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Emma Kansiz
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July 1, 2020July 22, 2020 Today we need to talk about Willie Nelson and Always on my Mind. Charting a spiritual and sociocultural journey through …
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Emma Kansiz
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June 1, 2020June 30, 2020 What could be more delightfully menacing, more curiously ambivalent than an esoterically charged owl coming at us from the deep, …
Continue reading “Taking a Hermetic Nocturnal Journey with Rush’s “Fly by Night””
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Emma Kansiz
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May 18, 2020June 1, 2020 Gidget has a bittersweet tenor that is palpable within its surface appeal of breezy fifties suburban sensibility. Seductive in its …
Continue reading “The Sand, The Surf, That Bittersweet Summer: the Sun Toned Longing of Gidget”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 28, 2020May 5, 2020 In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg the whimsical sets, fit for a sugar sweet reverie, belie a bittersweet desperation and emotional …
Continue reading “The Whimsical Exterior and Bittersweet Interior Terrain of Umbrellas of Cherbourg”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 25, 2020June 17, 2020 Woke last night to the sound of thunder. How far off, I sat and wondered… Heady in leather, Night Moves …
Continue reading “The Back Alley Sartorial Prowess of Night Moves”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 15, 2020June 3, 2020 The Evil Dead is a veritable abattoir of good taste- a wooded swamp where better judgement goes to die. The …
Continue reading “Retro Horror: The Evil Dead’s Delightfully Sinister Introduction”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 14, 2020 Just remember: it aint trite if you do it right! Denim doesn’t like solitude. Denim is an easy lover of …
Continue reading “The Record Aesthetic: Gordon Lightfoot and The Gospel of Denim on Denim”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 6, 2020July 12, 2020 It has been said that all human beings share a basic aversion to listening to other human beings discuss their …
Continue reading “Finding Aesthetic Delight in the Worst Movie of All Time: The Room”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 3, 2020April 16, 2020 Saturated with high camp tropes and delightfully overwrought visual iconography, Wild at Heart is a cinematic caravanserai, playing host to …
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Emma Kansiz
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March 25, 2020April 16, 2020 How delightful and evocative a workaday piece of fruit can become when touched by the hallowed Warholian brush! Suddenly elevated …
Continue reading “The Record Aesthetic: Velvet Underground’s Stark and Whimsical Warholian Offering”
