| Friday, October 07, 2005 |
 | The story of Wilhelm Furtwangler is a fascinating study in how one might behave when placed in near-impossible situations - for example, what do you do if Hitler wants to be your mate? The author of this page's justifications for Furtwangler's actions - which at times amount to "he had the fingers of the other hand crossed behind his back" - occasionally stray into exculpation, it does raise questions about how best to conduct principled resistance. Is it better to leave your homeland when it starts behaving in a way that is both repugnant to you and utterly beyond your ability to change, or to stay and do what you can to make clear that you are not a part of the movements you despise? And can you do that while holding on to positions of state-sponsored prestige?
Also, the early-80s stylings of this album cover:
make it look like a Peter Gabriel LP, which is always good.
On antiquity, I for one am sorry to have missed this.
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| Monday, October 03, 2005 |
| Revolver, latest film from the fertile imagination of punchable mockney Guy Ritchie, is apparently two hours of coprolite cocktorture, without the laughs. So how come they managed to scrape up glowing endorsements for the poster? Lies, deceit and inviting milkbreathers to preview screenings.
Also often in need of a little gloss is the surface of your iPod, which seems to be made of the same material as is generally found covering chocolate coins. Happily, housewife's favourite Brasso has risen like a phoenix to the rescue. It seems that in this highly specific instance rubbing does help.
Brasso is made by Reckit Benckiser, who also accidentally created a cult with the sheer awfulness of their adverts for Cillit Bang, and are now attempting to leverage the cult factor, in a horrifically groovy-vicar fashion, by having some poor starving intern at an ad agency somewhere keep this blog of their fictitious spokesmodel Barry Scott. So far so inept. Until said Barryblogger appears to have decided to drum up some trade by posting on the site of well-known Blogger Tom Coates. Some would say his sense of timing was somewhat off.
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