'It's not me, it's you', she had said. She had looked at you in pity, down in Donnie Darko's good ol' fashioned downtown's diner, where you two first met. You thought she was different, unique. Why else would she have been in that shabby ol' jazz diner? At the time, you thought you could lose … Continue reading Genius and Aloneness: Tokio Myers – Angel
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Human Betrayal: Chinese Man – Wolf
There's something really mesmerising with music videos that tell a story that is, in truth, a metaphor for something else. Specifically if it is a metaphor for a specific kind of feeling, like restlessness or the feeling of being lost or, worse, trapped. Usually I am rather sceptic of any music video made by … Continue reading Human Betrayal: Chinese Man – Wolf
What Actual Travelling Feels Like: The Blaze – Territory
Short story inspired by the music video of The Blaze for the song "Territory". This is what a real traveller feels like: Homeless. Without home. Not the place where you were born, not the place where you are now. And the sound of music that you float on exists of a million different cultural … Continue reading What Actual Travelling Feels Like: The Blaze – Territory
Stapling Samples: Gotye – State of the Art
State of the art. Ah yes, why go purchase an actual instrument when you've got a computer? No wait, no. Not just any computer, a Cotillion D575. Why try to be artistic when you've got a simple computer to shizzle the dizzle for ya? And how much art is really art, anyway? If art is … Continue reading Stapling Samples: Gotye – State of the Art
Live – PJ Harvey, “Grow Grow Grow”, Review: On Art, Personal Growth and Vulnerability
"Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different", at least, that's what Mark Manson claims in The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (p. 14). You might not get his point immediately, but watching PJ Harvey's live performance below will certainly change that. If mainstream … Continue reading Live – PJ Harvey, “Grow Grow Grow”, Review: On Art, Personal Growth and Vulnerability
The Critical Goose 