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Perfect Days: A mantra for the modern age
Think about it, you’re dealing with numbers all day long. Decimal points, high frequencies, bang, bang, bang. Eh-eh-eh-eh. Digits kick, kick, kick, all very acidic above the shoulders mustard stuff. Matthew McConaughey, The Wolf Of Wall Street Is man a machine? After all, most facets of our lives are controlled by the uncontrollable. Our height,…
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Because the Internet: Internet trolls, lost love and the meaningless meaning of life
Criticism of the digital age through music is a difficult thing to do without sounding shallow. Many have tried, and yet many of these attempts have ended up not being as moving or captivating as the artist would perhaps have thought initially (“Are you lost in the world like me” and its poor effort at…
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Past Lives: Closure in discomfort
‘In this story I would be the evil white American husband standing in the way of destiny’ Past lives is a movie that acknowledges and embraces, with open arms, the shortcomings of the shared human experience. In fact, I would argue that most of its charm comes from the fact that it’s an unpolished representation…