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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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
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...