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• Links 25/01/15 Single-minded

  Pop Culture: Abbi and Ilana from Broad City interview Carrie, Corin and Janet from S-K, The Quietus interviews Janet Weiss, and Vulture reviews No Cities to... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transparent - Is There Anything You Want to Say to Me?

  

  Transparent: 1x06 The Wilderness.Maura: This is my family. Leonard, I am so sorry. This is my fault. I should have called you. Honey, I should have taken you ou... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Serien Des Jahres

  Best new show: TransparentA father decides to come out to her children and live the life she never could. It affects each of the three profoundly, and... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Reading List: December.

  Non-Fiction: Michael Harris: The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection.Jeanette Winterson: Why Be Happy When You Could... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Filme Des Jahres

  Her (2013)Short Term 12 (2013)FrankVi är bästPrideIda (2013)The BabadookThe Grand Budapest HotelThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1Regarding Susan SontagBonus... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Musik Des Jahres

  I don't think it would make much sense for me to compile this list and not mention that my favourite band of all times has released a re-issued collector's box... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Favourite Books I've Read This Year

  Non-Fiction: Ta-Nahisi Coates: The Case for Reparations.Roxane Gay: Bad Feminist.Margaret MacMillan: The War That Ended Peace. The Road to 1914.Lawrence... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black – It’s the Least We Can Do.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x05 Low Self Esteem City.Belonging is essential in Litchfield. It provides context, protection, friendship, community. Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Torture

  But most poignantly, McCain spoke of his own five-and-a-half-year captivity in Vietnam to argue that torture fails to yield credible information. Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transparent - No More Secrets.

  

  Transparent: 1x05 Wedge. Wedge, as an episode that is in the middle of the first season of the show, feels like it mostly serves to set up things for later. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtapes - All That I've Been Thinking of is Maybe That You Might.

  

  Heartbreak rides for free by Yvan Favre [via tumblr]jessie ware | say you love me. ólafur arnalds | brim. trentemøller | the dream (feat. low). jean grae |... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 05/12/14 Short

  Politics: ISIS has entered Egypt, through an Egyptian militant movement that started to operate after President Mubarak's overthrow which has now pledged... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1

  

  Are you, are youComing to the treeWhere I told you to run,So we'd both be free.The Hanging TreeNo one knows where the ladder goesYou're gonna lose what you... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orange is the New Black - I’m Gonna Die Here.

  

  Orange is the New Black: 2x04 A Whole Other Hole.Lorna is one of the characters on this show that the viewer is likely to underestimate: constantly nice and... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transparent – You Really Don’t Wanna Be Alone, Do You?

  

  Transparent: 1x04 Moppa.There are two moments in this episode in which somebody else names Maura – the first instance is her newfound friend, Mark/Marcy, in... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Vi Är Bäst!

  

  One of the things that connect many of Lukas Moodysson’s previous works, especially Fucking Åmål and Lilja 4-ever, is its portrayal of adolescents navigating a... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 20/11/14

  Politics: The New York Review of Books on the recent Gaza war and its fallout in the context of the history of Gaza. One of the most striking elements in the... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtapes - Once You're Gone You Can Never Come Back.

  

  South Shore by Clark Greenwood Voorhees [via tumblr]pretty girls make graves | the number. ex hex | beast. against me! | transgender dysphoria blues. white... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Transparent – I’m So Glad You Get to Be Who You Are.

  Transparent: 1x03 Rollin.My parents moved from an apartment complex to a house when I was eleven years old. I moved with them, of course, and would only discove... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• For Consideration

  Some days you sit down to write … well, your focus is wandering. There is something else on your mind, and you just can’t reach the thing that you are trying... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO