What i hear:
Lucio Battisti (1943-1998)
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Italian singer-songwriter and shoegaze
For a long time I didn't know that I needed the music of Cantautore Lucio Battisti in my life and especially at breakfast on Saturday mornings. Thanks to NTS, I now know. For almost two years now, I haven't been listening to any music station more often than the English web radio - and just as Spotify has restricted the range of music I listen to, NTS has expanded it again with its unpredictable range of artists. “Don't Assume” is the sender's claim - don't jump to conclusions.
NTS broadcasts live programs around the clock on two channels, for which it combines a handful of actual live programs with one to two-hour specials, which in turn can also be called up individually in the archive.
This week, NTS is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and the guests it has invited to curate the anniversary program underscore the unbeatable taste certainty of the station for me: Arca, Theo Parrish, Matt Groening, Mica Levi and my all-time favorite band My Bloody Valentine.
What I read:
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American communists
In Germany, the New York author Vivian Gornick is best known for her memoirs "Me and My Mother", named the best memoir of the past 50 years by the New York Times.
I didn't discover Gornick until 2020, when the Verso-Verlag re-published their long out-of-print non-fiction book "The Romance of American Communism" from 1977, which was a surprise hit in the USA.
I think I came across the book through Ari M. Brostoff's wonderful essay in "n + 1".
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
Publisher: Verso Books
Number of pages: 288
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In "The Romance of American Communism" Gornick meets former members of the American Communist Party and lets them describe what brought them to the party, how they experienced their time in the party and what ultimately led to the break.
What excites me about the book is not only that Gornick exposes an often neglected (or denied?) Part of American history, namely that the support of socialism and communism has a long tradition.
It is also the urgency with which she describes her interviewees.
People have never seemed so alive to me in just a few sentences.
Due to the success of “The Romance of American Communism”, Verso recently published an anthology with essays by Gornick: “Taking a Long Look”.
What does she have to say about the women's movement, Hannah Arendt and "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
I'll find out on the weekend.
What I see:
Lina Wertmüller
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A classic film
Like many film critics, I can't wait for the cinemas to open again.
Like many film critics, I was secretly happy that for a while I didn't have to constantly rush to the latest film releases.
So I was finally able to close a huge gap in film history: the work of Lina Wertmüller.
So far I have watched three films by the Italian director, who was the first woman ever to be nominated for an Oscar for directing - "Seven Beauties", "Love and Anarchy" and "Carried away by an unusual fate in the azure blue sea in August" - and found them all three stunning.
Polemical, loud, exuberant and at the same time of the greatest dramaturgical precision: at Wertmüller it all goes together.
Unfortunately, her films are not available on streaming portals, which is why, as a Berliner, I will make my way to my favorite video library, the film gallery on Invalidenstrasse in Mitte.
I think it will amount to "The Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
What amuses me:
To my friends, to whom I sent a picture of Erling Haaland in response to every second WhatsApp / Signal / Telegram message (Haaland cheers, Haaland is disappointed, Haaland lifts Marco Reus in the air), I do NOT want to apologize .
We have to enjoy every minute that this sensational footballer is still playing in the Bundesliga.
So again: the lifting figure of the twenties
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