The Myth of the Cultured
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2hg0QAcWuI
La Pinacoteque is a funky little space, which sometimes houses art.
It is located in the heart of Paris: its real estate brushes elbows with Fauchon, the...
It’s Sunny Down There
Lately I have been listening to a lot of the music I heard as a child. Nearly all of the music I heard until...
Bestiaire. Is It Us or Is It Denis Côté?
Denis Côté is worried about his new film. He’s afraid that people think it is anti-zoo. Before the movie began, Côté, in his unnatural...
The Imminent Whining Doctrine
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Why Shut Yo' Mouth Section correspondent, was brushing his teeth for the first time in a month, when he read ISIS...
Things and Music. Mostly Music.
On Friday October 4, I performed in the tenth annual Prelude festival, a showcasing of new work in theater and performance, in New York....
Bro, I’m Kanye West and You’re Not
TPV received a new letter from Kanye West this morning. It listed 10 reasons why he is Kanye and we are not.
Bro, I have...
What Is Sublime? The Unexpected
I remember learning about the scientific sense of sublimation in middle school On their bottle question. With easy have of because shower hair...
Awakening in New York with Maya
Taking the subway is a cultural event I enjoy dearly. This is for you from Maya Angelou, via TPV.
Enjoy!
WEST 18th
We ended
on the floor
on West 18th
She said
I can only come
in one position
I said
I’m glad we
got that straight
George Murphy
What Would Lee Strasberg Say?
Marquel, TPVs NYTimes Method Section correspondent, was doing his daily pushups when he read Inmate Improv. Can a prison theater workshop prepare men for a life...
Nude and Pretty
Marquel was staring at his naked body in Central Park recently , when a pretty girl handed him a copy of the TImes' Hundreds...
Doucheland Uber Alles
In his assertion that he sympathize with Hitler, Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier was certainly bringing more than a touch of the bizarre to...
Jerome Ellis’ Variations
This week I released my first album, called Variations. It is one continuous piece, composed and performed by yours truly. Although I am primarily...
The Theory of Internet-Based Information
Watching and reading about the recent film, Page One: A Year The New York Times, is a strange experience. To be sure, its subject...