уторак

30.11.2010.

KNJIGA:

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - Planeta purpurnih oblaka


















Priča kaže da su braća Arkadij (1925-1991) i Boris (1933) Natanovič Strugacki počeli da pišu naučnu fantastiku zbog opklade u flašu pića. Kako god bilo, njen rezultat ostavio je dubok trag u svetskoj naučnoj fantastici. Nekoliko prvih knjiga (romani “Zemlja purpurnih oblaka” iz 1958, “Put u Amalteju” iz 1960, “Stažeri” iz 1962. i zbirka “Šest šibica” iz 1960) slede obrazac Jefremovskog optimističkog puta ljudi u svemir i borbe sa nepovoljnim uslovima na novim planetama.

A spaceship, propelled by a prototype photon engine, sets off for Venus, which at that time, is an enigmatic and unexplored planet covered by clouds. The tasks of the crew are a) to test the prototype engine in field conditions and b) to locate and set radio beacons on the s.c. "Uranium Golconda" (a place with incredibly large heavy metals deposits), presumably, found somewhere on the second planet of the Solar System. As the crew ventures into the depths of Venus, unknown dangers take them out one by one, so only a half of them returns home after accomplishing the mission - all badly damaged, both physically and mentally. However, their feat was the first milestone in colonizing Venus and the first step into the glorious XXII century.


понедељак

29.11.2010.

FILM:

BREAKING BAD




















Creator: Vince Gilligan
(TV Series 2008– )
season 2
Informed he has terminal cancer, an underachieving chemistry genius turned high school chemistry teacher turns to using his expertise in chemistry to provide a legacy for his family... by producing the world's highest quality crystal meth.

Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and is a production of Sony Pictures Television. It premiered on January 20, 2008. The series was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on July 17, 2011. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), with the aim of securing his family's financial future before he dies.

недеља

28.11.2010.

MUZIKA:
EX DRUMMER - SOUNDTRACKS













Directed by Koen Mortier, and starring Dries Vanhegen, Norman Baert, Sam Louwyck and Gunter Lamoot, the film is produced by Eurydice Gysel of CCCP. Director of photography is Glynn Speeckaert. Bands including Millionaire contributed to Ex Drummer’s soundtrack.



субота

27.11.2010.

FILM:

Ex Drummer (2007)



















Director:Koen Mortier
Bizarro story surrounding an ex-drummer/writer who has purposely joined a band of slightly handicapped men. His reason is just really for the experience, and to escape his little world. With the personalities and behaviors of these other band-mates, it doesn't take long for our Ex-Drummer to realize it probably wasn't the greatest idea. Ex-Drummer is one hell of a unique flick. With insane conversations, loads of sexual themes (especially homosexuality), some serious violence, and quite possibly the biggest penis ever in a movie, Ex-Drummer succeeds on all types of levels. Even more so, it does great in the acting department as well. Everything production wise, it does with really any faults.



петак

26.11.2010.

STRIP:
Suehiro Maruo Yume No Q-saku




















Maruo graduated from junior high school in March 1972 but dropped out of senior high school. At the age of 15 he moved to Tokyo . Many of Maruo's illustrations depict graphic sex and violence and are therefore referred to as contemporary muzan-e (a subset of Japanese ukiyo-e depicting violence or other atrocities.)

Maruo also has a fascination with human oddities, deformities, birth defects, and "circus freaks." Many such characters figure prominently in his stories and are sometimes the primary subjects of his illustrations.


четвртак

25.11.2010.

KNJIGA:

Nova - Samuel R. Delany





















Nova (1968) is a science fiction novel by Samuel R. Delany. Nominally space opera, it explores the politics and culture of a future where cyborg technology is universal, yet major decisions can involve using tarot cards. It has strong mythological overtones, relating to both the Grail Quest and Jason's Argonautica for the golden fleece. Nova was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1969.
By the year 3172, political power in the galaxy is split between two factions: the older Earth-based Draco and the historically younger Pleiades Federation. Both have interests in the even newer Outer Colonies, where mines produce trace amounts of the prized power source Illyrion, the superheavy material essential to starship travel and terraforming planets.


среда

24.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Wars Of The Roses Ulver















Ulver (Norwegian for “wolves”) is a multi-disciplinary musical quartet from Oslo, Norway and now, London, England. The band was formed by Kristoffer “Garm” Rygg in 1993, and their current members are Rygg (vocal, programming), Jørn H. Sværen (misc.), Tore Ylwizaker (programming, piano) and latest member Daniel O’Sullivan (guitar, piano, various). Since their first folk metal/black metal release in 1993, Ulver’s style has ever been changing by combining elements of experimental, electronic and ambient music, avant-garde, rock, trip-hop, and their own genre-defying innovations.


уторак

23.11.2010.

FILM:

BREAKING BAD




















Creator: Vince Gilligan
(TV Series 2008– )
season 1
Informed he has terminal cancer, an underachieving chemistry genius turned high school chemistry teacher turns to using his expertise in chemistry to provide a legacy for his family... by producing the world's highest quality crystal meth.

Breaking Bad is an American television drama series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The series is broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable channel AMC, and is a production of Sony Pictures Television. It premiered on January 20, 2008. The series was renewed for a fourth season, which premiered on July 17, 2011. Set and produced in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Breaking Bad is the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a struggling high school chemistry teacher who is diagnosed with advanced lung cancer at the beginning of the series. He turns to a life of crime, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), with the aim of securing his family's financial future before he dies.

понедељак

22.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Mellow Out

Mainliner













Pyschedelic acid noise-band from Tokyo. Trio composed of Asahito Nanjo, Kawabata Makoto and Koji Shimura. Terminally fuzzed-out and distorted, earth moving riffage and shrieking, eviscerating extended solos with sheer brute force.


недеља

21.11.2010.

KNJIGA:

Ivo Andrić

Izabrane pripovetke


















Ivo Andrić je bio jugoslovenski književnik i diplomata Kraljevine Jugoslavije. Dobitnik je Nobelove nagrade za književnost kao državljanin SFR Jugoslavije, 1961. godine, za roman Na Drini ćuprija (1945), kao i za celokupni dotadašnji rad na „istoriji jednog naroda“.
Ivo" Andrić (October 9, 1892 – March 13, 1975) was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire.




субота

20.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Kamikaze

Mainliner













Pyschedelic acid noise-band from Tokyo. Asahito Nanjo (bass, vocals), Makoto Kawabata (guitar), Tatsuya Yoshida (drums), Hajime Koizumi (drums), Shimura Koji (drums).






петак

19.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Intelligent Design

Shaolin Death Squad













Shaolin Death Squad is a progressive metal band that incorporates many styles and influences into their music. They were formed in Denton, Texas in 2001.
Shaolin Death Squad’s music as described by themselves:
“When a Manchu conspiracy to overthrow the Ming dynasty is thwarted by a group of Shaolin disciples and patriots, a fierce battle to defend the life of the King ensues, with deadly results.”


четвртак

18.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Torture Garden

Naked City













Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Naked City was initiated by Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition (and improvisation) in a traditional rock band lineup. Its music incorporated recognizable elements of jazz, grindcore, surf music, classical music, heavy metal, country music, punk rock and literally dozens of other music genres.
In Naked City's characteristic early style, songs were often performed at astonishingly fast tempi (drawing heavily on thrash metal and hardcore punk's emphasis on extreme speed). Many songs were quite brief, and typically switched musical genres every few measures, perhaps comparable to spinning a radio dial at random and hearing the same band performing on every station...


среда

17.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Grand Guignol

Naked City













Naked City was an avant-garde music group from New York City, New York, United States led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn, performed from 1988 to 1993. The ensemble was notable for remaining unconfined to any musical category, juxtaposing unrelated styles of music often within individual compositions at breakneck speed. Its music incorporated recognizable elements of jazz, grindcore, surf, classical, thrash, country music, punk rock and other genres. Carl Stalling has been cited as an influence on Zorn and the work of Naked City.

уторак

16.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

Mogwai













Mogwai are a band from Glasgow formed in 1995. They compose lengthy, mostly instrumental guitar-based pieces in the style of post-rock, usually focused around the elaboration of a single theme, and are known traditionally for their quiet/loud dynamic, defined bass riffs, and an eminent ambient sound, sometimes dark and sometimes grand. Although frequently referred to as post-rock, the band have revealed in interviews that they despise this categorization, insisting that their sound bears little resemblance to pioneers of the genre, such as Tortoise.


понедељак

15.11.2010.

STRIP:

The Chimpanzee Complex

Maranzano and Ponzo



















In 2035, the US Navy discovers a strange space capsule that has crashed in the Indian Ocean. Helen Friedman is in charge of interrogating the two survivors, who are none other than Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin! Who, then, are the men who came back from the 1969 Apollo XI mission? A lunar expedition is set up to elucidate this mystery. Friedman is involved in a case that will lead her much further than she ever expected as history is rewritten.


недеља

14.11.2010.

STRIP:

TETSUYA TSUTSUI
MANHOLE



















Manhole was released back in 2005 and serialized in three volumes by Square Enix. This macabre story begins with a disfigured and bleeding man crawls out of a manhole and falls dead on the street. It then follows two detectives, Ken Mizoguchi and Nao Inoue, as they try to solve the grisly case which slowly reveals itself to be just the surface of a massive and terrifying conspiracy. They soon find out that a pestilent pandemic looms on the horizon if they are unable to find the cause of this parasitic outbreak.


субота

13.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Femina

John Zorn















John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City, United States) is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn’s recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer. His work has touched on a wide range of musical genres, often within a single composition, but he is best-known for his avant-garde, jazz, improvised and contemporary classical music.


петак

12.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

All the Waters of the Earth Shall Turn to Blood

The Body















The best-known The Body is a two-piece sludge metal band based in Providence, Rhode Island, United States (formed in 1999), with heavy, low riffs, high-pitched screaming vocals, and occasional samples. They have released two full length records, an EP, a split with Get Killed, and a demo.


четвртак

11.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

VIVA! La Woman

Cibo Matto















Cibo Matto was a New York City-based band formed by Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda in 1994. Despite being based in the US rather than Japan, they have strong links with the shibuya-kei scene in their use of sampling and mixture of trip-hop and rock, but stand out amongst other such artist for their particularly strong use of Latin and South American music. Cibo Matto is an Italian phrase that means “crazy food”.


среда

10.11.2010.

KNJIGA:

CORMAC McCARTHY
PUT - THE ROAD


















Otac i sin kroz spaljenu Ameriku koračaju prema obali. U opustošenom predelu ništa se ne pomera sem pepela na vetru. Nemaju ništa osim jednog pištolja kojim se brane od ljudi duž puta, odeće na sebi, kolica nađene hrane – i jedan drugog.
Uprkos svemu, "Put" je roman o nežnosti. Zastrašujuć i lep. Govori o nama, o onom najlepšem i najgorem u ljudskom biću.
The Road follows an unnamed father and son journeying together across a grim post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed most civilization and most life on Earth. Realizing that they will not survive another winter in their unspecified original location, the father leads the boy south, through a desolate American landscape along a vacant highway, towards the sea, sustained only by the vague hope of finding warmth and more "good guys" like them, and carrying with them only what is on their backs and what will fit into a damaged supermarket cart.


уторак

09.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Tokyo Anal Dynamite

The Gerogerigegege















The Gerogerigegege is a music project created in 1985 in Shinjuku, Tokyo by Juntaro Yamanouchi, who runs and maintains the Vis A Vis record label in Japan. The name of the group combines the Japanese words for “vomit” (gero) and “diarrhoea” (geri) with what is supposedly the sound of these actions occurring simultaneously (gegege). (It has also been transliterated to mean “barf, diarrhoea, ha ha ha,” although “ge” is also variously an onomatopoetic word of disgust or exasperation, making the name open to several differing interpretations.) To describe the group, Yamanouchi has used the term “Japanese Ultra Shit Band.”


понедељак

08.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Fog Dance, My Moth Kingdom

Worrytrain












A fusion of neoclassical music and electronic noise by Joshua Neil Geissler.
Over the last five years Worrytrain, living outside of Chicago, has quietly surfaced. From tapping cinematic and experimental fields, to blending genres such as modern classical and noise. The instruments most often heard are mandolin, piano and cello making melodies that are often gentle yet violent.


недеља

07.11.2010.

FILM:

32nd December (2009)















Director:
Sasa Hajdukovic
32. decembar je romantična drama iz Srpske o tri banjolučka para čije se sudbine isprepliću u novogodišnjoj noći. U diskoteci, Piksi, 30-godišnji vlasnik male lokalne kafane, izazvan od strane svojih prijatelja, pokušava da osvoji Unu, mladu buntovnicu bez razloga. Tokom slavlja, odnosi se menjaju i Piksi je odlučan u nameri da sa Unom ode dalje od jednovečernje avanture. Problem nastaje kada se situacija uozbilji i kada dodje do očitog razmimoilaženja u shvatanju njihovih pozicija. U malom gradu na Balkanu, u Novoj godini ništa novo, sve sudbine teku bez prestanka, nezaustavljivo.
Leading up to New Year the lives of several individuals are intertwined through a tragic series of events. Piksi, a former soccer player and now owner of a bar, falls in love with Una, arebel without a cause, 19-year-old kid who, during the celebration of New Year’s Eve, is just toying with him. After this party came to an end, we see that Pikis and Una do not speak the same language. They don’t belong to the same world. As for Una, it was just plain good fun in a club, for Piksi it was something else, a beginning of a long relationship that could easily end with marriage. When these worlds collide, all close around them will die and one car crash solves everything.


субота

06.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

The Museum Of Imaginary Animals

Pram












Pram are a band formed in Birmingham, England in 1990.
The band originally consisted of Rosie Cuckston and Sam Owen, and their first album “Gash” was self-released and sold by mail order and at gigs. The band attracted the attention of Too Pure Records (already home to Stereolab, Mouse on Mars and PJ Harvey), and between 1993 and 1995 the label released several increasingly sophisticated albums and EPs. Early recordings were a krautrock-influenced blend of rhythmic guitar, keyboards and percussion, with Cuckston’s eerie vocals and lyrics dealing with depression, loneliness and the dark side of childhood.


петак

05.11.2010.

KNJIGA:

BUGARSKA BARAKA
MILISAV SAVIĆ










Milisav Savić, autor tri romana i tri zbirke pripovedaka, pisac studije o ustaničkoj prozi Vuka Karadžića, dobitnik Andrićeve nagrade za knjigu „Ujak naše varoši", započeo je da objavljuje prozu u šezdesetosmaškom „Studentu", u kojem je bio član redakcije zadužen za „crne" reportaže. Časopis „Vidici" mu 1969. objavljuje prvu knjigu pripovedaka „Bugarska baraka", na koju oštro reaguju Savićevi zemljaci, Raščani, smatrajući da je ona tipičan primer „crne proze", u kojoj se „zlonamerno prikazuje naša stvarnost". Posle dvadeset godina „Bugarska baraka" ove jeseni ponovo izlazi u „Radovoj" ediciji „Reč i misao". Danas se Saviću priče iz „Bugarske barake" čine kao bajke, iako su „prljavo idealističke do nepodnošljivosti"

Milisav Savic (b. 1945, Serbia) is the author of four books, short stories, and six novels. He has also been the editor and translator of several anthologies of foreign literature into Serbian (American, Australian, and Italian). He has taught Serbo-Croatian at London University, SUNY (Albany), and the University of Florence.

четвртак

04.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

You can Listen You can Talk

Carsick Cars















Carsick Cars were formed in 2005 in Beijing, China and have earned their reputation at the pinnacle of Beijing’s live music scene – something borne out by the invitation to open for Sonic Youth at their idols’ 2007 Beijing show. Influenced by Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, Suicide, Glenn Branca, The Stooges, and Joy Division, Carsick Cars gigs are riotous explosions of pent-up energy and frustration.

среда

03.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Fragrance Of Notes

mama!milk















Mama!milk is a acoustic-instrumental duo with an accordion player Yuko Ikoma and a contrabass player Kosuke Shimizu. Yuko Ikoma laces gorgeous and mysterious melodies by her beautiful fingers and Kosuke Shimizu built, various beats from deep down to up. Based in Kyoto, Mama!milk have been performing since 1997 around Japan at various venues like gallery, temple, theater, botanical garden, museum and cafe-lounge.

уторак

02.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

"C" Is for (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference Here) E.P.

Puscifer














Puscifer is an experimental project by Maynard James Keenan (Tool/A Perfect Circle). Unlike in his other projects, he experiments with a lot different sounds and ideas that partly barely have anything to do with “rock” at all. Puscifer is “as much a clothing line as it is a band”, and Maynard James Keenan has described it as “Simply a playground for the various voices in my head, it’s a space with no clear or discernible goals. It’s where my Id, Ego, and Anima all come together to exchange cookie recipes.”

понедељак

01.11.2010.

MUZIKA:

Ruin Everything!

We Versus The Shark

Math rock? Yeah, but not really. Dance pop?
Sort of. Calculator funk? Close enough.
Hello Sir Records team members.
We Versus The Shark was:
Luke Douglas Fields - Guitar, Vox, Baritone
Jeffery Daniel Tobias - Bass, Vox, Keys
Scott Phillip Smith - Drums, Screams
Samantha Erin Paulsen - Guitar, Vox, Keys, Baritone