ISSUE 27.6
december 2021
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love letter to a girl whose name ends in i
by josie wu
because summer rippled through our wrists like a
disease, speckled and honest.
With breath broken over your
splintered lip,
by derek engen
A tavern roars inside your eggshell body.
Your stagnant feet are boats, marooned in ice.
Beneath your nose is acrid fruit, rotting.
by max zhang
from FILM NOTES ON A GOD WHO DREAMS WITH THE SKY PAINTED NEON: A Documentary
Aging is just learning new definitions for numbers. Is changing
numerical figures to human ones.
by kian blewett
where’s the buck go when it rains
or the squirrel
into a little hole?
trees now feeling rain
they remain calm
what is nature, but a reflection of ourselves
new & noteworthy
review
Quirky, Fun, and Flirty: Reflections on Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
by charlotte taylor and marion cassidy
The French Dispatch is quirky, fun and flirty. Quirky, first, in its far-fetched yet totally lovable stories. Fun because each film keeps the audience guessing—the film does not have a dull moment. And lastly, flirty because of Wes Anderson’s enticing, playful juxtaposition of objects, people, and places. Will one leave the theater with a sense of profundity, ready to take on the world as the main character in their own life?
Image: Searchlight Pictures
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commentary
Psychedelic Rock Since 2008
by ben barrett
What is psychedelic rock? The word ‘psychedelic’ is the Greek words for ‘mind’ and ‘manifest’ hastily smashed together, and it typically connotes either drug use or kaleidoscope use. Yet what actually constitutes this distinct sound is hard to articulate; unconventional instrumentation as well as distorted or modulated tones all definitely factor into it, as do hallucinogenic soundscapes and tortuous song structures, but the precise definition is likely still being litigated on internet message boards.