“I’m looking for something that’ll… break through. You know?” James Woods’ Max Renn yearns in David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult classic Videodrome. Oh, how things have changed. In today’s day and age, we’ve already drowned in media. It’s swallowed us. We’re nothing but a bubble amidst one infinite, engulfing abyss. Intimidated? You should be. With each passing second, you’re losing opportunities to take advantage of a culture that’s moving ahead and at an exhausting rate. You could very well be alone… left behind… abandoned. Terrified yet? Yes? Well, that’s more like it.
-Michael Roffman
President/Editor-in-Chief
The Big Pink – “Give It Up”
When children of the 1990’s start getting old, I imagine this is what their equivalent of an “acid flashback” will look like. The Big Pink manage to deliver something best appreciated by those who spent years in sweaty techno clubs dropping E and experimenting with neon.
