Author: Genna Rivieccio
Genna Rivieccio writes for myriad blogs, mainly this one, The Burning Bush, Missing A Dick, The Airship and Meditations on Misery.
Soon-Yi: “Love” Is Just A Matter of Pursuit & Vulnerability
As if the shock and moral outrage over Woody Allen’s entire existence couldn’t possibly intensify, the very woman within the eye of the storm, watching [Read More…]
We Are All Venice Bitches Thanks to A Song That Manages to Be Even More Nostalgic for A Time Past Than “Summertime Sadness”
If anyone knows the value of nostalgia, of how it can still cut to the quick of what’s left of human emotions, it is Lana [Read More…]
“I Will Follow Him” As Every Man’s Worst Nightmare of Devotion
In the particular decades of the twentieth century that ranged from the 1940s to the 1960s, emphasis on a girl being devoted to her man [Read More…]
Lana Del Rey and Frances Bean: Anti-Suicide Poster Girls (Courtney Love, Not So Much)
Considering Lana Del Rey’s recent release of “Mariners Apartment Complex,” which, in the estimation of some, addresses the very interview that had fans and critics [Read More…]
Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour With You: Like An “Upbeat” Revolutionary Road
In the era of pre-code Hollywood, the scandalous and horndog nature of most screenplays was utterly pervasive. Samson Raphaelson’s (who also wrote such classics as [Read More…]
“GTFO” Is Mariah Carey’s “It’s Not Right But It’s Okay”
While James Packer might not have been cheating on Mariah Carey at the time their engagement disintegrated at the end of 2016 (in fact, it [Read More…]
The #SheDominatedMeToo, #SheTheShrew Movement
There was a time, long ago now, it seems, when the notion of a woman raping a man was completely and utterly unfathomable. In the [Read More…]
The Direction of Lana Del Rey’s Sound Continues To Meld Her Pre-Fame Style With Leonard Cohen’s
In November of 2017, Lana Del Rey participated in a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen in his hometown of Montreal. Called Tower of Song (in [Read More…]
The Feud That Escalated Between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Speaks to the “Crash” Conundrum of Blackness
Crash was, like La La Land, one of those Oscar-hyped/winning films that people instantaneously lauded before ripping it a new asshole for being “contrived” and [Read More…]
How Do You Render A Pussy Man Even More Sexless? By Turning Him Into a Puppet: Nicki Minaj’s “Barbie Dreams” Video
As immortalized in the best documentary ever made, Truth or Dare, Madonna famously called then boyfriend Warren Beatty “pussy man” as an epithet connoting that [Read More…]
