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Doug Dorst Book S. is two stories for the price of one. As a tribute to reading, S. explores and celebrates the adventure of the writer as well as the reader. The internal novel is well written and...
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Chelsea Wolfe Music Chelsea Wolfe's music sounds like what would be sung at a church in hell, because it is lovely, but also sort of scary. Wolfe's voice is haunting but her songs are full of...
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Nick Cave Music Whenever I hear Nick Cave sing I assume he is trying to summon satan. And I do mean that in the best way... To me it seems he is trying to summon a strange and frisky devil, rather...
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Iggy Pop Music This is the strangest, most untraditional Iggy Pop record. Préliminaires is reminiscent of early Serge Gainsbourg, as well as 1930s era Louis Armstrong. Pop seems to be paying tribute...
View ArticleIs everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
Mindy Kaling Book Mindy Kaling's humor is both casual and over-the-top. She relishes in ridiculous situations and exaggerates annoyances and misunderstandings until they become endearing musings....
View ArticleMore than petticoats. Remarkable Colorado women
Gayle Corbett Shirley Book Remarkable Colorado Women is a intriguing little volume in which you will learn about women's crucial role in creating the Colorado we know and love today. This collection...
View ArticleMicmacs
Movie Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has a penchant for creating hazy and imaginatively detailed worlds focused on the adventures of outsiders, and such is the case in his film Micmacs . The French title...
View ArticleJitterbug perfume
Tom Robbins Book Tom Robbins is one of my favorite authors because he can combine unrelated topics like immortality and perfumery and create poetic, flowery prose that borders on nonfiction. Like all...
View ArticleLotería : a novel
Mario Alberto Zambrano Book Lotería is a dark tale told from the perspective of a young Mexican girl punctuated by vivid illustrations of lotería cards. The cards act as vignettes that slowly reveal...
View ArticleThe ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Movie As sweet as it is interesting, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye is about how love becomes art. Performance artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge (of the bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic...
View ArticleZoo time
Howard Jacobson Book Zoo Time is a scathingly hysterical account of the current state of the publishing industry. This book is worth reading for any self proclaimed literati or bookworm merely for the...
View ArticleUmbrella
Will Self Book If you are interested in a challenging literary read and you secretly wish for the second coming of James Joyce, then Umbrella will meet all your Modernist resurrection fantasies. Will...
View ArticleThe wild parrots of Telegraph Hill
Movie The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill is an ode to passion and eccentricity. The film follows formerly homeless musician Mark Bittner and chronicles how his life changed once he became the informal...
View Article17 girls
Movie 17 Girls is the perfect mixture of teen rebellion and feminist unity. The film is a French take on the pregnancy pact trend in the United States. It follows a group of high school girls who...
View ArticleJohnny Suede
Movie Johnny Suede is an offbeat comedy about the forays of a young man obsessed with leading a rock and roll lifestyle. Highlights include a young and still relatively unknown Brad Pitt and the...
View ArticleThe lava in my bones
Barry Webster Book When you think of Magical Realism, Canada is not the first country to come to mind. Nonetheless, The Lava in My Bones takes place in Labrador, which is home to an interesting family...
View ArticlePachyderme
Frederik Peeters Book Pachyderme reads like a strange dream, full of subtle associations and surreal imagery that string together a puzzling narrative. It may take more than one read to understand the...
View ArticleHarlan Ellison's 7 against chaos
Harlan Ellison Book The highlights of this sci-fi graphic novel include some beautiful art as the characters experience travel through space-time and an alien population of lizard people who...
View ArticleThe panopticon : a novel
Jenni Fagan Book The Panopticon is an untraditional thriller about Anais Hendricks, a 15 year old juvenile delinquent. The novel takes place in what appears to be Scotland, given the heavy and...
View ArticleLittle, big
John Crowley Book Little, Big is an epic and sentimental generational tale about a magical family living in the obscure, rural countryside of America during the early 20th century. Acting as a...
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