Within the world of pop/rock music, there have been only three* completely original (that is, mental) dancers. One is Samuel T. Herring of Baltimore’s Future Islands. […]
Paisley is the pattern of counter-culture. It is the love-peace motif of the Beatles, the pop culture kitsch of Grant Morrison’s “Zenith,” and the name of […]
Drinking in public. It varies from stupefied alcoholics, to lads enjoying a beer in the summer-sun, to this guy walking towards me. Between Potsdamer Platz and […]
“The eyebrow pencil was no mere charcoal emphasis on blond eyebrows, but a design necessary to balance a chaotic asymmetry. Make up and powder were not […]
“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. […]
Ernest Hemmingway was an alcoholic. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an alcoholic. Dorothy Parker was an alcoholic. Notice a trend here? According to research 71% of famous […]