Tag: Genna Rivieccio
Prick Up Your Ears: The Jealousy Between Two Artists/Lovers: One Successful, One Not
The only thing worse than being a failure is being a failure with a more successful, less talented friend. But perhaps worse still is when [Read More…]
The Simple Life as Blueprint for Borat, Ire for Rich White Girls
The Simple Life was not exactly lauded critically in its time. It had a larger viewership at the outset, sure, with thirteen million viewers tuning [Read More…]
On The Protect Yo Heart Graffito & Its Representation of Selfishness As A Defense Mechanism
The twenty-first century is no place to have feelings. Certainly not if you want to make it out of your twenties with any semblance of [Read More…]
Why Is There A Gaga: Five Foot Two When Truth or Dare Already Exists?
For someone who likes to stir the pot with Madonna, even going so far as to drum up viewings by including a cliffhanger snippet in [Read More…]
Not To Be One-Upped By Prince William and Kate Middleton, Kimye, Too Expects Third Child
As a testament to the devolved state of the United States, it’s often been stated that Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are the closest thing [Read More…]
Patti Cake$: An Ode to Dream Preservation
“You’re a culture vulture… stick to making drinks, white girl.” So it is that 23-year-old Patricia “Dumbo” Dombrowski’s (Danielle Macdonald) rap idol, O-Z (Sahr Ngaujah), [Read More…]
LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream Comes At An Ironic Moment–And Chooses To Ignore Time Altogether
To listen to LCD Soundsystem’s fourth album, released after a seven-year hiatus, is to be transported back to the exact time you last heard something [Read More…]
The Camp Obsession That Wouldn’t Die: Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later
After Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day of Camp premiered on Netflix on July 31, 2015, one perhaps wrongly assumed this would be the [Read More…]
Diana, Princess of Wales/Queen of Grief
When (ex-)Princess Diana died twenty years ago today, August 31st, she had only just begun to start anew from the wreckage of her marriage to [Read More…]
England Is Mine: The Morrissey Equivalent of Control
There was one single moment in Manchester music history that seemed to galvanize every denizen with even the slightest inclination to start a band: June [Read More…]