Articles by Oliver O'Sullivan
Imagine floating through the vacuum of space untethered, removing your pressurized helmet, and, with the remaining air in your lungs, summoning a blood-curdling wail. Say,
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January 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
Every year, the holiday season officially begins in earnest with the milquetoast strains of emcee Lauer declaring St. Nick’s arrival on a sleigh/float/flatbed in the annual
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January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments
In the commotion of late-capitalism and the dissonance of mounting muffler shop surrealism, the polarity of the tale of the last Phrygian king’s chrysopoeia reversed. As
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December 13, 2016 // 0 Comments
Most everyone in Search Party (or, “Curiosity Killed the Shawkat”) is content to assume that Chantal Winterbottom is dead. Partly, they’re playing the odds. More so,
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December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments
The figure(s) in Da Vinci’s Le proporzioni del corpo umano secondo Vitruvio—however many there are, on however many planes of existence compressed into
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November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments
Humanity unraveled Tuesday with all the subtlety of a dumpster fire. Whatever grisly, scatological metaphor you wish to deploy, now’s the time to get graphic. I’ve
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November 14, 2016 // 0 Comments
Part II: Chapter 1, the ballad of the “nasty little bitch” – The Handmaiden In three acts stuffed to the gills with lush detail, erotic intrigue, misdirections, and
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November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments
Of the many wonders of The Shining, bear fellatio is one of the most beguiling. In this rattle-and-synthesizer unravelling, the ominous surrealism in the film’s veins since
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November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
Behind a dark fold in the depths of every person’s subconscious, there’s carnival music and a candy-colored clown they call “The Sandman.” This recess harbors a
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October 17, 2016 // 0 Comments
On the highly-specific-yet–strangely-supple homage-cum-parody spectrum, Baz Luhrmann’s frenetic, bombastic melodrama maximalism sits at one end, and the smooth stylings
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October 13, 2016 // 0 Comments