jamal*" plays the grand melodies of life from an unorthodox approach, but that's just the soundtrack to a well rounded extraordinary story. With the launch of DDSS**, JAMAL* seeks to push art forward with a full palette of innovative expression, including full on music composition, as well as a mastery in visual and fashion design. After regrouping in camp for some years, campJAY has completed his course and is ready to present himself in a raw light with given name JAMAL*. The asterisk representing improvement, revision, enlightenment but most importantly how necessary he is to the gauntlet of what the next generation has to offer.
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
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