En passant
...also known for earnest, "raw" emotionality that gains an aura of authenticity through amateur production values. In music, technology has even developed to the point where crappy production values is...
Memories of a Penitent Heart @ Rox Gallery
...Performance by Aja Nicole Marie Mrs Williamsburg 2014 Music by Rafe Terrizzi AKA Mr. Gibbons 7pm Thursday, June 12 86 Delancey Street $8 Door Suggested Donation FREE entry for Indiegogo...
The Benevolence of the Butcher
...the Pleasures of the Table" (1912) The butcher did so. Moments after handing the him the score and bidding him farewell, Haydn heard faint music outside. He went to his...
Landscape of the Bleeding Crowd
...and scream at all the things. That dinner party at Mildred Adams'—that Spanish-speaking journalist in Granada, you remember?—is far away. My ears are bereft of the music of Albéniz and...
On the Skin of the World
...music, its conjuring of images. One may also be tempted, under the circumstances, by a largely genetic tack, skirting a marshy text on the firmer ground of history and biography....
Manifesto for Confessional Journalism
...‘turn expressions of the capitalist system and its media culture against itself’. Any subject, especially the boring subjects listed above, can and must be approached in this way. Marx, Freud...
#mybodymyhome (iii)
...impossibility of empathy. Njau refuses the fantasy that unethical regimes can exist without distributing their toxicity. The novel’s protagonist, Tesa Koki Kenga, composes and teaches music at a high school....
You're Not Pretty Enough
...we were accompanied by Cat and another DJ, Rick Michaels. The mood was giddy as we jammed out to music on the thirty-minute ride to the Richfield Coliseum on a...
What is Aleppo?
...the town currently known as Aleppo. Layers of Roman, Byzantine, Arabic, Sumerian and other historical civilisations are knotted together in the city’s architecture, food, music and character. Aleppo is the...
“The Beyblade Strategy” or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Focused Protection
...Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume.” What then of the vulnerable? The high risk? The authors of the Declaration simply state: “People who are more at risk...
Sunday Reading
...went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. “You can take the European out of the jungle, but you can’t take...
Fragments on microcelebrity
...11. To mark today's release of New Inquiry's music issue, Spectacle Theater in Williamsburg is screening a film tonight about Kurt Cobain, a clear casualty of the celebrity he was...
21st Century Surrealism: The Omnipotence of Dream Memes
When dreams reproduce images we see online, dreams become as easy to recreate and share as a meme. The subreddit r/thomastheplankengine is dedicated to doing just that
Confectionery Curriculum
...Illustration from Bürgerliches Wiener Kochbuch (1906) "The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry."...
No Life Stories
...data sets turn up correlations beyond our ability to explain them, the logic of explanation is being rewritten culture wide. As Andrejevic notes, “An era of information overload coincides ......
Beyond the Valley of 1984
...of moments of breathtaking music. Near the end of a masterful passage of diegetic drug-induced confusion rather than just imitative syntactic play, Aidan, tripping balls, is running out of a...