What would happen if you were presented with the possibility of starting life over at the midway point? Would you embrace it fully, shedding story and skin to take new chances? Or would guilt and regret pull you apart in your attempts to reset yourself? John Frankenheimer, in his film Seconds, examines such possibilities, subjecting […]
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person,” Oscar Wilde wrote in “The Critic as Artist” in 1890. “Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” And there is no better arena to see this observation in practice than popular music, awash as it is with characters that perform, […]
As a senior in college I spent spring break in NYC, staying at a cheap hostel on Bowery. It wasn’t until the morning that I saw CBGB across the street. For any kid growing up listening to alternative rock, the venue existed as some sort of shrine—where miracles happened, where mortals became rock ’n’ roll […]
Unlike most, my first encounter with Emily Haines was not Metric, but her solo work as Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton. Mentioned somewhat absently as a record most anticipated by a friend whose opinion I admired, it was so deemed that I had to get this record, Knives Don’t Have Your Back. I searched […]
Marco Beltrami has been around for a while now. Nominated twice for an Academy Award, first in 2008 for 3:10 to Yuma and then in 2010 for The Hurt Locker, he got his big break with the first Scream film leading to a wealthy collaboration with Wes Craven as well as to one of his […]
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