by Dahlia | Sep 3, 2017 | Journal
I’m not a “Swiftie.” There is an occasional Taylor Swift song that I won’t move past if it’s on the radio, but I was hardly inconvenienced by the absence of her music on Spotify. That said, I feel compelled to speak up in defense of...
by Dahlia | Aug 17, 2017 | Journal
Where are our protest songs? I recently watched the film London Town, a coming-of-age drama set in 1970s London and directed by Derrick Borte. It reminded me of what music could do, of what music is supposed to do. In the film, Shay Baker (Daniel Huttlestone), is a...
by Dahlia | Aug 7, 2017 | Journal
I recently came across the following quote by Tom Robbins from Jitterbug Perfume: “The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the...
by Dahlia | Apr 29, 2017 | Journal
Ever since the election in November, I’ve had several friends mention that they were going to ration their Facebook time, or cut it out all together. “Facebook is just too difficult these days,” they would say. “I blame Trump,” they would...
by Dahlia | Apr 18, 2017 | Journal
A recent episode of the HBO television show Girls threw audience members into a frenzy. Specifically, it threw audience members affiliated with academia into a frenzy. The cause of the uproar? At the end of the sixth and final season, Hannah Horvath (the...
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