Are We So Cheap? Part I: (Five Weird YouTube Videos)
The answer is yes.
Head in a Jar: Watching Artists
When I was just out of school and working in food service I hoped there would never be a time when the wish of Robert Crumb – as related to the audience by his wife and fellow artist, Aline, in Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb – to just be a head in a jar would resound so […]
On Blood and the Bloodless: A Review of Edward St. Aubyn’s “Patrick Melrose Novels”
“The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.” –Ferruccio Busoni There is an argument—we’ve all heard it—that criticism and creation are fundamentally at odds, despite their hunger for the same endpoint: good art. I used to think this was somewhat reductive and overly simplistic. I’ve always enjoyed […]
Murder to Create: Revisiting Cloud Atlas While the Wachowskis Prep Their Ulysses
I’m setting the example. What I’ve done is going to be puzzled over and studied and followed… forever. Andrew Kevin Walker (screenwriter) – Se7en I. The (moderately) Wayback Machine The year was 2004. Jonathon Franzen had long since made nice with Oprah and his Corrections was, three years after its publication, still being used […]
Optical Illusion of the Mind
A magician always reveals his tricks.
