Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Without Dolor, There Can Be No Gloria
If anyone was fated to play Pedro Almodóvar’s mother in a meta biopic of his life, it could have been none other than Penélope Cruz, [Read More…]
The Star: Like Sunset Boulevard Had Norma Desmond Been Castrated By Financial Ruin
Like the cinematic, L.A.-oriented songs of Lana Del Rey alluding to portents of some cataclysmic fall (“Nobody warns you before the fall”), all of 1952’s [Read More…]
Jacques Chirac: A Political Conundrum
It is said that age makes you a capitalist. With the priorities and pursuits to match. Jacques Chirac was already “old” (though not by French [Read More…]
In Stockholm, Robert Budreau Tries to Make Us Understand Empathizing With One’s Captors
Like the movie that launched screenwriter-director Robert Budreau to fame, called Born to Be Blue, Stockholm also stars Ethan Hawke and could just as easily [Read More…]
MARINA Delivers Whimsical Warning to Cunts As A Pierrot in “Karma”
As Marina continues to promote the Love + Fear album via another leg of the tour and an EP featuring five of the sixteen songs [Read More…]
In AHS: 1984, The Decade of Excess is Nothing to Romanticize
Every time you think Ryan Murphy and co-writer/creator Brad Falchuk couldn’t possibly come up with another concept for American Horror Story, lo and behold, we [Read More…]
Tove Lo Gets Semi-Better Results From Sticking Her Head in the Oven Than Sylvia Plath in “Sweettalk My Heart” Video
Expounding on one of the larger themes of Sunshine Kitty–making a human connection at the cost of being perhaps overly visceral–Tove Lo’s latest single, “Sweettalk [Read More…]
“Removed”: On the “Statement” About Phone Obsession and Its Correlating Cause of Disconnection from Humanity
A recently viral art project–fine, let’s deem it “series” because “art project” has a tinge of the belittling to it–from Eric Pickersgill called “Removed” has [Read More…]
J. Lo and the Versace Dress: A Rare Instance of Something Getting Better With Time
Though Milan Fashion Week commenced on September 17th, it was Jennifer Lopez’s surprise closing of the Versace show in an updated version of her iconic [Read More…]
Tove Lo’s Sunshine Kitty Will Make Listeners Purr in Submission
From the moment we hear the seemingly strange (at least to those who don’t speak Italian) intro to Sunshine Kitty, Tove Lo’s fourth album, it’s [Read More…]
