the beginning of the end
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
The final season of Lost needs to resolve all the mysteries, tie all the loose ends.
The authors made a turn towards mythology, there is talk of “forces of good and evil” and if after six years of loyalty we end up with some Lord of the Rings ending, I give up …
Tags: lost season 6, TV series
bored to death
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
Or Instead of Manhattan, first we take Brooklyn.
New HBO series is about a writer, not able to write his second novel and left by his girlfriend, so desperate that he posts an ad on Cragislist, advertising himself as a private detective. “I read so many Raymond Chandler novels, that I think I could do this” [...]
Tags: books, bored to death, Brooklyn, films, TV series
My Family’s Role in the World Revolution
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, music, popcult
Last night, boyfriend asks me to burn a film Burn After Reading (so much burning, right_?) on a CD, so he can take it to his boss, who likes Brad Pitt. I take an unmarked CD, pop it in the laptop, but it turns out it has music on it. Pop Levi, Ben Folds Five, [...]
Tags: balkan brass, beirut, bora ćosić, gulag orkestar, lon gisland ep, my family's role the world's revolution
tying loose ends
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
Fifth season of our favorite show starts tonight.
For experienced downloaders, who in the past six months, watched all kinds of different shows and forgot everything, whereby continuity and attention to detail are key with Lost, there all kinds of reminders on YouTube or specially dedicated websites.
If video podcast is not enough, here is the [...]
Tags: lost season5 tv shows
White City#2
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under everyday life, media, popcult
Second issue of White City magazine is on Belgrade’s newsstands.
If I managed to find it, you will have no problem with it. In this issue, many interesting topics are included. An article about returning to live in Serbia, after a life abroad. And the opposite – going abroad for studying.
If I got a cent, for [...]
Tags: belgrade, hipsters, media, studying abroad, whitecity
gomorrah, or things you can do before 30
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under books, films, popcult
Encouraged by a few classes of Italian and previous knowledge of Spanish, I thought to myself “let’s watch a film in a movie theatre”. Italian, of course. I hate dubbed films. So, this spring, while I was in Florence, the first film I ever saw in Italian without subtitles was Gomorrah, directed by Mateo Garrone, [...]
Tags: films, gomorrah, italy, roberto saviano
shoreditch twat
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under popcult
Man, am I grateful for Urban Dictionary. How else to navigate the world of hipsterdom? This website demystifies all that latest trends, in such an ironic way, exposing it as urban superficial as they are, at the same time being hipstery itself (no posers, no need for Urban Dictionary).
Last week, I went to an [...]
Tags: graphic design, london, shoreditch twat
what’s next for music
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under academic, music, popcult, web 2.0
Faced with the widespread torrent or p2p network downloads, record companies are teaming up with social networks trying to monetize on the increasing online participation.
MySpace Music being the last foray in this area.
As a social network, MySpace has been associated with teenagers and unsigned musicians, who hoped to be spotted and propelled into stardom (there [...]
Tags: Facebook, Last.fm, MA thesis, MOG, music, MySpace, online music services, social networking
remnants of the black wave
Posted by popkitchen | Filed under films, popcult
Many people whom I meet this year were aware that I come from a post-Communist country, but were surprised to find out that the country in which I was born (with which most are familiar, not the results of the post-war division) had a socialistic organization of society, but was never a part of an [...]
Tags: films, london, yugoslav black wave cinema
you know you’re old when …
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Whoever loves pop culture is teenager forever. You agree?
In this love, the proclivity towards artifacts dealing with this part of life takes a special place. Both those considered supercool (Juno, Breakfast Club, My So-Called Life) and those less publicaly approved, yet accepted in the form of guilty pleasure (Dawson’s Creek, Gossip Girl, [...]
Tags: high school, pop culture, teen culture
