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...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 18
...our lives on nothing. As a longtime archivist of books, music, and assorted life ephemera, I can tell you these days I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of...
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...
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...
Arms and the Man
...culture to the present order of knowledge. And a particularly insidious manifestation of this present order of knowledge is the liberalism that overwhelmingly dominates popular discourse around the execution of...
Day Residue
...ultra of the utopian society gone horribly wrong; as she searches for “resistance” in the music of the People’s Temple, the looming dread of what would come seeps out of...
Five Questions with Elaine Equi
...more sympathetic to the problems writers face and better able to evaluate a literary work. Music has always seemed infinitely more difficult to me, but that’s probably because no one...
Après Nous, le Déluge
...The sequence goes on and on, using vertical pans to give the sense of terrible accumulation, of a pile climbing higher and higher. Finally we reach the end—the music slows...
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...
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...
What Is an Artist?
...Andy Warhol Atomic Bomb, 1965 (via) A Glossary Classical musicians: Uptight, ambitious squares. Doctors. New Music musicians: Having implicitly resigned from the institutional rat race, they are the...
Wifey Status
...stardom. In an interview with Vogue U.K. she explains, “I wanted a name I could shape the music toward. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time,...
Midwest
...seek to evoke the special quality of a place, and explore the links between weather, landscape, culture, and affect. + SS: Recently, I was reading Space and Place by the...
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...