Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
The Falling Man Is the Visual Manifestation of the Shit Sandwich or Shit Cereal Paradox
Amid all the images of destruction and carnage documented on September 11, 2001, one that remains, to this day, a standout of the atrocities is [Read More…]
The Staff of Life: A Theory on the Mass Urge to Bake Bread in Quarantine (in America)
In Henry Miller’s damning second volume of The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, a way ahead of its time indictment of America and its priorities, there is a [Read More…]
I Used To Go Here: No One Cares
“It could be better.” This is the final line of Kris Rey’s I Used To Go Here, as though to goad its audience in a [Read More…]
SZA Brings Back 00s-Inspired Costuming and Choreography in “Hit Different”
From the orange cargo-inspired pants to the off-orange crop tops worn by SZA and her dancers (in a look reminiscent of Britney Spears in “Sometimes”–with [Read More…]
Linklater and Lynch in a Blender: I’m Thinking of Ending Things
As such an all-encompassing, yet little used in real life phrase, “I’m thinking of ending things” packs a weighty punch as an internal sentiment. Those [Read More…]
There Still Remains No More Uncomfortable Moment in Recent Cinema History Than When Liza Minnelli Materialized in Sex and the City 2 to Sing “Single Ladies”
For whatever reason, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” remains one of Beyoncé’s biggest hits despite the fact that it is one of her [Read More…]
We Must Always Remember Even the Gods Are Capable of Frailty, Or: Beyoncé’s Dalliance With Sisqó
We know, we know: Beyoncé is a goddess. Yet that doesn’t mean she doesn’t possess the frailty of an average human. For even goddesses have [Read More…]
Trinkets: Shoplifting’s The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off
When Natalie Portman as “Alice” in Closer delivered her infamous line, “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off,” [Read More…]
Don’t Talk to Madonna About Using Gas Masks (or Riding a Disco Ball) In Your Performance
While Madonna and Lady Gaga may have played nice for the cameras at M’s illustrious Oscar after party last year in 2019 (which is ten [Read More…]
Disclosure Defibrillates 2020 With A Bit of Energy
While a seemingly generic album title, there can perhaps be no better name than Energy for Disclosure’s third record, and their first full-length one to [Read More…]
