Tower of Sleep

29/m/Toronto. Recovering grad student. I write about music and contemporary art. Email: saelantwerdy [at] gmail.com

It’s instructive to picture what this guy would actually look like IRL, some clown with a real emotional haircut, Crocs hanging off his feet, Urban Outfitters leather jacket hung over his IKEA futon, remnants of that Taco Bell burrito with the Fritos in it congregating at the corners of his mouth as he binges on Skyrim, blasts “Pumped Up Kicks” on infinite repeat, and gargles dozens of shots of, like, Goldschläger.

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Rob Harvilla imagines the guy Lana Del Rey is singing about all through her album Born to Die

Rob Harvilla wins the zinger award of the year with this review! Probably the most sympathetic take on Born to Die I’ve read yet, but I was dying laughing the whole way through it. He treats it with the sense of absurdity it deserves.

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    I try to do this as much as I can, but striking the right chord—as is done here—is essential. Too often on American...
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    -perpetua YESSS, the Goldschläger detail is what got me. No Crocs, though. No one sings love songs about anyone wearing...
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    Die Rob Harvilla wins the zinger award...the year with this review! Probably the most...
  11. likeapairofbottlerockets said: jagerbombs or mikes hard would have been a better choice (but yeah this is great)
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