Lulu’s Loose Screw

About a decade back, I had a conversation with one of my best friends on top a balcony. He said he was afraid of heights and in return I shared, “I am finding that so am I lately, but never was before.” He replied, “It is because I do not trust myself up here.” And we both nervously laughed because it was the risk of plunging into the unknown that made our constitutions shake.     Griffin Novie’s  Balcony Bliss  is a conceptual piece working on this same thread. Instead of falling to the ground, Griffin expands the time we suspend in air, envisaging while appearing face-to-face with himself amongst the clouds.    Bounce Gravityless in Griffin Novie's Buoyancy   Enter into a sunrise of sound with “We Don’t Have Anything More to Say” as clouds surround you in a dream. Burning through this daydream with an electric energy, the guitar riffs like rays of sun melting the clouds away, puncturing the sky and “permeating the neurons through their membrane.” Mea...

While everyone is all abuzz with excitement over the “new” IT , I left the theater very underwhelmed. Admittedly, I was a seesaw of emotion from the pre-production phase, being that Stephen King is my favorite author, and the 1990 IT my favorite horror movie (I watch it annually, every fall, and have for decades). Even still, I followed the events unraveling over the readaptation for years with rapt anticipation, went through all the news, from one director dropping out to another picking the project up. I was even there when Eddie Izzard was rumored to play the infamous Pennywise. So I went into this new movie, trying to shed my bias, but within minutes, I was let down. I remember being really iffy before the movie came out, and remember the trailer completely changing my mind. I went in thinking, maybe this movie will be closer to the book: it was not. I went in thinking, I hope the same magic is saved: it was not. I went in thinking, maybe the movie will be amazing ...