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Pestpruf
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Composer of unkempt opinions. Heliolatrist, umbratarian, metropnik.
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“You can't stop meaningful teenage cries from deep behind fifty year old eyes.
Get real.”

(Soundtrack for the midweek dance party.)
Image of an EU CD-edition copy of David Bowie’s single Strangers When We Meet, published in November 1995.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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My younger selves, every time.
Three little images of Y.T.; taken at various northwestern European locations in 1980, 1992, & 2010.
November 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Image of a poster for the 1996 film Moebius, made by Gustavo Mosquera R. together with his Universidad Del Cine de Buenos Aires' students.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Obwohl gefallen, bleiben sie Engel;
in memoriam Udo Kier, 1944–2025.

"It’s fun to play evil, because the devil was an angel who didn’t want to be an angel any more. So you get to play the devil, which is a lot of fun. But if you are really evil, you cannot play an evil character."
Black & white portrait of the actor Udo Kier (1944-2025), taken in 2023.
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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„Vier [oder mehr] Personen!” (Soundtrack for the weekend.)
Image of the semi-official Laibach album Neu Konservatiw – Hamburg [15 June] 1985, first published in November 1985.
November 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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“[Among the gravest fallacies: concluding] that daily reality for the people living in a system corresponds to one's own images, ideas and knowledge of this system … if the system is brutal, barbaric and totalitarian, then the people living there must also be totalitarian, barbaric and brutal."
Image of a copy of Alexei Monroe’s monograph Interrogation Machine, published in October 2005.
November 22, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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„Die Liebe ist die größte Kraft, die alles schafft!” (Soundtrack for the midweek dance party.)
Image of a copy of Laibach’s single Die Liebe, published in November 1985, atop a turntable.
November 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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« … le monde peut sembler sacrément pourri, mais la beauté nous entoure faut juste un peu chercher »
Image of a copy of Vers la ville, the French edition of Tom Gauld’s comic strip Move to the City, published in November 2015.
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Consider Nerdrum's Byttehandel (1995).
Image of the 1995 oil on canvas Byttehandel by Odd Nerdrum; presenting a scene of bartering in a crepuscular landscape, captured in a realistic style that harkens back to the grandeur and emotional depth of Baroque painting. The composition is centered on a man and a woman, engaged in what appears to be an exchange of favours: he, carrying a rifle and vaguely attired like an indigenous hunter, offering death; she, clad in a light robe seemingly made from the skins of kills, holding up her right breast toward him, offering her body. Their interaction capturing the artist’s general view of life as a barter, our embodied existence for death. As usual, the color palette is muted, evoking the somber atmosphere typical of Nerdrum’s stylistic approach. The use of chiaroscuro is evident, underscoring the dramatic effect and helping to draw the viewer’s focus toward the central action. The faces of the figures are marked by expressions of resignation and grim determination, capturing the emotional gravity of the scene. The background is less distinct, with geological and architectural features fading into shadows, lending an air of uncertainty to the setting while ensuring that the attention remains on the figures and their interaction.
November 17, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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“… I asked several friends of mine if they could spare a few minutes of their time,” soundtrack for the weekend.
Image of a vinyl edition copy of the North American compilation Catching Up With Depeche Mode, published in November 1985, atop a turntable.
November 16, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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November 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Still of intertitle from Guy Maddin's short/TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) vignette The Heart of the World (2000/09); featuring the word "KINO". Still from Guy Maddin's short/TIFF vignette The Heart of the World (2000/09); featuring a worker wielding a flag onto which film of State Scientist Anna (portrayed by Leslie Bais) is projected, against an industrial backdrop. Still of intertitle from Guy Maddin's short/TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) vignette The Heart of the World (2000/09); featuring the slogan "THE NEW AND BETTER HEART!" Still from Guy Maddin's short/TIFF vignette The Heart of the World (2000/09); featuring a statuesque and stern mannequin of a State Kinoguard onto which film of State Scientist Anna (portrayed by Leslie Bais) is projected.
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Soundtrack for the midweek dance party.
Image of a copy of the second (Last Leg) 12" vinyl edition of Art of Noise’s single Legs, published in November 1985, atop a turntable.
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Consider Helnwein’s Ascension (1995).
Image of Gottfried Helnwein's 1995 hyperrealistic, monochromatic painting Ascension, depicting a seemingly ordinary man seemingly ascending skyward – or perhaps recoiling at the end of an invisible noose – in the courtyard of a typical mitteleuropäisch four story building.
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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“A whole world … a short walk from the tea-room.

Pushchairs. Cornettos.
A basin of blue concrete and a Humboldt penguin tumbling in three feet of dirty water.

If only we could slip inside those eyes and find our way back
to the pack-ice in the Weddell Sea.
Instead we move on to the gibbons.”
Image of a Canadian edition copy, published in April 2006, of Mark Haddon’s poetry collection The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea; first published in October 2005.
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Still image of the protagonist from the TV-series The Mandalorian, with his notorious quote about weapons being part of his religion paraphrased as, “I’m Masovian. Cake is part of my religion.”
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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“I can’t wait,” soundtrack for the weekend.
Image of a vinyl edition copy of Autrchre’s album tri repetae, published in November 1995, atop a turntable.
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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Having failed to bring their partners to orgasm, Texas lawmakers seek to ban them altogether, eh.
Still Image from ZAZ's 1984 film Top Secret!; featuring temporarily incarcerated rocker Nick Rivers (portrayed by Val Kilmer (1959-2025)), inquiring if his manager Martin (portrayed by Billy J. Michell (1942-1999)) has "tried one of these?" in response to latter's lament about "failing to bring his wife to orgasm", handing him a large box labelled "The Anal Intruder" depicting a happy WASP-ish couple.
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Still from The Whiskey Priest, the sixth episode of the third season of the TV-series Yes, Minister, first broadcast on December 16, 1982; featuring Sir Humphrey Appleby GCB KBE MVO, the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Administrative Affairs (portrayed by Nigel Hawthorne (1929–2001)) explaining, “either you sell arms, or you don’t. If you sell them they will inevitably end up with people who have the cash to buy them.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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“Something random for collective amusement”?

They solve the housing-shortage down Calgary’s Ramsay vale way by hollowing out husks of ancients to shelter the young:
Image of three hollowed out pumpkins on a wooden stair, the bottommost of which is hollowed out in the style of a house – complete w/ a window & hinged door – from which a tiny, happy, non-hollow pumpkin peers out across its doorstep.
November 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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“We don’t we play? I’ll wear your star” (soundtrack for the midweek dance party).
Image of a CD edition copy of Goldfrapp’s single Number 1, published in October 2005.
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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Consider Tansey’s Redeployment (1995).
Image of Mark Tansey’s 1995 paining Redeplyment. Geometrically divided into three segments, compositionally referencing a classical vanishing point, a battle scene focused in the foreground blurs into red near the fulcrum. Tansey recontextualizes historical events employing a monochromatic palette to provide his images with the appearance of the historical "accuracy" bestowed upon media like black and white photography. Landscape and figures assume equal importance in here, with rich red articulating the image while itself also a subject of the picture. Extending like an arrow from the upper right corner and surrounded by blank white space, the rust-hued wedge features a battle scene that fades into a solid, densely pigmented triangle. Calling to mind the paintings of avant-garde Suprematist Kazimierz Malewicz, particularly his 1915 painting Червоний квадрат (Red Square), this painting positions the abstraction of the Russian avant-garde (originally a military term) against the representational imagery of the soldiers – reminiscent of Napoleonic soldiers painted during their campaigns into Russia – Tansey’s painting encompasses literal and figurative opposing forces: France vs. Russia, Neoclassical painting of the 19th century and 20th century Avant-Garde movements, figuration and abstraction. The power of color in Mark Tansey’s work is punctuated by his use of white. A recurring subject of his oeuvre, white possesses a special role here, filtering slowly into the image to pull it forward from the red slash, and inhabiting the space around the image. Clean, blank, and empty, it is uncontained and seems to push beyond the edge of the canvas: a cool atmosphere inhabited by a human battle. Furthering the distance from reality, Tansey’s work optically invites the viewer to accept the fiction, psychologically connecting actual, referenced history with the artificiality of a painted image.
November 3, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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“I’m a good mechanic, I’ll go over you in style,” soundtrack for the weekend.
Image of a vinyl edition copy of ZZ Top’s album Afterburner, published in October 1985, atop a turntable.
November 2, 2025 at 5:50 AM