Welcome to Filthy Dreams
Well hello there! Welcome to Filthy Dreams, a blog that analyzes culture through a queer lens. Rather than jumping right into new content, we thought it best to introduce ourselves and our aesthetics with our Trash Manifesto
Latest Entries
Filthy Dreams’ Black Lodge Elevator Music Playlist
WARNING: The Filthy Dreams’ Black Lodge Elevator Music may trigger hallucinations of rabbits, Laura Palmer, terrible roadhouse bars, disembodied ears, ladies in radiators, Pabst Blue Ribbon, James’ motorcycle ride to cancellation, Robert Blake and David Lynch making quinoa. Continue reading
A Partial GIF Review Of Dennis Cooper’s New GIF Novel ‘Zac’s Haunted House’
This week, one of my favorite authors, filth elders and the only writer who can make me feel completely and wonderfully uncomfortable reading his books in public–Dennis Cooper–released his tenth novel Zac’s Haunted House for free online. The only catch? Zac’s Haunted House is composed entirely of gifs. Continue reading
Excavating The Filthy History on John Waters’ ‘Bill’s Stroller’
Why hello there! Come–sit down, take your snow boots off and have a swig from our flask. What are our plans for tonight? Naturally, we’re headed to Beverly Hills…no, of course, not THAT awful Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. We, here at Filthy Dreams, have been waiting with baited breath for tonight’s opening of Beverly Hills John, our … Continue reading
I Need You To Listen: Feeling Backward in Perfume Genius’ ‘Too Bright’
Rather than depicting an It Gets Better-style representation of queerness, Perfume Genius’ album Too Bright portrays feelings ranging from disillusionment, melancholy, shame, stigma, loss and frequently a deep engagement with the sense of being trapped in one’s body. Continue reading
5 Xmas Films/Videos To Stun Your Relatives Silent This Holiday Season
Ho Ho Hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers! Why come in and have a chocolate peppermint martini! Yes, I know they’re disgusting but dry-heaving is a Christmas morning tradition. If you aren’t waking up at 4am on your bathroom floor tasting a mixture of candy-cane flavor, holiday spirit and regret, well, it just doesn’t seem like Christmas to … Continue reading
Role Models: Des Esseintes
Why hello there! Come, let me make you a drink from my mouth organ! What’s a mouth organ? Well, funny you should ask, dearest Filthy Dreams reader: a mouth organ is only a bizarre instrument dreamed up by the deviant mind of one of our oldest Filthy Dreams’ role models: that sickly aesthete himself Jean … Continue reading
What’s Your Alternate Ending?: Visual AIDS’ Video Program Celebrates 25 Years of Day With(Out) Art
Last week in honor of the 25th anniversary of Day With(Out) Art, a national day of mourning and action in response to AIDS on December 1, Visual AIDS premiered Alternate Endings, seven commissioned short videos by artists and art collectives addressing the current state of the ongoing HIV/AIDS crisis. Continue reading
‘Things Are Queer’ At Duane Michals’ Retrospective At The Carnegie Museum Of Art
In Susan Sontag’s seminal On Photography, Sontag states, “A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs–especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past–are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds … Continue reading
You Are Invited To–Residual Impression: A Look at Contemporary Prints
Come to our contributor Osman Yerebakan’s upcoming exhibition Residual Impression: A Look At Contemporary Prints at the Abrazo Interno Gallery in The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center (107 Suffolk St, 2nd Floor). Continue reading
You Killed Me First: The Only Film Needed To Ruin Your Family’s Thanksgiving
Imagine the scene: Dinner is finished and you gather your family around your favorite computer/TV screen and turn on Cinema of Transgression deviant Richard Kern’s You Killed Me First. Continue reading