Samantha Hunt's Blog, page 2

GirlLand

"The day they remove my right ovary, Zayn fails to show up at the world premier of the new 1D record."

My story about One Direction is up on New York Magazine.

Teatre Sebald

Black butterflies at CCCB Sebald exhibit, Barcelona

Ghost Activist

"I took the measure of the unbearable vanity of the west that has never ceased to privilege being over non-being."
-Sans Soleil, Chris Marker, 1982

“I want it quiet when I sing, goddammit!’”

“I wish I could really consider it work and just do a job and not care,” she wrote in her diary in August 1964. “The truth is I’m not on the same circuit as the typical American audience. I can’t reach them unless I turn myself inside out! And sometimes it takes too much energy. And then I feel so hurt that they don’t get me. Maybe if I thought of myself as Lenny Bruce, it wouldn’t hurt so much.”

Incredible piece about Nina Simone's secret diaries, written by Joe Hagan, so smart I married him.

Love Letters

A love letter Johnny Cash wrote to June Carter two months after her death.

Dear Lordy

It's not something to discuss lest love be mistaken for kitsch. Watch the hip swing at 2:42.

Remote

Smithsonian has published a remarkable article about a family of six that lived without human contact in the mountains of Siberia for forty years. To read it, and then hours later read this article in the New York Times concerning the real possibility of artificial intelligence surpassing our own, causes a mind to doubt that there's been any progress at all in the last hundred years on earth.