’s a sandwich without spread.
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Paul McCartney
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The core of the whole Paul Mccartney problem is that he’s been sober his whole life and didn’t die when the cosmic timing was right.
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Swedish Females
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Cream-petaled dreams of carnality one respectfully drowns into with every nerve-ending never ceasing to embrace the luxurious pain of lust and unavoidable longing.
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Broken (1992) Nine Inch Nails – Official Website description (Coincidental 25-WR)
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„RECORDED IN SECRET TO AVOID INTERFERENCE FROM THE RECORD LABEL, THE FOLLOW-UP TO PRETTY HATE MACHINE TAKES AN UNEXPECTED ABRUPT TURN INTO SHEER AGGRESSION.“
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) – Mike Figgis
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Shue deeps her toes into cinematic greatness in an emotionally productive codependent-relationship with a very fine Nicolas Cage who gently escorts her around hell.
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Creepshow 2 (1987) – Michael Gornick
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Good times horror flick for the underworld-savvy Rock ’n’ Roll pre-teen that has a gluttonous taste for graphically warned sex and the macabre.
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Gangster No. 1 (2000) – Paul McGuigan
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Get yourself kitted out proper with an invisible rope around your bird´s neck until you´re cuffed. Don’t hate the player but love the bloody game.
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1939 Vincent HRD Series A Rapide – Jay Leno´s Garage (2015 – )
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Takes a good forty miles to warm up a Vincent, but it took Jay Leno only ten minutes to carburet my child-soul with charm.
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Defining the Future
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The Future: a creative room that’s sacredly cemented in every present that you own inside. Real is what you want, not what knocks you down.
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333: Justin Roiland – Duncan Trussell Family Hour
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An existential audio interview that multiverses itself inwards & outwards while serving the man behind the cartoon-mask well into being his own private self.
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Spun (2002) – Jonas Åkerlund
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A deliberately over-edited character-carousel colorfully whirling around all kinds of wild trailer-trash debauchery with the ruminating impatience of a coked-up policeman.
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David Lee Roth (2019) – Joe Rogan Experience #1256
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The Robbin Williams of aging rock & roll douchebags with enough acid juice to rise and fall a room full of medieval nuns into rebellion.
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Dirt (1992) – Alice In Chains
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Down in a hole underneath them bones with your junkhead full of dirt.
Would hate to feel this, but Lane sang it
Melancholic God’s smack.
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GBL: Gamma-Butyrolactone (Liquid Ecstasy)
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Good things should taste bad out of counterweight and pride, unlike this bitter liquid letdown whose buzz justifies no small amount of self-roofied vomiting.
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Break on Through to the Paranoid Side – Black Doors
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Not just basically Danzig (as youtuber “Naykat” so cleverly commented), but what Glenn Danzig should sound like and what his wet-dreams surely are like.
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Cape Fear (1991) – Martin Scorsese
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Never underestimate the pain resolutions of those who’ve have been wronged by you. A cautionary moral mortality story in which everybody loses and were entertained.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Victor Pascow
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A very gruesome but friendly ghost the way Casper was meant to be but failed miserably due to its punch-me-in-the-face tenderness.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Louis Creed
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The pater familias and owner of the Norman Rockwell house by the side of the road-rope noosing around his trophy house-wife and kids.
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Get the Gringo (2012) – Adrian Grünberg (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.”
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Buffalo ’66 (1998) – Vincent Gallo
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All romantic comedies should be independent passion projects by law, the breaking of which should be punished by force feeding the perpetrator with commercial crap.
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North by Northwest (1959) – Bernard Herrmann
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A paranoid soundtrack that feels followed by an invisible group of listeners in every escaping note as it pushes itself back into in curious desperation.
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Gia (1998) – Michael Cristofer
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Being hot and wanted worked the opposite way inside the self-repelling time bomb that Gia Carangi really was. A flawlessly executed plead for caution.
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The Others (2001) – Alejandro Amenábar
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Intense beauty and fear holding hands in the permanent protection of a broken family that is full of love for one another in macabre ignorance.
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Neues Ufer – Berlin, Germany
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The revamped cafe near David Bowie‘s apartment where Iggy Pop and himself used to hang out at a time when English wasn’t the main language.
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All That Jazz (1979) – Bob Fosse
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Solipsistic Jizz-jerk that feels sorry for itself with a smile we all share in the gluttonous glitter surrounding our every longing delusion of danger.
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) – Victor Fleming
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The Johann Sebastian Bach of relevant children films from an era in which intense fear and wonder was grafted onto them for their own good.
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About Schmidt (2002) – Alexander Payne (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A man upon retirement, embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter’s wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.”
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Leaving Las Vegas (1995) -Mike Figgis
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Suicide is not painless, and drinking yourself to death has got to be one of the worst ways to check out of this world affair.
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Canadian Winter Socks
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Bled-dry like identical twins that were wrapped in air-sealed vellum in a mountain-core made with fraternal warmth in intention rather than practice.
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To Die For (1995) – Gus Van Sant
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I’d die for her in a heartbeat, wouldn’t anybody? No. Nothing like a motion picture to illustrate the obsessive use of externally abusive internal agendas.
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The Good Son (1993) – Joseph Ruben
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All gimmicks are truisms, and all truisms are true. A truly messed up kid portrayed as perfectly as a veteran Shakespearean hand playing a glove.
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Falling Down (1993) Movie Poster – Barry Ballaran
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The film’s primal-level Anger & Fear in an illustrated nutshell that calls for another one focused on the personal-level A & F instead.
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) – Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone (Coincidental Rotten Tomatoes 25-WR)
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Never Stop Never Stopping updates the rock mockumentary for the 21st century mainstream — and hits many of its low-hanging targets with side-splitting impact.
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Falling Down (1993) – Prendergast
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An observant man who does not believe in the shutdown-retirement of duty and is blasphemed by the terrifying prospect of losing his existential stress.
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The Fat of the Land (1997) – The Prodigy
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The turning point for an underground project that successfully synched itself up to the pre-globalized world chaos around and churned its fears into butter.
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Invisible Dry Deodorant – Dove
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Many ways to doubt in a world full of choices. Classic means not-boring and the scent coming out of this blunt weapon bores none.
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Here Now, There Then (2017) – Dool
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Coronary album skidding straight into the spleen via female vocals that ring torching and down — cusps new dimensions that shift between fresh and nostalgic. Great.
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The People Under the Stairs (1991) – Wes Craven
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Twin Peaks (1990-1991) meets the Shining (1980) during the well-manored, palm-treed night vision period of the Golf War. Sometimes in is out.
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Falling Down (1993) – Seedy Guy in Park
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The epitome of the parasitical social sociopath and the dark behavioral counterpart of Seinfeld‘s (1989-1998) Kramer if let loose in the park long enough.
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Falling Down (1993) – D-Fens
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A man walking in the hottest of days with a rainless cloud above his head one drop away from spilling blood all over the place.
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (2012) Deadpool, Volume 3 – Brian Posehn, Gerry Duggan
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An origin storytelling deep cut into a man’s mind which is trying to make things right. His way was never the gracefullest, so don’t fall…
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Březňák Pils – Czech Beer
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Czech beer is the gateway to all voluntary trouble like this sinister looking man glaring back while waiting for the slipped roofie to take effect.
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Holsten Pilsener – German Beer
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The slightly bitter taste of cold, windy summer days at sea under a sunshine that squints the eyes and gently burns the brow with stupor.
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Oettinger Export – German Beer
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Oettinger Export and its dreaded social stigma that can only be remedied by complete geographical self-removal and taking a quick swim in international waters.
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Get the Gringo (2012) – Adrian Grünberg
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Efficiently entertaining action comedy build around Mel Gibson’s bullseye charm with which both his personal and crew effectiveness are borderline groundbreaking at a snappy pace.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Mary Lambert
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Creepy-ass piece of horror in the time-honored “Sacred Burial Ground” tradition—notable members not exceeding the number of fingers in a monkey’s paw.
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Meeting with Isak
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He came and went like a whisperingly pensive Scandinavian comet, that every few years slow-burns the sky without judgment. An inversed pizza delivery-man.
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Amphetamine Powder “Speed”
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Cheap, powerful stimulant that manually overdrives initiative with benevolent side effects. The better of two evils when chosen over the AC/DC of drugs: cocaine…
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Twenty-Five 25-WR Bits/Day for 25 Days Rite-of-Passage Challenge – Day 2
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Completed Day 2 of the challenge this morning instead of last night (wrote 21 yesterday), which means I will reset the counter and start over.
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Twenty-Five 25-WR Bits/Day for 25 Days Rite-of-Passage Challenge – Day 1
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The truth is in the pudding and after ten failed attempts today´s pudding is confirmed as real. Twenty-four more days to go. Big challenge.
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The Weight of Memory (March 1973 – Onward) The Vietnam War: 01×10 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novack
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The White Christmas nightmare ending of a 30-year war that ironically led to Vietnam´s own “Vietnam”—and the final episode of this historical masterpiece.
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A Disrespectful Loyalty (May 1970-March 1973) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×09 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Oft-repeated bravery tends to lose its influence, but sacrificing one’s blood-earned trophies while Death keeps girding the biggest nothing in history does not.
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The History of the World (April 1969-May 1970) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×08 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Life preservation bears the brunt of an honor that stutters. All parents must be killed in order to break free from a Vietnamised Nixonian low.
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The Veneer of Civilization (June 1968-May 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×07 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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The shit-sandwich has gotten big enough to feed everyone not hungry twice—but Nixon, Kissinger and the Saigon cowboys are all doing just fine.
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Twenty-Five Word Reviews a Day for Twenty-Five Days Challenge – Day 2
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I find writing the 25-Word Review text itself not nearly as ball-breaking as it used to be but the formatting still takes long.
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It Follows (2014) – David Robert Mitchell
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A perfectly lighted, both gently scripted and edited Neo-Classical 80´s AIDS epidemic horror-metaphor that takes place in ghostly Detroit made by John Hughes.
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The Cable Guy (1996) – Ben Stiller (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A lonely and mentally disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.”
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Lost Highway (1997) – David Lynch (Coincidental 25-WR by David Sterritt from the Christian Science Monitor)
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“The film actually deserves four stars for its imaginative style and astonishing suspense, zero stars for its shameless exploitation of violent shocks and loveless sensuality.”
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Trainspotting (1996) – Danny Boyle (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.”
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Things Fall Apart (January-June 1969) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×06 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Got offended by Tet, got let down by Lyndon, got sick from a reality that cannot be smelled through television…and now Dick is coming.
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Born Villain (2012) – Marilyn Manson
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It almost reaches a we-might-have-to-shoot-old-yeller situation. A chorus of mercenary yes-men amplifying one hell of a midlife crisis.
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The High End of the Low (2009) – Marilyn Manson
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Wish good luck to those thinking themselves unbiased enough to see this ordeal through. The equivalent of the Simpsons after Season 10. Needs a Futurama.
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Eat Me, Drink Me (2007) – Marilyn Manson
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Fantastic rock music with ballads that remind of the “Fundamentally Loathsome” days. Subject matter goes down the shit-rabbit hole when ego takes over, though.
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The Golden Age of Grotesque (2003) – Marilyn Manson
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The Spooky Kids reanimated and back to their cartoon-interlaced world—only this time laid, with a budget, panache and rap-defying density of words.
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Lidl Supermarkets
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Good ole’ “Lidl” and their hit-and-miss product outbursts. Like a sacred cow, one dares not to touch it when a munchies wave arrives.
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36 ROOMS Hostel – Berlin
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Orbiting Berlin‘s drugstore par excellence: the Görlitzer; this elevator-less marriage of dirt and incompetence is nocturnally punctured by bell-ringing lost souls lurking outside.
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Idi i smotri/Come and See (1985) -Elem Klimov (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.”
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This is What We Do (July-December 1967)The Vietnam War (2017): 01×05 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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A war with no front is a body-count war that can only be won after the crossover point of dehumanization that Stalin-statistics promise.
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Twenty-Five Word Reviews a Day for Twenty-Five Days Challenge – Day 1
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The truth-telling pudding is back in the now still latent new past of today´s hours. Back on track after losing count on failed attempts.
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) – Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.”
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Resolve (January 1966-June 1967) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×04 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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There is no point in wondering if your son has fallen face down in the bony lunar dust or not: they will let you know.
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The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×03 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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You´ll get lots more of this coup shit because reelection is the root of all evil in your Kennedy-less rolling thunder of a world.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Ellie Creed
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There’s something really naturally annoying about this child-actress’s performance that made her perfect for the part as one sides automatically with her brother instead.
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Mandy’s – Berlin
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Good impressions can only last so far. A proud example of how vast a legal grey area can be. Opportunism shines. Lamps are great, though.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Churchill
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There are some really interesting developments in this blue Russian cat’s character, the kind of revealing behavioral changes that are normally reserved to humans exclusively.
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Dead Man (1995) – Jim Jarmusch
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A magic potion picture film that blatantly discriminates color and is heavy and greasy to the touch with high-contrasting characters gunned out of lead.
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What About Bob? (1991) – Frank Oz
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Hey, don´t hassle Bob, he´s alright and local. Hassle yourself into a new reality instead, because the one you know does does not apply anymore.
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Holy Wood (2000)- Marilyn Manson
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Not disposable, but dispersed and gold-rushed. Has a sober motor under its political rib cage but it´s flooded with hubris and bad storms head.
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Da hong deng long gao gao gua/Raise the Red Lantern (1991) – Yimou Zhang (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.”
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Berghain XTC
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Very quaint choice for the non-dancing metalhead du jour and a behavioral challenge that parallels navy seal boot camp with a drill-instructing thirst.
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The Thin Red Line (1998) – Terrence Malick
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With crew, cut, script, cast and sound of high enough caliber can this force of nature celluloid projectile blow up any line to kingdom come.
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David Goggins (2018) – Joe Rogan Experience #1080
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There´s greatness on the other side of suffering. The necessary pain leading to success is a finite pain and it will inexorably reinforce your pride.
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Dortmund, Germany
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A seemingly hostel-less human-host of an eldritch character-town that insists in chaperoning at the bullfighting-Hauptbahnhof. All thick with bible pushing patterns.
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Tideland (2005) – Terry Gilliam (Coindidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.”
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Rachel Creed
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A short-haired, fair-skinned maternal beauty carrying a black hole of trauma as heavy as cement-dipped sumo wrestlers fighting in a sinking ship.
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Rio Bravo (1959) – Howard Hawks
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A Western with an afterparty feel to it that lacks nothing but is in no hurry to get anywhere fast and that works perfectly somehow.
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Journals (2002) – Kurt Cobain
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A very intimate peak into the soul of a young man dealing with the disappointment of having his bliss blown out in front of everyone.
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Tyskie Pils – Polish Beer
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Good ole´ Polish “Piwo” and its aggressive edge full of complex tests for strength of build and character coming out of an engrained cheerful bitterness.
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Mandy (2018) – Part I: The Shadow Mountains 1983 A. D
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Real love in the hearts of good people who find themselves in the heart of 44 misty mountains being knock-knocked by a heartless world.
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Goodfellas (1990) – Martin Scorsese
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Ask Johnny Two-Times how funny does he think this based-on-true-events mob movie is, and exactly how is it amusing and entertaining.
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Nil by Mouth (1997) – Gary Oldman
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Brutalist approach to visually materializing an agonizing reality based on derision and Death-toned humanity. Never underestimate the darkness within a man behind his camera.
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The War Zone (1999) – Tim Roth
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Tremendous downer that is no way shape or form meant to be pleasant—by one of the most charming and universally acclaimed actors out there.
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Love Liza (2002) – Todd Louiso
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Sometimes one needs to destruct the body to save the mind in sweet but most socially unacceptable escapism. The colorful roads away from matte black.
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The Tree of Life (2011) – Terrence Malick (Coincidental IMDB 25-WR)
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“The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents’ conflicting teachings.”
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Live Through This (1994) – Hole
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Female perspective for angry teenage output and the start of a legitimate life long rebellion hopefully used to make an album once all grown up.
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Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973) – Black Sabbath
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As satanic-ginger as it gets, a musical royal-ass worthwhile kissing with abandon. Ferrying-guitar paragraph-paragliding with Ozzy Osbourne´s idiosyncratic lovable luckluster-finesse.
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The Mire (2018) – Conjurer
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Holy Roar Records hottest newcomers show on their debut how Blackened Sludge sounds like.
Berserking sound paired with ball-sweating grooves break Hardcores standard 2018.
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Dog Fashion Disco – Experiments In Embryos (2018)
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90’s unknown Patton-influenced band still plays riffy alternative Hardrock.
Igniting songs with catchy vocals, raw sounding guitar-bass power and other weird instrument performances.
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Mulholland Dr. (2001) – David Lynch
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The announcer vents the verdict: “ladies and gentlemen, madame et monsieur, I am proud to announce we have a unanimous all-time dream-sequence winner.”
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Wake in Fright (1971) – Ted Kotcheff
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Very impressive, anti-heroic Australian blue-flame of a unique film that is as intense, raw and real as Kangaroo carcasses frying in the bush.
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000) – E. Elias Merhige
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If William Dafoe needed an acting diploma this should be his master thesis to share with Keaton´s Beetlejuice (1988) and Gibson´s The Singing Detective (2003.)
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Between The Buried And Me – Automata I & II (2018)
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Despite short running time(s), Automata shows excellent entangled songwriting AND massive variety (in unvisited areas). Incredible how this post-2000’s Progmetal monolith is growing adult.
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A Patient Man (2018) – Cult Leader
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Unrest-causing guitar noises, juicy bass and sludgy grunting make this chunks better half sounds like a sporty slaughterhouse massacre.
Peppery goulash with foul spots.
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Stranger Fruit (2018) – Zeal & Ardor
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No mix would be more comical than cold Black Metal, Blues and warm gospel vocals.
2018 is a year for bizarre genre-mixes and subgenres.
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Don‘t Touch The Outside (2018) – Thomas Giles
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BTBAM‘s Tommy presents again solid grooving synth rock on album 4.
His urge for simple songwriting is perceptible and works wonderful with the special guests.
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Esoteric Malacology (2018) – Slugdge
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Progressive Death Metal with complex riffing, “sludgy“ drums and vocals from deep, high growls to partially cleans.
Popular metal song-puns as song titles.
Entertaining.
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The Fragile (1999) – Nine Inch Nails
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It lacks a solid sound-slate design like the one “The Downward Spiral” has giving it a decentralized feeling somewhat affecting the old attention-span.
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SJ Rc Train Ride – Sweden
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A rediscovered childish ecstasy of riding through beautiful landscapes with this authentic product, that lets you forget the dullness of nowadays routined microwave-city-rides.
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Red White & Blue (2010) – Simon Rumley
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Did not see any extreme changes of mood or style coming before it turned into full-blown cinematic transgression. Better watched without previous plot knowledge.
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Gummo (1997) – Harmony Korine
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Midwestern white trash at its ingrown-peak shown under neutral autopsy lights instead of the usual ridicule a John Waters satire would no doubt use.
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The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988) – Wes Craven
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This film stays terrifying as it ages backwards into a welcomed relevancy that never lies. A master class of suspense, atmosphere and practical visual effects
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Alex Gener’s Poached Eggs
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A life-affirming treat of great culinary kindness that Gener-s your muffled hunger with a mouthful of smiles that will carry you surprisingly far.
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Falling Down (1993) – Surplus Store Owner
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A compressed symptom-centipede happy to impose who cuts and salts every social nerve-ending that tries to bounce him off while panting for closure.
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Falling Down (1993) – Frank the Golfer
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A universe-centering old man who confidently swings the worldly rules of gravity and decorum out of balance in order to get his balls around.
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Yellow & Green (2012) – Baroness
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It doesn´t grab one by the neck with intricate fancy like the previous albums but it does make the cut into their swan lake discography
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Purple (2015) – Baroness
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Too much self-complacent singing and riffing around—sluggish and resigned at times when Wanderlust is expected. Decent background music but nothing like albums past.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) – The Coen Brothers
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Highly original take on Homer’s odyssey in the rural 1930’s space, where bank robberies and racism are still a thing that could get you killed.
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Barton Fink (1991) – The Coen Brothers
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When the salesman is Death and not the other way around the block of sanity that keeps peeling off in blind corridors of walled desires.
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Miller’s Crossing (1990) – The Coen Brothers
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Drinking is no lubricant but a lifestyle. A hat is not an object but a character that wears you on while you try staying lubricated.
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Raising Arizona (1987) – The Coen Brothers
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An early proof of astounding pop-culture re-wiring prowess by bringing the screwball comedy (out of all dungeon-dead formulas) back to the mainstream
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T2 Trainspotting (2017) – Danny Boyle
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A circle jerk full of ballsy bells and whistles that addresses, entertains and extends everyone‘s self-destructive sense of nostalgia beyond whole mountains of warning.
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Low (1977) – David Bowie
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Poly-syncratic avant-garde mindfuck simmering ahead of its time with high-functioning, cutting-edge madness that is never boring to the sound or vision.
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The Vietnam War: The Sountrack (2017) – PBS
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Most of the usual late sixties/early seventies Momma & Papa-suspects in a soundtrack playlist that is not necessarily set-in stoned but beautiful.
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Ghosts I-IV (2008) – Nine Inch Nails
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Instrumental album showcasing Trent Reznor´s branchial talent for creating small pieces of stereophonic stress. Some sure came in handy for Burn´s „The Vietnam War“ (2017).
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In Country (1989) – Norman Jewison
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You can´t come back from a raw deal that was mainlined to you and got you grief-infected for life and just forget about it.
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Pretty Hate Machine (1989) – Nine Inch Nails
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A much less hermetic alternative when walking down the yellow big synth-road of the late eighties industrial-music industry in search for angry dancing.
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Dispatches (1977) – Michael Herr
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A novel that should be “read” in Braille with eyes closed while in nature to virtually realize what a year in-country does to you.
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Rolling Thunder (1977) – John Flynn
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Founding father of the Vietnam-Vet-Vendetta genre that´s still vein-popping while advocating separation of mind and body when it comes to romancing pain.
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Office Space (1999) – Mike Judge
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The breaking point in a man’s heart & mind contains nothing but shards of echoing contempt in his biosphere whereas others are martialled by cubicles.
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Interview the Vampire: the Vampire Chronicles (1994) – Neil Jordan
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One of the top ten (one can only wish there’d be so many) GOOD Hollywood vampire flicks that doesn’t feel like a lame juvenile setup.
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Carrey Family Reunion – SNL
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What do you give to the man who has everything? An impersonation comedy roast. With exception of ex-wives/girlfriends everybody is happy for him.
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Koyaanisqatsi (1983) – Philip Glass
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Life-centering original motion picture soundtrack of a one-word film that rushes through cloud-landscapes of the mind like hot iron through bible-paper.
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Form and Void (2014) True Detective: 01×08 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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What fears are you made of? Answer the call of Carcosa inviting you to enter the ancient light vs other-people showdown and find out.
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After You’ve Gone (2014) True Detective: 01×07 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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Those who want to get caught know that Death is not the end of it but the answer. No choice when helping what reflects you.
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Haunted Houses (2014) True Detective: 01×06 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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The dark side of karma and its forgetful rewards. No such thing as a back-door entry in prison. Tilt & slit or wreak havoc.
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The Secret Fate of All Life (2014) True Detective: 01×05 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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Time itself was created by Death and made into a spiraling circle where the future is always behind and keeps slipping through our flat fingers.
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Who Goes There? (2014) True Detective: (01×04) – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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There’s bulldozers of good stuff crammed inside this bonding episode including the Michael Jordan of one-shot scenes. Both Matthew and Woody can definitely jump.
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The Locked Room (2014) True Detective: 01×03 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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There’s relief in letting go, fear in holding on, Death in not owning while having thought otherwise…and lots of 2¢ in a $10-word.
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The Long Bright Run (2014) True Detective: 01×01 – Cary Joji Fukunaga
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A real pessimist with a magnifying cyclops-eye for inhuman precision and his compromising assigned-partner break the jungle-fevered silence of the Louisiana swamps.
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Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 (1824) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Single greatest human achievement when it comes to writing instructions down on how to best get universally desirable sounds out of stringing multiple vibrations together.
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Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 (1812) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Dancing with wine and roses around the vortex-rim before jumping into the last ride where the fat lady sings and the firmament cracks open.
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Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (1812) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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The chiaroscuro descent from the top of a wild mountain and the mystical encounters taking place in between. A nurturing experience full of didactic visions.
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Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 (1808) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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The key to isolation being dangled by Nature in front of the people-wounded heart & mind of a poisoned poet gasping for absolute-life.
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Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op.67 (1808) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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His Diabolus in Musica symphony. Its first movement alone being more influential to the Heavy Metal phenomenon than Robert Johnson and Tommy Iommi put together.
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Zapfhan 88 Café & Kneipe – Berlin
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A strictly diurnal Berlin-Kneipe that stays warm with the friendly domesticity emanating from the elder couple running it along with Gizmo, the dart dog.
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Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht 100-Year Memorial March (1.14.19) – Berlin, Germany
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The many peripheral pamphlet-peddling false-messiahs satyr-strip the warm shoulder of an otherwise moving Death-ward march uphill under a vintage sounding rain.
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Pražské Metro – Prague, Czech Republic
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Long, steep, poster-fed escalators will ramp you deep down into the wind-bombed bowls of Prague. A teleporting trip sheltered from the heavens above.
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Maverick (1994) – Richard Donner
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“What good is an empty chair?” We have here a silver-tongued sharp-shooter poisonous charmer (who´s obviously up no fucking good) wanting to sit!
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Kingpin (1996) – The Farrelly Brothers
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The pain of being a has-been and staying hooked in the past with one hand while trying to make yourself vomit with the other.
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Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – Roman Polanski
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A riveting montage about a young woman´s accelerating feelings of simultaneous loss of mind and innocence while inside the claustrophobic loneliness of a large metropolis.
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The Doors: When You’re Strange (2009) – Tom DiCillo
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Mr. DiCillo embarks on a moral expedition into the Johnny-depths of the collective unconsciousness to debunk derogatory assumptions short-changing the Doors/Morrison phenomenon.
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The Doors (1991) – Oliver Stone
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Stunning tunnel-vision composite that is dead-determined to focus on tip-of-the-iceberg aspects of a rich and extraordinary story. Kilmer shines possessed.
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The Long Hard Road Out of Hell (1998) – Marilyn Manson, Neil Strauss
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From recorded dictations, interviews and diary entries all dolled up by a ghost with a name working for The New York Times. Time anchored read.
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Mechanical Animals (1998) – Marilyn Manson
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An impeccable Rock & Roll concept-album of evocative stereo-sterility shining strong but cold with light-bending rhymes of emotional implosion and consensual descent.
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An American Prayer (1978) – Jim Morrison & The Doors
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The post-humorous poetic postures of a self-slained sage who´s
echoing inflamed-intimacy is being carried on the shoulders of his true soul mates.
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Morrison Hotel (1970) – The Doors
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Waiting for the Sun two times again while bar-diving savagely in the spirit of exploring the raw confines of the soul, mind and body.
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Smells Like Children (1995) – Marilyn Manson
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Sociopathic Extended-Play filler, mined-fuck with a couple of razor-sharp song-hooks giving a fake sense of familiarity and safety to dumb trespassers.
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Bad Lieutenant (1992) – Abel Ferrara
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The in-built morals that won´t stay numb after realizing there´s no caring-God but yourself and the strange, deflating pain that comes with it.
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Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×02 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Doc-decker Kenn and his proficient cut-crew vigorously but slow-motionly zoomIng in and out of the Burning lotus position that made everyone uncomfortable.
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Déjà-Vu (1858-1961) The Vietnam War (2017): 01×01 – Kenn Burns & Lynn Novick
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Eloquently gelatinized historical coverage of a century of colonizing French-oppression of the Vietnamese people—before American military advisors started to stack up like dominos.
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Netto Supermarkets
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Good ole’ Netto and their comedic clientele bound to cheer you up in the darkest of days. MacDonald’s-type wannabe that missed a few meetings.
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Morton’s Fork (2014) Fargo: 01×10 – Matt Shakman
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Black-titled season finale that is riddled with assailing confirmations. Kill the predator and the threat will die, but how? Ask your eyes and see.
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A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage (2014) Fargo: 01×09 – Matt Shakman
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Malvo´s poison ivy-green tambourine of a charm sets a “Walking Dude” pace that turns any tight-net community into his sandbox in no time.
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The Heap (2014) Fargo: 01×08 – Scott Winant
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The masterful silent-film era visual eloquence will bring you up to speed in a criminal case that jumps much forward in time without warning.
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Who Shaves the Barber? (2014) Fargo: 01×07 – Scott Winant
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Lester grows the confidence of a greased-up assault rifle while a one-wolf army spree-killing vendetta takes place between cops, ambulances and hearses.
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Buridian´s Ass (2014) Fargo: 01×06 – Colin Bucksey
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Even Nature’s high-end predators can become prey in the white darkness of a heavy caliber snow blizzard-showdown orchestrated by a two-faced God.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Interior Set Design
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Richly detailed, sinisterly static interior designs that are choke-full of tell-telling family items that are arteried together by old New England American gothic.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Jud Crandall
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An agingly sweet giant fool of a man that means well but helps nothing but to accelarate what´s coming. How about minding your own business?
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The Vietnam War (2017) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
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Unpretentious accompaniment piece of mature modern-minimalism that carries itself with the heaviest of solemnities while propelling a rice paddy of 2000-yard-stare flashbacks.
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Mandy (2018) – Jóhann Jóhannsson
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Hypochondriac teleport-trance music full of after-shock ripples of dread coming out of traumatic forces, but also wonder and authentic beauty that feels iridescent.
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Anti-Smoking Graphic Image Campaign – Nelson Tobacco
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Hilarious both to smokers and non-smokers, parents and non-parents alike is the Putin-looking baby about to baptize-burn his Death-wishing mouth.
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…And Justice for All (1988) – Metallica
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A Pandora´s box full of vitriolic virtuosity opened wide by the bitterness of Death (both intimate and universal) pestering the minds of grieving young men.
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Master of Puppets (1986) – Metallica
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Cliff Burton and the Orions erect a detail-dense gothic cathedral made out of nerve cords they strum further into sublimity. These kids can rock.
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National Lampoon’s European Vacation (1985) – Amy Heckerling
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The Griswold kids got much uglier but the parents expand on themselves. Chase tilts his character‘s sanity into a benchmark-trend that runs solid today.
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Hamburger Hill (1987) – John Irvin
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By far the goriest, most visually grounding of the Revival-wave of vet-approved Vietnam war films that muddied the Clearwater of the late Eighties.
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Let It Bleed (1969) – The Rolling Stones
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A fine album about violence, anxiety and fear that somehow feels very relaxing to listen to. Perfect tunes from what is basically an American band.
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Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60 (1806) – Ludwig van Beethoven
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Furtive sustain/stacatto start in dot-dash mode as if singing in Morse code while progressing upwards all the way up to the fucking zenith.
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I Origins (2014) – Mike Cahill
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Not even 11 Dalai Lamas could foresee legit twists in this half-lensed effort that’d otherwise be in the pits if it wasn’t for Michael.
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Pavillion Series – Hewlett Packard Laptop-Computers
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Convenience is the mother of all codependencies, especially when you´re owned by this hardware-repair tutorial that shines like Shinola while draining your life battery.
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There Will be Blood (2007) – Johnny Greenwood
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Where´s the horizon in a desert landscape full of the cosmic dust where both Bartok and Ligeti hide from the storm in an oil tank?
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The Soft Parade (1969) – The Doors
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Passive-aggressive instrumentation that looks after a wrapped-in-gauze Morrison by sidetracking him when playing with fire. Slightly dislocated but still coordinated Door´s disc.
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Strange Days (1967) – The Doors
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It´s only natural to love this album two times and get lost in grateful admiration thrice by each one of its ten lizard-hole tracks.
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Psycho Glass Bong – Amazon
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Its inevitable nasty looks bring a negative to a positive by keeping the smoker´s conscience in check. Should sell vaporizers as an after-poison cure.
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Network (1976) – Sidney Lumet
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Not to be taken lightly despite the dark humor that works every time. Outstanding satire on the organized religion that news and entertainment really are.
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The Departed (2006) – Martin Scorsese
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A dream-team cast presided over by Jack Nicholson in a Martin Scorsese film featuring Rollings Stones music…what could go wrong? That´s right: nothing.
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Gone Girl (2014) – David Fincher
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Insurmountably pristine cinematography that feels factory-sealed to the visual-touch. Fincher is a master of keeping us interested in people that make us flinch.
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Today´s 25-WR Birthday Toast: Paul Newman – January 26 (1925-2008)
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Newman´s own particular type of charm can only happen once a dimension. Piston paralleled lines of motored characters fed him well with the old adrenaline.
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Crumb (1994) – Terry Zwigoff
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So you think your family is weird? Brace yourself for the real deal. Unforgettable documentary showing more involvement than the genre ever intended to have.
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Pet Sematary (1989) – Cinematography
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Nice & juicy saturated sky blues, grass greens, and shinny apple reds—as well as well-lit darknesses with no spared precious details to miss.
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The Six Ungraspables (2014) Fargo: 01×05 – Colin Bucksey
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In the animal kingdom neighbors don´t bring casseroles to the weak and wounded; they rain down on you like a hail of lead pellets instead.
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Eating the Blame (2014) Fargo: 01×04 – Randall Einhorn (Netflix 25-WR Review)
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“When Gus tries to right a wrong, Malcolm embraces his alter ego. Lester finds himself in a surprising situation and Molly uncovers a promising lead.”
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A Muddy Road (2014) Fargo: 01×03 – Randall Einhorn
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You don´t get to be the Supermarket King of Minnesota without making a few biblical enemies, but a bloodbath of motivational stigmata can really help.