To call Fogged Clarity an “arts review” would be like calling Entropy a “lit mag”; sure it’s true, but it’s also a bit reductive given the scope of the org.…
Nicholas Rys
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I recently watched Mulholland Drive for the first time. My friend told me he watched it back to back with one of my favorite films, Sunset Boulevard, and told me…
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Zac’s Control Panel by Dennis Cooper Kiddiepunk, 2016 Kiddiepunk (download or view online) In September, Dennis Cooper released his newest novel, and second composed entirely of gifs. The first, Zac’s…
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CultureFictionLiteratureMusicOpinion
Under the Influence #2 or: Aborting the Past and the Reevaluation of Killing Idols
by Nicholas Rys January 18, 2016So I had my second installment all mapped out. I decided that since my first piece focused on MUSIC influenced by WRITING I wanted my next to focus on WRITING…
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CultureLiteratureMusic
Under The Influence #1: Deerhunter/Dennis Cooper
by Nicholas Rys October 9, 2015Deerhunter Under the Influence of Dennis Cooper I’m very excited to write the first installment of what will be a new, recurring series I’m starting called Under the Influence. The…
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CultureMusicReview
Bad Moon Rising Turned 30 and No One Cares But Me
by Nicholas Rys October 7, 2015Bad Moon Rising, Sonic Youth’s second LP, turned 30 this year to little fanfare. There were no reissues, no Pitchfork articles, no one there to discuss this bizarre anomaly of…
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CultureMusic
In Defense of the Music Pirate, who is all of us, and Why we Should Just Admit We Are All Stealing Music Anyway.
by Nicholas Rys September 23, 2015I’m getting really tired of having this conversation. It’s been obsolete for years, but yet there I am, slightly buzzed at Thanksgiving dinner and having the conversation with my family;…
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CultureFilmOpinion
Harrison Ford Is My Generations Clint Eastwood, or:on nostalgia and the reflection of Harrison Ford’s imprint on my more formative years
by Nicholas Rys September 19, 2015I recently purchased a VCR because nostalgia has been hitting me hard lately. My fiance and I rescued one of these archaic machines from a local Goodwill and as many…
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Syllabus
MINI-SYLLABUS: Teenage Destruction, Decomposition and Deconstruction
by Nicholas Rys September 14, 2015This list of titles was designed backwards, with faith put in guiding principles like intuition and free association. The destruction of self and others, the decomposition of the body and…
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“Everyone is a crackpot” – A Conversation with Sean H. Doyle
by Nicholas Rys August 26, 2015Sean H. Doyle pulls no punches. Equal parts beautiful and painful, kinetic and heart wrenching, This Must Be The Place starts with a childhood car wreck and ends with…
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Jeff Jackson and Josh Yates are truly unique voices in each of their respective mediums. Jeff’s prose is truly singular, gritty and otherworldly; both firmly of this world – occupying…