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What’s Really Missing in Gone Girl

by | Oct 4, 2014 | Journal

[WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW IF YOU HAVE NOT READ OR SEEN GONE GIRL.] Judith Butler may have famously said that gender is performed, but what Gone Girl tackles so emphatically is that, these days, almost everything is performed, but most especially and most oppressively,...

I Am Hated For Who I Am

by | Jul 30, 2014 | Journal

I thought it would be better when I got back to LA. In some ways, it is. I haven’t heard an air raid siren since Saturday. Shrapnel isn’t likely to fall from the sky. The concept of war is not as aggressively in my face. I can no longer hear my...

Pictures of You, 20 Years Later: A Goth Flashback

by | Jul 12, 2014 | Journal

The Cure’s “Pictures of You” came on last night, and instantly I was propelled back in time twenty years, to my senior year of high school. I remembered those late night drives, alone in my car, alone with The Cure, the sound of those keyboards, that...

An Artist’s Manifesto

by | Mar 30, 2014 | Journal

Being an artist requires an excessive amount of confidence. Some might even say ego. Because who else is foolish enough to create something out of nothing? Who else is foolish enough to create something out of nothing and believe that it matters — that somehow...