...and the city awakens in a hangover? What happens, as is the title of the song of Azerbaijan’s entry sung by Sabina Babayeva this year, when the music dies?...
...Unwanted Music." So worth a listen.) ED bytes: Excellent piece that gives context and insight into the new direction of pro-eating-disorder sites; I'd say it's a must-read for anyone concerned...
...misogyny in philosophy and culture, it is precisely the period that slices through the figure to produce a question: a question of being, a question of equality. It is precisely...
...are shocking, transfixing and emotionally exhausting—in a good way. The first of these galleries is a gilded mirrored room, with gothic light fixtures and creepy mood music. The first dress...
...tragic game of trying to be what our culture expects of women—thin, pretty, docile—and isn’t it a shame that they don’t recognize their own potential? They wouldn’t be feminists, they...
...our computers out, listening to music and talking and gabbing about whatever. That’s when we’ll all put on our makeup and do our hair. If we’re struggling and can’t get...
...While much emphasis has been placed on the visual iconography of love, with the exception of music very little attention has been given to love as an aural phenomenon since...
...All photography is a record of a lost past. Photography does not share music’s ability to be fully remade each time it is presented, nor does it have...
...backwards, like starting a video of an atrocity at the end, and running it backwards to the beginning. [it’s like the joke about listening to country music backwards: you get...
...since the Great Depression, and due to the modest policy response, “it seems unlikely that US income concentration will fall much in the coming years.” Swedish electronic music group The...
...melancholy underneath Chomsky’s unwillingness to discuss his wife’s death. Mortality hangs over the entire project like that; Gondry himself, once an enfant terrible of the music video world, is just...
...this piece, Nakadate feeds lurid lines about herself to a croaking old man, who dutifully repeats them over footage of Hollywood alleys and apartment complexes. It feels like an effort...
...films such as Stalker, music such as jazz, writers such as Lawrence, or art-forms such as photography. Perhaps this goes some way to explaining the rather embarrassing pose Dyer often...
...sought to satirize than much of what passes for relevant cinema from the era. Movies like this almost never get included in those categorizations of quality our self-destructing culture is...