‘I don’t feel anything where… this love should be.’ ‘I Don’t Love,’ Have a Nice Life — Have a Nice Life and Giles Corey are a dark pair of musical projects. Each boasts the disquieting, unmatched talent of Dan Barrett, as well as the inscrutable Tim Macuga on Have a Nice Life. While Giles CoreyContinue reading “The heart and the Real: Have a Nice Life, Giles Corey and Jacques Lacan”
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Paternal Melancholia: h hunt’s ‘Playing Piano for Dad’
‘I’ll leave you to it…’ … As a writer, or more specifically, a blogger, there is an overwhelming desire to incorporate yourself into what you are writing about. A perfect example of this follows. Moreover, there is an even greater impulse to use your power of analysis and prose to ameliorate whatever you are writingContinue reading “Paternal Melancholia: h hunt’s ‘Playing Piano for Dad’”
Some Teeth: A (very) Short Story
This story contains graphic, potentially traumatizing content. … Camilla sat back up. The lights which up until that moment shone on her naked body a fluorescent sneer shut off with a buckle. All around now, the dim aspect of the place served only to enhance the sordiness and din of this space and the gloomContinue reading “Some Teeth: A (very) Short Story”
TikTok Sucks and it has little or nothing to do with China, Tankies: TikTok
If you use TikTok, it’s not your fault. You have been effectively duped by the behemoth technological currents that determine our social media ecology and cultural taste buds. But is that not what the human experience has always been about? Falling victim to social relations and cultural parameters that dictate daily routine is just theContinue reading “TikTok Sucks and it has little or nothing to do with China, Tankies: TikTok”
The Identities of No One: MF DOOM
‘The bar where he would perform that night was already open, and he walked around sipping a soda, unnoticed by everyone there; they would only recognize their hero when he was masked. After the show, we climbed into a van, and I accidentally stepped on his mask. But he didn’t mind. He picked it up,Continue reading “The Identities of No One: MF DOOM”
The Sound of Ghosts: Valuemart
‘Frozen in time…’ — The California-based post-punk band Valuemart boasts a creative repertoire marked by both nostalgic sonic tendencies and a ‘discount DIY’ ethic that is uniquely of our time. Frontman and multi-instrumentalist, Tory Knowles, the man behind the sound and style of Valuemart, epitomizes this dialectical notion with his creative direction. The group’s nameContinue reading “The Sound of Ghosts: Valuemart”
Pale Sutler 