A Re-Examination of U2’s ‘Songs of Innocence’
With the publicity surrounding its Apple-sponsored release now a thing of the past, let's examine U2's conversation-starting Songs of Innocence for what it actually is.
Dylan Fremont
I am a writer and the stories I tell are about escape. In a different time, during an age of magic perhaps, I may have been an escapologist like Nicholas Owen, who escaped his torturers in 1606 and remained aloof until sometime in the 20th Century. My alias is Dylan Fremont. I use an alias to impersonate myself so that I may commit fraud. Fraud is the tool I use to enter deathtraps and escape. The one-world system is a deathtrap. There has only ever been one world system. It is called Capitalism.
‘It Follows’ Is a Mixtape in Movie Form
In It Follows, director David Robert Mitchell collects many of the best shards and slivers from the refuse heap of the '80s and recombines them into something of great gloss.