Beauty Blogosphere 7.27.12
...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...
Vol. 20 Editors' Note: Off-Brand
...walk at the edge of self-control.” From swagger descends “swag,” the swank stuff you neither buy nor steal but are magically “gifted.” Anyone can get free music or free food...
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
Alone Again Or
...Larry David to Lena Dunham Heti, to her credit, is quite funny when she chooses to be. , bleakness and despair are ultimately punch lines, complete with credit music that...
Choose Your Own Adventure
...cuisine, world music, ethnic chic, etc, while the black other is pushed further away. Personally I am glad people are relatively open about their racial sexual preferences. It allows me...
Sunday Reading
...Empire’s Ways of Knowing - The Mystery of Chapatis The Bumpy Road to May Day Red State Gun Culture Kills Cops Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
Private Life Drama
...of late-night dancing, where to “some insane European music that contained centrifugal forces… almost every man present asked [Moscow] to dance, finding in her something that had been lost in...
Too Foreign
...in her afterword: “when to prioritize the music and when the meaning.” Lispector’s Portuguese is, we are told by both translators, a sonorous web of repetitions, intent more on establishing...
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...
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...
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...
Witches
...of social mobility. Nic Cavell writes of Witch House, the circa-2010 music genre that “made a subject of the Internet’s emotional implications.” And Karla Cornejo Villavicencio outlines how botanicas—the community...
Lamin Fofana tribute to Chinua Achebe
...Achebe with some natural sounds and music added. Binyavanga is also a hero. He played at the release party for my last EP." – Lamin Fofana Download as .Zip More...
Violent X
...Festival for the backing without which this film and especially these live performances would not have been possible.) Violent X Written, directed, and narrated by Evan Calder Williams Music by...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.6.12
...and visual culture." Eager to see where Mr. Cole takes us—and eager to find new ways that visual studies interact with beauty. 'Cause I'm a blonde: It's neither wise nor...