Quantcast
Channel: Recently on This Recording
Browsing all 1192 articles
Browse latest View live
↧

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which Have We Got A Plan For You

What You Need To Do by ALMIE ROSE Welcome to another edition of what you need to do, where we seek advice in the silver screen. Last time we looked at Jonathan Lynn's Clue. Today, let's look to Ed...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Earn The Right To Hurt Someone Else

In Love With by LUCY MORRIS Dear C, I am back in New York but without a bed. I sleep on the couch but I do have a cabinet that holds some clothes and offers a surface on which to stack the books I...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Harken Back To Our First Warm Breath

Home Depot Oscillating Fan by MARK BAUMER The day before I moved to New York to become a mutual fund portfolio manager, I saw a guy at McDonalds holding a medium-sized, oscillating fan that he bought...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Secretly Harbor The Desire To Be Looked At

Escape to New York by ELIZABETH GUMPORT Just as our first romantic relationships impress types upon us, so, too, do our early urban experiences determine if and how we will live in cities. There are...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Read To Live And Vice Versa

Summer Reading by KARA VANDERBIJL It seems unnatural to read in the summer, when the only thing keeping us inside is the occasional electric storm. That is why it is of utmost importance that we find...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Decide To Forgo The Trombone

And Then God Created the South by ALEXIS OKEOWO I’m far from an authentic Alabamian. I don’t have a Southern accent; I can’t make enormous meals of pulled pork and barbecue, nor deep-fry anything, nor...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We End The Cosmic Friendship

photo by Amanda McCleod I Took From Her The Love I Want And Turned It To The Sky by EMMA KEMPSELL She was something that I clung to because she had been there for a long time. Even when she wasn’t and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We're Really Down On Optimus Prime

Falling From A Great Height by ALEX CARNEVALE Transformers: Dark of the Moon dir. Michael Bay 684 minutes Are you constitutionally unable to tell Josh Duhamel and Johnny Knoxville apart? If Chris...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Experience The Subtle Ferocity Of Cy Twombly

photo by Mario Dondero, Rome. 1962 The Rush by AMANDA MCCLEOD Cy Twombly was born Edwin Parker Twombly Jr. in Lexington, Virginia on April 28th, 1928. The nickname Cy was passed along to him by his...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Start Again As Beginners

Sadder Than What Came Before by TRACY WAN Beginners dir. Mike Mills 105 minutes Much like describing the liquid in a glass, a decisive moment in life is either an ending or a beginning, depending on...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which Mentally I Was No More Than A Slave

Before Midnight Dearest: I am always grateful to all the loyalties you gave me, and I am always loyal to the concepts that held us together so long: the belief that life is tragic, that man's...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Unveil The 25 Best Singles Of 2011

The 25 Best Singles of 2011 (So Far) by DANISH AZIZ The 2011 musical harvest has been bountiful, so much so that I had to whittle this list down to 25 choices from my original list of over 100 songs....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Get Fit Or Get Out

Better Living by MOLLY O'BRIEN Shaun T is 5’ 11’’ and 175 pounds, with kind eyes and a abdomen so muscled it appears segmented by the same factory machine that stamps Hershey’s Milk Chocolate into...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Say Goodbye To Gryffindor

Multiple Personalities by KARA VANDERBIJL Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 dir. David Yates 130 min Voldemort dies. Through a slightly confusing turn of events, Harry sacrifices the part...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which Grace Kelly Makes The Rules Around Here

Amazing Grace by ALMIE ROSE I just found out that Grace Kelly was a slut and this has to mean something. Maybe I should clarify (or not, it’s Manhattan, who gives a fuck): I had heard the old...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Taste The Blood Of The Dragon

Queen's Walk by DICK CHENEY A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin 1040 pp A light wind was riffling the waters of the pool below, all around the naked swordsman. It reminded him of how Tysha...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which Norman Mailer Ruins Marilyn Monroe For The Rest Of Us

North Korea, South Korea by ALEX CARNEVALE When Norman Mailer wrote his 1973 biography of Marilyn Monroe, entitled Marilyn, he called himself a psychohistorian. It was his sworn duty to interpret the...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which The License Plate Said Fresh And It Had Dice In The Mirror

Born and Raised by DAYNA EVANS My first real American Halloween, my brother and I dressed up as Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones from Men In Black. You can see the problem with this already. I insisted...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which Our Clothes Pop Off When We Double In Size

Born Free by LAUREN BANS Captain America: The First Avenger dir. Joe Johnston 125 minutes Chris Evans is extremely attractive. Not in a sexual way, but in a glossy I wonder if I threw chewing gum at...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

In Which We Spend The Summer With Her

Blemishes by DURGA CHEW-BOSE My summer began with a bang. A bullet, which I later collected for the police — six miniature pieces of delicately warped copper metal — smashed my second floor bedroom...

View Article
Browsing all 1192 articles
Browse latest View live