There is an exchange in “Memento Mori,” the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the X-Files, in which Dana Scully – FBI agent, medical doctor, redoubtable skeptic, possible alien abductee, conflicted Catholic, survivor of hundreds of losses and tragedies – breaks the news of her recently diagnosed cancer to her partner Fox Mulder by […]
I love movie posters. Always significant to the film going experience; in the past few years I’ve especially grown impressed with artists around the world influenced by the aesthetics of the film poster, reimagining and reworking designs that tap into the spirit and energy of film that often wind up more beautiful than the original […]
The Anobium staff is proud to present what 2012 meant to us in terms of music, film, and literature. BENJAMIN VAN LOON Top 5 Albums 1. Gaza: No Absolutes in Human Suffering [2012] – A soundtrack for universal entropy. Heavy and dark as the Caspian Sea. 2. Old Man Gloom: No [2012] – I waited something like 10 […]
When I think of Kate Durbin I think of Hollywood. Kept Women has the genius cadence of the Shining, a product of England’s EMI Elstress Studios and an aerial shot of Mount Hood’s Timberline Lodge: not Hollywood, a hollow. Kept Women is Durbin’s new chapbook from Insert Blanc Press. A tour of a renowned Los […]
Highly caffeinated cultural critique: Get the Baffler ware at the Harvard Book Store. She blinded me with library science! $ Young Money Poetry $: a reported ~11 copies left of Illuminati Girl Gang volume two – get on it! Pregame for Valentine’s Day with the Norman Rockwell of Cheesecake: Gil Elvgren’s Private Stock is available […]
