Category Archives: Culture Club

Because the night belongs to lovers.

By serene | Published: January 26, 2010

If I admitted that I shed tears while Patti Smith sang “Because the Night” a capella, would you make fun of me? Despite the vastness of Benaroya Hall and the heaviness of her poetry and the sadness buried with Robert Mapplethorpe, a smile crept on my face each time she mumbled an apology for fumbling [...]

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Peaches and her “Mommy Complex”

By serene | Published: January 21, 2010

I love me some Peaches, especially when she is dressed up like a neon clitoris. Peaches “Mommy Complex” (Dir: Antuong Nguyen for MOOP JAW) from Moop Jaw on Vimeo. h/t Cookie

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A little something for your head on an introspective Saturday afternoon.

By serene | Published: January 9, 2010

(Burial, “Fostercare”)

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HHG

By serene | Published: January 1, 2010

In the perpetually swelling and inspiring nerd universe there is a demigod named Neil Gaiman. The man wields words like swords and has birthed some of the most important cultural texts (Coraline, The Sandman, Fragile Things, et al.). The meringue on this bespectacled nerd pie is that he once graced the stage of The Colbert [...]

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Proud

By serene | Published: December 28, 2009

This video makes me inordinately proud*: Totally unrelated note, and not intended to harsh anyone’s mellow, but who is visiting me from [redacted]? Whoever you are – I don’t know what you are looking for, but multiple visits on several pages a day probably won’t unearth it. Shoot me an email if you have something [...]

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Boner List

By serene | Published: December 13, 2009

It’s cold, sucky, and generally unpleasant. Here are things that are the antithesis of all that nonsense. 1. Y: The Last Man. A plague kills off every man on the planet, except for one schwing-worthy Yorick Brown. This may appeal to every comic-reading, feminist-identifying, or generally rad girl you know. Or anyone else, really. It’s [...]

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Le cinéma

By serene | Published: August 12, 2009

This summer has been all about movies: old ones, new ones, theater ones, laying on the couch ones. Here are some of my favorites, which I hereby recommend to you: 1.  When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts dir. Spike Lee The documentary clocks in at four hours, but it’s worth every minute [...]

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MiniAir

By serene | Published: December 1, 2008

I’m in the midst of CrazyChaosPanicTIme. You know, that time in a semester where everything is a flurry of chaos and stress eating and lots of writing, intersperced with bouts of hysteric laughing and Sir-Mix-A-Lot dance offs. Well my 100 page group paper is due on Friday, so hopefully things will calm down in a [...]

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Sverige

By serene | Published: November 13, 2008

I’m off to spend the weekend in Göteborg, Sweden. To celebrate the great country to the north and what some (*ahem*Timm*ahem*) may call my first foray into REAL SCANDINAVIA AND NOT THE FAUX-EUROPEAN VERSION, I present to you First Aid Kit, a super cute Swedish band (on The Knife’s Rabid Records label for the music [...]

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LOLing is the best medicine

By serene | Published: October 30, 2008

From the highly underrated Clerks: The Animated Series. It brings the funny and is the next best thing to a Kevin Smith opening weekend, which I will be missing for the first time since Dogma.

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