I’ve noticed a recent trend for music videos to revolve heavily around the theme of the monstrous. Now, I’m not speaking of the moral disorder indulged in greasy booty videos or the psychotic mind romanticized in murderous pulp fantasies, but rather, the direct depiction of the monster. I’m talking about human beasts deformed and
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One of my favorite new blogs, HipHlawg, posted a telling cross analysis on drug confessionals and gender expectation in Los Angeles and New York based crack rap. The sacrifices many women make for their male counterparts in trafficking illuminate an often neglected and insidious side of the drug war story. The author traces an
I first encountered the work of Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn at the Getty’s California Video exhibit in 2008. In Whacker , 2005, Stanya Kahn is in the middle of one of those abandoned, overgrown hills you see along the road in LA, trying to mow the weeds with a weed whacker. It’s so
In Heiner Müller’s play “Quartet,” the Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont of Les Liaisons Dangereuses have become old, saggy, warty, perhaps syphilitic, but are ever more determined to woo and exchange body fluids with unsuspecting young virgin nieces. Yet in all the rave reviews Wilson’s Quartett has received so far, not a
A couple months ago I got the chance to witness the grand opening of Kommunitas, a curated “allery” (alley gallery) located just off Townsend between 5th and 6th streets in San Francisco’s SoMa district. I had previously known SoMa’s Bluxome Street corridor well, a staple for graffiti enthusiasts on par with Mission favorites, Clarion
