Nearly a year ago, Spotify announced that it would be paying less royalties to white-noise creators, calling the music “functional.” A new iOS app, however, aims to recognize the art of noise. Fuzzzel, which launched Tuesday, comes loaded with music by Oscar–nominated composer Owen Pallett, ambient-music artist Eluvium, field recordist …
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Naked is not something I want to be at work. But it happens kind of regularly at my job. So regularly that I once requested a “substitute” naked body to fill in for mine. When I had just given birth to twins. And was still breastfeeding them. ‘Cause I didn’t …
Read More »They Took a Third Date to Costa Rica. Then Covid Trapped Them There
We live in a golden age of narcissism, fueled by social media and the belief that everything we think, utter, eat, create or gaze upon should be of interest to others. In this sense, Netflix’s reality TV snack Longest Third Date is perfect for these times. It’s a chronicle of …
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