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Emma Kansiz
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January 11, 2021August 20, 2021 Big Trouble in Little China is big on problematic subtexts and cultural misappropriation and lite on nuance and good taste. …
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Emma Kansiz
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December 25, 2020August 20, 2021 “He’s like tripendicular, ya know?” Valley Girl is a cheeky send up of American consumerism, social pecking orders, and the latent …
Continue reading “Low Camp Credentials: The Irreverent, Playful Soul of Valley Girl”
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Emma Kansiz
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December 15, 2020 My freedom is as spectral as the night bird’s cry Osip Mandelstam Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to …
Continue reading “Go Forth into the Sun, Voyager – The Record Aesthetic of Neil Young’s Decade”
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Emma Kansiz
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September 14, 2020 For the price of a modern day coffee you can have a frolicking highway-side romp with the erstwhile rock saints …
Continue reading “Charting the Allure of the Motel and the Wide Open Road with ‘Morrison Hotel’”
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Emma Kansiz
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August 5, 2020July 30, 2020 Because our mode of existence is marked above all things by transience and flux, we find ourselves constantly fetishizing the …
Continue reading “The Least of Things Seemed Infinite: William Wordsworth’s Musings on Infinity”
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Emma Kansiz
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August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 Distant Light casts a curiously introspective aesthetic mood over an unusual, but somehow organic, intersection between medieval revisionism and the …
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Emma Kansiz
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July 27, 2020July 31, 2020 You are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy – Kahlil Gibran Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet acts as …
Continue reading “Kahlil Gibran on the Delicate and Vital Balance of Sorrow and Joy”
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Emma Kansiz
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July 24, 2020July 27, 2020 “One must be absolutely modern” – Rimbaud Today we need to talk about The Velvet Underground’s third studio album, a …
Continue reading “Constructing an Intellectually Bourgeoisie Mythology with the Velvet Underground”
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Emma Kansiz
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July 22, 2020July 24, 2020 “Until we recognize a grandeur in the beatings of the heart” – William Wordsworth Days of Heaven is a languid …
Continue reading “Bittersweet Golden Hour: Days of Heaven as Languid, Restless Lullaby”
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Emma Kansiz
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July 22, 2020July 27, 2020 Uncovering, reevaluating, and making sense of history is a fascinating endeavor. Trying to weave a coherent tale out of the …
