Jeff Chang: Hip Hop Chaos In Context
authenticity, identity and expression are tackled with ease in Chang’s latest effort Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
books that matter
Boogie’s Mean Streets
Boogie’s gritty photography collection “It’s All Good” chronicles the lives of thugs, hustlers and addicts without artifice.
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A Chat With Jeff Chang
“If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work.”
Lydia Lunch, 21st-Century Cassandra
“We must remember that sex is not dirty. It’s normal. Even when it’s dirty.”
Salon: Writing in the Margins
Welcome to Morphizm’s collection of my Salon column, “Writing in the Margins.” I’d like to thank my editor, my family and, most importantly, my planet.
Pinback Vacations to Abaddon
With their new album, the indie-rock impresarios of Pinback have crafted their most exquisite offering, a release equally packed with dark, foreboding lyrics and meticulous sonic structures.
Art Spiegelman: In the Shadow of No Towers
That the American intelligentsia finally seems ready to admit that Spiegelman was speaking truth to power in the dark years of 2002 and 2003 ought to make us sleep a little better at night
Saul Williams, Streetwise Shakespeare
Slam poet Saul Williams’ reality is a lyrical one. But don’t tell him he’s keepin’ it real.
Mike Watt, Punk Prophet
“Boon and I were very conversational; we would literally talk about everything all day long.”
Poetry Slams Hip-Hop
“I think poetry is more popular now than it has been in the last 100 years, at least.”
Being There: William Gibson, No Maps For These Territories
Gibson, as Neale’s documentary is happy to point out, is so much more than the father of cyberspace.
Viggo Mortensen, The Man Who Would Be King
Those who run this country and hand-feed carefully crafted propaganda to the media will immediately and automatically label a show of genuine curiosity about the world and the role of the U.S. government in it as unpatriotic.
George Clinton, Funkenstein’s Monster
“We just feel each other. And it’s good to see that spark in the younger generation. “