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Welcome to Paradise: How Green Day Helped Me Lose My Mind and Find My Anthems
The Floating Hospital for Children does not float, not anymore. From 1894 until 1927, it did float, on an actual ship that bobbed along the Boston harbor. Belief at the time was that maybe all the...
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A Head Full of Flames: Elliott Smith’s Roman Candle
This essay frequently cites William Todd Schultz’s biography, Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith, an excellent portrait I encourage Smith fans to read. Although released in 1994, I wouldn’t...
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An Interview with Flesh-n-Bone
1995, inner-city Cleveland,Ohio, in the neighborhood crossed by E. 99th Street and St. Clair, five young hip hop musicians followed up their hit single “Thuggish Ruggish Bone” with their...
View ArticleDANCING DIRTY, or Blurred Lines and Other Balancing Acts
by Loie Merritt Dirty Dancing came out the year I was born. It received an unanticipated level of popular acclaim. It seems no one thought the film would do well. After test audiences shuddered at the...
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Princesses, Prostitutes, Penises and Patriarchy—What Pretty Woman and The...
Edward: Tell me, what kind of money do you girls make these days, ballpark? Vivian: Can’t take less than a hundred dollars. Edward: Hundred dollars a night? Vivian: One hour. Edward: An hour? You make...
View ArticleAN EARLY SEXUAL EDUCATION: THE FILM ROUND UP (in which sex and love may be...
Sexual authority means a belted dress and a beast that terrorizes your intellectual hunger until you just want to dance, Beauty and the Beast: For the rest of your life, snowball fights qualify as...
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by Moksha Gita Imagine: Train tracks grinding—like Lou Reed scratching Warhol dope out of his Gretsch six string. Imagine: Train lights flickering—like the neon red sign of some unknown Amsterdam sex...
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Love in 4-D
What Back to the Future says about sex and the probability of love. Years ago, my friend Anne showed me a video called “Imagining the Tenth Dimension.” I’ve watched it a few times per year since. I...
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You-Wen and I: How MRJ (Mickey-Renton-Jerome) walked me through rock’n’roll...
I suppose one could say by the time I reached an age where I consciously became interested in sex and started looking for filmic representations of the same, my ideas of sexuality and romance were...
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Escaping Hell: Sexual horror in Titanic, The Shining & Scream
When I was a little kid, I didn’t understand the role periods played in reproduction. I didn’t know sex had anything to do with penetration. My understanding was only that it involved two people...
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