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...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...
Google's Macchia
...in music it is not the attached words, the libretto, but the character of the melody that produces emotion in the listener...” Imbriani’s was an argument for the inner life...
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....
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...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.29.12
...homemade beauty remedy piece, from makeup artist and friend of The Beheld Emily Kate Warren: Use beets as a lip stain. It works! I first tried it after reading about...
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...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 17
...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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.13.12
...out when you've been loosely protected from it. Hold onto your hats, folks: Research has proven that music videos objectify women. Shocker, I know. But what's interesting here is how...
Things to Come
...their culture into their works, and that’s different than fantasy. Even though the line becomes blurry. As for the African roots of Afro-futurism, when you think of science fiction, that’s...
No Place Like Home
Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs. Caliban captivates by virtue of the ways in which it least resembles the kinds of novels we know