The Number 1 Station to Free Your Soul: Riding Through Purgatory with The Weeknd’s “Dawn FM”
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The Number 1 Station to Free Your Soul: Riding Through Purgatory with The Weeknd’s “Dawn FM”

Purgatory has been on my mind recently. Can you blame me? We’re yet again in another COVID surge, full of governmental gaslighting, confusing market-driven public health guidance, all the boosters you can stand, explosive fights over masks, tests, vaccines, remote work, and remote school, a president that seems to be increasingly addled, grocery and drug … Continue reading

Strange What Love Does: Lisa Brice’s “Boundary Girl”
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Strange What Love Does: Lisa Brice’s “Boundary Girl”

Blue and red make the hottest of color combinations. Oppositional yet no less alluring, the passion of these contrasting colors is perhaps best exemplified by the opening scene of Jean-Luc Godard’s chaotic domestic classic Le Mépris. Laying in bed with her husband Paul, Brigitte Bardot’s Camille questions him on how much he loves her body, while bathed in a red glow. Continue reading

I Saw Myself, I Saw Myself From Long Ago: Unraveling Subjecthood In Twin Peaks: The Return “Part 14”
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I Saw Myself, I Saw Myself From Long Ago: Unraveling Subjecthood In Twin Peaks: The Return “Part 14”

I’m like the blue rose….Oh! Hello there, dearest Filthy Dreams readers and fellow Twin Peaks fanatics. I don’t know about you but I’m feeling in the mood for another Bloody Mary with a side of existential terror and half a neck, but we’ll get to our role model Sarah Palmer later as we continue to … Continue reading