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Double Consciousness: Escaping Mad Men

May 18, 2015 by beat valley

Beat Valley‘s Lars Russell published an essay series on the television show Mad Men over at Loser City appearing after each episode of the show’s final half-season in 2015. Here are links to the individual articles. Part 1: Everything’s Exactly the Same Weiner could end the series right here and that would be enough, […]

In Afrobeat Fight, Femi Kuti is No Friend of Government

July 10, 2009 by lars russell

Femi Kuti cannot resist. He is chatting in his dressing room about improvements needed to African infrastructure and, in the midst of describing his awe at America’s highway system, the Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer can’t contain his bubbling over in boyish imitation of the sounds of combustion power. “You have to be envious of the highways […]

DVD Night: Amadeus vs. Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

January 25, 2005 by lars russell

Everything happens for a reason. Everything that comes our way is won, right? Teach em up and kids get right after that intimacy with god or perfection of wisdom chasing like it’s the fucking milk truck and no one wants to end up with gold teeth. Eventually the wake grows so wide only image left […]