Tag: Julia Fox
As If Truth or Dare, Spice World and Josie and the Pussycats Joined Forces to Spawn a Macabre Child: The Moment
In the still short amount of time (though not to no-attention-span Gen Z) since Brat was released on June 7, 2024, Charli XCX has systematically [Read More…]
Adults Is Meant to Be Gen Z’s Friends, SATC, Girls, Etc., But Is Instead a Glimpse Into a Generation That’s More Stunted Than Any Other
In the tradition started, arguably, by Gen X, every generation since (not that there have been that many), has gotten their own “well I guess [Read More…]
A House Is Not A Home (Unless It’s Haunted): Presence
Steven Soderbergh and David Koepp are no strangers to working on film projects both blockbuster-y and “indie” (read: “small” a.k.a. “low-budget”). So, in a way, [Read More…]
The Highs and Hypocrisies of the 2025 Grammys
It was no surprise that this year’s Grammy Awards was a very L.A.-centric one. Not in the sense of location—though, of course, the ceremony is [Read More…]
Fantasmas Takes Aim at the Ever Less Gradual Stamping Out of People Who Can’t (Or Won’t) “Prove Themselves” Digitally
In the opening scene of Fantasmas’ first episode, “Cookies and Spaghetti,” Julio (Julio Torres) is having a nightmare about filling out an online application that [Read More…]
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse + The Science of Sleep + The Mighty Boosh + Problemista + Kafka = Fantasmas
Many people still like to tout that we’re in the Golden Age of television, forgetting perhaps that, for much of the 2000s, a new wave [Read More…]
A Bitch and A Girl and A Mother and A Whore: Julia Fox Takes A Page From Meredith Brooks Re: the Multifaceted Nature of Being A Woman
In 1997, Meredith Brooks single-handedly reminded the masses that women were far more than just one convenient label (most often: “Mother”…or, worse still, “Homemaker”). That [Read More…]
An Ode to It Girls and Sociopathy: Charli XCX’s “360”
In Madonna’s seminal 1990 hit, “Vogue,” she talks about how Rita Hayworth “gave good face.” That’s at least eighty percent of the “job” description of [Read More…]
Sevdaliza and Grimes Enlist Madonna, Julia Fox and A$AP Ferg to Remind Us That “Nothing Lasts Forever”
There is perhaps no better person to incorporate into a song called “Nothing Lasts Forever” than Madonna. Not just because she has made a career [Read More…]