MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a spirit of adventure
ADVENTURES
IN SPACE
AND TIME
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
T he KAOS weekly Doctor Who throwback continues, with clips from the BBC's official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
This week, jelly babies cause problems for The Robots of Death.
Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most
MASS
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MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
The Vale of Cashmere
Art
Skool
Art is not a thing, it is a way.
Art is not a thing, it is a way.
Photographer Thomas Roma's new book In the Vale of Cashmere is a series of hauntingly beautiful black-and-white portraits taken in the wooded cruising grounds of Brooklyn's Prospect Park - known as the Vale of Cashmere - and is dedicated to Roma's close friend Carl Spinella, who could often be found in the Vale before dying in Roma's arms of an AIDS-related illness in 1992.“These brilliant photographs, capturing the dialectic between desire and disappointment, anxiety, and comfort, ultimately remind us of our own continuous rites of passage as human beings. Roma’s photographs are truly saving graces,” says Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of African-American research at Harvard University, says of Roma’s work.
In addition to the book, Roma's pictures can also be seen at Thomas Roma: In the Vale of Cashmere, on view from 29th October until 19th December at the Steven Kasher Gallery, 515 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001.
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form
Planet
MARBASIA
W h e r e y o u 'l l b a r e l y s c r a t c h t h e s u r f a c e .
For it is in the arcana of dreams that existences merge and renew themselves, change and yet keep the same
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a spirit of adventure
ADVENTURES
IN SPACE
AND TIME
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
T he KAOS weekly Doctor Who throwback continues, with clips from the BBC's official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
This week, the death of the fourth Doctor, the climax to Doctor Who's eighteenth (and best) season.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
The Magician's Apprentice
WHAT
I watched
I watched
LAST NIGHT
EVERY GREAT FILM SHOULD SEEM NEW EVERY TIME YOU SEE IT
EVERY GREAT FILM SHOULD SEEM NEW EVERY TIME YOU SEE IT
Watching Doctor Who - post-2005, when the series was relaunched - is an exercise in managing expectations. You hope it won't be the dog's dinner it always turns out to be, but it almost always is. Partly that's down to Steven Moffat's disastrous stewardship (this Change.org petition to remove him lists many of the ways in which he's poisoned Doctor Who, and there's a good dissection of his tenure here), and partly it's down to the fact that Great Britain just can't make decent TV anymore. America does that instead.
So I greeted the launch of the show's ninth season both warily and wearily, my pessimism tinged with hope: maybe this time it'll be better. But why, I hear you ask, even bother watching a show that you dislike? I did stop for a while, during the Matt Smith years. I disliked him, and I disliked Amy Pond even more. And so I watched very few of the Matt Smith episodes. The casting of Peter Capaldi was a game changer. After what I call the "Disney's Junior Dr. Who" years, here was an actor with gravity and presence. But he, too, has been dragged down by Moffat.
There's so much wrong with The Magician's Apprentice it's hard to know where to start. The excruciating (and dull) electric guitar and tank sequence might be a good place, but this shameless bit of padding is too obvious a target. (Wait, did I say padding? That suggests there's some semblance of plot to be found elsewhere.) Missy is back, of course, having apparently died last time around. But she's a Timelord, we can forgive that. Missy is a Marmite character, and if she was the first bad guy whose character consists entirely of smart arse one liners, it might be cute. But every character in Moffat's universe talks like this: Missy is simply River Song dressed up as Mary Poppins. (Sidebar: Smart arse one liners are why modern Doctor Who is so loved by [mostly white] middle-class people. They do like to think they're better than everyone else.)
Davros is also back. I can't remember if he's supposed to be dead or not. Moffat (like his predecessor) kills everyone for the shock value, then brings them back anyway. It must be said actor Julian Bleach's Davros is truly excellent, but he's wasted here, and any goodwill is almost immediately thrown out of the window by the horribly ill-judged scene of the Doctor begging and grovelling before Davros for Clara's life. Presumably, it's supposed to reinforce the seriousness of Clara's predicament, but we know that whatever happens to her will be magically undone. Unfortunately, we can't un-see this diminished Doctor.
Shock, horror, both Clara and Missy are exterminated in the big Dalek playroom. What are we to make of this, except, "Oh. Well, they're not really dead, are they?" Speaking of which, Skaro, home planet of the Daleks, which was destroyed in an earlier episode, is back from the dead too. Moffat doesn't seem to understand - or care - that voiding the consequences of actions (very serious actions) drains away any real sense of menace. Everything has a great big reset button.About that Dalek playroom. It's a great big control room of some sort with lots of Daleks milling around in it. All kinds of designs of Daleks, from the 1963 original, to 1988's Special Weapons Dalek, through to the post-2005 variants. The only ones missing are 2010's universally loathed Paradigm Daleks, which seem to have been quietly buried. The point of this Dalek porn isn't clear. It's fun, but pointless. Anyone could get a bunch of different Daleks together; in fact, people often do. Those people are called fans, and the events where they assemble their classic Daleks are called conventions.
This is what happens when the lunatics take over the asylum.
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form
Planet
MARBASIA
W h e r e y o u 'l l b a r e l y s c r a t c h t h e s u r f a c e .
There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
There is a reason why all things are as they are
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a spirit of adventure
ADVENTURES
IN SPACE
AND TIME
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
T he KAOS weekly Doctor Who throwback continues, with clips from the BBC's official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
This week, the death of Adric. Before the series returned in 2005, the death of a major character was just that: their death. It therefore meant something, even if you didn't like the character (and Doctor Who fans don't like Adric). I've always liked Adric; there is, somehow, something sexy about this tragic gay boy from space.
I had heard that madmen have unnatural strength. And as I knew I was a madman, at times anyhow, I resolved to use my power
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form
Planet
MARBASIA
W h e r e y o u 'l l b a r e l y s c r a t c h t h e s u r f a c e .
Don't you know that I am sane and earnest now, that I am no lunatic in a mad fit, but a sane man fighting for his soul?
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
We all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard, and now it's turned out to be quite a spirit of adventure
ADVENTURES
IN SPACE
AND TIME
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway
W elcome to our weekly throwback to Doctor Who (the original series, as opposed to the sub-Spielberg, pseudo-soap 21st century reboot), with clips from the BBC's official Doctor Who YouTube channel.
This week, the first Doctor visits the dentist in The Gunfighters (1966). Doctor Who fans hate this story, but I love it to bits. It is, to coin a phrase, a goddamn laugh riot. And it's a musical, of sorts, with the The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon punctuating the action.
How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men - even if there are monsters in it
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
Souls and memories can do strange things during trance
MASS
in
MOTION
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
IT'S A MAN'S WORLD AND YOU MEN CAN HAVE IT
Issue 221: Naz & Maalik, Major Myjah, Le1f, Bryce Williams, Katrina, Rentboy, Dismaland, Drae Axtell, Toby Sheldon, and more...
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