Pray for Chic
...I am eternally committed to Style. Devoted to the Goddess.” [r]Self-Portrait as the Virgin Surrogate as the Bride in Chanel, 2011[/r] “Nowadays pop-culture feels a little 'Insert Anybody.'" ...
Everyday schadenfreude
...God I didn’t have Facebook back then!” statements is the worry that a less-refined past-self would be exposed to current, different, perhaps hipper or more professional networks. Silly music tastes,...
Vice is Hip
...bounced out of Chavez Ravine to build Dodger Stadium, American Indians swept out of Bunker Hill for the Music Center, Tariq’s neighborhood bulldozed aside for channel view estates.” Tariq is...
Autofill Mythologies
...we collect through our wanderings, bits and bobs from the news and pop music and cinema and that infant-size pizza slice you once ate because someone told you it was...
A/V Recommends: Zebra Katz
...to music this week. Minimalist and undeniable, Zebra Katz' production makes such calibrated use of dynamics that it's as well suited for headphones as the dance floor. Dark and funny...
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Internet
...and filesharing replace brick and mortar record and video stores, greatly damage music companies large and small, and will soon do the same to Hollywood. Ignore the free-media utopians’ sleight-of-hand...
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...
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...
Sunday Reading
...the World (Chapter 5) Guitar Hero TV and the Rebirth of Music Television 'being yellow' by binghao wong Why you should be checking out this year's interactive fiction competition Conversations...
Hunger as an Instrument of Social Control
...they are free members of society; and they are — attention to food and drink, exercise, education, music and morals, combined with steady industry. Holidays and free alcohol might well...
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...
Native Regard
...is society where none intrudes, / by the deep sea, and music in its roar; / I love not Man the less, but Nature more. --Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage...
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...
Selfie-Correction
...behind the practice establishes a cyclical association between the image and female subject, in which each is enlisted to reinforce the low status of the other. A music video by...
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...
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...