Ho…Ho…Ho…YEE HAW! Merry Christmas, Mary! Oh come in all ye faithful and warm yourself up with a little nip of nog. What’s that? Did we make a new playlist this year? Why I thought you’d never ask! I know last year we slacked and relied on the strength of our original Xmas playlist but this year, … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Elvis
5 Films/Videos To Help You Find Your Inner Patriot This 4th of July
Why hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams patriots! Come on in and grab yourself a cold one. What’s that? Oh don’t get snotty, queens, it’s July 4th so we only have shitty domestic beer tall-boys. Just a few of those and you’ll be singing at the top of your lungs about amber waves of grain in … Continue reading
Filthy Dreams’ Hunka Hunka Burnin’ Elvis Playlist
Lord almighty, I feel my temperature risin’! Lately, we here at Filthy Dreams have come down with a little fever…a feverish fanatical and maniacal obsession with Elvis. Well, dear Filthy Dreams readers, he IS the King! Praise his name! Elvis in the Highest! So in order to finally put our Elvis obsession into a playlist … Continue reading
He Touched Me: Basking In The Light Of Elvis’ Decadent World-Making at Graceland
Because, faithful Filthy Dreams readers, I have a big announcement: I’ve been reborn! Oh not in any traditional religious sense but I’ve seen the light–the light of the King–after making a pilgrimage to Elvis’ decadent domicile Graceland outside of Memphis. Continue reading
Andrea Mary Marshall’s Hunka Hunka Burning Gender Trouble at “Sacred/Iconic”
Playing with the iconic masculinity of Elvis Presley and combining it with its polar opposite–the idealized femininity of a geisha, artist Andrea Mary Marshall’s new work in Sacred/Iconic, a two-person exhibition at Garis & Hahn, open until October 19, highlights gender as a performance, troubling the binary of masculine/feminine. Continue reading