diumenge, 10 de gener del 2021

Unspoken agreement

 



The debacle of Buckley's and Wambaugh's testimony illustrates a truth that many of us learn as children: the invariable inefficacy of the "Don't blame me, everybody does it" defense. Society mediates between the extremes of, on the one hand, intolerably strict morality and, on the other, dangerously anarchic permissiveness through an unspoken agreement whereby we are given leave to bend the rules of the strictest morality, provided we do so quietly and discreetly. Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps society functioning in an agreeable way, by allowing for human fallibility and reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable human needs for order and pleasure. When Buckley and Wambaugh said bluntly that it’s all right to deceive subjects, they breached the contract whereby you never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don’t get caught, because if you are caught no one —or no one who has any sense— will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

 

Janet Malcolm, The journalist and the murderer.

diumenge, 3 de gener del 2021

Els millors llibres del 2020



 

Iceberg d'or: Sis nits d'agost, de Jordi Lara.

Iceberg de plata: Sangre en Atarazanas, de Francisco Madrid.

Iceberg de bronze: Testament a Praga, de Teresa Pàmies.

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4. The Black Album, de Hanif Kureishi.

5. Under a glass bell, d'Anaïs Nin.
 

dissabte, 2 de gener del 2021

The 2020 Best Iceberg Movies

 

 

Golden Iceberg: Uncut gems, directed by The Safdie Brothers.
 

Silver Iceberg: American Factory, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert.

 
Bronze Iceberg: Ivana the Terrible, directed by Ivana Mladenovic.
 
 
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4. Western, directed by Valeska Grisebach.
 

5. My Mexican Bretzel, directed by Nuria Giménez.

 

divendres, 1 de gener del 2021

The 2020 Iceberg best songs


 
 
Golden Iceberg: IZM, Battles & Shabbaz Palaces.

 
Silver Iceberg: Kids, Little Dragon.

 
Bronze Iceberg: Excusez-moi Monsieur le Professour, Christophe.
 
 
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4. Fantasy, Mariah Carey ft. Ol' Dirty Bastard.

 
5. Little Bird, The Beach Boys.