THE NUTMEG STATE for six years i was a lawyer. now i’ve left new york and can confirm that outside the city there are trees and outside the trees there are birds who unlike brooklynites don’t give a damn that i have fifty silk ties i can’t throw away and a danteist friend who [...]
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Editorial No. 61, Gardenhead
MY WAR is every whisper— an echo— and every echo an empty room where words move like helium and the helium is tangible, brittle and empty as the sound of an axe striking dry wood and the wood splintering out in the night after the ice storm where [...]
MS MR, Or How Music Videos Look in Brooklyn
MS MR released a legit interesting video about an hour ago. It’s Monday morning, so here are my reactions on watching it before and after getting high. BEFORE -0:30: Trying to find the skip ad button. Sigh. Ignore. Ignore. Volkswagen something. 0:00: Okay, HD. Mini-expand. 0:10: Slo-mo. Always with the effin slo-mo. I mean, I [...]
No. 59, Southern Gothic
conveyance what I thought were snakes moving through the granite turned out to be broken strings of silver beads. then I milled around in the miracle of ash and light. this is what happens when you build temples to the rainwater where innocent gods grew pregnant with daughters. they gave a name * to [...]
No. 55 | UNFATHOMABLE SPIRIT
In the UK and other rollicking places, standard depth for a grave is 36 inches which is up from 54″ in 1977. So this rest eternal seems not the commitment, the hunkering down we thought. At this rate there will soon be little sod between us, our dead so close to the surface, they [...]
Editorial No. 49
_____________________ Photographer: Joanne Leah Model: Clara Rae City: Brooklyn, NY Bio: I was born in 1978 in Germany and adopted at birth. My family moved to the American South when I was 4 years old. I grew up in the mountains of Virginia., When I was a child, I would explore the woods [...]
The Stray Cat Lee Rocker: Rockabilly, Revival Fest and “Fishnet Stockings”
Last week, Vesper Magazine had the incredible honor of sitting down with rockabilly legend Lee Rocker. Rocker is probably best known for his work with The Stray Cats—an act that garnered 23 gold and platinum records worldwide and established itself as an essential figure in the post-punk era. But Rocker’s list of collaborators after the [...]
UPDATED: Bear in Heaven–Two Live Tracks at The Parish
Pop yet unequivocally experimental, Bear in Heaven is a Brooklyn outfit founded by frontman Jon Philpot. The band is synth-driven three piece that Pitchfork laments as impossibly hard to classify: “something familiar, wholly of the moment, and yet impossible to pin down – you knew some combination of ‘indie,’ ‘rock,’ ‘synth,’ ‘dance,’ and ‘electro’ should [...]
Ash Wednesday, New York
Evelyn: Thousands of roses and lots of chocolate truffles. Godiva, and oysters in the half-shell. Patrick: [Narrating] I’m trying to listen to the new Robert Palmer tape, but Evelyn, my supposed fiancée, keeps buzzing in my ear. Evelyn: Annie Leibovitz. We’ll get Annie Leibovitz. And we’ll have to get someone to videotape. Patrick, we should [...]
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