Karen Dalton And The Plight Of The Spotlight-Shy Artist
For Dalton, who was a blues and folk singer haunting the same New York City circuit as Bob Dylan in the 1960s, life out of the spotlight was not as peaceful as she might have planned.
The Gods Of The Unreligious
We vaguely religious types, less at home at church than we are on Susan Miller’s website, in a yoga class, and in the pages of self-help books, tend to only turn to the G-man when we’re really lost.
The Joys Of Silence
The problem with so much sound is that it is undoubtedly accompanied by a lot of other things: stuff, things to look at, things that can’t be looked away from. I add sound to the sound in attempt to block out the sound, which of course doesn’t work. Instead it just splices my attention further.
Lorde’s Alluring Depiction Of Adolescence
It doesn’t matter that these friends never do anything very exciting, rebellious, or bad. The point is that whatever they’re doing, they’re doing it together.
Home Means Never Second-Guessing
My head feels like a radio tower sometimes, and I wonder if anyone else’s does, like in choosing to live here we must accept a role to poorly but earnestly try to keep track of each of the conversations that have happened here since 1920.
The Summer Community In Autumn
You begin to appreciate things you took for granted when you had them, of course, like warmth and cable television. That was part of the idea.
7 Ways Manners Are Disappearing From Our Society
6. Treating people in service industries like crap simply because you believe it is your right as a paying customer.
Internet Vs. Happiness
If the other arguments that have been made aren’t working — that we’re becoming too isolated from one other, that we all have ADD now, that we don’t have good manners or interpersonal skills anymore — maybe the argument that so much browsing makes us literally unhappy will.
Movie Review: Kate Bosworth Stars In ‘And While We Were Here’
Kate Bosworth and Jamie Blackley’s characters are in the middle of their journeys, rudderless. Because of their mutual hunger for something bigger than what life has so far shown them, it takes very little time, and very few words, for them to become infatuated with each other.
‘Drinking Buddies’ Exalts The Friend Zone
Given the relatively fresh context of millennial strife, maybe it’s not so surprising that Swanberg can take such a familiar rom-com configuration — the tense double-date, essentially — and make it revelatory again.