See Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea in Person
@ Deitch Studios 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City (next to the water)
before you google this, and check out a bunch of images – go see it. be surprised.
@ Deitch Studios 4-40 44th Drive, Long Island City (next to the water)
before you google this, and check out a bunch of images – go see it. be surprised.
By Andy Marino
I’m a pretty masochistic reader. I’m willing to slog through hundreds of pages of self-indulgent prose to experience the occasional dazzling insight. I’m attracted to literary fireworks, to writers who say screw editors, to books with a thousand disparate plotlines that may or may not intersect.
But sometimes my attention span falters or my ardor vanishes and… Read More
For all of you who haven’t seen the off-broadway hit, FELA!, kill yourselves now. Or…just go see it. Now. It’s a musical about the late Nigerian activist, and father of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti. It’s rich with culture, passion, and awesome music (Antibalas plays as Kuti’s band.) Plus, Sparlha Swa is in it! And well, she’s HOT!… Read More
By Matt Lambert
If you don’t still own a pair of cardboard 3-D glasses, then go pick up a pair before we proceed. All set? Okey-doke. The disgustingly talented people over at Encyclopedia Pictura have made an epic video for the Bjork song Wanderlust, and you can watch the friggin thing in 3-D on their website. Why has… Read More
By Jeremy Kotin
1. ALBUM Johnny Flynn “A Larum”
The sound is something like The Decemberists if Josh Ritter were the lead vocalist, with a bit of a country bent. Here’s a sample lyric from “Tickle Me Pink,” one of my favorite tracks: “Pray for the people inside your head/for they won’t be there when… Read More
Aside from the excellent sausage, they have most most jaw-dropping movie posters! Though Eyes Wide Shut is my favorite visually, the ideas behind some of these (Fatal Attraction! Airplane Two! Lord of the Flies FTW!) are blowing up my brains.
Check out fifty superlative polish movie posters here… Favorites?
By Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza
Alright – I want to talk about relevant things like everyone else, but I can’t. I can’t because I can’t get Space Olympics out of my head. I’ve watched this literally 27 times since Saturday possibly even a few more times. I’ve lost count because I think it’s so damned funny. At the moment it is the… Read More
By Hawkes Klein
It’s no secret among friends that I think Space is unnecessary and overrated.
I get using the stars for horoscopes and celestial navigation, both very practical uses for gigantic balls of fire a gazillion light years away… but really? How is space affecting my life? Answer? It’s not.
It’s time to face… Read More
By Chris Baily
I think I’ve started to develop a (Good? Bad?) habit of seeing politics in terms of childhood games. Try this one on for size: Obama may have just pulled a classic trap move. It works in tic-tac-toe, and just as well for such greats as Connect 4, and, if you’re snooty, that whole chess thing. It’s simple… Read More
I know talking about emoticons is soooo 1997, but after a few recent emails, I have to bring up something that I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere else.
If I were to describe I’d say “wink”.
If I were to describe I’d say “sad face”.
But every time I see I can’t help… Read More
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
When I was in my formative high school days, going to the Warped Tour was a highlight of the summer. Just old enough to drive, we’d pile about 9 bros and skateboards into mom-duke’s Ford Exploder and drive at high speed to Fitchburg or some other pseudo-municipality in middle Massachusetts, blasting Rage Against The Machine and… Read More
