In which I do the thing! The last weekend of July, what feels like an actual lifetime ago, two friends and I embarked on the double feature to top them all: Barbie and Oppenheimer. In that order. The only way to do it, really. You can’t watch three hours of devastation (mostly emotional, it shouldContinue reading “Climbing Mount Barbenheimer”
Author Archives: Cecilia Gigliotti
Two Style(s) Pieces
Or, two doors into Harry’s house I recently commemorated the end of Harry Styles’ Love On Tour with a review of his last music video from the Harry’s House record, for the song “Daylight.” It’s a follow-up of sorts to my review of “As It Was” last year, which had been the first video. OnContinue reading “Two Style(s) Pieces”
Somebody Else’s Poem, for Megan Rapinoe
In which a classic becomes relevant again When I heard the US had been eliminated from the Women’s World Cup the other day—and that Megan Rapinoe, who never misses a penalty, had in fact missed—I thought immediately of this poem by Ernest Thayer. It is a sports poem, if not a soccer/football one, and todayContinue reading “Somebody Else’s Poem, for Megan Rapinoe”
Nothing is Scarier Than Getting What You Want
Or, “and we’re back!” Hi there! Guess who has returned! I feel like that one line in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Well, prior to the past near-year I was somehow naïve enough to swear that I would never be one of Those Guys. You know, the guys who dedicate themselves toContinue reading “Nothing is Scarier Than Getting What You Want”
My Year in Song
Remember when I didn’t do this back in December but there’s no time like the present to think about the past? January: “Bunny is a Rider,” Caroline Polachek February: “Oye Como Va,” Santana March: “Julien,” Carly Rae Jepsen April: “You’re Gonna Make It,” Dope Saint Jude May: “Company,” from Company June: “The Game of Love,”Continue reading “My Year in Song”
Inspirations have I none…
All I have is my love of love, and love is not loving. Today my beloved entrée to the land of concept albums, the record whose production quality still bears the standard, the galaxy’s greatest release by a metafictional band, turns 50. Similar to past honorary breakdowns (see here and here), I now break downContinue reading “Inspirations have I none…”
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes COMPANY
Or, we loooooooooooooooooooooove… (13 measures later) youuuuuuuu! Folks, you’ll be happy to hear your favorite lopsided Sondheim fan is branching out! Last weekend I got together with a group of strangers to sing through the (still unbelievably) now-late composer’s 1970 breakout hit Company. Let me tell you, spending seven hours tops on a difficult scoreContinue reading “Phone rings, door chimes, in comes COMPANY”
It’s gonna be May!
Or, a multi-purpose song Well, kids, it’s that time of year—the time when we whose formative understanding of music was indelibly shaped by *NSYNC (among other iconic boy bands) quote the central thesis of one of their hits to ring in first truly springlike month in the Northern Hemisphere. And I mean quote it exactly,Continue reading “It’s gonna be May!”
Introverts & Extroverts
Or, a soapbox Well, not exactly; ‘soapbox’ suggests an energy that I don’t have at the moment. But I’ll do my best. *clears throat* Hear ye, hear ye, people of the internet. I would like to join the chorus of voices imploring us to collectively adjust our assessment of the differences between introversion and extroversion. VoicesContinue reading “Introverts & Extroverts”
A byte of midweek reading…
Or, flash nonfiction Last week I published a short creative nonfiction piece in the Women* Writing Berlin Lab Magazine, something I’d been working on for a while that dealt with something from an even longer while ago. A lot of my recent work has confronted, examined, and/or come to terms with memory, of which thisContinue reading “A byte of midweek reading…”