Fast facts

• At the movies I like to see: Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Charles Chaplin, Jean Eustache, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Orson Welles, Michael Moore, ...
• Music I listen to: John Zorn, Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Kills, Nick Cave, The Smiths, Massive Attack, Portishead, Hooverphonic, Tosca, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Serge Gainsbourg, Fairuz, Rokia Traoré, Oumou Sangaré, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Skriabin, ...
• Best album right now: "Noon Chill" by Arto Lindsay, "Gedida" by Natacha Atlas, "Azul" by Helena Noguerra, "Sex O'Clock" by Anita Lane, "Moon Safari" by Air, "Goldberg Variations" by J. S. Bach, ...
• Favorite author: Peter Weiss, Michel Houellebecq, Peter Handke, Heiner Müller, Botho Strauss, Yoko Tawada, Bret Easton Ellis, Michel Foucault, Philip Roth, Nagib Mahfouz, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ovid, John Berger, ...
• Favorite sports team: The migratory birds ...

Blog posts

• Ann Parker: Kunst des Hadsch / Hajj Paintings
• Henry Barakat: Safar Barlik / Movie tip
• Josef von Sternberg: Der Blaue Engel / Movie tip
• Taureck: Michel Foucault / Bilingual book review
• Watch J. Berger's "Ways of Seeing 1/4, part 1"
• Watch the video "Mein Freund" by the band MIA.

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