#phantom love

how long you played me playin a role

i been doing this for a living two halves don't make a whole that's not a given

go in twice you sold two souls of children to the business

PHANTOM LOVE WAS ALWAYS COLD BEFORE THE START AND TO THE FINISH

turn from me so stare and shoot

i've lost my mind, you scared me too

you've crossed that line, whose using who?

it's nothing new (make peace, we're fine)

i tried, i lied, to keep you mine

THAT GIRL I LOVE I JUST CAN'T FIND

trips me up so i can't see

if the messed up one is YOU OR ME

SEE WHAT THE CITY HAS DONE TO US

DREAMS TORN APART LIKE A BLUNDERBUSS

A HUNDRED GUSTS

OF WEST THE WIND

HAS SPREAD US THIN

TOO MUCH WITHIN

JUST DON'T DISGUST

I HOLD DISGUST

I KNOW YOU MUST

BUT KNIFE IN HAND THERE'S STILL DISTRUST

I KNOW YOU THRUST

THE MOMENT THESE WORDS ARE SPOKEN

YOU CAN'T LOVE YOU ONLY LOVE TO BE BROKEN

Celebrating Nina Menkes! “A distinct and idiosyncratic figure in American cinema, Ms. Menkes... has also remained somewhat overlooked, an outsider both on the indie film scene and in avant-garde circles. Her work is sometimes called experimental, but unlike most experimental filmmakers she makes narrative features."

Read more in The New York Times's A Cinematic Sorceress of the Self.

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022)

"The film was never meant to present a balanced view. The film is a polemic that is balancing 120 years of the male gaze on our backs. I’m not trying to be balanced. That’s the first thing I want to say. The second thing I want to say is that the film is purposely simple. The diagrams we present are simple on purpose. We want you to be able to apply a basic diagram to each of the different and complicated situations that unfold in the film." Read more in Filmmaker Magazine's “120 Years of the Male Gaze On Our Backs”: Nina Menkes on Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power. Visit the film's website for more information including essential reading and other resources.

Dissolution (2010) "Thematically somber but visually luminous, “Dissolution,” the remarkable new work from the Israeli-American filmmaker Nina Menkes, explores a soul stained by blood and smothered by loneliness." Read more in The New York Times's review.

Phantom Love (2007)

'"Phantom Love" is intentionally designed and structured in an open manner, welcoming the viewer to various interpretations. One of them — implied by the title — is that much of the rest of the film's images and sounds are the wandering thoughts Lulu experiences during sex.' Read more in Variety's film review.

Queen of Diamonds (1991)

"The latest jewel in the crown of independent filmmaker Nina Menkes, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS may become for America in the 90’s what JEANNE DIELMAN was for Europe in the 70’s—a cult classic using a rigorous visual composition to penetrate the innermost recesses of the soul." Read more in Les Cahiers Du Cinema's review.

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Ok, so like the title says I’m 2 years late to the party but Zach Callison’s album “A Picture Perfect Hollywood Heartbreak” freakin’ SLAPS!

Ya boi mixes rock music, ballads, slam poetry, and rap into a awesome story of heartbreak, drugs, mental illness, and stardom. Listen to it in album order! Do not shuffle on your first time or you will lose the story!

My sister is the huge Steven Universe fan, so I found it after looking up the original versions of all of Natewantstobattle’s Steven Universe covers. I only know Zach from Dark and Dicey and Nate’s Phantom music video. 

Eros singing about Psyche x Zach Callison's song “Phantom Love”