The majority of legends within the post-punk movement are prone to be so heavily depressing that it's extremely hard for an average escapist to relate to their universe in a normal state of mind. That isn't a problem with Josef K:

"Sorry for laughing
there's too much happening
sorry for laughing
there's too much happening"

(Track 10: Sorry for laughing)

It's actually music you can introduce for a friend, who isn't into this kind of music... But Josef K, who has taken their name from the main character of Kafka's novel The Trial, are defiantly also mysterious and obscure:

"So I'll disappear through the crack in the wall and the memories I leave will be nothing at all"

(Track 4: It's kinda funny)

The instrumental part is scratchy and melodious in a lovely way that makes the almost 30 minutes together with Josef K to an absolute pleasure.

George Sluizer's Spoorloos

Dutch cinema is like most of European cinema a neglected chapter, unfortunately. Sluizer's Spoorloos (The Vanishing) is a fantastic film that successfully depicts emotionally frustration and the mind of a sociopath, which moreover in the context of the horror genre ends quite beautiful.

Thurston from Sonic Youth present the film like this:

"Totally unnerving psychodrama where a man’s girlfriend is abducted and, after searching for her for three years, he begins to receive messages from the abductor. And then it gets veeerrry weird. "

Veel plezier...

Oscar Wilde

epo-555 - Tess La Coil

Pim Shows his Home

Mark Kilner

(Meadow Pipit (Anthus pratensis), 2009)

(Numbskull, 2007)

I was a little surprised when I saw this skull in a gallery predominantly consisting of peaceful nature shots…

Look through his gallery and get surprised yourself.

Belle & Sebastian - Electric Renaissance

Björk - Human

Maybe it sounds a little religious, but in some perspectives I do actually hate science. Darwinian literary studies make me sick, and when doctors, biologists, psychologists, mathematicians etc. define love and beauty it’s getting decidedly depressing.

Their conclusions are moreover often fucked up or in conflict with their colleagues, common sense, and reality. Perhaps ignorance is the best way to deal with it…

I don’t think it’s Björk’s intention to give a response to this kind of science, since I’m as an inveterate Björk listener is quite sure about the fact that Björk simply just lives out her own universe.

“And there's no map
And a compass
Wouldn't help at all

Human behaviour, human, human
Human behaviour, human,
Human behaviour, human,
Human behaviour

There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic”

… nevertheless she’s right. Definitely, definitely, definitely right…

Something about nihilism within literature

[00:16 – 01:11]

Writer and political activist Tariq Ali has realized, writers can’t change something remarkable in a western society… and I think he’s right. His examples with Huxley and Orwell are both simple and very precise.

I still think words can be powerful though, but the powerful words of our time are not written by writers of fiction, but by spin doctors.

Is that a good or bad? I think it’s fantastic, as it isolates a lot of literature from political morale, from fringe idealism, and parts of society who aren’t interested in literature.

Sure there are still, and I guess there will always be, a lot of writers who are political, but it’s like their fight for changing the world is so impossible that their political aspect of their works fades out in (beautiful) meaningless and controversial aesthetics.