journalist / fixer / writer / storyteller for hire: the collected works and professional endeavours of Özgür Kurtoğlu.
Music
it felt like a thousand years; it was a thousand miles away. The point of taking notes shifted considerably for me when I considered the academia part of my life as decidedly over and moved on to work that was my very own. Figuring out what was worth making a
Film
On ›Kimi‹ by Steven Soderbergh. There’s so much to gain from not going overboard with explaining the technology at the core of movies like this, what with quite a few thrillers and horror movies allowing themselves to get bogged down by that minutiae instead of crafting a better story
Music
a musical care package from February 2022. I've lost a lot of sleep to dreams. And it's becoming a daily pain, during the hours I'm supposed to stay awake. Time doesn't make much sense, still. The pandemic broke my perception of it,
Music
En utomordentlig musikfest för historieböckerna. Minns du när senast du överväldigas hejdlöst, när lyckan slog hårdare än du någonsin anat var överhuvudtaget möjligt? Minns du när senast du förlamades fullständigt, när sorgen och smärtan bedövade kropp och sinne, förpestade luften i lungorna och tankarna i huvudet? Minns du när det
Film
It's been slightly confusing, clocking out some two weeks before New Year's Eve and, in the following free days of holiday cheer and the works, sifting through what I've been watching over the course of the past year. The text file I keep updated
