Euphonic ABCs — Music Brought to you by the letter “G”
by Cyrus Lewis on April 13, 2012
‘Euphonic ABCs’ is comprised of selections from bands and artists organized, in an otherwise arbitrary fashion, under the rubric of the latin alphabet. The letter that informs each selection coincides with the first letter of the name of the artist featured.
There will be no analysis or critique and little commentary. Euphonic ABCs constitute an extended act of professing and affirming cultural objects. We here at the PS are just
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Euphonic ABCs – Music Brought to you by the Letter “F”
by Cyrus Lewis on November 8, 2011
‘Euphonic ABCs’ is comprised of selections from bands and artists organized, in an otherwise arbitrary fashion, under the rubric of the latin alphabet. The letter that informs each selection coincides with the first letter of the name of the artist featured.
There will be no analysis or critique and little commentary. Euphonic ABCs constitute an extended act of professing and affirming cultural objects. We here at the PS are just
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Euphonic ABCs – Music brought to you by the letter “E”
by Cyrus Lewis on October 18, 2011
“Euphonic ABCs” is comprised of selections from bands and artists organized, in an otherwise arbitrary fashion, under the rubric of the latin alphabet. The letter that informs each selection coincides with the first letter of the name of the artist featured.
There will be no analysis or critique and little commentary. Euphonic ABCs constitute an extended act of professing and affirming cultural objects. We here at the PS are just
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A Coda to Steve Jobs’ Hagiography
by Cyrus Lewis on October 6, 2011
Questions From a Worker Who Reads
Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times?In what houses of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go?Great Rome
Is
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Euphonic ABCs – Music brought to you by the letter “D”
by Cyrus Lewis on October 4, 2011
“Euphonic ABCs” is comprised of selections from bands and artists organized, in an otherwise arbitrary fashion, under the rubric of the latin alphabet. The letter that informs each selection coincides with the first letter of the name of the artist featured.
There will be no analysis or critique and little commentary. Euphonic ABCs constitute an extended act of professing and affirming cultural objects. We here at the PS are just
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Euphonic ABCs – Music brought to you by the letter “C”
by Cyrus Lewis on September 27, 2011
“Euphonic ABCs” is comprised of selections from bands and artists organized, in an otherwise arbitrary fashion, under the rubric of the latin alphabet. The letter that informs each selection coincides with the first letter of the name of the artist featured.
There will be no analysis or critique and little commentary. Euphonic ABCs constitute an extended act of professing and affirming cultural objects. We here at the PS are just
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Euphonic ABCs – Music brought to you by the letter “B”
by Cyrus Lewis on September 22, 2011
“Euphonic ABCs” is comprised of selections from bands and artists organized, in an otherwise arbitrary fashion, under the rubric of the latin alphabet. The letter that informs each selection coincides with the first letter of the name of the artist featured.
There will be no analysis or critique and little commentary. Euphonic ABCs constitute an extended act of professing and affirming cultural objects. We here at the PS are just
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Euphonic ABCs — Music brought to you by the letter “A”
by Cyrus Lewis on September 20, 2011
“Euphonic ABCs,” a new Paltry Sapien feature, will be comprised of selections from bands and artists organized, in an otherwise arbitrary fashion, under the rubric of the latin alphabet. The letter which will inform each selection will coincide with the first letter of the name of the artist featured.
There will be no analysis or critique and little commentary. This is simply an extended act of professing and affirming cultural …
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Take that, Grandpa!
by Cyrus Lewis on September 13, 2011
The wily Dutch have added a level of refined japery to the sequestering of their elderly. An old folks’ home, allegedly shaped like a panopticon, has had the good sense to bedeck its first floor foyer with a 7-ton sculpture of Michel Foucault’s head.
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Five Things You Ought To Know About The Guillotine
by Cyrus Lewis on July 21, 2011
These are days of general unrest. To pay heed to the bloviating of political pundits and fanatic doomsayers is to suspect that [insert favored scapegoats here] have broken the social contract, that the barbarians are at the gate, and that the four horsemen are drawing close to our neighborhoods. Anarchy is soon to be loosed upon the world (or maybe just the global north; our decades of relative comfort having …
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LMFAO: No. 1 Singles and Zombies as Political Metaphor
by Cyrus Lewis on July 8, 2011
LMFAO, the L.A.-based Electro Hop duo, have recently scored a no. 1 hit in 10 countries with their single, “Party Rock Anthem.” The video features the two band members waking up and finding themselves in a zombie apocalypse—recalling the beginning of 28 Days Later—only this time, the zombie affliction in question causes its victims to become dance sensations! Apparently, LMFAO’s music is part and parcel of the zombie …
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