A Game-Changer
If that worked for you, this one's more subtle but there's definitely a trumpet/drum swell in the middle that really lets you feel your sodium-potassium gates opening, if you have good enough...
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Review of Christopher Hitchens' Memoir, Hitch 22
There's an old saying, probably accredited to Winston Churchill. "If you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart. If you're still a liberal when you're old, you have no brain."I first...
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The Squirrel Bomb (For Posterity)
Approximate location.Courtesy campusexplorer.comIn 2002 -- this is now twelve years ago (!?) -- I had thrown at me what I affectionately refer to as a "squirrel bomb". I was walking past a garbage...
View ArticleCheck out Molly Lambert's piece on David Fincher
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/david-fincher-videography-movies-gone-girl-noir/One of my editors frequently complains about how modern critics are too predictable in their panning of...
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Duncan Trussel on Schadenfreude and Visceral Reaction to Suffering
Duncan Trussel is a regular on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. He had an interesting rant about a part of the human condition (which called to mind Lester Bangs' reaction to the shooting of Andy...
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Phillip Gibbs on The Gallow's Humor of Soldiers Coping with WWI
"It was astonishing how loudly one laughed at tales of gruesome things, of war's brutality -- I, with the rest of them. I think at the bottom of it was a sense of the ironical contrast between the...
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EXCERPT: Joshua Oppenheimer on "The Act of Killing"
Filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer can be heard on author Sam Harris'Waking Uppodcast to discuss his two Werner Herzog-produced documentaries about the (supposedly) American-backed genocide in Indonesia...
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The Case for Pearl Jam
"Daily minefields, [this] could be my time, [how] 'bout you?"Today I was watching some youtube on my TV, sampling the myriad live rock videos available for your nostalgia pleasures. During a...
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The Nudity Problem on Game of Thrones
I'm a dude. Before the internet unintelligencia commences homosexual accusations, let me nip that in the bud by saying -- if only. My heterosexuality has driven me down the very unoriginal path of...
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Fearless or Clueless: “60/40” Bands and a Farewell to The Tragically Hip
“Either it’ll move me, or it’ll move right through me.” - Gordon DownieLast weekend, The Tragically Hip played what is likely to be their final concert ever, in their hometown of Kingston, ON. Their...
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Incredulity and the Weird Skepticism Paradox of 2016
The first time you flew on a plane, it probably felt surreal. It can be scary. It can seem to defy the senses. Many tons of heavy machinery, passengers, and cargo are crammed into a tube and sent into...
View ArticleWhy Does This Video Exist? (#6)
There's a meme trend on social media which seems to be a progeny of the Vine (rest in peace). The top of the meme will be inscribed with something like, "My reaction when a morning person tries to have...
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Delirious Again
I blame John Candy for this essay.I got to thinking about Candy as a side effect of a large-scale project I started, cataloging (as best I can recall) all of the movies I have ever seen in my life. I...
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Viagra Boys: Post-Punk For Smashing Your IKEA End Table With a...
Do you ever do that thing where you send an out-of-the-blue text… something like “Check this out!” or “…is this basically YOU?” and then five minutes later you think of someone else apropos, so you...
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A Post-Covid Look at Squid's "Narrator"
A few months back, the rare coworker with whom I can talk music asked me, "Who is today’s Talking Heads?" (And by that, it was clarified to me, they didn’t mean “Who today sounds like the Talking...
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The Weirdest Paragraph From My Master's Thesis, One Year Later
This isn't going to be terribly interesting for the average visiting pop culture obsessive. And frankly, it takes a dollop of concentration to process. But one must occasionally reflect on the ongoing...
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