IDEM

There's also a new Studio 1 release in the wake of Earquake. It's dropped out of the blue today at 11.11 CET, and apparently more selected tracks to follow on vinyl. Nice! Studio 1/11 (Black)

"Where you stand depends on where you sit." -- Nelson Mandela Also: Quarantine

All the cheese went into the liner notes.

Close Encounters of the Turd Third Kind

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Like

Instanay. Sounds kinda 2011, and I'm just so over this type of sound.

Innerspace

Hellraiser Braindead Flatliners Deliverance Severance Happiness In that order.

Lady in the Lake

No One Here Gets Out Alive

You just made the 15-year-old in me die a little.

You're certainly right that every statement about art is per se subjective -- which also means that it's perfectly alright to classify any musical work by Webern, any movie by Malick, any novel by Pynchon or Alan Moore as self-indulgent (even though in literature it's mostly synonym with "overly verbose"). What this usually implies is that the ratio between effort and effect (as experienced by the listener/spectator/reader), the narrative economy if you will, is experienced as missing the mark. I think it's a fair point to make, at least against art that in some way endeavors to entertain. It is no accident that "l'art pour l'art" is so often used as a derogatory term ... Of course, it's also perfectly alright to dismiss this as pure drivel if you feel different. Edit: Also, despite your claim, there certainly are structural differences btw. "All End" and "Gantz Graf". The job of the critic (or anyone with a critical mindset) would be to establish what these differences are and evaluate them. To negate them, however, is hardly enlightening.

No. 2 Edit: "Naming Number Two". Chuckle.

^ Huh. And I thought it was me growing up on Miracoli (TM). It wasn't until I was 12 or something that I realized the real stuff isn't called "Pamesello".

Lagerfeld's back.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/tarantino-says-crawl-is-his-2019-fave/

Peanuts -- The Movie

Joker. Meh to meh+.

https://kaput-mag.com/stories-de/earquake-wolfgang-voigt-1991-1999_es-war-sehr-demokratisch-sehr-international-und-sehr-unhierarchisch-der-spirit-war-sehr-gut/ Good interview, certainly worth a quick Google Translate. He tackles the title in the first paragraphs.

Falling Down

Days of Thunder Edit: That just made me think. What is it with Tom Cruise? I mean: Losin' It Risky Business All the Right Moves Legend The Color of Money Cocktail Rain Man (okay, that one's a little pissy) Far and Away The Firm Mission: Impossible Without Limits Eyes Wide Shut Tropic Thunder Rock of Ages Oblivion Edge of Tomorrow American Made Da fuck, dude?! Already holdin' my breath (literally) for the next one.

Thus were the 90s ...

Speed

"Never trust a junkie"