| 13 May 2021
What should I do, go down to the basement and laugh
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Tobsucht, 1998, German Band
On the continent and especially in Austria, the Basement is a place for obsessions, from the very private and secretive to the benign and utilitarian. Some dwellers spend most of their free time (Freizeit) in the basement rather than in their above-the-earth living rooms, exchanging the dream of socio-cultural conformity for the gritty reality of obsession and darkness.
While European trends point toward a sustainable wood construction movement that can rise into the clouds, the Californian subcontinent is increasing its reliability on concrete to go more underground. Not only is the scarcity of real estate finally catching up with the LA LA Land of single-story buildings producing ever more underground parking structures and higher concrete buildings for speculative housing and new commerce. In addition, Californ