Articles by Giancarlo DiTrapano

Giancarlo DiTrapano

Articles by Giancarlo DiTrapano

Friday Tyrant - Riff Raff, Rap Game Jodie Foster

Riff Raff is the self-proclaimed "rap game Golden Child," the "rap game Primadonna," and the rap game's only Jodie Foster that I've ever heard of. Full story

2011 Nov 11 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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Friday Tyrant - Televised Gay Marriage Sets Gays Back 50 Years

If Conan was using this to set an example, he should have used another couple entirely. Full story

2011 Nov 4 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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Friday Tyrant - Get in the Dreamvan with Blake Butler

I think in the future, people will point to his new book and say, "Look, look, this is when everything started to become really great/fucked up." Full story

2011 Oct 28 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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Friday Tyrant – Lagoon Fever

I mentioned Youth Lagoon at a party the other night and a girl screamed in my face. Full story

2011 Oct 14 Giancarlo DiTrapano Music

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Friday Tyrant - Litter

I want to know who can make Twitter a place for genuinely twisted and real human thought. Full story

2011 Oct 7 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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Friday Tyrant - Brand New Lutz

Gary Lutz has the uncommon gift of being able to dig really damn deep into our vocabulary. But not too deep, or so deep that you have to rest a dictionary on your belly during a read. Full story

2011 Sep 30 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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Matthew Blahrney

I just texted a friend of mine and asked him to give me three words to describe Matthew Barney. He wrote: "Needlessly complicated fashion." That's pretty good. Full story

2011 Sep 19 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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Friday Tyrant - Dent May's Deep Digital Shadow

Don't you sometimes get tired of rap dudes talking at you about themselves while they do weird things with their arms and fingers? Or the longhairs of death metal going, "WARRRGGGGHHHH," while you pretend to feel something from it? Me neither, but there's other shit out th… Full story

2011 Aug 19 Giancarlo DiTrapano Music

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Kendra Grant Malone: Poet, Dominatrix

We've all wanted to beat the shit out of a poet before, but how would you feel about a poet kicking your ass and calling you a faggot? Kendra Grant Malone would gladly do that for you. For a fee. Full story

2011 Aug 16 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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Friday Tyrant - Pee on Water

Just tore over this story for like the 20th time since I first came across it for an issue of New York Tyrant. The issue was called Lady Tyrant and it was all stories written by women. Full story

2011 Aug 1 Giancarlo DiTrapano Stuff

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