🎵 My week in music (week #1 2020)
🎵🎥 Monterey Pop (1968) ★ ★ ★ ★
The documentary ends with a classic raga performance by Ravi Shankar. Perfectly captured on film and edited by D. A. Pennebaker, we see the audience slowly getting ecstatic by hearing these otherworldly sounds. A true 60s time capsule.
🎥 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½
We watched the final chapter yesterday to finish our (re)watch of the ‘complete’ series. (We started with Rogue One and skipped The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones.) Despite many issues storywise, it’s a well made film.
🎥 Star Wars: The last Jedi (2017) ★ ★ ★ ½
Days since last Facebook scandal
Just another nudge for those hesitating to quit their big social media dependency. (There is a better way.)
🎵 My favourite Rock album of 2019: Diabolique - l’Épée
My favourite Hip Hop/Rap album of 2019: GREY Area - Little Simz
”Is there less monoculture today, or is culture more mass than ever? Are we siloed within our own preferences or are we unable to escape the homogenized net-average, consuming all the same things?”
🎵 My week in music (week #52)
My favourite Alternative album of the year 2019 is schlagenheim by black midi. A very unique sound with hints of Talking Heads, Long Fin Killie and Gavin Friday/The Virgin Prunes.
My best R&B/Soul album of the year 2019: Black Pumas
My favourite electronica album of the year 2019 has to be Utility by Barker. Contemporary, but also with nostalgic references to Monolake, Basic Channel, Plaid and other 90s predecessors.
Preparing pasta dough for tomorrow’s Christmas dinner and testing out the new pasta machine.
“A present for the European Union”
Talking about educating the people. Finland is one of the few countries in the world that really translates words into deeds.
Finland is making its online AI crash course free to the world
🎥 La Jetée (1962) ★ ★ ★ ★ ½.
📚 Finished pt. 1 of Man’s search for meaning by Victor Frankl and it really is a life changing book. There’s so much to learn from a man who has endured the horrors of the holocaust.
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”
🎵 My week in music (week #51)
🎥 Kansas City Confidential (1952) ★ ★ ★
🎵 My week in music (week #50)
Very proud of all the participating students of the video and audio workshop at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam, who had their public presentation today. They all got way out of their comfort zone and made very personal, vulnerable works of art.
🎥 Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer (2019) ★ ★ ★ ½.
A carefully made documentary by his own son, with a lot of familiar behind the scenes footage but also never before published audio recordings of Tarkovsky speaking about the main themes in his work.
🎵 My week in music (week #49)
🎥 Star Wars - Revenge of the Sith (2005) ★ ★
Urban Fringe #1 (soundscape)
🎥 Finally had a chance to visit Andrei Tarkovsky: the exhibition in Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam. The multi screen setup didn’t do his films justice in my opinion. But there were a lot of interesting handwritten manuscripts and beautiful Polaroids of dreamy landscapes.
