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Gesehen: "Margarita with a straw" (2014) von Shonali Bose. Eine rebellische junge Frau aus Indien die an CP leidet, kommt nach New York und verliebt sich ganz unerwartet. Hat mir sehr gefallen. "Mama" (2013) von Andy Muschietti. Bis auf Goth Jessica Chastain war das ein supernatural Horrorfilm den man sich sparen kann. "Floreana" (2018) von... Continue Reading →
Ich freue mich sehr die Women in Science Reihe mit einem so großartigen Beitrag, von Wiederholungstäterin Claudia vom wunderbaren Blog "Das graue Sofa", fortführen zu dürfen. Mir liegt die Reihe sehr am Herzen, wer also ebenfalls Lust hat mit einem Gastbeitrag in dieser Reihe weitere interessante Frauen aus der Wissenschaft vorzustellen, meldet euch gerne. Jetzt... Continue Reading →
In this classic 1905 Christmas story, one of O. Henry's most famous, we meet Della and Jim, a young married couple who are as poor as church mice. "The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young married couple and how... Continue Reading →
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Far too many memories are haunting her of the beautiful farm where so many terrible things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with... Continue Reading →
Gesehen: All Cheerleaders Die (2013) von Lucky McKee/Chris Sivertson. Sehr unterhaltsamer Comedy-Horror um mörderische Cheerleader und wunderbar gay. Let it Snow (2019) von Luke Snellin. Liebenswürdige RomCom mit LGBT Elementen, Weihnachtsstimmung kommt definitiv auf. Gehört: Nils Frahms xmas Mix 2019 Gelesen: Was wir vom Geld wissen, aber nicht glauben wollen; diesen Artikel über Virginia Woolf,... Continue Reading →
For the longest time I somehow merged Richard Brautigan and Kurt Vonnegut into one person. Even after reading "Slaughterhouse Five" I could never really make two different people out of them in my mind. They were somehow located in the somehow 1960s department of may brain that also occupied Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa, Betty Friedan... Continue Reading →
Die von mir sehr geliebte Interview Buch-Reihe "Kampa Salon" trifft nach meiner Lieblingsschriftstellerin 1 Siri Hustvedt auf Lieblingsschriftstellerin 2 Margaret Atwood, da geht doch zumindest literarisch das Jahr überaus versöhnlich zu Ende. Der unter anderem für die "Zeit" arbeitende Journalist Caspar Shaller interviewte die Booker Gewinnerin 2019 zwei Tage lang in einem Café in Toronto... Continue Reading →
Andrei Tarkovsky is probably my all time favorite film director with a very specific cinematic athetic. Few directors I think have worked so consistently with the same symbols and motives, creating an atmospheric strange ambiguity, that has a mesmerizing effect. Bird uses an interesting approach to his peruse of Tarkovsky’s interesting techniques, his way of... Continue Reading →
The Western Wind is a marvelous, fascinating, multilayered medieval mystery set in the 15th century in a tiny, poor little village in Somerset in danger of falling off the map. Thomas Newman sort of the intellectual thinker in the village disappears and is found dead in the river. It is unclear if it was murder,... Continue Reading →
Especially in times of the pursuance and killing of people of a different faith or of different ideas by fanatic Islamists on the one side and equally fanatic fascists on the other side Voltaire’s text is more important than ever. No philosopher has fought for this ideal more than the French Enlightenment thinker Voltaire. His... Continue Reading →
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