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A Performative Survey of Call & Response in Rap
I was literally holding the fence when it happened. The woman came struggling and shrieking as a security man shoved her, scooting her resistant legs really, across the concrete floor; then he opened the gate right next to me and threw her out. The fence was in fact only a waist-high railing around the open-air […]
Honestly You Shouldn’t
June 25, 2015
by beat valley
So many racist jokes get their start from an impression that some black names can make hilariously inconvenient homophones or onomatopoeia. Even John Updike named a young black man Tylenol in his final novel, I’m John Updike and 911 Just Happened So I’ll Be as Racist as I Wanna Get Terrorist. The funnier joke is […]
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, […]
Ferguslie Park, by Tunnock McNulty
November 6, 2014
by beat valley
[Editor’s Note: Tunnock McNulty sent a preview of this essay to KLF founder and performance art renegade Bill Drummond, “as he is known for his interests in psychogeography and the minutiae of pop histories.” Drummond, who also provided a foreword for McNulty’s book Fun Buggy in 2004, returned the following feedback … ] Sitting in […]
Multitudes
December 10, 2013
by beat valley
i would ruin myself again for you, for love but no, i wouldn’t why donate?
You Only Live Once
August 16, 2012
by lars russell
Something was wrong with us; that was our meeting place. It was like we both had a kind of fever. Or a bottomless hole, in the same part of our souls. Or maybe it was only that his hole fit perfectly around the edges of my fever. I don’t know. Technically I lived with Callum […]
The Cinema
August 2, 2012
by beat valley
I had a hole in my pocket and two pieces of the earth fell out. One was a meteorite sold to me behind Amoeba Records by a man In Berkeley. He said it came from the site of a starfall in Arizona. The other was a bone from the creek in Austin. I went reaching […]
In Which Fox 6 Outwits Brother Bear, and Other Capers
May 23, 2012
by lars russell
It didn’t surprise Fox 6 when she catch up with Brother Rabbit that last time, stuck in the tar trap between a pair of fallen cypresses in the dried creek rut. She had laid the trap, so that part of it didn’t surprise her at all, not at all; but the fulfillment of this chase […]
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May 28, 2013
by lars russell
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