When it's #followateen, every teenager is a celebrity and a Tamagotchi at the same time

Punk was making up life for yourself, punk was inventing yourself, and punk was inventing the people around you, too, inflating them to the size of Gods or perhaps just cartoons. Punk was a scene and scenes are a form of myth-making.

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Rock and roll survives by reinventing, rather impossibly, over and over, that which isn’t permitted. For one more generation, for one more year, for one…

“Internet socialization is far closer to a 19th century mode of intimacy than to a dystopian future of tragically disconnected robot prostitutes. There’s a Jane Austen-ish quality to online social life. The written word gains unmatched power and inarguable primacy.”

A review of Out of the Vinyl Deeps by Ellen Willis

It’s a great moment in Pedro Almodóvar’s film Todo Sobre Mi Madre: A transsexual woman stands on a stage and explains all the reconstructive and cosmetic…

Rereading Enduring Love, I’m struck again by the simple perfection of its opening

Rock and roll has no morals. Of course, that’s much of what is and has always been attractive about it. But maybe there’s something legitimately chilling beyond where lawlessness and rebellion are sexy.