Dancing in my darkened kitchen to DKMD’s “On the Other Side” at at 12:30am while heavily drunk on whiskey is the best my day has been. I’m busting moves I didn’t think I had. Honestly, I think I feel shitty through the rest of the day because I burn my brain’s dopamine at night when …
Category Archives: Entertainment
Celluloid Smudges
You know you’re a film buff living in a film town when you can watch an indie film and your experience with the storytelling is diminished because you’re distracted by all the fingerprints of independent films. You’re watching the drama, but in your mind, you’re backtracking and imagining all the location decisions, the directorial compromises, …
Hemisphere
There is still magic in the air. One must be a receiver to pick up on it. Right? For what it’s worth, 6060KHz is also known as Radio Habana Cuba. The magic of shortwave radio is that its broadcasts carry a long, long way. I’m able to hear broadcasts that happen in certain spots in …
So Big and So Strong
Hey Stacy– Remember that night after the night when we first met? We were hanging out at Maxine’s in Hot Springs, getting our buzz on. Live guitarist sang “Come a Little Bit Closer” as part of his acoustic coffee-bar set. Remember that girl, the waitress? Remember, during the chorus, she put down her tray on …
Metal
David Cronenberg’s “Crash” (1996, based on the J.G. Ballard book) is a psycho-sexual fetishization of the intensity of an auto accident as orgasmic transformation. Like the BDSM notion of pain meets transhumanism mediated by the devices of Detroit. When my car was totalled on a morning in March of 2014 on my way to work, …