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Recent Culture at Large ColumnsMonday, November 9 2009
Table Space: The Final FrontierThe impressive part of 2001: A Space Odyssey isn’t what they have in the future, it’s what they don’t have: clutter. (more Rabble Without a Cause) Thursday, October 29 2009
Crime, Delirium, and ParisIn the second installment of his overseas correspondence, the Rockist gets robbed. And this time, not by an American corporation. (more The Rockist) Monday, October 26 2009
Health Care in America has Gone to the DogsCompared to the modern-day American, their dogs have the best of everything: questionable intelligence (i.e., happiness), poor memories (i.e., forgiveness), and low expectations (i.e., contentment). (more Vox Pop) Friday, October 23 2009
The Name of This Land is Hell: Mexico in LiteratureWhen the author of a sitcom-styled novel about Mexican heritage cannot resist mentioning the modern-day carnage, then it's fair to assume that the murders have become a significant part of the national identity. (more Deconstruction Zone) Thursday, October 22 2009
The ‘Ol Crotchety One Kicks It Transatlantic StylePopMatters sends its weekly culture columnist abroad, with hopefully a one-way ticket. (more The Rockist) Friday, September 25 2009
Hal Ashby: Hollywood RebelFilms and books strive toward a common goal: telling a story. And very few modern filmmakers are as good at spinning a yarn as the late Hal Ashby was. (more Deconstruction Zone) Thursday, September 10 2009
Jewish is Coolish…At Last!My people can finally emerge from behind their nebbishy personas to assume their proper place in the coolness pantheon. (more Vox Pop) Tuesday, September 8 2009
A Beatnik Tuna (Fish)Charlie the Tuna fish is an homage to the Beat generation’s playfulness and experimentation with language. (more The Tackle Box) Friday, September 4 2009
Ride This Time Machine Down a Road Less TraveledJump into that ’59 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with the maxed-out tailfins, contemplate what an original Barbie doll could fetch on eBay, and enjoy this roll call of Reasons Why Everything Changed in 1959. (more Negritude 2.0) Thursday, September 3 2009
Drunk and DrivenDelilah's on Lincoln Avenue in Chicago is everything The Rockist wants in a bar. Loud. Comfortable. Cheap. (more The Rockist) Friday, August 28 2009
Rabid and Rascally Creatures: Richard Brookhiser’s “Happy Darkies”Familial or political, conservatives in America actually have no moral boundaries whatsoever. (more Deconstruction Zone) Thursday, August 27 2009
Dear Mr. Denby: In Defense of Inglourious BasterdsQuentin Tarantino drives critics nuts because he loves movies. 'New Yorker' critic David Denby drives The Rockist nuts because he hates movies. (more The Rockist) Thursday, August 20 2009
Vinyl Dependent: The Needle and the Damage DoneThe independent record store lives another day. But how long can the vinyl lifeline continue to keep them afloat? (more The Rockist) Tuesday, August 11 2009
TIE Fighter: A Post 9/11 ParableAs the only Star Wars game that has you serving under the Empire without remorse, TIE Fighter lets you experience being a servant to a massive government just after a terrorist attack. (more Moving Pixels) Thursday, August 6 2009
‘Green Onions’—The Greatest Single of All TimeBooker T. & the MGs found themselves together, in a city of segregation, in a time of severe racial tension, and recorded a progressive, utopian party song. (more The Rockist) Friday, May 1 2009
Like Movies—with ButtonsLike Edwin S. Porter realizing that a series of shots was how you structured a film, games have to abandon the presumption that they need to obey a linear narrative or controlled message and just let the player loose. (more Moving Pixels) Wednesday, March 11 2009
Kids Listen to the Darndest ThingsLike these kids, my enjoyment level has never been as high as it was for the crap I loved when I was 13. (more Mixtape Confessions) Thursday, February 19 2009
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2009Unlike stiff features like The Reader or even the wildly uneven Curious Case of Benjamin Button, this year's Oscar-nominated shorts program is pretty much a risk-free venture. (more The Screener) Wednesday, February 11 2009
Beyond the Bubble of the GrammysThe Grammys suffer from the same problem as the rest of the recording industry: thinking America defines culture. (more Global Beat Fusion) Thursday, January 29 2009
A Perverted Perception of MoviesThe success or failure of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema hinges greatly on what one thinks of Slavoj Zizek's free-range associations on desire, blood, human waste, castration, and social control in films. (more The Screener) |
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