Pink Mountain on Locust Island | Being a Teenager Sucks
Adolescence is hard. It’s tiring. It’s frustrating. Will Smith was absolutely right: parents just don’t understand, and they’ve...
Review
The Sprawl | Do the Suburbs Really Suck?
I’ve lived in some version of the suburbs for a sizable majority of my life. I spent the...
Cold Beaches – Drifter | The Joys of Energetic Garage Rock
Chapter 8 of The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs is an outright love letter to garage rock....
Temporary | Embracing the Absurdity of Late Capitalism
Most of us have worked a terrible job or three in our lives. You might be stuck at...
Why Lhasa de Sela Matters | A Near-Perfect Mix of Idealism and Artistry
Why Lhasa de Sela Matters is very much organized and arranged as a traditional biography told in chronological order. She absolutely matters.
The Good Place is the Best Experiment on Television
The Good Place is more than good TV about morality and ethics, it’s an experiment itself. An experiment on us, the viewers.
Why Karen Carpenter Matters | The Importance of Music, Family, and Culture
The book Why Karen Carpenter Matters focuses on Karen’s life and legacy holistically, we have space to appreciate her and her catalog anew.
Socialist Realism | Identity, Belonging, and Nostalgia
Ultimately, Socialist Realism is about the will to change - your life, your memories, your status, your world, and your sense of where you are in the world.
[Goried Treasures] South Korean Horror THE RED SHOES Is an Arresting, Dark Fairy Tale
Welcome to GORIED TREASURES, a Bearded Gentlemen Music column devoted to fright flicks of yesteryears! Specifically, retrospectives of cult...
Stranger Things 3 | Fix One Thing – Break Another
The third season of Stranger Things is finally upon us and everyone has watched it. Seriously. As of writing...