Last from the Gypsie Queen
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under music
Madonna was in Serbia last week. And no, she did not mention Gypsies. My guess is that people would react in the same way they did in Bucharest in Romania, booing, when she started criticizing them on general treatment of Roma people. Not that I am for discrimination towards Gypsies, but I truly do not [...]
Tags: 2009, belgrade, madonna, sticky and sweet tour
apple store kid
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under advertising, media, web 2.0
Nicholi White is just a regular 13-year old from Harlem, who will become world famous for hanging out around stores. He goes out to Apple store in Soho in New York, to play hop hip hits and record himself lip synching to it. Then he uploads the results to YouTube.
Today, he has over 9000 subscribers [...]
Tags: apple store kid, viral, youtube
Cooking History
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under films
If the tag line is “6 wars, 10 recipes, 60 361 024 dead”, you know that Cooking History is not a history of cooking. It is history cooked. Slovak director Peter Kerekes made a documentary film about army cooks, starting from cook who baked bread for Wermacht, the French counterpart, another French cook, who prepared [...]
Tags: cooking history, documentary, war
They Call Me K.O.F.Y.
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under Uncategorized, music
A frequent objection to Serbian pop music scene is that it bears no reflection of realities of life in our country, that musicians are too involved with themselves and without ambitions. Then again, the same criticism could be applied to music scene in general. Anywhere. Posture over attitude, crate digging over originality, even indie bands [...]
