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Appropriating Cheese
An altar of rave flyers. I never liked trance. Still don’t. But in the 1990s you couldn’t escape it. As a teenager I would go to Project Blowed hiphop shows in Los Angeles and still return to a car...
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Summoning the Ghosts
On the road in southern Utah Thelma left the soundtrack up to me. She would plan out our five-week trip from Los Angeles to New York and all I had to do was come up with some music to play. Our first...
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The Seduction of Drive’s Soundtrack
It’s been nearly a month since I saw Drive in the theaters, and like many others, I still can’t get the soundtrack out of my head. In this case, though, it’s a good thing. Few films have soundtracks...
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Revisiting the Music of 2011: Dissent, Censorship, and Apocalypse
Albrecht Durer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single...
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The Music of Ruination
Burial released Kindred on Hyperdub earlier this month, one of the few statements from the enigmatic British producer following his two full-length records, Burial and Untrue, in 2006 and 2007...
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On the Erotics of Evil
Cradled in evil, that Thrice-Great Magician, The Devil, rocks our souls, that can’t resist; And the rich metal of our own volition Is vaporised by that sage alchemist. Charles Baudelaire — Les...
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Keith Haring and The Rhythms of Painting
All is rhythm, the entire destiny of man is a single celestial rhythm, just as the work of art is one unique rhythm. – Friedrich Hölderlin * * * * * In the first film recording of his work, Keith...
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Diaspora Sound System
Jah Shaka Sound System We monitor many frequencies. We listen always. Came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. It played a mighty dub. – William Gibson, “Neuromancer” I writhed in a...
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Imagining America’s End: A Tale of Two Cities
“I think that redemption, or enlightenment, or some sort of truth is found very close to destruction,” said director Benh Zeitlin in a recent interview in The Atlantic, referring to his wildly popular...
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Trauma, Love, and Time Travel
I’m drawn to the American actor and action hero Bruce Willis. But I’m drawn more precisely to Bruce Willis drawn into himself, in that fantastical simulacrum known, conventionally, as film. I’m...
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