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God is in the Wired in ‘Serial Experiments Lain’

Widespread Internet use was still in its early stages in 1998. But Serial Experiments Lain, a single anime series running that year on late-night TV, introduced an extraordinary depiction of all human communication within the realm of ‘the Wired.’

Within the Wired, thoughts float at maximum freedom. At first, protagonist Iwakura Lain, an awkward and isolated high-school girl, does not yet recognise the vast network lying beneath her daily life, having never opened her computer. Yet, amongst people, telephone wires, and machines, the unconscious overlaps with reality and the surreal seeps into the everyday. Lain’s own everyday life is irreversibly upturned after a cryptic email arrives from her dead classmate. Claiming that her soul is still alive in the Wired, it reads, ‘God is here.’

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I’ll Be Interviewed by Alan Ket from the Museum of Graffiti on Instagram Live Tonight at 7:00

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Judee Sill Performs The Kiss, Live, on the “Old Grey Whistle Test”

You should check out the below BBC radio documentary if you’re unfamiliar. She breaks my heart.

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Brattle Theatre Executive Director: Outpouring Of Community Support Was Like 'It's A Wonderful Life'

The Brattle got some great coverage on Boston Public Radio last week.

When the hundreds of thousands of dollars in unprompted donations began to pour in to keep her Brattle Theatre afloat through the pandemic, Ivy Moylan couldn’t help but cry.

“And I’m not a cryer,” she insisted. “Within hours, I felt like we were living our own ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ experience with the outpouring of support from the community, and the number of people ready to fight alongside us to make sure that the Brattle was there on the other side.

Brattle Theatre Executive Director: Outpouring Of Community Support Was Like 'It's A Wonderful Life'

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