Hi gang, and thanks for coming to The Cipher. It's been a huge week! Thanks for finishing it up here.
-Lauren |
A Very Ugly Year In The Life Of A D.C. Little League
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The Best Films At The 2024 New York Film Festival
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The Noble Muscadine Can Replace Your Gummy Fix
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One Things We Liked On The Internet Today:
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My quest began with a search for adorable animals eating apples, because it's the Jewish new year (L'shanah tovah to all who celebrate!) and, thus, we eat apples (I could explain but I'd rather not so just go with me on this.). Sure, we also have honey, but honey is so obvious. What am I gonna give you? A bear with honey? Please! We have higher standards around here! This isn't the Borscht Belt! This is Animal Friday!!
Manatees, alas, do not eat apples, and searching for adorable animals eating apples yielded me all too obvious results. Monkeys? Meh. Rabbits? Too straightforward. Possums? Gonna kick up too many feelings with homeowners who have to deal with them.
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What I love about this video is there is nothing here but a friendly garden hedgehog chomping at some apples left for it by a human. The angle is sub-optimal. There's no lighting. There's no cuts, no special effects, no soundtrack, no filter. A vehicle lumbers by, and the hedgehog keeps munching, then leaves when it's full.
This is just a hedgehog eating an apple.
-Diana Moskovitz |
Defector At The Theater: One Song |
This may be a strange comparison to make, but One Song, playing a very short run at NYU Skirball through Saturday night, was everything I wanted Megalopolis to be: strange, exciting, dangerous, slightly inscrutable, and fully committed to itself. In this hour-long performance, I felt a near-tangible excitement in my heart, so moved was I by the experimentation and physical exertion on stage.
A work from Miet Warlop, the conceit of One Song is fairly literal. After a bit of an intro, a band plays a song over and over again for a small, demanding audience on a vaguely dystopian set, with slight variations. It's not a show for everybody, but the sinister-sounding rock with ambiguous lyrics is actually very listenable for an extended period of time (it's Track 2 here and here). The band, particularly the singer, has a magnetic stage presence, and they're also in incredible shape, because there's more than just music to the performance. Crossing a concert with an Olympics, each member has to contend with additional obstacles. The singer is on a treadmill, the violinist is on a balance beam, the bassist is doing sit-ups, and more. When the ping pong balls started flying, I knew I was fully committed to their path toward exhaustion. Rarely does theater feel more alive, or more original, than this.
-Lauren |
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