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Burnt Stakes
By Alex Carrigan
Recollecting one's teen years can be a complete mixed-bag. It's a lot of scattered events with almost no connection between any of them, it's marking the days with routines and vague aspirations, and it's about remembering how you spent those days obsessing or idolizing something odd in hindsight. That's not to say that everyone's teen years are a complete jumbled mess, but when looking back, it's the realization that some of the most important and developmental years of your lives were completely out of your control, and realizing that this is merely a sampling of your adult life. As someone who did virtually nothing with people his age, spent time working as a games attendant at a theme park, and was into reading Wikipedia articles for fun, it really dawns on how much that bizarre period of life has shaped me as an adult.
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Come On, MaBy Joanna Patzig There’s something about going to historic theaters that raises my expectations for movies a little. The movies these little places get are more curated than a normal box office, and they’re often so decorated and grandiose that everything seems important. The screen of the Byrd Theater in Richmond, Virginia did elevate the movie Ma at times, but not all of it. I can’t say enough that Octavia Spencer was amazing and she deserves an Oscar. The rest of the movie was just okay.
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The End of the Biggest Illusion By Rongqing Dai The essence of the notion “illusion” is something that feels real but indeed unreal. The key point here is the antithesis between real and unreal. Obviously, in order to make something more illusory, we could either make its fake appearance look more real, or make its substance even more unreal, or push it in both directions so that it would feel more real while it is indeed more unreal. Based on this understanding about how to make things more illusory, we can conclude that the most successful illusions would be those that could have billions of people feel it real for generations. Still, if someone can make billions of people to believe something that is in fact real to be unreal for generations, then it would be even more successful than just making people feel something unreal as real, because it is more difficult to have people collectively disbelieve what they clearly see with their eyes. Furthermore, if someone can make billions of people believe something real not just unreal but actually illusions for generations, then I would feel compelled to credit them collectively as the biggest illusion.
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Yesterday is a Modern HitBy Rachel Rivenbark Going to the movie theater with my girlfriend this past weekend, I found myself very unexpectedly being talked into seeing Yesterday. I’d have gone for John Wick: Chapter 3, personally (I don’t like action flicks, but I would die for Keanu Reeves), but my girlfriend’s family being included in the plans necessitated a last-second change to something a little more child-friendly.
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Ridin' with Biden: Part TwoBy Christopher Sloce Image by Marc Nozell Happy Tuesday, and welcome back to Ridin’ with Biden. It’s been a bad week for the big guy, since he got burnt so bad by Kamala Harris at the debate she paid a prisoner exactly five cents to put him out. A lot of what the week has amounted to is an attempt to stop the bleeding since he took one on the chin.
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ANIMA ANIMA ANIMA: Processing Thom Yorke’s New Album Through Retrospect
By Joanna Patzig
First, I want to take a minute to go back to the 2000’s and think about Kid A. I was pretty young then, but I remember how it totally gutted me emotionally, and it was beautiful. Today Radiohead is a big meme territory, the power of white men whining to electronic music definitely feels dated. Music has changed a lot since those iconic albums, but the bands influence in today's landscape is undeniable from groups like Sigur Rós to MGMT. Thom Yorke’s recent solo album shows a return to the cutting edge of music and tech, reflecting the work of the very musicians that he helped lay groundwork for. Anima presents a multimedia vision complete with a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It’s definitely Yorke’s most dynamic solo album to date, and it’s super contemporary sound is fascinating.
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Overthrowing Fashion RulesBy Ghia Vitale Fashion means different things to different people. For many people (including me), fashion provides an outlet for self-expression. Wearing a certain outfit on a certain day can be an expression of how I feel at that time. Others simply don’t care about how their clothes look and choose clothes based on comfort alone. But let’s be clear: Arbitrary fashion rules serve no one.
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Founding Editor to Present New Works of Art at VCU Anderson Gallery in Richmond, VirginiaBy Rahcel Rivenbark Along with our other exciting news that we’ve been sharing for this month, the Quail Bell team is endlessly proud of our beloved founder Christine Stoddard, for having secured a free space at The Anderson Gallery to present her work, as a part of their 2019 Summer Space Grants program!
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Magical CartographyBy The Editors Our friends at Moonchild Magazine have a new chapbook—ahem, Moonchap—out for you to devour! It's called Cynthia Silver and is a work of short fiction by Canadian author Sam Jowett. We asked Sam a few questions about their sparkly debut. Find out more about this cartographic fairy tale in our interview below: Tell our readers about the story of Cynthia Silver. What's your elevator pitch? (Or a more magical version of whatever spell you cast to entice someone.)
It’s a fairy tale about a character who’s suspiciously active. I found with a lot of stories in this genre the magical world usually finds the character and sucks them in, or rather they happen to stumble upon the fantastic. This is because they’re deemed special via some esoteric quality, i.e “the Chosen One.” I wanted to do the opposite here. Cynthia is determined to find a Quest for herself, she actively seeks out the adventure rather than the adventure somehow scooping her up. I wanted her traits to come from her actions rather than some nebulous quality. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
A Silent Music
By Patricia Saunders
It came in like a quiet, smooth stream, except that it wasn’t a stream, it was music. More precisely, it was the Missa Papae Marcelli, a musical setting of the Roman Catholic mass by the 16th-century Italian composer, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. In each soaring phrase, Palestrina blended sound and silence with such perfection, that my mind transcended all past experience, all familiar thought patterns, and rose towards the vast space beyond the clouds. I became increasingly free of worry, attachment, pain, limitation, and age. Instead, I was unbounded, as if the power of small, resonating tones had suddenly propelled me into an undiscovered yet curiously recognizable ocean that washed me clean of anything holding me back from fulfillment.
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