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...
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."...
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...
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...
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...
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
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....
Trust In Me, Baby
...alone, which I’d done the year before. I hear the culture has radically shifted since then (I haven’t been back since I was 24), but at the time, if you...
Crushed…
Crushing lays bare the potential of boundless desire, enabling us to embrace brutal vulnerabilities that are often subordinated to everyday expediency
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...
Vol. 21 Editors' Note: Witches
...take cues from self-help classic The Secret in order to satisfy government-backed dreams of social mobility. Nic Cavell writes of Witch House, the circa-2010 music genre that “made a subject...
Vol. 9: Concept Album
...by WILLIE OSTERWEIL Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times by MICHAEL SEIDENBERG Response to Call for Submissions by GREIL MARCUS The point of looking at music and failure...
A Saudi Arabia Reader
...the Arabs, 13 November 1961† †Quoted in Robert Vitalis, America's Kingdom, p. 127. In 2013 I designed and taught a course on the history, literature, and visual culture of contemporary...
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...
Day Residue
...ultra of the utopian society gone horribly wrong; as she searches for “resistance” in the music of the People’s Temple, the looming dread of what would come seeps out of...
Five Questions with Elaine Equi
...more sympathetic to the problems writers face and better able to evaluate a literary work. Music has always seemed infinitely more difficult to me, but that’s probably because no one...