Pop Culture Lunch Box

"I think art is the thing that fixes culture, moment by moment." - Author Ottessa Moshfegh

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

TV Snide: For November 2020

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A Hard Day's Night (HBO) : It had been a looong time since I saw this, the best of the Beatles films. It's no wonder they are timele...
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Friday, October 9, 2020

Mega-stars deserve to be mega-mega stars after Ballers

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I finally finished all 5 seasons of HBO’s Ballers after watching it over the past couple of years. I never thought it would be my bag. Too o...
Sunday, August 9, 2020

John Lennon's sense of humor, Tina Turner's diva-ness, and much more from Elton John's book

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I recently wrote a review of Rocketman and a list of my favorite Elton John songs . While that movie was pretty good, I heard John's new...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The history of GBV’s Alien Lanes

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Guided By Voices is my favorite contemporary rock band. They might have more songs than any artist ever, and by my count, at least 2/3 of th...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

Highlights from a beautiful little book about Prince

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Prince’s The Beautiful Ones is a great, fast-read book written mostly by him and consisting of many photos, scratch paper with famous lyrics...
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Wednesday, May 6, 2020

My new coronavirus TV schedule

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As boredom continues to wend its way into all our socially distanced lives, I figure one of my hours each day should be devoted to catching ...
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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Best Magazine Reads: Morrison Hotel was the last and best hurrah for The Doors

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Morrison Hotel is, by far, my favorite Doors album, and I’m not too sure how normal that is. It stands to reason that it would be a stinke...
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Saturday, April 18, 2020

The Intenet has made monsters of Millennials. How do we fix that?

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Jia Tolentino's new collection of essays, Trick Mirror, detail what it means to
 live the Millennial life. The insights kick in fast...
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Sunday, March 22, 2020

Joker is super creepy - and brilliant in pretty much every way

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It's understandable that critics had mixed
 feelings about Todd Phillips' Joker .
 We're living in different times than the
...
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Friday, March 20, 2020

Debbie Downer interlude: What about the world without us?

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This seems like a prescient time to go back 
and finish Alan Weisman's classic science
 exploration The World Without us.
 I didn'...
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