Music In the Ether: All About Lily Chou Chou and the Effervescence of Music 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 We hear an average of 1.3 million songs in our lifetime. How many of those songs stay with you throughout our lives? How many of them can you sing by…
Music Violins and Viscera: The Orchestral Potential of the Biopic in Mishima 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 “Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.” — Yukio Mishima, Runaway Horses When I first watched Mishima:…
Music Shoegaze, Vampires and Synchronicity 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 There’s a physics theory called ‘quantum entanglement’. At its most basic, quantum entanglement says that two particles can be linked, even across billions of light years. If a change is…
Music The Convergence of Hip-Hop and the Digital Arena of The Sims 4 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 Each edition of the video game The Sims embodies a simulation of the real world allowing for the player to go through quotidian experiences, yet particular realities are denied since…
Music It Must Be Fate: The Aural Romance of Night is Short, Walk on Girl 1 Jun 202331 May 2023 What Night is Short, Walk on Girl (Dir. Masaaki Yuasa, 2017) brings to the table is the contrast between two philosophies that exist within us all. It is a film…
Music Make A Joyful Noise: Musical Expression in Summer of Soul 1 Jun 20231 Jun 2023 A holler. A wail. A cry out. In harmony, the crowds riled up with a surge of energy. This was just the beginning of the line-up at the Harlem Cultural…
Outtakes Return to Seoul: A Ballad of Anger and Recognition 13 Mar 202329 Sep 2025 Bright neon lights shine on Freddie’s face as she is dancing alone through a half-empty bar in Seoul. Even as her body moves frantically, her face seems to have no…
Habitats Magical Realism & Felt Realities of Afro-Pessimism in Atlanta 1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023 Prolific American Black queer poet, Audre Lorde, once said in her collection Sister Outsider: Speeches and Essays, “For there are no new ideas. There only new ways of making them…
Habitats Home, Happiness, Microhabitats 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 Often, I find myself debating alone on a barstool, wondering if I should order a pint of beer or if I should go home. Although home is not the correct…
Habitats Home is where the Fart is: Swiss Army Man 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 Every person is an island. No matter how big the world seems, no matter how far reaching our stories are, ultimately our lives are insular. Specific, distinct, devoid from others.…
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