An Interview with Michel Gondry
...arguments for generative grammar and I like that he tried to find the heart of the mechanism, going around recording the ways people speak in primitive cultures and finding not...
The voice is Ricky’s voice
...to try on some black and pink lingerie, the photog briefed me. it’s for richardson, i want you to be like music, intelligible and inexplicable at the same time. totally...
Google's Macchia
...current age of frenzied information collection, massive computation, and feral capitalism. Google tried to do everything. It proved itself the deepest and fastest of the search engines. It stomped the...
The Stoop and the Street
...for this conversation,” Lacy said. She paused. “I think that’d be Washington.” *** An hour and a half after we began talking on the stoop, the sound of music seeping...
Placebos and Noisy Bodies
...to self-medicating my aches and pains—the sprains, depressions, anxieties, flus—with mix-and-matched doses of alcohol, friendship, romance, sex, food, coffee, writing, sleep, the Internet, exercise, pop music, critical theory, literature, art,...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 16
...days to spare, we could dot the planet with a series of mile-long conga lines. I'd be the first to say, Let's fill every available music studio with every aging...
Media and Consumer Desire
...satisfy demand. As retailers tried to compete on the level of the brand, appeals were made to consumers on the level of how they feel about buying something, urging them...
Kjerstin Gruys, Ph.D. sociology student, Bay Area
...how our culture kind of shaped my experience. Having an eating disorder, you’re always aware of your own body image, but it’s not until you’re recovering that you’re really forced...
Sunday Reading
...Flesh The Slow Death of Turkish Higher Education Gecekondu chic? Informal settlements and urban poverty as cultural commodity What Was Left Behind: Music of the Ottoman Empire Repetition and Death...
God’s Dice
...of violence? He tried out his theory on hundreds of the most elusive variables: the type of music listened to, favorite sexual fetish, being an early morning or night person....
Beauty Blogosphere 6.29.12
...I suppose bodybuilding is more of a defined activity and subculture than staying thin, a "hobby" no subgroup of women seems to comfortably escape.) Girl germs: Sales of men's personal...
Cooperative Kitchens of Yesteryear
...rooms on the first floor into a music room, another into a library. The largest room they made into a dining room that could accommodate 60 people. “It is the...
Fruits and Vegetables
...that it is hard to imagine a world worth living in without them. Humor, music, poetry, recycling, and failed recreational drug use all owe quite a good deal to the...
Steal This Article
...the country, there are 28 empty homes waiting for them right now. Laws and culture deny them a roof over their head, not a dearth of roofs. It is our...
The History of Dialogue (5): Snobs on Snobbery
...music (or organic food or fine wine or fashionable clothing) I would say, secretly complimenting myself for my magnanimity. Reading Finnegan’s Wake has reminded me of an essential difference between...
Ramadan Diaries: Looking Backward, Looking Inward
...who was once involved in arranging a piece of mine to music. In the sturdy pews my body fell into a state of such severe pain that I doubled over....