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The Downward Spiral: The Loveliest Trick of the Devil

For his closing column on Spike, Dean Kissick wonders if the last six years have indeed been spiraling downward – and what’s to come next. Balenciaga rejects outrage, Kanye is a Nazi, everyone is a satanist, the color of the year is primordial invocation of joy, Donald Trump and Alex Jones are...
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went to dimes square lynchpin the metrograph cinema last night, it was great, it provoked that self-consious feeling i always get around there, the girls on the ticket desk looked like culture mafia, the snack selection was weird, some kind of japanese lemonade and individually wrapped korean sweets, and the seats were notably uncomfortable. one of them was a wooden armchair. $18 a ticket as well.
 
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The Downward Spiral: The Loveliest Trick of the Devil

For his closing column on Spike, Dean Kissick wonders if the last six years have indeed been spiraling downward – and what’s to come next. Balenciaga rejects outrage, Kanye is a Nazi, everyone is a satanist, the color of the year is primordial invocation of joy, Donald Trump and Alex Jones are...
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Kissick's final column
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shakahislop said:
went to dimes square lynchpin the metrograph cinema last night, it was great, it provoked that self-consious feeling i always get around there, the girls on the ticket desk looked like culture mafia, the snack selection was weird, some kind of japanese lemonade and individually wrapped korean sweets, and the seats were notably uncomfortable. one of them was a wooden armchair. $18 a ticket as well.
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What'd ya see?
 
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shakahislop said:
went to dimes square lynchpin the metrograph cinema last night, it was great, it provoked that self-consious feeling i always get around there, the girls on the ticket desk looked like culture mafia, the snack selection was weird, some kind of japanese lemonade and individually wrapped korean sweets, and the seats were notably uncomfortable. one of them was a wooden armchair. $18 a ticket as well.
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I think someone here posted this awhile back

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Escape from Dimes Square | Will Harrison

The New York City micro-neighborhood has become something more than a gleaming advertisement for fake proletarian credentials.
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Very appropriate given the significant spiritual role that Jeffrey Epstein's murder plays in the post-RSP scene
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the girls at the ticket desk had this slightly flirty way about them which was exactly like how every single person flirts with tom cruise in that film

i hope they do it deliberately, to mirror the film
 
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one weird thing that happened in the cinema is that people were laughing at odd moments. quite a lot of people. they laughed when the gay guy was flirting with tom cruise on the hotel reception desk. and they laughed at quite a heightened moment when nicole kidman was telling tom cruise that she was dreaming about fucking a load of other men. it reminded me of the people who force a laugh at shakespeare, a kind of performative laughing.
 
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one weird thing that happened in the cinema is that people were laughing at odd moments. quite a lot of people. they laughed when the gay guy was flirting with tom cruise on the hotel reception desk. and they laughed at quite a heightened moment when nicole kidman was telling tom cruise that she was dreaming about fucking a load of other men. it reminded me of the people who force a laugh at shakespeare, a kind of performative laughing.
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All uncomfortable feeling must be banished, and a social consensus of ironic reception must be rapidly forged
 
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Who is Kissick? I thought he had a couple of good points but seemed to be too obsessed with the talking points of internet media to really do the concept justice

I guess that applies to everyone now
 
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Who is Kissick? I thought he had a couple of good points but seemed to be too obsessed with the talking points of internet media to really do the concept justice

I guess that applies to everyone now
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I think spendo might have profiled him right at the start of this thread
 
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I'm fully going out to bat for the red scare girls, who are a key part of the BCM, maybe the most important ones actually. I think they're pretty great cultural analysts and the podcast format, particularly the very unstructured and informal way that they use the form, is a revelation, in the same way that blogs were for a bit. i think for me they fit into a very similar space to k punk. it's the same heady mixture of theoretical reference points, engagement with popular culture (in the broad sense of the term), the inculcation of a worldview, and packaging that I can relate to.
 
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went to a big blockbuster multi-channel video installation at the park avenue armory. class set up, a massive hanger with a massive central screen, then five other screens around the walls, and then one continuous screen looping round the whole room lower down. there was a load of people sitting in the middle for hours, it's a two hour video loop. it was really cheesy though. it was mostly like a bad hollywood film, the same kind of visual and acting sensibility as big unsublte hollywood films, and for the whole two hours it was various vignettes of people reading (I think) extracts from weighty left-wing tomes. five of the screens showed drummers and every now and then they'd start playing.

there were some amazing bits though, loads of drone footage of nyc, and one five minute drone shot of someone skateboarding under the JMZ to the food bazar in brooklyn. there was also some interpretive dance sequence about money set in a bank that was class as well.

must have been very big budget for video art. it would be great if they did something less shit with the money but it was a nice thing to see anyway. i am a bit surprised that anyone in the art world thing would make something as cheesy as it was.
 
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