Life After Brecht: Wes Anderson’s Lowbrow Dialectics
Wes Anderson’s intellectualization of high art in middlebrow presentation is rife with Brechtian flair and a Clintonite understanding of upper-middle-class politics.
G.D. Brown
G.D. Brown has worked as a literary editor and an award-winning newswriter. His literary work has appeared in Ginosko, Westview, Promethia Literary Magazine, The Oracle Review, Peeking Cat Poetry, The Tulsa Voice, and elsewhere. He is a Goddard College MFA candidate, and he lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Tipping the Swear Jar: How mewithoutYou Used the F-Bomb to Say More Than the F-Word
Lyricist Aaron Weiss of post-punk Christian band mewithoutyou used the F-word in a song and it got banned from radio and the album got pulled from record stores. Meanwhile, his fans ponder his parodying of cultural mores.