Disappearing Shanghai
...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...
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
Sunday Reading, July 2, 2023
...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...
I'm Not a Philosopher (But I Play One in The Movies)
...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...
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...
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...
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...
A Saudi Arabia Reader
...the Arabs, 13 November 1961† †Quoted in Robert Vitalis, America's Kingdom, p. 127. In 2013 I designed and taught a course on the history, literature, and visual culture of contemporary...
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...
Locations Requiring Further Examination
...flavors. Operated by Egyptians, Pakistanis and African Americans. The cover charge for customers is five dollars. Location caters to college students and plays Hip Hop music at night. Turnpike Mediterranean...
Tooth-to-tooth metal lock
...the largest nuclear reactor in Europe alongside a facility that could solve the problem of what to do with spent nuclear fuel. Music Listening Near Bedtime Disruptive To Sleep Blood...