Month: September 2013
In Mexico, drug traffickers have theme songs. With an AK 47 and a bazooka on my shoulder Cross my path and I’ll chop your head off We’re bloodthirsty, crazy, and we like to kill In Narco Cultura, filmmaker Shaul Schwarz explores the culture born of “the war on drugs,” the extreme violence it fuels Mexico and […]
Forget Monopoly. That’s why we’re all fucked. Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution. Commonopoly is a project from Big Hope: Miklós Erhardt, Dominic Hislop, Elske Rosenfeld. They refer to […]
Forty-four years after its recording and thirty-three years after its release, the Shaggs Philosophy of the World remains one of the strangest and most beguiling examples of outsider music ever put to tape. The Shaggs, three sisters who only started a band at their father’s insistence, wrote bizarre, non-repeating melodies that often veered from saccharinely poppy to […]
If David Cameron is serious about ending the scourge of pornography in the UK, he might want to look in his own backyard first. According to a report filed after a Freedom of Information request from Huffington Post UK, British “MPs, Lords and parliamentary staff” have attempted to access websites classified as pornographic from their […]
A favorite complaint amongst opponents of the bike lanes and pedestrian plazas that have popped up in NYC during the Bloomberg administration is that they’re taking room away from cars and slowing traffic down (hi NYP). Even if it’s true, it’s not an especially effective argument–bikes are a valid and important part of transit in […]
Arch, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Here’s that Audrey Hepburn tribute mural that artist Tristan Eaton painted recently in what’s left of Little Italy. (Photo: Andriy Prokopenko/Flickr) […]
As if Jim O’Rourke’s oeuvre wasn’t daunting and complex enough already, here are eight albums the Tokyo-via-Chicago noise maven dropped surreptitiously and simultaneously on Bandcamp this week. Titled Steamroom 1-8, the series is comprised of either material that was previously unreleased or saw very limited initial release, and is now available for free streaming or a […]
Here’s “Star Crawl,” the first single and video from Crystal Stilts forthcoming Nature Noir. The track is pleasantly heavy-lidded and reverby, with just a hint of looming menace, and the video’s slow pans and glitched-out colors only heighten the atmosphere. It’s directed by Daniel Fetherston, and it’s got beaches, mountains, and yes, psychedelic snails. […]
Hell Baby (2013) From the guys who brought you Reno 911 it’s Reno 911 w/Vatican priests sorta. Haunted house! Haunted uterus! “Bitches be trippin.” Demon baby. Ghost blow jobs. Po’ boys. Po’verty. Exorcismz. Eviscerationz. HAHAHAHA. BLOoOOO0OO0oOD: 2.meh out of 5.0 Standard gory American comedy slapstick NOT GORY ENOUGH. Y U eviscerate/crucify “Dr.” Michael Ian Black and 1 scene […]
