Essays · Historical & Epic · Music & Musicals
“Not frustration of a desire of the subject, but frustration by an object in which his desire is alienated and which the more it is elaborated, the more profound the alienation from his jouissance becomes for the subject.”
Drama · Essays · Uncategorized
“It’s almost as if The Misfit himself were behind the camera.”
Except whether to laugh or cry
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica
“Nude on the Moon’s exploitation is as innocent as the Good Christo-Nudist’s reclaiming of a pre-figleafed (albeit non-recreational) Eden.”
Essays · LGBT & Queer · Photo Essays
“Be aware: there are forces at work here of which we have no knowledge.”
Neither will be the same
Composers · Essays · Music & Musicals
“Alexei must be condemned to the pointless, loveless, and finally false freedom of a spinning limbo, as unfinished and unfinishable as the best Bakhtinian polyphony.”
Activist & Political · Essays · Silents
“The old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.”
Fresh Starts Don’t Come Easy
“All the world’s a hell ten feet square”
It is the subjective fever dreamof a psyche carving fantasy out of reality as he goes.”
Directors · Essays · Writers & Critics
Re-examining the Crossed Wires in Kubrick’s and Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
“Should we enjoy beingmanipulated?”
And your ankles will still bebroken
We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us
“Skip is the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other.”
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres
“Nobody wants to pay to becastrated anymore.”
You mean you’ve tried panicking?
