How Music Works by David Byrne
David Byrne’s new book How Music Works opens with a simple premise: “context largely determines what is written, painted, sculpted, sung, or performed.” From there, he applies his insight to the...
View ArticleA Separate Peace
As the air begins to think about turning crisp and the seemingly immortal humidity clings like a sweaty undershirt, I’m forced to undergo a rite of passage for which I am, at this stage, [...]
View ArticleLouie
It’s no secret that Louie is one of the most exciting, if not the most excellent, shows on television at the moment. Brash and disarming in one stammering swoop, the episodes casually careen from Louis...
View ArticleThe Master
I love movies more than just about anything. The dark room, the sticky floor, the passive-aggressive fight for the arm rest, the total loss of self and time and care – it’s the closest I’ll [...]
View ArticleIt’s a Wonderful Life*
While the holidays are finally over, they live on for most of us in our waistlines, our nightmares, and, for the lucky few, our warm and fuzzies. We invest these days with great import, dashing home...
View ArticleLes Miserables
There are two very different circumstances under which I will look around a theater at my fellow moviegoers and take in their reactions. The first and clearly more pleasurable one is when a movie is...
View ArticleThe Great Gatsby 2: Electric Boogaloo*
The news that Jay-Z is writing the score to the upcoming Great Gastsby movie strikes as me as simultaneously inevitable and awesome. I’ve touched on this before, but hip hop in many ways held the place...
View ArticleThe Fault in our Stars
A cursory search of the internet tells me that people have already drawn connections between John Green’s YA monolith The Fault in Our Stars and Juno. They complain that the kids are too witty, too...
View ArticleZero Dark Lincoln
There are moments and men that we seem to know before our memories of them and their stories could ever possibly have taken hold within us. They are our cultural heroes, our shared experiences, our...
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