Orville Peck, Bronco, and Where We Find Connection
Orville Peck by Julia Johnson. I bought Orville Peck's debut album Pony in 2019, where it has remained the only CD in my car to this very day in 2022....
I’ll See You at the Seance
Talking About Talking About Art Hello, hi, it’s good to see you again. I hope February is treating you well. I have returned to shamelessly plug myself...
Notes on Monstrosity #6
Notes on TV: Goodbye, All of Hannibal Lecter As of writing this, it’s November 2021, and I’ve had a complex relationship with the American psychological...
Notes on Monstrosity #5
Notes on Film: Islands So, June raced past me in a blur of illness and bad vibes. Before I knew it, it was July. I was sick, my girlfriend had a multiple...
Notes on Monstrosity #4
This is an essay about The Umbrella Academy. That’s what I told myself, anyway. *** It’s 2008, perhaps 2009. I’m either 22 or 23 years old. I don’t have very...
Notes on Monstrosity #3
I may not look like it, but I’m actually very interested in video games. Perhaps not so much playing them or writing about them, because I don’t really play...
Notes on Monstrosity #2
Notes on Writing: The Public and The Private A strange thing happens when you put stories out into the world. I’m sure most of you are familiar with how I...
Notes on Monstrosity #1
Notes on Media: The Partisan by Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen is something of a ghost to me. Long before he died in 2016, his lyrical style had a habit of...
Notes on Monstrosity
Welcome to Notes On Monstrosity by Magen Cubed. This is a place to share original writing, thoughts, observations, and personal essays at the intersection of...