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...
Beyond the Valley of 1984
...of moments of breathtaking music. Near the end of a masterful passage of diegetic drug-induced confusion rather than just imitative syntactic play, Aidan, tripping balls, is running out of a...
Confectionery Curriculum
...Illustration from Bürgerliches Wiener Kochbuch (1906) "The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry."...
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...
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
The Faces of Rimbaud
...death or the decline of his nation or culture but the passing of his youth. “It can only be the end of the world as you move forward,” he wistfully...
Simulacra Descending a Staircase
...a vase of roses, by his side.) Cardboard Khomeini is descended to the tune of a musical procession of trumpets. (Khomeini did after all eventually legalize music). The officers salute...
On the Skin of the World
...music, its conjuring of images. One may also be tempted, under the circumstances, by a largely genetic tack, skirting a marshy text on the firmer ground of history and biography....
Sunday Reading
...went on an elephant-killing spree and the Swedish Culture Minister was entertained by a racially offensive cake. “You can take the European out of the jungle, but you can’t take...
No Life Stories
...data sets turn up correlations beyond our ability to explain them, the logic of explanation is being rewritten culture wide. As Andrejevic notes, “An era of information overload coincides ......
Coming to Las Vegas
...in the psalm (like an Amen, a moment to mark and to consider the music), and the root word for weight or hang “Hebrew root word salah (Hebrew: ??????) which...
The Benevolence of the Butcher
...the Pleasures of the Table" (1912) The butcher did so. Moments after handing the him the score and bidding him farewell, Haydn heard faint music outside. He went to his...