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Issue 2: Surreal

July 2013

Goats and Monkeys

Patrick Vickers·
Issue 2: Surreal
You could say that Eyes Wide Shut has all the significance of a dream, and you might be correct. But as Alice says near the end of the film, ‘No dream is ever just a dream.’
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Something is Missing

Letitia Trent·
Issue 2: Surreal
To the Wonder shows Oklahoma in the ways I’ve learned to see it in the decade since I’ve left—beautiful, expansive, and empty.
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Letter from the Editor

Chad Perman·
Issue 2: Surreal
There’s an old adage in the music industry that a band has a lifetime to write, assemble, and record songs for its very first record, but only a handful of months to put together its second.
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Too Insidery?

Sarah Malone·
Issue 2: Surreal
In Being John Malkovich, the appearance of things working out or making sense is a signal to be uneasy.
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The Universe Constantly

Elizabeth Cantwell·
Issue 2: Surreal
We will never understand all of the strange and horrible and perfect and wriggling things in nature. But they will understand us.
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A Wilderness of Tigers

Andrew Root·
Issue 2: Surreal
What most entices in Julie Taymor's Titus is the images, even without context.
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Haunted Blondes

Gray Hendryx·
Issue 2: Surreal
Few films have slipped so entirely under my skin—and changed the way I experience the world—as Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Home

Amelia Gray·
Issue 2: Surreal
Of what does Sergeant Nicholas Brody dream?
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I Think I Cannes

Matt Patches·
FestivalsIssue 2: Surreal
You adjust the bowtie on your tuxedo. I’m at Cannes, a fucking dream come true.
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A Tourist With a Typewriter

Stephen Sparks·
Issue 2: Surreal
Barton Fink’s real commitment is to his Art. The struggle, he shouts from his high horse, is here, finger pressed firmly against his temple.
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