I got around to only two albums this week, one great and one…not so great:
Author: Steven Strauss
An “Original” Postscript
I concluded my recent post about expanding our conception of artistic originality by quoting, gulp, Kanye West.
Sound Hound
Back in 2016, there was a concert performance of Ragtime inside the Registry Room on Ellis Island.
The Theatricality of Reality’s Surreality
In case yesterday’s esotericism didn’t make this clear, let me state simply for the record: Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is my favorite movie of 2018 thus far.
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The Surreality of Reality
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is a Kafka-esque, capitalist nightmare for the iPhone age, injected with Brechtian aesthetics to convey the 21st century’s pervasive, conflicting distortions of reality sitting in our pockets every day.
This Week in Music
J. Cole’s KOD won’t be included in this roundup because I’ve got more to say about it than would be appropriate for these brief snippets.
Pros, Cons, and the Art of the Show
It’s considered a faux pas in critical circles to suggest how a show could improve.
RAMPAGE (Brad Peyton)
Rampage commits the same critical mistake as so many of these sorts of movies: too much of the humans, not enough of the big bad monsters.
Write All Nite 