Not only fruit flies can discriminate between healthy and cancer cells, also dogs and bees can do so. And most importantly, they can be trained to tell us whether human breath contains volatiles of cancerous origin, by, e.g., ringing a bell or flying into a given box. But, [more]
Steve Albini (image source: http://www.lastfm.fr/music/Steve+Albini/+images/438915)
Remember the scene in Adam’s Apples, where Ivan Fjeldsted (Mads Mikkelsen) is asked by Adam (Ulrich Thomsen) about his son and how he’s holding up with it? Ivan tells him everything is perfectly well (although his son is paraplegic, his wife killed herself after giving birth and Ivan himself was abused [more]
on the borderline, she’s a danger sign on the borderline, getting out of line on the borderline, but it feels so good on the borderline, on the borderline on the borderline, borderline
Rem Koolhaas: S,M,L,XL. No other architect puts more emphasis on not being an architect than the most influential architect of our times: Rem Koolhaas. In almost every text, interview, or lecture he makes it a point that he actually is a journalist. For him, writing a book is at [more]
Did you ever throw money away? I mean on purpose. Prof. Jem Bendell did it with a 20 Euro bill on his TED Talk in 2011. It was just 20 Euros, and I thought: This is super stupid! Today, after reading Tom Sedlacek, Götz Werner and Karl Marx, [more]
He held his eyes closed. Dash, Dot, Circle, set into stone with a chalk. A boy and a second boy drawing symbols in front of a castle, excerted by drizzling rain, wearing caps and masks, their scriptures hardly visible, down on the gound, gleaming, set in concrete. When [more]
‘In my life as a consumer,’ he [Houellebecq] said, ‘I have known three perfect products: Paraboot walking boots, the Canon Libris laptop printer combination, and the Camel Legend parka . . . My favourite products, after a few years, have disappeared from the shelves, their manufacture has stopped [more]
Detecting cancer with a fruit flie’s antenna. This is the title of a recently published scientific article showing that the activity pattern of a fruit flie’s antenna differs upon exposure to the odour of cancer versus control cells. In simple words, fruit flies can discriminate between healthy and non-healthy. [more]
As Ladybar used to be a whorehouse, the table dance is still standing in the middle of the bar. Besides this, most of the hundred year old buildung was restored, refurnished and made into what it is now in no more than four weeks. It was just before [more]
Last night at the ICA, MoL did the Qs for a Q&A with one of the greater living filmmakers, Pedro Costa, who showed his film on Straub-Huillet, Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? (2001). The couple are seen editing their film Sicilia! The camera sits in the back [more]
Meine Freunde nahmen Shoshi, wie gesagt, gebührend in Empfang. Je nach Lust und Laune brandmarkte Jossl, unser bekloppter Theoretiker – wir erinnern uns, der Kolumnist und Schreiberling – die Israelis als faschistoiden Siedlerhaufen oder schwärmte anderntags frei nach Stalin von einem Transfer aller Palästinenser aus dem Westjordanland nach [more]
don’t push me ’cause i’m close to the edge i’m trying not to lose my head it’s like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how i keep from going under
Reinhart Wolf: New York. I grew up in a bookish house, and cannot remember ever having gotten a present from my father other than a book. In most rooms of the house we were surrounded by shelves filled up with volumes of all sorts. But one book did [more]
Mary Poppins says: “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.”
The garment’s style and form can be traced back to Medieval Europe when the normal clothing for monks included a long, decorative hood called a cowl attached to a tunic or robes,[1] and a chaperon or hooded cape was very commonly worn by any outdoors worker. The hooded [more]
It should be contemporary but timeless, it should be banal but profound, it should be funny but sad, it should provoke but not disturb, it should be ironical but serious, it should be emotional but not kitsch, it should be big but not megalomaniac, it should be sane [more]
There is something odd about the concept of time. It suggests that every hour, every minute, every second have the same length. That life is countable and everyone has got the same amount of it. To me, this feels wrong. Time is like the perfect dance. A prompt [more]
What is undeground if the world goes down? A question that popped up loomed inside my head two years ago. Don’t know whether it had to do with the Maya or the fact that everything related to electronic music became ‘deeper’, ‘darker’ and more ‘original’ or ‘straight forward’ than [more]
Hitler has only got one ball Goering has two but very small Himmler is somewhat similar and poor old Goebbels has no balls at all (British army marching song)
Back to my roots (or kind of), in Alsace, I went with a good friend of mine to visit a common friend from primary school. Same age, same school, but different. Our friend got married about six years ago. Like her sisters, she got married to her cousin [more]
MoL went to see American Hustle. Excuse me, did we walk into the wrong movie? Mind you, they all say the same thing, the director, the actors, the critics, talking it up in smart ways, as though everything were a foregone conclusion. Screwball Scorsese! Wise guys! Scams! Seventies [more]
i keep a close watch on this heart of mine i keep my eyes wide open all the time i keep the end out for the tie that binds because you’re mine, i walk the line
Some people claim that friendship can withstand long spells of not being in touch. Those people obviously have no idea (and no friends). If you can’t spare the effort, it’s nothing short of insulting to resort to the baseless notion that friendship transcends time and space. It’s a [more]
I am a nerd. «A nerd (adjective: nerdy) is a person, typically described as being overly intellectual, obsessive, or socially impaired.» says Wikipedia. And yeah, I am exactly that. Even more: I am a nerd for life. It starts at the edge of my bed. Piles of books, [more]
If there’s a divine jazz quintet somewhere up there in outer space, I imagine Sun Ra, Mrs. Coltrane, Mr. Monk, Mr. Gillespie and Mr. Byrd leading the rest of the players and welcome the other vibrating musicians arriving in soundscape new heavens. ‘It go Halle Berry or hallelujah‘ [more]
The Roger Stevens Building was built in 1970 as part of the development of the Leeds University South Campus by the architects Chamberlin Powell and Bon.
MoL salutes world’s most exciting newspaper headline (Evening Standard, 7 January, 2014): Duke of Cambridge goes to Cambridge
Snookered. The distribution of an opponent’s balls leaves a player in a position where only an indirect shot can be played. Pocket billiards: playing with one’s testicles via trouser pockets.
Every compulsive behavior has its own consequences – with varying degrees of severity. The consequence of my CDCCCB (see CDCCCB I) is that it is associated with a huge Pre-Christmas stress (on top of the non Butterbredele-derived Christmas stress). Well, this year, I thought about optimizing a solution [more]
In my ever-continuing random thoughts on how the most ephemeral and hard-core philosophical topic can be approached and defined, Martin Heidegger has been a frequent guest in my notebook. In Being and Time, Heidegger actually posed the idea by revealing it as a threefold condition of Being in [more]
just try to understand i’ve given all i can borderline feels like i’m going to lose my mind you just keep on pushing my love over the borderline with a credit to hosental /// boris kramarić
I like lists – best-of lists, worst-of lists, year-end lists, rich lists, breakup lists, auction record lists, box office charts, you name it. Yes, they’re flawed – they’re judgmental, intransparent, self-serving and often lack objectively verifiable criteria. But they put my mind at ease, at least for a moment, by [more]
Tennis games in cinema history George Cukor versus John Ford (Catalina Island, 1942) 6-0, 6-3 Vincent Minnelli versus Raoul Walsh (Beverly Hills, 1948) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 Michelangelo Antonioni versus J-L Godard (Monte Carlo, 1962) 6-0, 4-6, 6-1. Woody Allen versus John Milius (NYC, 1973) 6-0, 6-2
MoL finally got around to watching Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. Too much. Too many cameras. Too much Zidane. Not enough ball. MoL says why not show the game like on TV, or run the George Best film instead. The permissions, financing and legal teams is the real [more]
When you have a quality product that you’re confident with, the question of distribution appears (remember The Wire Season 3?) . You know that you have a very good product, but still you have to find a name, a brand and some kind of packaging to get it [more]
Dann auch noch der äußerst rabiate Verkehrsunfall von meinem Stamm-Dealer Stevie. Stevie war bereits mit 15 ein Fixer und war erst nach knapp anderthalb Jahrzehnten wieder davon runter gekommen. In der Zwischenzeit hatte er eine ganze Menge erlebt. Wenn ich mir bei ihm mein Hasch abholte und wir [more]
Usually two to three days before Christmas I am overwhelmed by a very strong feeling that pops up every year. I HAVE to do Butterbredele (the Alsacian word for Mailänderli in Swissgerman, which are Christmas cookies that originate from Alsace in France). Or the world will go under. [more]
well, if aliens ever visit us i think,this event would be more important then the voyages of christopher columbus… …that din’t turn out well for native americans. wow-signal-pic: the ohio state university radio observatory and the north american astrophysical observatory (public domain)
People have told me I have an indefensible lack of knowledge when it comes to American Pop-Culture. Something like a week ago – with a poor deferral of almost 15 years – I started watching The Sopranos. The way it sometimes goes with those episodes, it (totally) occupied [more]
One might guess, that the combination of being under 30 and living in Berlin should amount to some widened knowledge on the panorama of fetish, the extended range of desire (at least in the arts). Moving to Berlin – about ten years ago – exposed my to film-makers [more]
1 large egg yolk 1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 1 teaspoon white wine vinegar 1/4 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1/2 teaspoon salt plus more to taste 3/4 cup canola oil Combine egg yolk, lemon juice, vinegar, mustard, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in medium bowl. Whisk until blended and [more]
Science sometimes blows my mind. It puts things back into perspective and, after a hard day at work, refreshes my curiosity. No one could be better at this than the fabulous guys of Radiolab: fresh, witty and incredibly entertaining. In their latest podcast, for example, they explain why [more]
George Best: Terry, I like screwing, all right? Terry Wogan: So what do you do with your time these days? Best: I screw. Wogan: Ladies and gentlemen, George Best! (The Terry Wogan Show, BBC, September 1990)
It’s a square square world: digital; containers; big sheds; terminal architecture. Is the age of the sphere passing? MoL asks how long before FIFA introduces the square football? How long before we say, “See you asquare”? The World the Box Made: On April 26, 1956, a crane lifted [more]
Let’s start with the beginning. The impulse that becomes an idea, the idea that turns into form, form that is filled with more of the named-above. 60 days of virtual insanity and the hope that it might get deleted for ever or at least vanish after a sixth [more]
Airport Schönefeld has reintroduced passport control and they’re doing a thorough job while at it. Today I arrived from London. After waiting in line for ten minutes (which feels like forever at an airport where the walk from plane to gate takes no longer than four minutes), I [more]
Berlin, Germany. Berlin was supposed to be all built up in a “Berlinish Style” by now. At least this would have been the expectation twenty years ago. After the fall of the Wall an almost bloody battle emerged between conservative and progressive architects, about the question how the [more]
Close friend, who is six years younger than me, has called me a granny lately, not a mom or an aunty but literally a granny. And only cause I thought it’s gross to wake up in the morning to go to Berghain. (It was afternoon, even grosser). It’s [more]
At the moment there is a discussion going on in Switzerland about a really serious subject: humor. It all started with the mayor of our capital-city, an elderly guy from the left, and his ambitions in stand-up-comedy. His jokes didn’t really work, so no one bothered, except for [more]
Re the Ashes whitewash (5-0 to Australia) and death by cricket, MoL offers the following: Q. Have you seen Zidane? The movie? A. It’s really good. Because most of the time he isn’t actually doing anything, he’s just waiting for the event. That’s what I love about cricket. [more]
Helmut Costard (after Wikipedia translated the page into English) 1968 saw Costard a scandal on the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen: His film Especially Valuable was a talking penis, which quotes a passage of the (then newly adopted) film funding law. The festival refused to show the [more]
Fluffer: One who prepares a porn star for a scene by sucking his testicles and/or penis behind the scenes. (Fox was a famous porn star, but without his fluffer Jarrod, Fox could never get hard.) (Urban Dictionary) But now he was back, and I understood there was another [more]
Spätsommer 1990. Schon wieder war Jom Kippur, der Tag der Versöhnung, unser heiligster Feiertag. Wir Juden fasteten und versöhnten uns mit Gott und uns selbst. Geil, oder? Ein Jahr zuvor war das Äffchen in mein Leben getreten, und ich hatte es noch nicht einmal so richtig gemerkt. Klar, [more]
I’m hardly in touch with old people. I mean, people above the age of 70. Recently, on a train ride in the Ringbahn, I got in touch with one: A woman, who must have been 80-something. She had noticed me reading a text in Hebrew. “Oh is this [more]