Monthly Archives: October 2009

interview: eastwestlost

Real name? dima semenovykh. What do you eat for breakfast every day? Since I have some sleep disorders, I have no schedule and so I have no breakfast as such. I just eat when I want to. Mostly burgers and sushi. Whose photography has influenced you the most? Well, i think i wasn’t influenced by anybody. My parents bought me [...]
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can I bring my pets?

from Everything Is Terrible.
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Weekend summary

Balloon Boy turns out to be a hoax. Barack Obama weighs his options in Afghanistan…yawn. Hilary Mantel wins the Man Booker award for her historical novel Wolf Hall. Public Organ gets a new home.
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Nietzsche’s critique and Exodus

I’ve been browsing a copy of the Bible (King James Ed.) my parents gave me for Christmas last year. Besides wondering exactly why my parents saw fit to give me a bible this of all years, it has been interesting to read with a mind towards F. Nietzsche’s critique of Christian morals. I had to [...]
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glen campbell

“By the time I get to Phoenix”. #3 in 1967, written by Jimmy Webb.
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beat girl

Opening credits to Beat Girl (1959), directed by Edmond Gréville:
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fred astaire

from “Swing Time Bojangles”:
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sunday smells

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a half-baked marxism for our half-baked times

I keep putting this one off. N+1 Magazine ran Mark Greif’s “On Repressive Sentimentalism” in their latest issue. Not sure why I purchased a subscription in the first, but the tome-like issue arrived on my doorstep about a week or so ago and I’ve finally made my way through the piece. As if by coincidence, [...]
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this period in music

ZE 30 – ZE Records 1979-2009 Founded 1979 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban, ZE records was something of a touchstone of early 80’s post-punk and no wave music. ZE went defunct in the mid-80’s but the label has been restarted to reissue old records now considered classic. This record is the best choice for [...]
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