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Lidl often buys local produce from small companies, slaps their label on them, and then ships them to their shops. Thus, you may actually get good food from which Lidl does take a too high profit for their role as distributors, but that would not be otherwise accessible without their role as distributors/brand makers (like Ikea, really).
Just *please* avoid the big commercial brands like Barilla: they mostly
produce pasta by blending sub-par varieties of wheat (because capitalism, etc.). In doubt, a minor Italian company is inherently better than these guys. Small companies are often made of farmers' cooperatives who prepare good pasta with the local wheat from where they operate. "Small" companies often pack a punch, in Italy.
On oil...I am not a "nationalist", but my two cents are that good extra virgin olive oil should be mellow, or it will hide the flavour of just about everything. If you can eat a teaspoon of this oil and feel that it is gentle to the palate and slightly sweet, you're good to go, also because the price is excellent! Though I guess that your sweet half my think otherwise (Italians are always harsh food critics and too "nationalist", for my taste).
McEnnedy's is hilarious though: wannabe Irish-American something?
Re;
Koyaanisqatsi. I have seen this movie as a child, then a re-issue when I was a BA student (2004) in my hometown, then a third time in a "KunstKino" in Gothenburg (artsy cinema). Life-defining experience, so I am thrilled to see it again in a yet very different environment (China, amphitheatre with squirrels and chipmunks stealing your popcorn, etc.). My guess, however, is that by the time
The grid rolls in (i.e. the final, ultra-fast and rather long movement), only the squirrels and I will be awake. Each time I saw this movie, I was literally the only one person still awake.; everyone else was put to sleep by the very slow pace and generally harrowing tone of movie and OST.
The rest of the schedule is TBA, but I suspect that the School/Faculty of Cinema may select other aurally impressive movies: their blurb mentions that they want to put the fairly expensive audio system to good use
"The only desire the Culture could not satisfy from within itself was one common to both the descendants of its original human stock and the machines [...]: the urge not to feel useless."
I.M. Banks, "Consider Phlebas" (1988: 43).
Then she comes over and we go to Burning Man.
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