Many of us, by necessity or simply by habit of life, are writers and as such are admonished to brevity in all things written. Use only as many of the correct words, in the correct places, as are necessary to convey your thoughts to your audience. Band Boy Harsher appears to strive for … Continue reading Boy Harsher ~ Pain [2⊘14]
In my past experience, strip clubs are not generally the happiest of places. Unless they have changed in the last few decades, they seemed frequented by mostly joyless older men, and populated with generally attractive women sometimes in it for the art of the pole dance, but always for the lucrative tips. It seemed what some women found degrading, others embraced. Yet for men, it always felt like an exercise in frustration, unless you dated … Continue reading Mareux – Night Vision [2⊘23]
Welcome to the world of Anorexia Nervosa, on display and bitingly in your face. This spoken word narrative, provided in a simple yet potent textual fan-made video, reveals life from the anorexic’s (skewed) viewpoint. There will be rules that only the most disciplined (ill) are capable of following. Rules like cutting each admittedly tiny meal into tinier minuscule bites … Continue reading The Golden Palominos ~ Holy [1996]
A world of loops, enhanced by textures and enriched by layers molded into machines that belch and cough, lurch yet churn, and occasionally giggle. Machines made into businesses. Machines made into …. Continue reading Nine Inch Nails ~ Came Back Haunted [2⊘13]
The curtains fall: ingestion, extraction, collection. Dank, ill, and enigmatic, Interpol’s “Lights” music video is a short study in implied horror. A tangled pain/pleasure principle. A promised Kool-Aid ecstatic transcendence. Soul donations in existential exchange for deeper waters to float face-down in. “All that I see, Show me your ways, Teach me to … Continue reading Interpol ~ Lights [2⊘1⊘]
