Autumn Survival Kit
Written by Born Beyond
Έφθασε αισίως -απρόσμενα γρήγορα και ύπουλα όπως συνηθίζει- η αγαπημένη αυτή εποχή του χρόνου κατά την οποία το μαγιό και το μοχίτο δίπλα στη θάλασσα δίνουν τη θέση τους στο φούτερ και την πολυτραγουδισμένη γλυκιά ρουτίνα της καθημερινότητας. Ενώ οι απλοί πολίτες έχουν ενδεχομένως αρκετούς λόγους να θέλουν να αυτοκτονήσουν ή έστω να αισθάνονται μελαγχολία, το vibe-rated δίνει στην εκλεκτή κλίκα των θαμώνων του τα εφόδια να περάσει το φθινόπωρο όπως του αξίζει… Με στυλ.
Cinema
Igby Goes Down
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world of his East Coast "old money" family. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there, and he sets out to find it. After happily flunking out of several Prep Schools, Igby escapes into the bohemian underworld of Manhattan. His darkly comic trip--shared by a deviant cast of characters, including his terminally bored, part-time lover Sookie, his Godfather's trophy mistress Rachel, and smack-dealing performance artists Russel--veers from bizarre to tragic in Igby's ultimately noble attempt to keep himself from "going down."
(το trailer ως είθισται το κάνει να φαίνεται πολύ πιο επιφανειακή αμερικανιά απ'ότι είναι οπότε δεν το παραθέτω)
TV
Californication
The series revolves around Hank Moody, a charming ladies man of a writer and novelist plagued by personal demons. He blames his years-long case of writer's block on a variety of reasons, ranging from the hedonism of Los Angeles, to his girlfriend Karen leaving him. Hank constantly deals with the consequences of his lack of will to say "no" to available drugs, sex and alcohol, while trying to show his family that he can be a good, responsible caring father and significant other.
Music
Ghost - Freedom of Thought
On his latest release, ‘Freedom of Thought EP #1’, Ghost, sounding not unlike DJ Shadow at his best, pleasingly mixes guitar samples with big and crunchy un-Hip Hop drums and cymbals to create some nicely emotive pieces.
Ghost :: DayDreaming
http://www.myspace.com/musicbyghost
Book
Letters to a Young Contrarian (by Christopher Hitchens)
"Do justice, and let the skies fall." Christopher Hitchens borrows from Roman antiquity this touchstone for a career of confrontation, argument, and troublemaking. Part of the Art of Mentoring series, Letters to a Young Contrarian is a trim volume of about two dozen letters to an imaginary student of controversy. The letters are wonderfully engaging--Hitchens is an exceptional prose stylist--and from the outset they strike a self-reflective note. What Hitchens lionizes and illuminates in this book is not any particular disagreement, but a way of being perpetually at odds with the mainstream. "Humanity is very much in debt to such people," he argues.
Hitchens's style is incendiary and sometimes flamboyant. He relishes the role of provocateur and fancies himself a gadfly to the drowsy American republic. One of his main strengths is his erudition, allowing him to range over vast landscapes of the humanities and politics in a single breath. But he is also sometimes glib and self-satisfied, and his penchant for referencing everything in sight can be distracting. Nonetheless, his arguments are forceful and morally important--and if the reader feels otherwise, there are few more fitting compliments to a professional dissident than dissent.
