[First published on Thought Catalog on 3.10.2014] The fact is, we’re over it. In the dawn of our adulthood, amid war, natural disasters, bio disasters, and the threat of rising global temperatures, we’ve found ourselves phenomena of study and a steady stream of verbal flogging for the generationally righteous. We’ve Facebooked and Tweeted our way through […]
[First published on Thought Catalog on 8.13.2013] “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” So goes the haunting line in Nat King Cole’s oft-covered “Nature Boy” – a line with an evasive depth that doesn’t grab you by your shoulders until it does. Because, what is the right way to […]
[First published on Switchcam’s Posterous blog on 3.9.2012] Somewhere from the deep sea of Youtube musicians, Lana Del Rey emerged from a shell carried forth to the shore of pop consciousness by homemade music video froth. That’s about as accurate a narrative as the one Interscope wove for her, since they’re sticking to the trailer […]