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Let’s Talk About The Ending of Dirty Dancing

Posted on March 7, 2022August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

So I’m working on a larger idea of how the 80’s film repurposed Black-created music from the 60’s, to the benefit of (who else) White

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Tagged baby in a corner, dirty dancing, jennifer grey, Johnny castle, patrick swayze, pop culture4 Comments on Let’s Talk About The Ending of Dirty Dancing
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Top 10 Albums of 2021: 3 Deaths, 2 Weddings, and a Pandemic, the Music That Got Me Through 2021

Posted on December 18, 2021December 19, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Yea it’s a Top 10 Albums of 2021 List! No it’s not 10 albums long (it’s 9)! Yes it also contains blurbs on 3 honorable

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Tagged 2021, big red machine, bleachers, bon iver, cultural commentary, culture III, good for you, haim, hip hop, houndmouth, how long do you think it's going to last?, justin vernon, khruangbin, king's disease 2, migos, nas, pop culture, prescriptions for dreamers, silk sonic, sob rock, take the sadness out of saturday night, taylor swift, the moon and stars, think piece, top 10, valerie june, year in review15 Comments on Top 10 Albums of 2021: 3 Deaths, 2 Weddings, and a Pandemic, the Music That Got Me Through 2021
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How Gen Z Not Understanding The Matrix Taught Me To Appreciate Modern Art

Posted on January 26, 2021August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Or, How The Wachowskis Taught Me To Stop Worrying and Love Red, Blue and Yellow III. A serial art-attacker, that’s what we’re dealing with. Or,

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From Hood-Adjacent to Upper-Middle Class Neighboring: A Story of White Assimilation Through Fashion

Posted on November 17, 2020August 31, 2025 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

The Social Mobility of White Men: A Personal Examination I was once at a house party from whose balcony I could see my elementary school,

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Tagged cross colours, cult, cultural commentary, fashion, male fashion, pop culture, starter
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7 Years On, The World Is Catching Up With Spike Jonze’s Her

Posted on October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Like The Operating Systems of Her, Humans In 2020 Are Learning About Ourselves At An Accelerated Rate In the second scene of Spike Jonze’s xanax,

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Tagged commentary, her, midwest, pop culture, spike jonze, think piece, tommy hilfigger
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Re-Making The Classic, White Upper-Middle Class High School Coming of Age Movie via Soundtrack

Posted on July 14, 2020July 14, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Exploring The Tropes of The Genre With a Limitless Budget for Song Rights I am nothing if not a fan of the coming of age

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Tagged coming of age, cultural commentary, pop culture, the perks of being a wallflower
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The Wombification of America

Posted on May 26, 2020May 26, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

In the 2010s: a Trend of Upper Class Escapism Wrapped in the Ethos of Nihilistic Self-Care America was probably always on this path. Late Stage

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Tagged benzo, chance the rapper, cultural commentary, cyberpunk, frank ocean, kid cudi, nihilism, pop culture, womb, xanax
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A Fashion Week “Prank” and Why It Backfired

Posted on March 3, 2020March 3, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Zac and Jay Set Out to Prove Fashion is Stupid, Instead, They Prove That It’s Fun Zac and Jay are funny, but maybe more importantly,

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Tagged cultural commentary, fashion, london fashion week, mr deeds, paris fashion week, pop culture, the high low, think piece, zac and jay
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What the NBA Slam Dunk Contest Could Learn from the WWE

Posted on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

This Year the NBA Announced Dwight Howard Would Be Participating in the Slam Dunk Contest, Why That’s A Step In The Right Direction And Why

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Tagged cultural commentary, dr. j, giannis, goldberg, jordan, kobe, lebron, pop culture, royal rumble, slam dunk contest, social commentary, the high low, think piece, undertaker
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In Defense Of: Recovering The Satellites, Counting Crows’ Second Album

Posted on February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 by admin

Rearranging the songs on the follow up to August and Everything After gives listeners a new way to approach the purposefully challenging Sophomore album from

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