Two things in common between Michael McKean, aka Spinal Tap’s David St. Hubbins, and David Liebe Hart, the guy with the creepy puppets on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!: both are permanently etched on my brain, and both played tiny NYC club shows last month.
Read MoreSkwerl, an Australian short film in which gibberish mimics how English might sound to non-English speakers, recently wound up on Gawker and New York Magazine. The film is unremarkable subject-wise: a sort of mumblecore prose poem about an alt-attractive couple and a romantic dinner gone sour. So why did I find myself playing and...
Read MoreThis summer saw the widespread US release of World on a Wire, German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s long-lost, made-for-TV epic about artificial intelligence and virtual reality. Time to reflect.
Read MoreThe New York Times Magazine recently published a “riff” by frequent contributor Dwight Garner arguing that “important novelists” should be publishing more frequently than once every ten years in order to be “central to the cultural conversation.” Garner’s essay was titled “Dear Important Novelists: Be Less Like Moses and More Like Howard Cosell.”
Read MoreSerge Gainsbourg’s music happens to have an effect on my vagina. Having an amiable relationship with my vagina, I took it last night to the New Museum to see a preview screening of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, sponsored by East Village Radio.
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