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Charles Simic - "I am the last..."

I am the last Napoleonic soldier. It’s almost two hundred years later and I am still retreating from Moscow. The road is lined with white birch trees and the mud comes up to my knees. The one-eyed woman wants to sell me a chicken, and I don’t even have any clothes on.      
       The Germans are going one way; I am going the other. The Russians are going still another way and waving good-by. I have a ceremonial saber. I use it to cut my hair, which is four feet long.

Death in Midsummer

Deerhunter - Death in Midsummer (Official Video) // From the new album 'Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared' out Jan 18, 2019 // Edited by Marisa Gesualdi

Sword of Damocles

SWORD OF DAMOCLES
by Rufus Wainwright
Featuring Darren Criss
Directed by Andrew Ondrejcak
Wardrobe by Vivienne Westwood
Executive Producer Dana Guerin

 

At a lavish banquet, King Dionysius is confronted by his servant Damocles - a brat who is jealous of the king’s splendor and power. Through supernatural forces, the two roles are switched. The smug, inexperienced commoner becomes the king. But his joy is short-lived.
He quickly realizes that being king isn’t all crowns and cheeseburgers. With gre...

Javier Zamora - Exiliados

for Monika Sok

 

We didn’t hold typhoons or tropics in our hands.

I didn’t reach across the table on our first date

at Cornelia Street Café. In my humid pockets,

 

my fists were old tennis balls thrown to the stray dog

of love bouncing toward the Hudson down

to South Ferry. We didn’t hold hands in that cold

 

October wind, but the waves witnessed our promise

to return to my cratered-deforested homeland,

and you to your parents’, sometime in the future.

 

No citizenship or some other violence...

(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang

LCD Soundsystem cover Heaven 17's "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang" in the Electric Lady Sessions

 

Have you heard it on the news
About this fascist groove thang
Evil men with racist views
Spreading all across the land
Don't just sit there on your ass
Unlock that funky chaindance
Brothers, sisters shoot your best
We don't need this fascist groove thang

 

Brothers, sisters, we don't need this fascist groove thang

 

History will repeat itself
Crisis point we're near the hour
Counterforce wil...

Some Call it a Conspiracy: A Malcolm London Story

A reflective and mediative look at Malcolm London: a poet, activist, and musical artist from Chicago, IL.

Deleted and Bonus Scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhSrt...

 

Featuring:
Malcolm London @MalcolmLondon (https://open.spotify.com/album/4Yybss...)
Chicago Soundbox https://www.facebook.com/HighwayRadioCSB
Chance The Rapper @chancetherapper
Tasha @wowtashawow
Timmy V @TimmyVoltchek
Kevin Coval @kevincoval
Marcus Atom @marcusatom
Malcolm’s Grandma

 

Directed by David Huzieran
Director Of Phot...

Don't Be Scared, I Love You

Bill Ryder-Jones - "Don't Be Scared, I Love You" from 'Yawn', out 2nd November 2018 on Domino Record Co. // Directed and edited by James Slater // DOP: David Wright // 1st AC: Pete Nance

Charles Simic - The Friends of Heraclitus

Your friend has died, with whom
You roamed the streets,
At all hours, talking philosophy.
So, today you went alone,
Stopping often to change places
With your imaginary companion,
And argue back against yourself
On the subject of appearances:
The world we see in our heads
And the world we see daily,
So difficult to tell apart
When grief and sorrow bow us over.

 

You two often got so carried away
You found yourselves in strange neighborhoods
Lost among unfriendly folk,
Having to ask for directions
While on th...

King of the Hill

Thundercat - 'King of the Hill (feat. BADBADNOTGOOD)' // Taken from the album 'Brainfeeder X', released 16 November 2018 on Brainfeeder: brainfeeder.lnk.to/bfxSo

Derek Fordjour

Derek Fordjour’s images draw upon a variety of sources, including sporting imagery, board and card games, carnival motifs, and the circus to explore ideas of vulnerability. He uses the economic, political and psychosocial implications of games to discuss the power structure that exists around rewards and sanctions, merit and punishment, for both the player within the game and as an allegory for the broader human experience. Team dynamics that evoke the tension of an individual situated...