The Long Hard Road Into Nothing (Or How The Internet Killed Marilyn Manson) Marilyn Manson is dead. Now it’s just Brian Warner dressing up as your goth
older brother who’s never gotten over Bauhaus.
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On the Calculation of Volume 1, by Solvej Balle I will only mention Bill Murray this once, and not even name his film’s title that’s become iconic enough to eclipse the film itself, standing in for a narrative approach so overdone that it might be hard to imagine it could be made interesting. And then along comes Danish writer Solvej Balle with a request […]
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July 2025 Loan Stars Adult Canadian Top 10 list Find out what titles made it to the July 2025 Loan Stars Adult Canadian
list.
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Classic Album Review : Cryptopsy - None So Vile (1996) You don’t get two None So Viles. You should be happy it exists and that it
changed everything.
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Winter (of Strout) in July In so many ways, Lucy by the Sea was where it all began for me, the #WinterofStrout. Albeit in 2023, when I finally read it after avoiding Lucy Barton for a long time. I’d read My Name is Lucy Barton when it first came out, and I did not like it. But by the time […]
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