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John Lydon recommended Man-Machine by Kraftwerk in Music (curated)

Man-Machine by Kraftwerk

1978 | Dance

8.0

(1 Ratings)

Album Favorite

"I met one of the members of Kraftwerk last year and was very surprised—they weren’t at all how I imagined them from looking at the album covers. They were in what I would call Beach Boys shirts. In an odd, twisted way they were saying I had an influence on them. I didn’t believe it for a second but I’ll take it. I loved anything by them. Their cold, emotionless way of presenting a pop song was always entertaining to me, so novel and so deadpan and cynical and kind of heartwarming. So ahead of its time."

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Lena Dunham recommended Days of Heaven (1978) in Movies (curated)

"Little Linda Manz’s voice-over is enough of a reason to watch this film. Forget the perfect performances by Richard Gere and Sam Shepard, or Brooke Adams’s twisted damsel in distress, or the way the wheat blows at magic hour making you forget the specter of murder that hangs over it all. I’m obsessed with the fact that production designer Jack Fisk built the farmhouse, which is meant to look as old as time and it really does. Also, while shooting Badlands (the previous Malick), Fisk wooed his future wife, Sissy Spacek, by leaving gifts for her in her character’s drawers. Swoon."

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Terri Wiltshire (21 KP) rated The Ninth Life of Louis Drax in Books

Sep 1, 2019

The Ninth Life of Louis Drax

Liz Jensen | 2016 | Fiction & Poetry

8.0

(2 Ratings)

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Poignant and heart breaking reveals about flawed and disturbed characters (0 more)

Mind warping and brilliantly twisted

Given that the main character in this novel is a boy in a coma it is surprisingly fast paced. The characters are complex and the mystery around Louis condition deepens as each page us turned.
Liz Jensen really explores the limits life, family and indeed our own thoughts put on us and our families, explores the human capacity for warmth and destruction whole painting a very clear grey picture - not everything is good or bad, life is often somewhere in between.