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Arts & Culture

The Fright Stuff

By
Damian Purdy
Gape-mouthed monsters overrun swirling landscapes of fever and dream. The preternatural world consorts freely with ours, often to violent and surreal effect. Aesthetic touchstones such as Manga, Buddhist hell scrolls and Hieronymus Bosch have...
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Viva L’viv

By
Damian Purdy
When the poet Walt Whitman declared that “the art of art and the glory of expression is simplicity,” he was, of course, talking about heavy metal. Indeed, the genre's appeal lies not in...
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Just don’t call it “Alt-country”

By
Damian Purdy
“Yacht rock.” “No Wave.” “Late-Baroque contrapunctual Galante.” “Miami Booty Bass.” People – usually non-musicians – seem to possess a near-militant will to categorize music into genres. And while such labels might provide...
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Fried Brains and Sam

By
Corey King
After three weeks of being treated like some kind of criminal, I was finally allowed to work without the supervision of guardian angels. But even as they watched, not a day went by where...
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Fuck computers

By
Joel Vandale
As inhabitants of the 21st century, we are all forcibly products of our time. Like every era, ours provides us with a chance to make our mark on all aspects of history. However, the...
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Hang the Meat

By
Vito Capobianco
Hang The Meat— Up and over the mountain peaks, Tickle the tips with the tips of my digits. To the valley I did streak To nibble the grass with...
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Schools are just factories

By
D. Bloom
Schools are just factories producing a cooperative work force fertilizing a crop of young minds with ideas genius is limited those who don't succeed get weeded out by numbers without empathy and by a man in the factory called the principal here they...

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