Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Fashion’s New Fascist: Fendi, & Everything That’s Wrong With Their Kiernan Shipka-Starring Commercial
For most of the tourists that flock to Rome to throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain (Fendi now being, incidentally, the “owner” of it [Read More…]
Britney Spears’ “Mannequin”: A Mantra for How to Unemotionally Detach
While Britney Spears’ oeuvre is frequently deemed maudlin to the point of excess (earlier tracks like “From the Bottom of My Broken Heart” and “E-Mail [Read More…]
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special Is Laughing at Kacey Musgraves’ Idea of “Camp”
Generally met with unanimous praise for its blending of self-awareness, nostalgia and paying “campy” respect to the past by doing a sendup of it (all [Read More…]
When It Comes to Heart Transplant Rom-Coms, Stick With Return to Me, Not Last Christmas
In the annals of heart transplant “rom-coms,” there are very few to choose from. Arguably beginning with 1993’s Untamed Heart starring Christian Slater and Marisa [Read More…]
“We’re in the end of art, human art.”: Grimes’ “My Name Is Dark” Ties In Nicely to Her Latest AI Takeover Theory & Battle With Humanoid Zola Jesus
As Grimes gets deeper and deeper into the behind closed doors world of Silicon Valley and all of its nefarious inner workings thanks to full-time [Read More…]
A Siciliano Vero Who Betrayed Cosa Nostra: Il Traditore
For a story like notorious traitor Tommaso Buscetta’s, a director as seasoned as Marco Bellocchio makes sense for Il Traditore. Even if he is a [Read More…]
That Night: A Long Island Romeo and Juliet
In 1961, there wasn’t much in the way of excitement on Long Island (there still isn’t really). For ten-year-old Alice Bloom (Eliza Dushku, in her [Read More…]
The Woeful Lament of Everything Both Specifically and Generally Coming to an End on Pet Shop Boys’ “Burning the Heather”
“End” seems to be the word that most accurately sums up the motif of Pet Shop Boys’ forthcoming fourteenth studio album. For it’s even the [Read More…]
Kesha Won’t Be A Marionette (Or a Clone) in “My Own Dance”
As Kesha continues to roll out the singles leading up to the release of High Road in January, she wants us to know that while [Read More…]
Life As Manifested By Madonna Sitting In A Tub of Ice While Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble” Plays
As though preparing to enter battle, Madonna proceeds to throw punches at the open palms of her presumed boy toy du moment, Ahlamalik Williams (who [Read More…]
