RT– Did you grow up hating Barbie, envious of the darling doll’s flawless features, palatial dream house, drop-top convertible and perfect (and plastic) boyfriend? Now you have a whole new reason to abhor the iconic American effigy that has objectified women for half a century—she’s ruining the rainforest! Activists at Greenpeace are launching an all-out war on the 11.5 inch-tall … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- It reads like a science fiction novel: a multinational corporation, in control of a vast majority of the world’s food supply and chief promoters of genetically altered foods, is actively infiltrating the legislative authority to not only corner the world food market, but to make growing food in one’s own back yard illegal. Even more sinister, they’ve hired … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Despite the incessant commercialization of electronic music and increasing accessibility to beat making software, my brother Robbie Martin, AKA Fluorescent Grey, continues to push his musical limits while staying true to his art. Every album he’s released has been the product of innovative conceptualizations, whether it be constructing songs from sampling the elements of fire and water or … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Despite the incessant commercialization of electronic music and increasing accessibility to beat making software, my brother Robbie Martin, AKA Fluorescent Grey, continues to push his musical limits while staying true to his art. Every album he’s released has been the product of innovative conceptualizations, whether it be constructing songs from sampling the elements of fire and water or … Read More
– ROLLING STONE– Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing. Don’t laugh. It may be the hardest thing you ever do, for Michele Bachmann is almost certainly the funniest thing that has ever happened to American presidential politics. … Read More
