Sep 20, 2017
Their Songs: The Ballad of Elton John and Bernie Taupin
Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin collaborated to create timeless pop songs during the 1970s.
Elton John and lyricist Bernie Taupin collaborated to create timeless pop songs during the 1970s.
Thirteen regenerations of one Doctor over the course of a very long, very interesting life.
I turned my stereo all the way down to barely audible volumes, convinced Trent Reznor’s singing was a subliminal message.
There’s a latent sense of hope tinged with rage tucked away in the album.
What makes one rebellion just and the next unjust?
It’s not about getting away with things. It’s about becoming more comfortable with myself.
Johnston’s instrumental arrangements and shrill vocal style satisfied a primitive urge in me.
“Horror isn’t in the gothic and ghostly, but in the people we’re taught to love. Horror is close to home.”
How rewatching ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ shed new light on a lost year of my life.
On ‘The Big Sick,’ dating, arranged marriage, and the hard-to-break scripts we use when communicating about love.
Magic deserves to be regarded as a high art, right alongside poetry, right alongside theatre.
“The undefined, complicated, unresolved trauma makes us messy—how do we tell our story without an ending?”
“What bright flame has drawn our imaginations toward a creature that destroys lives on the other side of the sea?”
“The show’s characters of color appear rarely, briefly, subordinately, and often end up dead.”
“Tragedy taught me one thing: Bad shit happens, and it can happen to me and the people I love.”
“Twin Peaks did much to define the image of the Pacific Northwest in the popular imagination.”
“After hearing ‘1999,’ I wouldn’t date any woman that wasn’t down with Prince.”
“The dads are here for Bruce; the dads hold these truths about Bruce to be self-evident.”
“This is what being obsessed is: It is making a huge production in your mind.”
I taught my daughter that a woman can fight demons all on her own.
