Harajuku Girls
Gwen Stefani
L.A.M.B.4 minutes, 46 seconds

Believe it or not, mod pop diva Gwen Stefani has a lot in common with prog pop divan Jeff Lynne. Both of them have had diverse musical careers, both of them have split from the groups that made them famous, and both of them have written an embarrassingly-fawning paeans to […]

While I pondered, weak and weary, the equinoctal shift to Daylight Savings (from, perhaps, Daylight Wastings?), it occurred to me that my alarm clock was alerting me to more than just the call of rosy-fingered noon. As students of that edge of culture which is yet innocent of the concept of bleeding, my Authoritarian […]

Dear Mr. Black,
Hello, I am a film currently in production based on perhaps Frank Miller’s most famous property. (No, I am not referring to Batman.) Sin City is my name. Failure at being a worthwhile piece of cinema is my game.
By the incredulous expression on your face I can sense your confusion. Yes, I am […]

The great X-Generation migration to the subterranean embrace of Boomer basements was one on which I looked with longing. By the time so many of my near-peers seized the means of production by dragging twin beds down split-level stairs, I was already engaged in the solo flight through académe that was the eight-year path […]

Partially Clipsby Robert T. BalderUpdates about three times per week
One of the wonderful things about the internets is the wide and varied formats they introduce. A storyteller is truly free to wend the otherwise-unnavigable fjords of his heart, following their emerald clover-bedotted shores until a sort of artistic nirvana has been achieved. The pursuit may […]

Bjork
Cocoon (music video)
2002
I only recently discovered this video. It was being projected on the wall at a dance club I frequent, and I had to ask the manager what the title was. A little searching on the internet got me the rest of the information, and a net-viewable copy.
This video has never been shown on […]

The AviatorLeonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Martin Scorsese plummets from his dizzying peak with Gangs of New York, with The Aviator, an abortive potboiler auto-romantic biography of airplane magnate Howard Hughes. It’s not normally my style to begin a review with a barb so levelled, but to see the film is to experience something akin […]

Blood Canticle
Anne Rice
hardcover, 30.95 USD
With fatted tick-like teats filled with sanguine and clotted liquor, Anne Rice has returned to nurse her avid readers with latest offering from her dripping coppery pen. Her heart surging and in proper beat with her natural voice she is writing to her own ear.
This, the latest and purportedly last […]

Interpol“C’Mere”3 minutes, 11 seconds
It’s always too late to be locked inside yourself. It’s something that the band Interpol innately understands — they’ve recorded what amounts to a two-chord opera (or operetta, given the pop single length) in “C’Mere,” with undeniable allure. If I hadn’t known it to be Interpol, I’d have said Joy Division headed […]

“Applegeeks”Drawn by Mohammad Haque, Written by Ananth PanagariyaUpdates vary weekly to bi-weekly
How can one realise the full beauty of life, without first stomaching the bitter bile of disappointment?
I believe life can be distilled to one basic strand, an eternal rule: one has to take a few roughs with the smooth. I was to learn this […]