Stalker/Zona
...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...
TONIGHT: Sixties Pop Icons, Unseen
...talking about the trial—just about music. Bruce and Sacha Lecca, senior photo editor at Rolling Stone magazine, will moderate a slideshow and discussion of Bruce's work. “This exhibit is the...
How Many Licks
...yelling, music, poetry, the Department of Homeland Security. Part of what makes heteronormcore so boring is its inability to dream bodies outside its own dictionary. Part of what makes capturing...
Sunday Reading
..."They under-perform because their white lower middle-class culture values sociability” “a pilot program for a massive facial recognition surveillance system” Reclaim UC: University of California steps up out-of-state recruiting The...
The Search
...by, all gotten up as young eccentrics with their beards and bicycles, and down they go into the Quarter to hear some music and find some whores and still I...
Permission Slips
...and secrets must be unveiled. In a brief sequence set to stock “uplifting” music, Finding Vivian Maier attempts to anticipate such accusations of exploitation by detailing Maier’s correspondence over having...
Nightspawn
...for the eerie quality of his urban nocturnes, but as a man and a photographer he preferred the warmth of seedy music halls and the company of prostitutes. Now imagine...
Seeing Through Transparency
...with music, film, video games, books: making the information free. As Lewis Hyde suggests in Common as Air, the righteous datatheft asserted by hackers might be traceable to a civic...
I'm Not Ready
...announcement, bringing to mind the first moments of falling in love with a band via a Behind the Music special or radio single. The language of readiness reveals the lack...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Nine
...goes, 'Dude, I thought you were vegan!" ♦ Back home I listen to an "Alpha Wave ~ Brain Power ~ Concentration Music" playlist on YouTube and read past midnight....
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."...
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...
The Faces of Rimbaud
...death or the decline of his nation or culture but the passing of his youth. “It can only be the end of the world as you move forward,” he wistfully...
Hi Honey, I'm Home: Makeup and Cohabitation
...his benefit, but for mine: For as I write this, my boyfriend is at work, and I am without a drop of makeup, without shoes, without contact lenses. No music...
Mall Gothic
White American nostalgia is neurotically fixated on social constructions that are imagined dead even as they become stronger, as evidenced by the twin histories of the mall and the Midwest
Sunday Reading
...states, 1973 13th-century Yemeni recipe for paper 19th-century Yiddish letter-writing manuals Early 20th-century Turkish music policies Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History A Social History of the Deccan, 1300-1761...