[SIC] Sundays 119: Dance Macabra

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[SIC] Sundays 119: Dance Macabra

1. Not at all what I was expecting, in the best way: David Lynch’s “Interview Project: Danny McBride” / YT

2. Big questions: Can Robots Have Nervous Breakdowns / FT

3. And why is everyone acting like psychedelics are already legal? Yoga With a Side of Shrooms / Rave New World

4. The Running Life of Riley Hawk. Riley Hawk recently got into running, and he’s well-known for being a professional skateboarder. He also happens to be the son of perhaps the most famous professional skateboarder of all time: Claus Grabke. / Possessed

5. From the new “Start Today” issue of Possessed, the running culture zine from Satisfy Running / Possessed

6. The How & Whyyy of Unhinged Marketing / On Brand

7. Speaking of unhinged - this TV spot is so incomprehensibly bad (meaning, like, whaaat??!!) I was forced to google it: Casillero del Diablo - The Wine Legend

8. Which had the secondary benefit of pointing me to THIS gem: Casillero del Diablo Manchester United Commercial w. Wayne Rooney, Patrice Evra and Ryan Giggs / YT

9. An Alternative Perspective: Past, Present, and Future By KKR. Great long read - 66 pages that provide a useful state of the union for 11% of total GDP / KKR

10. Is the Turner Prize Relevant Today? Once dominated by sensational headlines and media hype, the competition now faces an existential question about its place in contemporary discourse/ Frieze

11. Related: How Matisse Revolutionized Color In Art / YouTube

12. And Objectify me: furniture, fetish and feminism / FT

13. Which takes us to: How Lee Miller Out-Surrealed the Surrealists / Aperture

14. Elsewhere: How Noritsugu Oda found himself sitting on 1400 chairs / FT

15. Related: Martino Gamper: 'There are as many chairs as characters / FT

16. A painting found in a cellar in Italy appears to be a Picasso. The 1930s surrealist image of two distorted faces hung in a cheap frame on a wall in Pompeii for decades, with its owner having no idea who Picasso was. It is believed to be worth around $6.5 million / Semafor

17. Meanwhile an Emily Carr painting bought for $50 at barn sale could bring $148,000 at auction / The Art Newspaper

18. Tim Dillon Pokes at America’s Underbelly in “This is Your Country” / BKMag

19. You Are Going to Die. Oliver Burkeman has become an unlikely self-help guru by reminding everyone of their mortality /The Atlantic

20. In contrast, Immortal: What Was Indie Sleaze? (And What, If Anything, Is It Now?) On Charli XCX, The Dare, and the curious “revival” of a mid-'00s phenomenon—more than a trend, less than a movement, certainly a vibe—that no one could quite agree on the first time around / GQ

21. Apropos: The Dare Knows What's Wrong with New York / 032C

22. Robbie Williams will be played by a CGI monkey in new biopic / Creative Bloq

23. Elsewhere in legends: Stephen Malkmus on Supergroups, Pseudo-Documentaries, and Geriatric Guitar Gods / Vanity Fair

24. Speaking of Malkmus, he’s got a new band and All four members of the Hard Quartet spoke to GQ about starting a new chapter together / GQ

25. Also beginning a new chapter? The Gap Comeback That Might Actually Be Working / CNN

26. Meantime, American moms love these plastic totes that look like Crocs / Bloomberg

27. Under her Skims: Inside Kim Kardashian’s $4bn apparel empire / HTSI’

28. Lessons from America's first 'war on rats' summit / FT

29. The Asteroid that eradicated dinosaurs wasn’t a one-off / The Guardian

30. Speaking of combos: The Flavor Thesaurus; Pairings, recipes and ideas for the creative cook,  is original and without peers. It starts by mapping out 99 flavors of foods into a “flavor wheel,” and it then examines all the plausible combinations of these flavors, with comments on the pairing / Amazon

[SIC] Sundays 119: Dance Macabra