Nymphomaniac & Shame: A good feel-bad double bill

What happens when the sex drive goes into compensatory overdrive? Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (2013) and Steve McQueen’s Shame (2011) show us just what, and therefore deserve to be...

Oh my God, it’s the Devil!

“Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!” Thus wrote Anton LaVey in his The Satanic Bible in 1969. And how true that has...

Happy New Year?

Another year passed by, as years usually do. For me, this one was almost too intense and too high-paced. All my own fault though. However, almost all of the things that happened were good, so I...

Breyer P-Orridge: the quality of quantity!

Who ever said that quantity is not a quality? The past months’ veritable floodgate of Breyer P-Orridge-related material deserves a closer look. Or are you perhaps already aware of all of these...

Peter Beard, the Greatest

Taschen re-issues Peter Beard’s mega volume with some added material and of course it’s a feast for the eyes and the adventurous at heart. The American psychedelic multiversalist presents...