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The Guardian - Culture Edit Unfollow 'Having limits is boring': experimental survivor Damo Suzuki on Can, cancer and krautrock by Daniel Dylan Wray Oct 31, 2022 Now the subject of a documentary, the Japanese musician persevered with his never-ending world tour while undergoing 40 surgeries for cancer in three years. ‘Music is healing,’ he says In 2014 Damo Suzuki was diagnosed with colon cancer and given a 10% chance of survival. It was almost exactly 30 years earlier, when Suzuki was 33, that he was first diagnosed with the disease. The same cancer had killed his father when he was five. When facing major surgery in 1983, his situation was made all the more life-threatening: due to Suzuki’s then faith as a Jehovah’s Witness, he couldn’t accept the blood transfusion he desperately required. Continue reading... Continue Reading Something in the Dirt review – meta DIY sci-fi is a paean to LA esoterica by Phil Hoad Oct 31, 2022 Conceived during the pandemic, the latest from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead is a transcendent head-scratcher about two slackers’ search for hidden meanings and paranormal signs Between the likes of Host, Bo Burnham’s Inside and Jacob Estes’s He’s Watching, there’s a respectable pandemic oeuvre emerging – and Something in the Dirt is one of the best yet. This sci-fi-dusted paean to Los Angeles slackerdom is fairly typical for the lockdown genre: a torrent of self-involved invention about not much more than the process of its own creation. But director-stars Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead approach their two-hander with a sly humour and wonderment that prevents it from disappearing up its own fundament. The film could also be plausibly filed in the LA esoterica category, alongside Mulholland Drive and Under the Silver Lake. Drifter John (Moorhead) moves into the same apartment complex as long-time denizen Levi (Benson), where they witness a strange, scintillating anomaly in his living room that levitates a crystal ashtray and creates spiral patterns on the wall. Initially believing it to be a ghost, they decide to make a documentary about it to snare a Netflix deal. Then Levi, an unblinking adherent to an apocalyptic church, begins noticing these same geometrical patterns everywhere around the city, in brickwork, signs and the like. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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