Some potentially important information for readers who enjoy culture and actually are willing to leave their homes in order to do so. First, the organizers of the Sziget Festival, which this year will take place between August 6-13, this week announced several additions to the lineup. Among the (supposedly) Big Names added to the schedule are Friendly Fires, Horrors, Hurts, Noah and The Whale, Placebo, the Stone Roses and Subways (all from the UK), the Ibero-British Crystal Fighters, and the Swedish Mando Diao.
Meanwhile, for those willing to leave their homes but not to trudge up to the Island, the annual Spring Festival this week started its yearly PR push, which this time around is a bit awkward, since a cut in funding means the whole thing is being shortened and otherwise trimmed back. Still, it’s not all sad, because among the early “highlights” is “John Malkovich starring in a play as a serial killer.”
It is simultaneously upsetting, impressive, shocking and bewildering when a serial killer turns out to be a man of refined taste and outstanding intelligence, a “civilized person” who can “justify” their heinous outrages with a greatly convincing, flawless argument.
Malkovich!
