My doctors made it clear that there were two kinds of illness: those they could identify, and those that didn’t exist. My symptoms were simply shadow puppets cast by a mind that couldn’t control itself. I was confused. They were certain. They were wrong. Performance of a Lifetime I highly recommend this remarkable essay by …
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Waitress by Hop Along is my first big hit of the summer. It has everything for driving with the windows down or walking through a too busy city with the headphones on: Jangly guitars, dynamic progression, a big climax – but non-cliched lyrics and a certain edge. I love this song (which I heard first …
Goldberg’s One-Sided New Yorker Article “Undermines Transgender Identity,” And That’s Still A Euphemism
I subscribe to the New York Times digitally (mainly because it can be useful as a North American cultural studies student) and recently subscribed to their “what we’re reading” newsletter, a selection of articles from other publications NYT editors like every week. When I opened Tuesday’s newsletter, I was briefly exited. A recommended article from …
Now it feels like the film industry has changed so much that there are only the mega-blockbuster-Marvel-Godzilla-effects films—the tentpoles for the studio. There’s been this complete squeeze-out of the kind of films I grew up on: the two to 10 million dollar films where I was allowed to train. Now, in the digital world, those …
Perfect Pussy’s Awesome Noise
Wednesday, middle of the week, time for some awesome noise. Perfect Pussy played their first show on a (inter)national stage recently when they were part of NPR Music’s SXSW showcase. Through all the noise, shouting, and feedback it is a really charming live performance. Especially the stage presence of singer Meredith Graves is undeniably amazing, …
Katie Presley from Bitch Media called Lowell “Canadian misandrist cheerleader” on NPR’s All Songs SXSW preview show, so of course I had to check her out. I like what I hear: The pop sensibilities of Lykke Li with the swagger of M.I.A. and a trace of Peaches’ attitude, especially in this hit “Cloud 69” Other …
Women are supposed to be the ones on the balcony, not the ones down below professing their love. We don’t think the female romantic is romantic. We think she is a predator. We think she is desperate, unstable—Fatal Attraction, the cougar, the spinster, the troublemaker. But deep emotion in this age is a radical act. …
JESSICA HOFFMAN: Why did you choose a multimedia format to write about love? MASHA TUPITSYN: With Love Dog something happened to me: I met someone, it rattled me to the core, and I felt called upon to write about it in some roundabout, uncategorizable way that would still examine all the other social, political, and …
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