Some Blues but Not the Kind That’s Blue
In music and literature, Jay-Z and Percival Everett meditate on maturity, black masculinity, and the confessional drive of the artist’s life
Lil B The Based God @ The New Museum 4/12
...than five years, representing a new phase for both rap music and celebrity. Lil B is a published author and the architect of the “Based” lifestyle—a philosophy that encourages young...
Love Craft
...if The Stone Roses’s “I Wanna Be Adored” Of the Theban musician Ismenias, Atheas, King of the Scythians, declared he liked his music "better than the braying of an ass."...
Loving Franko B
...like an old videotape—here we go fast around the last corner up the hill to his house, shadows of limes and roses blowing in the car window and music spraying...
Baghdad, Utopia
...forcefully through images, stories, music, and the physical presence of those people who bear its marks. As I grew up, Baghdad was in the kitchen, in huge jars filled with...
Walking in L.A.
...disrupt the music. These voices question Andersen’s film and his motives. “You wanna see Los Angeles?” one man asks. “Go inside this bus and look at the people. All kinds...
gifts
...with. In this old lovers’ quarrel between liberty and community, Westerners are those who defend freedom and long for attachment. The tone of country-and-western music must be the American complement...
Addicted to Failure
...plant vast fields of wheat, I can grow it more efficiently than if I diversify. Then I can feed more people. This logic ignores the complex, circular networks of causality...
Venerated Members
...ousted him from Rome and tried to cut out his tongue. The Pope was weak, but his gift allied him powerfully with the symbol of God’s earthly reign. How the...
Die progressive Paralyse
...reiteration or as a proof that the simulation is an interpretation]. S-75 confronted this aporia nonetheless, tried to enact a self-factorable simulation [definable by the total number of its nuances],...
Ranked Amateurs
...a paper his Freshman year, something that was done without his consent. In example after example, the organization publicly shames young men who have simply tried to provide for themselves...
Novel Evil
The Holocaust is popularly narrativized through tropes that erase resistance efforts in favor of redemption arcs, redefining “never again” to the advantage of fascists.
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
Bad Subjects
...in literature. An overlooked or shameful or abandoned part of the self that we have left to A-Z Dream Dictionary, music video flashback sequences, and Sigmund “royal road to the...
Sunday Reading
...to oblivion Who speaks for British Jews? The History, Myth, and Music of Syrian Druze singer Asmahan [podcast] An Indian Typography Cogs in the wheel: A day in the life...
Fitted
...amulet, and swear it is play, and that it is good fun. Our data exists to reproduce the world. Older kinds of confession promised to teach us how to love....