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16 Best Quotes from The Grand Budapest Hotel

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16 Best Quotes from The Grand Budapest Hotel

Inspired by Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity, The Grand Budapest Hotel is an energetic film with a quirky sense of humor and a distinct color palette. The bright interiors of the titular hotel are the setting for much drama between concierge Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes), his lobby boy, Zero (Tony Revolori), and the hotel’s other staff and patrons. The plot thickens when Gustave H is accused of murdering an elderly dowager (Tilda Swinton), leading him to flee across the (fictional) country of Zubrowka with Zero. Amid the action, moments of lighthearted humor, budding friendship, and first love between Zero and Agatha (Saoirse Ronan).

The script is memorable for its tongue-in-cheek dialogue and deadpan humor, as well as shreds of philosophical wisdom. Penned by Wes Anderson and Hugo Guinness, the screenplay won numerous awards, including a BAFTA, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Here are sixteen great quotes from The Grand Budapest Hotel.

  1. Mr. Moustafa: [Monsieur Gustave H] was, by the way, the most liberally perfumed man I had ever encountered. The scent announced his approach from a great distance and lingered for many minutes after he was gone.
  2. Mr. Moustafa: I began to realize that many of the hotel’s most valued and distinguished guests came for him. It seemed to be an essential part of his duties… But I believe it was also his pleasure. The requirements were always the same. They had to be rich, old, insecure, vain, superficial, blonde, needy.
    Author: Why blonde?
    Mr. Moustafa: Because they all were.
  3. M. Gustave: Experience?
    Zero: Hotel Kinsky, Kitchen Boy: six months. Hotel Berlitz, Mop and Broom Boy: three months. Before that I was a skillet scrubber.
    M. Gustave: Experience – zero … Education?
    Zero: I studied reading and spelling. I started primary school – I almost finished–
    M. Gustave: Education – zero … Family?
    Zero: Zero.
  4. M. Gustave: Dear God, what have you done to your nails? … This diabolical varnish; the color is completely wrong!
    Madam D: Oh, really? Don’t you like it?
    M. Gustave: It’s not that I don’t like it; I am physically repulsed.
  5. M. Gustave: How fast can you pack?
    Zero: Five minutes.
    M. Gustave: Do it, and bring a bottle of the Pouilly-Jouvet ‘26 in an ice bucket with two glasses, so we don’t have to drink the cat piss they serve in the dining car.
  6. M. Gustave: You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed, that’s what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant … Oh, f*ck it.
  7. M. Gustave: You’re looking so well, darling, you really are. They’ve done a marvelous job. I don’t know what sort of cream they’ve put on you down at the morgue but I want some. Honestly, you look better than you have in years. You look like you’re alive.
  8. Kovacs: Did he just throw my cat out the window?
  9. M. Gustave: Give me a few squirts of L’air de Panache, please, will you? Can I not get a squirt, even?
    Zero: I forgot the L’air de Panache
    M. Gustave: Honestly, you forgot the L’air de Panache? I don’t believe it. How could you? I’ve been in jail, Zero! Do you understand how humiliating this is?
  10. M. Gustave: How is our darling Agatha?
    Zero: “Twas first light when I saw her face upon the heath; and hence did I return, day by day, entranced: tho’ vinegar did brine my heart, never…”
    M. Gustave: Very good. I’m going to stop you there because the alarm has sounded but remember where we left off because I insist you finish later.
  11. M. Gustave: Rudeness is merely an expression of fear. People fear they won’t get what they want. The most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved, and they will open up like a flower.
  12. M. Gustave: Serge X, missing. Deputy Kovacs, also missing. Madame D, dead. Boy With Apple, stolen. By us. Dmitri and Jopling, ruthless, cold-blooded savages. Gustave H, at large. What else?
    Zero: Zero, confused.
    M. Gustave: Zero, confused, indeed. The plot thickens, as they say. Why, by the way? Is it a soup metaphor?
  13. M. Gustave: What is a lobby boy? A lobby boy is completely invisible, yet always in sight. A lobby boy remembers what people hate. A lobby boy anticipates the client’s needs before the needs are needed. A lobby boy is, above all, discreet to a fault. Our guests know that their deepest secrets, some of which are frankly rather unseemly, will go with us to our graves. So keep your mouth shut, Zero.
  14. M. Gustave: There’s really no point in doing anything in life because it’s all over in the blink of an eye, and the next thing you know, rigor mortis sets in.
  15. M. Gustave: Well, Hello there, chaps.
    Soldier: Documents, please.
    M. Gustave: With pleasure … It’s not a very flattering portrait, I’m afraid. I was once considered a great beauty.
  16. M. Gustave: You can’t arrest him simply because he’s a bloody immigrant; he hasn’t done anything wrong! Stop it! Stop, damn you! … You filthy, goddamn, pockmarked, fascist a**holes! Take your hands off my lobby boy!

Why Gaming Is on the Rise

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Why Gaming Is on the Rise

It goes without saying that people just love to play! It’s human nature to enjoy playing a game or two and if there is someone who doesn’t like to have fun, then it’s time to question their mental or emotional state. With that said and a well-accepted fact that fun contributes to a healthy lifestyle, let’s look at some of the reasons why gaming is on the rise.

Let’s Get the Pandemic Out of the Way!

After the past few years, the first thought that probably comes to mind would be the pandemic. Most people had no other way to socialise other than online. Social media became boring, and it was the same old complaints being posted day after day, week after week. All those necessary restrictions began to wear us down. In an effort to find some way to have a bit of fun we turned to online gaming. Here we could either play as a single-player or enter multi-player games to address both fun and that much-needed socialisation. There, now that the pandemic is out of the way as a reason for gaming being on the rise, let’s look at a few more reasons.

Explosive Availability of Online Gaming Venues

For those gamers who like to play more traditional casino-style games online, there are online casinos to play a quick game of Texas Hold’em or perhaps try their luck with a spin of the slot wheels. In fact, there are also several gaming review sites like www.maplecasino.ca/reviews/ that make it easier to find the games you really enjoy most. Improved search technology is one of the most important advances that has led to gaming being on the rise.

Advances in Technology

Perhaps the single-most prominent factor leading to the rise in gaming would be the amazing advances in technology within the past few years. It probably isn’t necessary to go into the exact ways in which technology has advanced but rather to name those advances many you are probably using even as you are reading this! They include such things as:

  • Cloud-based games.
  • Beyond believable VR.
  • Technology to create your own image.
  • Wearable gaming technology.

Perhaps the lower advancements need a bit of explaining. Not only can gamers create their own avatar but with advances in facial and voice recognition technology and 3D scanning, you can create your own character that is the VR version of you! It’s true and gamers are using this technology more and more often. Perhaps the best example of wearable gaming technology would also fit within the VR category. Those VR glasses needed to play those games are technology that is worn but also enables players to step into virtual reality scenes and games.

Mobile Gaming Takes Us Full Circle to Post-Pandemic Days

Literally, every advancement mentioned above can also be enjoyed on a mobile device. Once the pandemic is another chapter in history gamers will be playing their favourite games while getting out and about in a world that had been largely closed to them for the previous few years. Advances in mobile technology may just be the biggest factor leading to gaming being exponentially on the rise.

As a final note, if you doubt just how much gaming is rising, take a look at global gaming revenue from 2021 and you will have all the proof you need.

070 Shake and Christine and the Queens Team Up on New Song ‘Body’

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070 Shake and Christine and the Queens Team Up on New Song ‘Body’

070 Shake and Christine and the Queens have joined forces for the new song ‘Body’, which will appear on Shake’s forthcoming album You Can’t Kill Me. The track, which follows early singles ‘Web’ and ‘Skin and Bones’, was produced by Mike Dean and TV on the Radio’s David Andrew Sitek. Listen to it below.

You Can’t Kill Me, the follow-up to 2020’s Modus Vivendi, is set to drop on June 3 via G.O.O.D. Music/Def Jam Recordings.

Kim Gordon Collaborates With Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler on New Song ‘Debt Collector’

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Kim Gordon Collaborates With Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler on New Song ‘Debt Collector’

Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler have teamed up with Kim Gordon for a new track called ‘Debt Collector’. It’s taken from the upcoming compilation album LAND ACT: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color, which is benefitting the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. Check out a video for ‘Debt Collector’, directed by Cooler, below.

“I’m a bit obsessed with what’s happening with these big financial corporations like Blackrock and Blackstone buying up houses, becoming landlords,”  Gordon said in a statement about the single. “They pay far beyond a house’s value, putting home ownership even out of the range of the middle class—much less working class.”

Out June 3, LAND ACT: Benefit for North East Farmers of Color includes the previously released ‘Mirrorball’, which features Lyle’s Bikini Kill bandmate Kathleen Hanna. It also includes contributions from Alice Bag, Palberta, the Linda Lindas, Katie Alice Greer, and more.

Four Tet Releases New KH Song ‘Look at Your Pager’

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Four Tet Releases New KH Song ‘Look at Your Pager’

Four Tet has returned to his KH moniker with a new single called ‘Looking At Your Pager’, which is out today via Ministry of Sound. The track samples American girl group 3LW’s 2000 hit ‘No More (Baby I’ma Do Right)’. Give it a listen below.

“This track was made in the summer last year just before my first festival set in a long time,” Kieran Hebden explained in a press release. “I wanted something new to play that would feel universal, positive and futuristic and this is what I came up with. Since then I think more people have asked me about this track than for anything else I’ve ever made and I’ve had amazing times playing it to the best crowds you could ask for. It took quite a while to get approval for the vocal sample but it finally happened recently and now the music is out in the world for everyone.”

spill tab Unveils New Single ‘Splinter’

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spill tab Unveils New Single ‘Splinter’

spill tab has released her latest single, ‘Splinter’. It follows ‘Sunburn’, the artist’s first new single of 2022. Check out a visual for it below.

“I wanted to make something with a bit of an early 2000s rom com end credits vibe going on, so I made ‘Splinter ‘with my friends Wyatt and Austin, who absolutely smashed it,” spill tab commented in a statement. “It’s a bit depressing lyrically but I love having those visuals layered over the crunchy drums and guitars.”

spill tab released her most recent EP Bonnie in December. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with spill tab.

Watch Beach House Perform ‘Superstar’ on ‘Colbert’

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Watch Beach House Perform ‘Superstar’ on ‘Colbert’

Beach House made an appearance on Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (May 19), performing their single ‘Superstar’, which we named one of the best songs of 2021. Watch it below.

‘Superstar’ is lifted from Beach House’s latest album Once Twice Melody, which came out in February of this year. The Baltimore duo is currently on tour in support of the LP, which will keep them on the road through September.

Albums Out Today: Harry Styles, Porridge Radio, Lykke Li, Flume, and More

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Albums Out Today: Harry Styles, Porridge Radio, Lykke Li, Flume, and More

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on May 20, 2022:

Harry Styles, Harry’s House

Harry Styles’ new album, Harry’s House, is out today. The former One Direction singer’s third LP, following 2019’s Fine Line, features the previously shared single ‘As It Was’ as well as contributions from Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange), John Mayer, Tobias Jesso Jr., Pino Palladino,  Kid Harpoon, and more. Speaking about the album title, Styles explained in an interview with Apple Music: “The album is named after Haruomi Hosono, he had an album in the ’70s called ‘Hosono’s House’, and I spent that chunk in Japan; I heard that record and I was like ‘I love that. It’d be really fun to make a record called Harry’s House.”

Porridge Radio, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky

Porridge Radio have returned with a new album, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, via Secretly Canadian. The follow-up to 2020’s Every Bad was previewed with the singles ‘Back to the Radio’, ‘The Rip’, and ‘End of Last Year’ and was co-produced by Tom Carmichael, Dana Margolin, and Sam Yardley. “I kept saying that I wanted everything to be ‘stadium-epic’ – like Coldplay,” Margolin said in press materials. The singer-songwriter also explained that the album title “symbolizes the ups and downs of human life, of virtue and transgression. With this album, the feelings of joy, fear and endlessness coexist together.” Read our review of the album.

Lykke Li, EYEYE

Lykke Li has released an immersive audiovisual album titled EYEYE. The visual component of EYEYE, which is directed by Theo Lindquist and shot on 16-millimeter film by cinematographer Edu Grau, seeks “to capture the beauty and grandeur of a three-hour European arthouse movie, while making something native to modern media,” according to Li. The Swedish singer recorded the LP in her bedroom in Los Angeles, reuniting with longtime collaborator Björn Yttling for the first time since 2014’s I NEVER LEARN. The follow-up to 2018’s So Sad So Sexy was mixed to tape by Shawn Everett in Los Angeles. “I wanted the record to have the intimacy of listening to a voice memo on a macro dose of LSD,” Li said.

Flume, Palaces

Flume has put out a new album called Palaces, out now via Future Classic and Transgressive. It features guest appearances from Damon Albarn, Caroline Polachek, Oklou, Kučka, and Vergen Maria. The Australian producer began to write music for the album in Los Angeles at the beginning of the pandemic, finding inspiration through reconnecting with nature. “I made a bunch of recordings around the property that made their way onto the record,” Flume told Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “The record was kind of fragmented over years of doing a session in London with someone or doing this over here or on tour. So to try and piece it all together and make it make sense and feel cohesive, I’ve added a whole bunch of tones and textures from the wildlife on the property. ”

fanclubwallet, You Have Got to Be Kidding Me

fanclubwallet – the project of Ottawa-based musician Hannah Judge – has issued her debut LP, You Have Got to Be Kidding Me. Featuring the advance singles ‘Gr8 Timing!’, ‘Trying to Be Nice’, and ‘That I Won’t Do’, the album was recorded the album at Port William Sound in Ontario with childhood friend and longtime collaborator Michael Watson. “I think I spend a lot of time trying to be like the cool, chill, calm girl,” Judge said in a press release. “This album’s kind of me being like, ‘Maybe I’m not cool, calm and collected.'”

Charlie Hickey, Nervous at Night

Nervous at Night is the debut full-length from Pasadena-based artist Charlie Hickey. Out now via Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory Records, the album was produced with Marshall Vore and features contributions from LA musicians such as Harrison Whitford, Christian Lee Hutson, and Mason Stoops. It follows last year’s Count the Stars EP and includes the early singles ‘Gold Line’, ‘Dandelions’, the title track. “It felt like a real privilege to be able to be surrounded by that community while I was making the album,” Hickey said in our Artist Spotlight interview. “It both feels very comfortable and we’re all peers, but then I also will always look up to all those people. And it can be inspiring and force you to be better to be surrounded by those people, but it doesn’t feel like being an imposter.”

Body Type, Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing’s Surprising

Body Type have dropped their debut album, Everything Is Dangerous But Nothing’s Surprising, via Poison City Records. Sophie McComish, Annabel Blackman, Cecil Coleman, and Georgia Wilkinson-Derums recorded the LP in eight days in early 2020 with Jonathan Boulet, who also mastered the record. “We were coming out of a period that felt quite suffocating and restrictive,” McComish said in press materials. “We just kind of regrouped and re-energised and did it ourselves.” Everything Is Dangerous follows two EPs, EP1 and EP2, and includes the advance tracks ‘The Charm’, ‘Buoyancy’, and ‘Sex & Range’.

Cola, Deep in View

Cola – the new project of former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright – have shared their debut full-length, Deep in View, via Fire Talk Records. Ahead of the release, the band unveiled the songs ‘Blank Curtain’, ‘So Excited’, ‘Degree’, ‘Water Table’, and ‘Fulton Park’. “It wasn’t the post-Ought band right off the bat,” Darcy said in press materials. “We really just took time to enjoy the process of collaborating and writing songs together.”

Jordana, Face the Wall

Jordana has come through with her official studio debut, Face the Wall, out today via Grand Jury. The record follows two EPs released in 2020, Something to Say and To You, which were combined to form Something to Say to You. “The album title has a few meanings to me,” Jordana explained in a press statement. “Mostly, it’s about not giving up. The wall can be anything in your way. The album is a sort of reminder to myself that I have to face those things, and I can’t take the easy route and turn around.” The tracks ‘Catch My Drift’, ‘Pressure Point’, ‘Go Slow’, and ‘To The Ground’ preceded the album.

Weird Nightmare, Weird Nightmare

The debut self-titled record by Weird Nightmare, the new project from METZ guitarist and singer Alex Edkins, has arrived via Sub Pop. The album was mostly recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic and includes contributions from Canadian alt-pop artist Chad VanGaalen and Alicia Bognanno of Bully. “Hooks and melody have always been a big part of my writing, but they really became the main focus this time,” Edkins said in a statement about the LP, which features the promotional songs ‘Searching for You’, ‘Lusitania’, and ‘Wrecked’. “It was about doing what felt natural.”

Other albums out today:

Boldy James & Real Bad Man, Killing Nothing; Mary Lattimore & Paul Sukeena, West Kensington; Tess Parks, And Those Who Were Seen Dancing; Ravyn Lenae, Hypnos; Everything Everything, Raw Data Feel; Craig Finn, A Legacy of Rentals; Cave In, Heavy Pendulum; Mavis Staples & Levon Helm, Carry Me Home; Matmos, Regards / Ukłony dla Bogusław Schaeffer; Robert Pollard, Our Gaze; Spice, Viv; SOAK, If I Never Know You Like This Again; Uffie, Sunshine Factory; Delta Spirit, One Is One; Marina Herlop, Pripyat; mxmtoon, rising; Koray Kantarcıoğlu, Loopworks 2; Lia Mice, Sweat Like Caramel; NZIRIA, XXYBRID.

Watch Rina Sawayama Perform ‘This Hell’ on ‘Fallon’

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Watch Rina Sawayama Perform ‘This Hell’ on ‘Fallon’

Rina Sawayama appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (May 19) to perform her new single ‘This Hell’, which arrived earlier this week. Watch it below.

‘This Hell’ is the lead single off Sawayama’s forthcoming album Hold the Girl. The follow-up to her debut SAWAYAMA is set for release on September 2.

Album Review: Porridge Radio, ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky’

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Album Review: Porridge Radio, ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky’

If Every Bad was proof of anything, it’s that nobody summons catharsis like Porridge Radio. Most bands treat it like a final destination, the all-consuming feeling a collection of music has to arrive at if it’s to serve any kind of grand purpose. But for the Bright-based four-piece, led by Dana Margolin, it’s more like a ceaseless wave, by turns perplexing and purifying as it spins out into something no less unpredictable than the chaos it’s supposed to upend. With their sophomore album, which arrived just days after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, Porridge Radio seemed to have mastered their dynamic capabilities after years of putting out understated, introspective indie rock. Two years later, having reached what’s surely the purest form of collective release with the climactic mantra of 2020’s ‘Lilac’, you might expect them to have shifted their focus entirely. Either its torrent of hope was enough to sweep away all the uncertainty, or the time had come to consider a different path altogether.

Judging from the feverish emotions that Margolin obsesses over on Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, that’s not what ended up happening. Instead, the band seems more acutely aware of their unique ability to turn a crescendo into not just a source of uplift but its own disorienting journey. Rather than wallowing in self-pity and despair, they do what they do best – try turning it into a mantra – and, without any expectation that this effort will bear its fruit, lean into it with more intention than before. You get why stadium acts like Coldplay and pop stars like Charli XCX were influences during the making of the album – sonically as well as spiritually, it reaches for the same kind of ambition, but emotionally it keeps spiraling inward, not letting itself be elevated by anything other than what’s truly at the core. “I want one feeling all the time/I don’t want to feel a thing,” Margolin howls on ‘Birthday Party’, encapsulating the band’s ethos.

This contrast leads to an album that’s every bit as captivating and even more fully-realized than Every Bad. You’ll still hear the word “bad” all over it as Margolin interrogates her self-image, but you also have a lead single and opening track defiantly titled ‘Back to the Radio’ and a transcendent moment in ‘U Can Be Happy If U Want To’ that revolves around the word “back,” one of many instances where repetition both intensifies and strips a lyric of its original meaning. Of course, it’s only a few tracks earlier that Margolin sings “I don’t wanna be loved” approximately a hundred times, so the ideal of happiness looks pretty unattainable. “I don’t believe in anything,” she declares, the sentiment echoed by her bandmates as they join along – and the transformative power of a rousing anthem is clearly no exception. “Do you remember when we all fell apart?/ At the end of last year,” she asks at the start of ‘End of Last Year’, a self-described “love song for my bandmates and for myself,” before admitting, “I always break my own heart.” This penchant for destruction only becomes more pronounced as the song swells towards its conclusion: “Do you know/ You break everything you touch?”

But for all its unwavering tension, the nature of Porridge Radio’s songwriting remains triumphantly open-ended, and the album sees the band embracing this quality with a sense of curiosity and purpose. It’s perhaps why they sound more at ease tackling quieter songs like ‘Flowers’ and the title track, which are as vulnerable but more well-defined and evocative than their earlier work, less reliant on anticipating the next massive sing-along. For Margolin, the first two components of the album’s title represent joy (Waterslide) and fear (Diving Board), and Porridge Radio are as comfortable resting as they are pushing against that in-between space, whether it’s rife with conflict or defined by nothingness. The ladder is the most important metaphor, encompassing the lens through which Margolin processes the most universal and ordinary and uncontainable feelings: endlessness. Can we experience catharsis without fully being released from fear and pain? To answer the question, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky suggests, would be to break the spell. You can take a shot and see what happens, though – after all, what’s broken can only stay that way for so long.

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