Russian poet Arch Hades is one of the most influential and highest-paid literary figures of the modern age
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Life cycle
No one chooses to be born.
As you grow up you will realise everyone is sad and maladjusted.
It will take you years to identify and unlearn prejudices you soaked up from your parents and peers.
The older you get the more you will see most adults barely mature past adolescence.
Nothing is free and the costs will keep rising.
You will be made to participate in systems that are arbitrary and unfair.
Benevolence will be exploited and destroyed by greed.
Stupidity and passivity are rewarded, critical thinking is discouraged.
You will witness human cruelty beyond your comprehension.
People will oppose progress if it inconveniences them.
It’s much easier to consume and copy than create, and people will always choose what’s easier.
The meaning of life is to keep buying merchandise.
If you work hard enough, you may replace your depression with exhaustion.
You will fail at almost everything you’ll try to do.
Every human interaction can and will be monetised.
You will experience brutal injustice, but you won’t be able to do anything about it.
People don’t care about the truth.
No one wants you to be yourself, they want you to be like them because that’s more comfortable.
You will never feel truly understood.
Any worthwhile relationship will require energy and skill, but no one wants to put in the work.
No one bothers to learn how to be alone, so everyone remains lonely.
You will only ever know slim fragments of reality and you’ll understand even less.
The more you revisit a memory, the more it distorts into fiction.
If you don’t meet society’s expectations of you, you will be considered ‘difficult’, possibly ‘dangerous’.
The people you love most will hurt you the most.
Life will not treat you better if you’re a good person.
Everything you’ll ever care about will end.
No one is special and nothing you do matters.
You will die and be forgotten.
The Sega Genesis was the first game console I ever owned. At the time, a 16-bit console was the height of technology, and I was enamored with the "realistic" graphics. And then a curious thing happened; video games kept getting better. I had front row see to watch the gaming industry become more technologically adventurous with every console generation. When I purchased my copy of Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, I couldn't imagine video games looking more realistic. Flash forward to today, and I practically need to pop anti-anxiety meds after a round of Call of Duty
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Elvis is 2 hours and 40 minutes of camera swoops and dissolves and wipes clearly intended to evoke not only Luhrmann’s own past work but Elvis’s own physical gyrations. This thing never slows down to the speed limit, not even for a second. The problem is that after 10 minutes of dazzlement—the sets and costumes and cinematography are absolutely gorgeous—the whole project starts seeming crazily desperate rather than refreshingly exhilarating. By the time the first hour has passed, you feel simultaneously overstimulated and under-entertained. By the time the second hour mark has come, you start wondering where Fat Elvis is already so you can see the end coming. And when it’s over, you may feel like you never want to go into a movie theater ever again.
Aside from Luhrmann’s welcome insistence that Elvis’s use of African-American musical tropes was born out of love and respect rather than an act of cultural appropriation, he has absolutely nothing of interest to say about Presley and clearly has no clue what the man was about. That is no sin—Elvis’s best biographer, Peter Guralnick, points out that it’s very hard to get a bead on Elvis because he “never kept a diary, left us with no memoirs, wrote scarcely any letters, and rarely submitted to interviews.” Still, if you’re going to make a biopic, you have to present a compelling character we’re willing to follow for the length of the movie—and Elvis here is a total cipher.
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An Iron Curtain descends on Europe and the USA Gilbert Doctorow
- Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, says a new “iron curtain” is descending between Russia and the west, and that Moscow would not trust Washington and Brussels “from now on”. The process “has begun”, Lavrov said after talks with his counterpart from Belarus. “As far as an iron curtain is concerned, essentially it is already descending,” he added.
- Ukrainian forces say they have pushed Russian forces from Snake Island, a strategic Black Sea outpost off the southern coast. Russia portrayed the pullout from the island as a “goodwill gesture”. Ukraine’s military said the Russians fled the island in two speedboats following a barrage of Ukrainian artillery and missile strikes.
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Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
They've announced that Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan will receive this year's Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. He gets to pick it up on 24 October, at the end of the Frankfurt Book Fair.
Several Zhadan titles are under review at the complete review:
- Anarchy in the UKR
- Depeche Mode
- Mesopotamia
- The Orphanage
- Voroshilovgrad
- What We Live For, What We Die For
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