Olivier Rolin’s Hotel Crystal is the kind of novel that gives sales and marketing people night sweats. Translated from the French, it’s a fragmentary novel: a patchwork of minute descriptions of hotel rooms, mixed with a chronologically confused half-narrative. Based around a premise of Georges Pere ...
Image via Wikipedia The last time I watched a music award show on television was back in 1984. It was the American Music Awards. I believe on that show Prince performed Purple Rain live on stage. Also at that time, they didn’t have a rap category either. Neither did the Grammies or any other award s ...
You remember the Tate, don’t you? Sir Quinten of the BBFC decided that DESTRICTED should get an R-rating so it could play in the Tate. The can of Artist’s Shit a few posts down is from the Tate Collection. Behold the latest Artistic Merit from the Tate. According the art critic/host of the video, th ...
Stones have been worn by both women and men since prehistoric times. Just as in the jewelry of modern times, beautiful stones, rare and colorful, are most often the dominant feature of a piece with a metallic setting for ornamentation. The stones used in the crafting of fine jewelry are generally di ...
Much print has been spilled in the most recent flurry of Liz Phair news, and a lot of it just clearly misses the fucking point. As an artistic piece I still think Exile In Guyville is an amazing piece of emotional honesty. I could care less what motivated Liz Phair to write the songs, and from what ...
