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
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....
Ramadan Diaries, Day Eighteen
...sit in a café in the middle of the day. The soft sound of spring rain permeates the raucous batucada percussion of the Brazilian music playing indoors. Eating midday for...
Piece of Candy
...— Candy Darling The specter of the “superstar,” that shining icon who transfixes our collective gaze, looms large over contemporary culture. On television, RuPaul’s catty Drag Race reality competition recently...
Martin Scorsese Started the Fire: Hugo and The Bad Thing
...movie gone from the paradigmatic orphan plot to a Behind the Music documentary? How have we been tricked into thinking the real tragedy of the Bad Thing was that it...
Grammar Lessons
...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...
The New Inquiry Vol. 2 Release Screening and Panel: Livestream
...the run up to Occupy Wall Street's declared May 1 general strike, we've assembled a panel to discuss the film, pop music, and revolutionary politics featuring: Cosmo Bjorkenheim, a New...
You Know You're the Prettiest Girl
...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...
Coming to Las Vegas
...in the psalm (like an Amen, a moment to mark and to consider the music), and the root word for weight or hang “Hebrew root word salah (Hebrew: ??????) which...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Twenty-Seven
...the chi chi ding dong sound of the berimbau worms its way into my insides and dissipates the pain like an aural analgesic. Music and dance: free Tylenol. ...
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...
Vol. 21 Editors' Note: Witches
...take cues from self-help classic The Secret in order to satisfy government-backed dreams of social mobility. Nic Cavell writes of Witch House, the circa-2010 music genre that “made a subject...
A Teen's Guide to Stoner Cinema
...the high school English teacher who has totally read Palahniuk. Awful. Gross as hell. One-hundred percent wrongheaded in approach and method. Go for that only if you dig tradition and...
Sunday Reading
...The Finn-donesian of "The Force Awakens" The music of Taiwan’s death metal star turned national politician Remembering Ellen Meiksins Wood The object of satire Human-Animal Chimera Bernie Sanders for President...
Holing Up
...Burton wrote it like that. Music and space were crucially important to her, a dancer who wrote by filling the corner of the barn where she worked with a maelstrom...