The revolution begins

Well, I've finally joined the Twitter 'revolution' (probably as it enters its Brezhnevite 'stability of the cadres' decline).  I've linked to this blog on my Twitter profile (@AlexanderCPlumb).  To come from Twitter to this, it may be generous to describe the blog as 'minimalist'.  But the style is intentional.  I'm following a German book reviewer who hosted a television show where he dispensed with all the fripperies of modern cultural review shows.  There were no segments of authors or celebrities reading the books under discussion, overlaid with appropriate melodies.  There were no projections of the book cover and/or author projected onto the wall around the reviewers.  There was no media razzmatazz whatsoever.  It was just the views of himself and his assembled cabal of assessors.
Now, the name of this German man escapes me (and Google is no help, bringing up most unwanted references through any number of combinations - I won't say what typing in 'German book reviewer stripped down' hauls in through the trawl), but his style I found bracingly iconoclastic.  Were I to start adding pictures and videos and other aspects that can distract I would be going against the ethos of what I'm doing here.  As the saying goes, only dead fish follow the flow.  'Hard opinion' may be hard sell but in its own way it makes it stands out for not bowing to trends, allowing me to focus just on ideas, feelings and events that occur.
And I can't be bothered to make this an all-singing, all-dancing blog either.