Reactionary Reviews | That Winter Fest | Sognage
There's a woman talking to the fence about the one time she took Ritalin, and it's still straight-edge early. This is the first sign that the word “fest” might still have some meaning. Everyone here seems to have recently done their laundry. Or had it done. And recently been to the salon, especially the mohawk guy.
Reactionary Reviews | FOSTA
DIFF | Premiere | SC7: 5pm July 24
FOSTA is a document of our times. As a film it often hedges its bets, reflexively providing quick solutions after touching on the real issues in play.
While ostensibly about DJ Fosta's redemption story, the film often feels like a tale of the triumphs of Bridges For Music, an organisation that has for many years been organising workshops in Langa with big-name EDM headliners featuring at South African music festivals.
The bike slides out from under him, wet slick as he brakes too late, crossing Harrow to Hillbrow, both of them, James, and his girlfriend sliding into the path of an oncoming truck. He, protected by the bike, lost only his legs.
Reactionary Reviews | Black Math | Blood Sweat Sparkles
by Roger Young
Black Math gloriously revel in not reinventing the wheel. Screamo, punk, rock n roll grunge, youth, whatever, attacked with gusto. Don't let the word Math fool you into thinking this is prog-rock. It's fucking progressive though. Blood, Sweat, Sparkles plunges onwards with relentless disregard.
After his arrest no-one mentioned him, he dropped out of our thoughts, except to mock that he had been arrested so easily. So dom. So fucking dom that Boyo.
Arrested in the golden afternoon sun clutching four meagre caps of smack, unga, nyaope whatever...
Not So Famous Last Words | Rev. David Herbert Allen | 1920ish – 1992
There is a memory of a photograph of my grandfather in short pants, on a sand dune, shirtless, laughing, but I cannot tell you where my grandfather served in the war, my mother used to be able to, but now she talks mostly about the farm.
NSFLW
“For the first time in human history, a simple program has proven effective in the lives of many addicts.” –NA Preamble, “What is the NA Program”
While the simple program has proven effective for me now, there have been many other times in human history where suffering existed, dependency existed, and acceptance existed. But the addict, as a category of person to be punished, did not yet exist. This has been a relatively new historical development.
Reactionary Reviews | The Polygamist | Netflix
Sometimes trash is necessary as a distraction. The most distracting thing about The Polygamist is the one persistent question: Where the fuck do they get these shades of lipstick from?
by Roger Young & Ur
My cat often paws at its reflection in the mirror leaning against the outside wall, contemplates it, tilts its head quizzically, testing the reflection’s responses. If a bird flies past, it will follow the sound, run out into the garden.