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What is the origin of this tag? What did it originally refer to?

That's basically it, the prosaic title tells you pretty much everything. Except the price on the door... which I myself don't know. Anyway, Ferro Bar is a pretty cool spot on the edge of the hill by the bridge thing, it's Liza and I playing whatever the fuck we want all night for the first time...

A thread for Lucky Jack Law to bless us with his treasures, acquired during years of fruitful adventures circling the coast of Cyprus.

We've talked about the front stage and performance, the way we make ourselves legible or illegible strategically (to resist taxation regimes, to get a foul call in football). We've talked about masks. Let's talk about the backstage. What goes on behind the masks. What happens to you when you're...

Since Stan is promising to show us his rosy cheeks soon, I think it's time to talk about the front, the face. The front stage of social life, the space where so much of dramatic action occurs. The public persona, the mask. And of course any other meanings/resonances of the front. The front...

This is the vanguard aesthetic of the youth (and beyond). it is whats cool today. a freind of mine calls it 'gay demon fairy.' weve gestured towards it in a few different threads but I think it warrants its own look

Clearly some Kate Bush stuff happening in this music vid. One of 2020's better music essays—on crushing, Catholicism, the role of fantasy. https://artificialdevotional.substack.com/p/on-caroline-polachek-carly-rae-jepsen Pairs well with Alexandra Molotkow's "An Erotics of Hypochondria"...

Fuck it, let's manufacture another wave of infection.

It's like deconstructed Beach Boys, Robbe-Grillet plays "Sloop John B.," the way Jealousy is a deconstructed take on a Jane Austen film except written 30 years in advance.

Might as well give it its own thread. I was pretty ambivalent about it, but there are a couple of bits on Meet The Woo 2 that move it beyond an awkward aping of UK drill. Faint shimmers from the stargate that you wouldn’t get in the UK. Flirtations with Uriel. Seraphic glimmers. There’s...

I'm rubbish at finding and downloading films so help me out here - inspired by Nochexxx linking to the entirety of Duel and The Last Broadcast in the films thread I'd like people to put up simple links that work for good films. I'll start off with this one - cheers

...I just saw this on news.bbc and it looked worth commenting on: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7181658.stm So does anyone think the US will try and make Israel actually, you know, do anything about this?