In the summer of 1970, Dock Ellis, playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates, pitched a no-hitter under the influence of LSD. He had taken the doses after having misremembered his schedule, thinking it was an off day. On the field he was psyched–he later said that he “had a feeling of euphoria.” Tweet
Sound in Grotowski’s “Akropolis” Nobody knows better than 60s avant garde theater directors Jerzy Grotowski and Tadeusz Kantor that simple theatrical choices can have a serious dramatic impact on a viewer’s experience. In Grotowki’s “Akropolis” (a play based on Polish dramatist Stanislaw Wyspianski’s play of the same name but set in the concentration camp
Robert Crumb's latest and greatest project, finished after four years of research and A highly secretive undertaking at the drafting board, boogies its way from the bookshelf to the bedside with so much soul-shaking get-down you'd think Albert Ammons was trying to put you to sleep with the blues to back your prayers. Fusing
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix) I don’t know how I forgot about the video for Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ “Heads Will Roll” when I wrote my blurb about monsters and music videos. This stunning piece of video performance dating back to this year’s excellent full length, It’s Blitz!, features a
Hydra Magazine presents Part One of our 30 Best Films of the 2000s.
This week, to draw attention to the Copenhagen Climate Summit, the New Yorker has published Helen Simpson’s story “Diary of an Interesting Year.” It’s a story filled with cold nights, dirty parkas, weeping sores, and replete with the kind of maniacal attention to detail that comes with desperation. “Every one of us takes about
If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it's missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. There’s an amazing new video for Dam Funk’s “Mirrors“, taken from this month’s debut 5-lp record, Toeachizown (Stones Throw Records). The video meanders from a distance between
The eminence of James Wood as a literary critic is rarely questioned; a few years ago the upstarts at N+1 (the McSweeney’s of the East), tried to do just that and ended up embroiled in a rhetorical chess match that they devoted whole issues to, whether that was resolved is anyone’s guess. In his
