31.12.2010.

STRIP:

Inio Asano - Nijigahara Holograph

This is a single 300-page graphic novel by Inio Asano, the author of What a Wonderful World, City of Light and Solanin.

Suzuki is a troubled boy. He's lived with uncaring foster parents for most of his life, alienated from the other kids at his school, owner of a cynical, unhappy mentality. Komatsuzaki is a violent, unpredictable bully whose head trauma causes him to act in mysterious, inexplicable ways. Arakawa is a no-nonsense, normal girl who pines after Komatsuzaki but can never have him. A teacher with just one working eye. A mother who committed suicide. A daughter in an endless coma. Attempted rapes, murders, extortion, sexual deviance, and a freakish explosion in the butterfly population. All of these elements are whirled together in a story spanning 10 years, a tale of blackness, pain, and apocalypse. And maybe just a bit of hope and redemption. It's a spiritual cross between the misanthropic suburban malevolence of Kyoko Okazaki's Rivers Edge and the eerie mysticality of Donnie Darko.

30.12.2010.

KNJIGA:
MANEKENI - Bruno Schulz



















Bruno Šulc se danas smatra za jednog od najvećih poljskih pisaca između dva rata, a tragična smrt u jevrejskom getu načinila je od njega ikonu Srednje Evrope. Veliki deo Šulcovog proznog opusa preveden je i objavljen na srpskom još 1961. godine i nedavno (2001) dopunjen tekstovima iz periodike.
Bruno Schulz (July 12, 1892 – November 19, 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher born to Jewish parents, and regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. Schulz was born in Drohobycz, in the province of Galicia then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and spent most of his life there. He was killed by a German Nazi officer.

29.12.2010.

FILM:

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)

Director Ki-duk Kim

This film takes place in an isolated lake, where an old monk lives on a small floating temple. The wise master has also a young boy with him that teaches to become a monk. And we watch as seasons and years pass by...

28.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Daughters - Daughters

Daughters (frequently mislabeled 'The Daughters') was a Noisecore band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2001, following the demise of a similar Providence-based band, As The Sun Sets. Their music is fast and experimental; their drums commonly feature blast beats, and their guitars are a blur of high pitched squeals and fast fretting. With the release of Hell Songs, Daughters became more of a noise rock band - with vocals more reminiscent of The Jesus Lizard's David Yow than a traditional hardcore or metalcore vocalist - and toured with bands such as The Locust...

27.12.2010.

KNJIGA:
Nakot - Goran Skrobonja


















Nakot u osnovi nije čist horor već ona pominjana mešavina žanrova, u ovom slučaju – sa SF-om. Radnja je smeštena u Beograd iz 1998. g. u kome se, kao i u celom svetu, rađa neuobičajeno mnogo beba i umire neuobičajeno mnogo starih ljudi. Posle prologa koji čitaoce treba da šokira scenom brutalnog ubistva bespomoćne (naizgled) bebe – što je udarac u jedan od moćnijih tabua svekolikih ljudskih društava – Skrobonja svoju priču razvija po principu fragmentarnog slaganja epizoda – kratkih priča, sa čestom udarnom rečenicom (punch-line) na kraju svake.

26.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Butthole Surfers
Psychic Powerless Another Mans Sac

The Butthole Surfers are an American alternative rock band. The band was founded by Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary in San Antonio, Texas in 1981. Incorporating elements of hardcore punk, psychedelia, Heavy Metal, avant -garde and performance art, their live shows also made heavy use of strobe lights, background films (of note, footage of penis reconstruction surgery) and naked dancers .

25.12.2010.

KNJIGA:
Vasa Pavković - Mesec januar

















Za moto svog drugog romana Vasa Pavković (1953) uzeo je Bodlerove stihove "Ovaj život je bolnica u kojoj svakog bolesnika mori želja da promeni postelju"; njegov junak, pak, bira drugačiji put - nameran je da napusti "bolnicu", odnosno da izvrši samoubistvo poslednjeg dana januara 1996. godine i tako stavi tačku na svoje promašeno postojanje. Kao svedočanstvo finalnog meseca života on vodi, čas poletno čas mrzovoljno i samoprisilno, dnevnik svakodnevnih doživljaja, kako onih važnih tako i sasvim trivijalnih, u rasponu od svađe sa ocem i njegove smrti, dugih kancelarijskih sati, šetnji, susreta sa nepoznatom devojkom, do gledanja TV programa, čitanja knjiga i novina; neminovno, u ove redove navaljuje i prošlost, detinjstvo, mladost, neuspeli brak, raskidane veze sa sopstvenim detetom ...

24.12.2010.

KNJIGA:

Raymond Queneau - Stilske vežbe
Exercices de style





















Exercises in Style written by Raymond Queneau, is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style. In each, the narrator gets on the "S" bus (now no. 84), witnesses an altercation between a man with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger, and then sees the same person two hours later at the Gare St-Lazare getting advice on adding a button to his overcoat.

Jedna priča ispričana na 99 načina, svaki put drugačijim stilom. Narator ulazi u autobus, gde prisustvuje raspravi čoveka sa dugačkim vratom i smešnim šeširom sa drugim putnikom, a dva sata kasnije vidi istog čoveka na železničkoj stanici gde ga savetuju da doda dugme na svoj kaput.

23.12.2010.

STRIP:

Wostok - You Never Know!

Danilo Milošev (Wostok), jedan od najpoznatijih strip autora u Srbiji, ali i na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije i šire. Rođen 1963. godine, Wostok od 1995. godine konstantno izlaže u Evropi, SAD i Kanadi. Dobitnik je niza nagrada za fanzin “Krpelj”, koji samostalno izdaje. Sa Naborom Devolcem objavio je zbirku svojih radova u albumu “Nikad se ne zna” (You Never Know).

22.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Venetian Snares
Infolepsy EP

Aaron Funk, a Canadian producer of widely varying electronic music styles, achieved a reputation in experimental electronic circles upon his signing to Planet Mu . It’s a testament to his production prowess that his base of Winnipeg, Manitoba, hasn’t prevented electronic music enthusiasts around the world from investigating his recordings.

21.12.2010.

FILM:

Crash (2004)

Director: Screenplay: Paul Haggis

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters, a police detective with a drugged out mother and a thieving younger brother, two car thieves who are constantly theorizing on society and race, the white district attorney and his irritated and pampered wife, a racist white veteran cop (caring for a sick father at home) who disgusts his more idealistic younger partner, a successful Hollywood director and his wife who must deal with the racist cop, a Persian-immigrant father who buys a gun to protect his shop, a Hispanic locksmith and his young daughter who is afraid of bullets, and more

20.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Legion Of Two
Riffs

A new project from Alan O’Boyle and David Lacey pits electronics against live drums and percussion for a dark, dense and noisy dirge. Huge basslines, slow pounding drums and feedback dominate. Industrial, dub and metal influences are shredded through old guitar pedals and cheap reverbs and reassembled into a driving and melodic force.
Alan O’Boyle is best known for his work in electronic music as Decal with a catalogue of eps and albums on labels like Satamile, Planet-Mu and Rotters Golf Club covering electro, techno and experimental music.

19.12.2010.

FILM:

[Rec] (2007)

Directors: Jaume Balagueró Paco Plaza

"REC" turns on a young TV reporter and her cameraman who cover the night shift at the local fire station. Receiving a call from an old lady trapped in her house, they reach her building to hear horrifying screams -- which begin a long nightmare and a uniquely dramatic TV report...

18.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Gonjasufi

A Sufi And A Killer

In 2009 a voice materialized from the windswept void of the California desert. At once haunting and oddly welcoming, it hasn’t been your mind playing tricks on you, it’s Gonjasufi. Combining international psychedelia and the new-school beat diaspora, Gonjasufi’s dark songwriting, affecting vocals and street-mystic vibe will leave an indelible mark, as witnessed so far on collaborations with Flying Lotus and The Gaslamp Killer .

17.12.2010.

FILM:

A Short Film About Killing (1988)

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

The film takes place in a drab Warsaw and shows the interconnected lives of three men. Taxi driver Waldemar (Jan Tesarz) is not a particularly nice individual. He refuses fares, blows his horn to scare dogs and tries to pick up a young woman. Piotr (Krzysztof Globisz) is a nervous-looking young man who has just passed his examinations to become a lawyer. Nineteen-year-old Jacek (Miroslaw Baka) seems disaffected. He drops a small stone from a bridge over a roadway smashing a windscreen. In a coffee shop he spits in the dregs of his cup, as if to stop anyone else drinking it. He also uses a knife to cut a length of rope which he winds around his hands, as if preparing to strangle someone...

16.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Billy Bao
Dialectics of Shit

When I came from Lagos (Nigeria) to San Francisco (Bilbao)
life was tough here or there. I did not mind, I had a purpose in my life:
to fight the system that fucks up everyday of our life. Back in my hometown,
I was an unknown songwriter but, as soon as I arrived to the streets of Bilbao, I discovered Punk Rock. It had energy and attitude and was exactly what I needed...

15.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Fuck Buttons
Street Horrrsing

Fuck Buttons is a two-piece experimental group based in London, England.
Formed in late 2004 and signed to the ATP label, releasing the “Bright Tomorrow” b/w “Little Bloody Shoulder” 7” single during the fall of 2007. They released their first album, Street Horrrsing, in 2008 and received widespread acclaim. A single, “Colours Move”, followed later that year.
Their second album ‘Tarot Sport’ was released October 12th (UK) / October 20th (USA) 2009.

14.12.2010.

STRIP:

Godard/Ribera - Vreme proroka
Aster Blistok 15

The Vagabond of Limbo (French: Le Vagabond des Limbes) is a French science-fiction comic book series written by Christian Godard and illustrated by Julio Ribera, and published by Dargaud.

It follows the adventures of Axle Munshine, once known as "The Great Conciliator", and his companion Musky, child of the Prince of the Eternauts. Banished from his world for breaking the Thirteenth Commandment (thou shalt not cross the threshold of sleep), Axle roams the universe, searching for the woman he met in his dreams, Chimeer, who seems to be trapped in a world resembling ours. Axle Munshine sees Musky as a boy, but in fact she's a girl in her puberty and he doesn't seem to realise she is attracted to him. Musky does not grow up until she decides aging for the one who she fell in love with. It is suggested that Chimeer is Musky as an adult woman.

13.12.2010.

KNJIGA:

Rejmond Čendler - Playback

Playback is the final complete novel by Raymond Chandler, which features his iconic creation Philip Marlowe. It was published in 1958, the year before his death.

12.12.2010.

MUZIKA:
Phoning It In - A Hydra Head Sampler














Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993.

11.12.2010.

KNJIGA:
Kurt Vonegat - Kolevka za macu

Kroz satiričku i parodijsku prizmu prelamaju se u romanu Premeštanje uzice (kod nas pogrešno preveden kao Kolevka za macu) ne samo nauka i religija, nego i mnoge ostale kategorije na kojima počiva savremeni svet: seks, mediji, politika. Žanrovsko pokriće u ovom višeslojnom delu, čiji je osnovni ton istovremeno vedar i apokaliptičan, jeste pogubni „led devet“, čija je tačka topljenja znatno viša nego kod običnog leda i koji će u finalu romana dovesti do sasvim primerenog kraja sveta.

Cat's Cradle is the fourth novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1963. It explores issues of science, technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets along the way. After turning down his original thesis, in 1971 the University of Chicago awarded Vonnegut his Master's degree in anthropology for Cat's Cradle. The title of the book derives from the string game "cat's cradle." Early in the book we learn that Felix Hoenikker (a fictional co-inventor of the atom bomb) was playing cat's cradle when the bomb was dropped, and the game is later referenced by his son, Newton Hoenikker.

10.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Elegi
Varde

An experimental dark ambient artist from Norway signed to Erik Skodvin’s (of Deaf Center) Miasmah label. Formed in 2006.
Since Knive from Svarte Greiner (Miasmah boss Erik Skodvin), the world has been waiting eagerly for the next addition to the acoustic doom canon. Maybe fitting then, that it should also come from Oslo, as we all know that Norway is home to everything that is dark and all that is desolate. Sistereis is the debut solo release from Tommy Jansen aka Elegi, a man who besides crafting effortlessly mysterious Lynchian soundscapes, takes time out of his everyday life to go wreck-diving.

09.12.2010.

MUZIKA:
FASTER & LOUDER VOL 2 - VA













Considered unimaginably over-the-top and atonal at the time, the early sounds of hardcore punk don't sound nearly as noisy decades later. Dare we say, they even sound a bit poppy and tightly conceived in comparison with the uncompromisingly bleak, rushed, and amelodic sounds of today's underground hardcore groups. That's not to take away from the undeniable influence and power of first-generation hardcore.

08.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Earthly Delights - Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt emerged from Providence, Rhode Island, United States in 1995 as a three-piece art school project. Initially there was Brian Chippendale’s explosive, non-stop drumming, Brian Gibson’s Contortions like bass lines, and Hisham Bharoocha’s vocals propelling them in a fury of volatile noise and orgiastic tribalism.

07.12.2010.

STRIP:
Paying For It - Chester Brown















Paying For It, "a comic strip memoir about being a john", is a graphic novel by award-winning Canadian cartoonist Chester Brown, released by Drawn and Quarterly on May 3, 2011. The book is concerned with Brown's "two competing desires--the desire to have sex, versus the desire to NOT have a girlfriend." Brown's solution to the problem is to forgo traditional boyfriend/girlfriend relationships and marriage and to take up the life of a "john" by frequenting prostitutes. Brown comes to advocate prostitution as superior to the "possesive monogamy" of traditional male-female relations, which he debates with his friends throughout the book, and then presents his views in detail in the 50-page text section, that includes a 23-part appendix and footnotes, which closes the book. Despite being about the separation of sex from romantic love, Brown says, "It is a type of love story."

06.12.2010.

FILM:

I Am a Sex Addict (2005)

Director: Caveh Zahedi

Autobiographical comedy about a recovering sex addict, about his obsession with prostitutes, and how that affected his relationships and his life altogether.

05.12.2010.

KNJIGA:
Margaret Atvud - Antilopa i Kosac





















“Antilopa i Kosac” je priča o troje prijatelja, Antilopi, Koscu i Sniježnom, ljubavnicima. Kosac i Sniježni su prijatelji iz djetinjstva, a Antilopa je djevojka koju su obojica voljeli. Poznanstvo sa Antilopom, Tajlanđankom, je sklopljeno preko Internet-porno stranica. Pripovijedač romana, Sniježni, u flešbekovima prepliće vrijeme prije i poslije katastrofe. On je jedini preživjeli čovjek, uz njega borave i Koščeva djeca, “nova nacija”, nastala genetskim inženjeringom. Ta vrsta će naslijediti ljude. Oni imaju promijenjen mozak, bez rušilačkih osobina, koji je prethodinike doveo do takvog stanja. Rasizam kod njih ne postoji, ne bore se za zemlju, a seksualni nagoni su im instinktivni, kao kod sisara. Okruženje u kome stasava nova rasa je apokaliptično: Sunce prejako prži, gradovi su opustjeli, a genetski stvorene nove životinjske vrste poput svinjona i vukopasa lunjaju okolinom. Globalno otopljenje, prenaseljenost zemlje, nedostatak sirovina, svijet velikih korporacija, Internet, hladni ljudski odnosi, mnoge bolesti i virusi, neki su od uzroka takvog stanja. Oryx and Crake is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood has at times disputed the novel being science fiction, preferring to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she associates with the novel form.^[3] Oryx and Crake was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2003 and was also shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction that same year.

04.12.2010.

MUZIKA:

Plakao Sam Kad Je Pala Sekuritatea - Trula Koalicija

Trula koalicija je ime srpske pank-rok grupe koju je vodio Predrag Drčelić Skaki (Pešo) iz Gornjeg Milanovca, a uz njega su u grupi bili standardni članovi kragujevačke grupe „KBO!“. Grupa je osnovana 1986., a postoji i danas, međutim retko je koncertno aktivna.Grupa je izdala nekoliko albuma, od kojih je svakako najpoznatiji „Plakao sam kad je pala Sekuritatea“, izdat 1992. godine.

Trula Koalicija is a punk-rock band from Serbia. This is the third project of a guitar player/producer Vuja from Kragujevac, Serbia, the other two are “KBO!” (original) and “Zvoncekova bilježnica” (with Tozza Rabassa from Arandjelovac). The band was formed during ’90s in Serbia. An inspiring time for political, military and streetwise lyrics. Album “Plakao sam kad je pala Sekuritatea” has the original logo on the album cover, which is a 5-end-star joined with the Swastika mark. Unfortunately and reasonably banned from Last.fm.

03.12.2010.

FILM:
Breathless (2009)

















Director: Yang Ik-Joon
Sang-Hun (Yang Ik-Jun) works as a low-level gangster collecting money for his longtime loan shark friend. Sang-Hun seethes with rage due to his troubled childhood and abusive father. At any moment, Sang-Hun can lash out at relatives, friends & strangers with the only way he knows how to solve problems - savage violence. One day, Sang-Hun walks along a residential road and spits on the sidewalk. He unintentionally hits a brash young high school student named Yeon-Hee (Kim Kkot-Bi). When Yeon-Hee tells Sang-Hun to clean up his mess, he knocks her out with a punch to the face. Sang-Hun then sits across from her until she regains consciousness. He offers to buy the girl a beer and the beginnings of an unusual friendship occurs.

02.12.2010.

FILM:

Our Home

Director: Wagner de Assis
The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in a kind of limbo called "Umbral". After a painful and numb period in a gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"), a spiritual city. He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace, working for the good of humanity, for the self evolution and awaiting for reincarnation. Sooner André Luiz changes his behavior becoming a more self aware and altruist man.

01.12.2010.

STRIP:
Kengo Hanazawa - I Am a Hero



















Hideo Suzuki is a thirty-five year old mangaka assistant struggling to be the hero in his own life by breaking back into the lime light with a new serial all the while juggling his relationship with his girlfriend and his own delusions. However, as hard as Hideo may try, the world seems to have a different set of plans for him; sinister and dark machinations that completely overturn his reality as he knows it. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).