January is here, and with it comes that gnawing guilt. The resolution to read more and broaden yourself was lost to endless nights watching THE WIRE on your laptop. It’s not too late though. Lengthening sun and some time off work mean an afternoon or two can be dedicated to a book somewhere.**It needn’t be a rushed effort to conquer CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. Instead, you could fill your time with something like THINGS I HAVE LEARNED IN MY LIFE SO FAR. Typographer and designer Stefan Sagmeister took some of the aphorisms stored in his diary and transposed them in myriad ways onto the world. He wraps forests and arranges junk and makes billboards, and presents the photos in a collection of unbound signatures. It’s a fascinating, clever meshing of word and image, and medium and message, and can take up hours of your time.
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Martha Marcy May MarleneWriter-director Sean Durkin’s debut feature is subtly, almost perfectly calibrated between idyllic and terrifying, all the way to its chillingly...
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WeekendThough it’s a small film, Weekend grabs at a lot of big ideas that will needle you long after it ends. Writer/director Andrew Haigh crafts...
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An interview with OFWGKTAComplete this sentence: If Odd Future were elected president, we would… Tyler – Make skateboarding legal and have a national titty...
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Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyWhere Ian Fleming’s espionage is flip and glamorous, John Le Carré’s is dreary and cynical; George Smiley is the anti-James Bond. Still,...
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Woollen Kits, ‘Woollen Kits’ ...If it was early nineties Spin magazine would no doubt be calling this ‘slacker’ rock and yes it has a loose and relaxed feel but...
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Poolside Boners: an owner’s manual ...Most of the men who read this publication are well through puberty, but not so far through it they’ve forgotten the sheer humiliation that...