Tag: Turi Sioson
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You Don’t Need to “Get” Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Boy and the Heron’
The spirit of the film shape-shifts along with the tone, conjuring a realness that balances the Ghibli dramatics with a taste of Miyazaki’s (and our) world.
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Transitional Growing Pains: The Revitalized ‘Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)’
Where the original 2010 release was glittery and girlish, characterized by tentative adulthood and budding maturity, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) feels polished and self-aware, heavy with nostalgia and hindsight in a way that Swift’s previous re-recordings haven’t.
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Desire Screams
Someone has to have salted skin. It’s always the first lesson.
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She Lives Inside Me: Tending My Inner Child Through Home Movies
I’m in the right corner, the center; my head disappears and is replaced with my knees in intervals. Two beats of silence.
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Love in All Its Contemporary Glory: Strange, Sexy Paradoxes in Savannah Brown’s ‘Closer Baby Closer’
Echoing the existentialism of her 2020 collection, Sweetdark, and that which characterizes much of her work outside of it, Brown pushes theory into the world of palpable, close subjects, rendering Closer Baby Closer a hushed portrayal of the private workings of a love-remembering mind.
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Tattoo, in the Morning
i try not to think / of the air right through his teeth / that two hours ago might / have been funny, but now we’re wanting a/c / on our tattoo-heavy / bodies
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I Will Keep Your Middle Name: A Friend Breakup Grief Diary
In the interest of no longer caring for you, I’ve gone a long time without telling people I’m married to you. I announced divorce to a witness, just for good measure.
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Sprinkler Splashes and Fireplaces Ashes: How Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Glitters With Intimate Hindsight
Swift has always made music that is upbeat, pop-leaning and lyrically straightforward — even kitschy at times — and her tenth album is in part a return to this style. But Midnights is gentler, more intimate and velvety, than any of her past work.
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The Joy and the Pain: Learning To Love Crying
I learned how to name my emotions and how to call them in: on our daily walks in the neighborhood, a particularly pretty patch of clouds and sun could later bring me to tears thinking about how much I loved and was grateful for the moment.
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How to Turn Five for the First Time Again
Bring the neighbor’s cat inside, let her watch the crickets out of the corner of her eye.