Playing at Red Tape Theater, 621 W. Belmont through OCTOBER 20th According to the dictionary, the word “skrike” means to cry or shriek. To me, the sound of the word repeated over and over is reminiscent of the pulsing high-pitched “skree skree skree” that occur in horror movies when a person appears from the shadows […]
If I close my eyes hard enough, maybe adding some pressure with my thumb and forefinger, I see glints of technicolor atop infinite darkness. I’m transported back to fourth grade, a field trip to the planetarium. Library-quietness hangs in the air inside the auditorium. The seats are plush and recline and swallow up the children. […]
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master, there is no talk of higher powers, no lingering on words handed down by deities. The religious leader here is “a man—a hopelessly inquisitive man,” Lancaster Dodd, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, and his followers are those who have strayed from the path. Strays are guided back through time […]
[Part 1] ANOBIUM: What strikes me most from what you’ve said about the Grateful Dead in class is the word “community.” When I first learned about the band, one of the strongest points made was the bootlegging culture—the fact that there are recordings of nearly all of their shows. Do you think the Grateful Dead […]
“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 […]
