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Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau...

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Chip mentioned A Clockwork Orange and I mentioned Nadsat - the language used by the teens. Two Nadsat words appear in die Toten Hosen's song Hier Kommt Alex: Horrorshow and droogs. Burgess chose them for ironic effect.

Lyrics with English translation after the jump

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Now viddy this -- a very disturbing day's mash-up: German, Russian, senseless violence, eyes-glued-to-the TV -- even Beethoven's 9th. Throw in a little "orange" like clockwork.

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Overheard at Lem's: 

...is Trump really the guy to solve our real problems going forward, or is he a bomb dropped on a mostly empty target? 

From "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Donald:"

"People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction."

"It was a matter of mutual appreciation that led author and physicist Jeremy Bernstein to first meet [Stanley] Kubrick in 1965, when The New Yorker sent him to interview the then 37-year-old director. Bernstein wrote a positive piece in the magazine on science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, and was then Clarke himself recommended that he talk to Kubrick. Bernstein and Kubrick met in the director’s Central Park apartment. Both men soon discovered that the other was a chess aficionado and soon a friendship was born , one which would later lead Bernstein to Oxford, where Kubrick was shooting “2001: A Space Odyssey,” or “Son of Strangelove” as it was amusingly codenamed at the time."

"Bernstein recorded these meetings, and the result, a 76-minute audio interview with Kubrick (via No Film School), is a compelling, informal, and hugely informative look into the director’s life. He covers his early films’ origins from script to screen, but also space travel, chess, and the nuclear bomb, which he calls “as abstract as the fact that we are all going to die someday, which we usually do an excellent job of denying.”



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