Dylan Fugel

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two years away from being two years away

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DNR for My Old Underwear

3 weeks ago | pointsincase.com | R.J. Cross |Alex Vlahov |Dylan Fugel

I, Your Ratty Underwear, being of sound mind and tattered body, request that from this day forward, no advanced interventions of resuscitation be performed to prolong my life including sewing, mending, reweaving, stapling, hot glue gunning, patching with iron-on or duct tape, soldering, or welding.
Five Places You Will Definitely Drive This SUV, According to the Commercials

1 month ago | pointsincase.com | Alex Vlahov |Dylan Fugel |Devin Wallace |R.J. Cross

A Remote Mountain ForestOne with streams of various sizes to forge. And a clearing for pitching a tent under a meteor shower. And a pack of wolves, coming right up on this vehicle because they sensed its wildness—your wildness—and are here to accept you as one of their own. This muddy car plus your wolf family will make for a pretty incredible #weekend-pics Slack post come Monday. Everyone will think “Dave is the most adventurous person in the office.” And they’ll be right.
In Heaven There Is No Beer?

1 month ago | brightwalldarkroom.com | Dylan Fugel

Let me start by saying one thing as I begin this piece on Les Blank’s 1984 documentary, In Heaven There Is No Beer?: I do not like polka music. I find it actively off-putting. It’s chintzy, it’s retro, and it’s painful to listen to. I think its devotees want to restore a defunct, outdated form of Europeanism that should have been left in the 1800s. I start turning green when I think about polka music.
Everything You Need to Know about Rememory, the $150 Million Apple TV Hit That Can Be Watched Only in a Retirement Community in Ohio

Jan 28, 2025 | mcsweeneys.net | Dylan Fugel

Following in the footsteps of Apple TV’s star-studded non-Severance critically acclaimed shows that no one has ever heard of because they never advertise them, like Disclaimer, Presumed Innocent, and For All Mankind, Rememory has been described by Apple’s Tim Cook as “our greatest achievement yet.” With the second season likely to pick up a whole host of Emmys to add to the streamer’s growing collection, here’s everything you need to know about television’s newest era-defining show.
Have I Got News For You Doesn’t Have A Mean Bone In Its Body

Sep 19, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Dylan Fugel

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Dummy, 'Free Energy' Album Review

Sep 10, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Dylan Fugel

It’s rare to review an album where one of the major target demographics would be particle physicists, but that’s certainly a group that would find a lot to love in Dummy’s new collection of stellar tracks. Free Energy, the second album from the Los Angeles dream-pop and shoegaze quartet, is a project indebted to the concepts of perpetual motion, the collision of particles, the ever-fluctuating rhythms of the spatial and the sub-atomic.
After Laughter, Comes Tears

Aug 22, 2024 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Dylan Fugel

Things are funny when they’re not happening to you. Mel Brooks has said and written variations of this: “Tragedy is when I get a paper cut on my finger … Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” Henny Youngman’s “Take my wife, please!” relies on the implication, at the very least, of an unhappy marriage. Everything becomes that little bit sweeter when the audience has emotional distance from it. They’re free to laugh—it’s not their wife and it’s not their sewer.
All Wrapped Up: How 2014 Birthed the Wave of Spotify-Core Music

Aug 19, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Dylan Fugel

I turned 20 in the summer of 2014. I only mention this to note that this means that I, like many others at that time, was pathologically obsessed with “being cool”: How to become it? How to achieve it? What music should I listen to such that I was undeniably, categorically it?
Laura Merli Wants to Be a Woman of Few Words

Jul 17, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Dylan Fugel

A Laura Merli joke sneaks up on you. It might be the one about how a cat café can quickly start to resemble your middle school experience. It could be the one about why “how did your loved one die?” is not a good icebreaker question. Or it could be one of the many found in her new special, Belly Slappin’ Fun, which marks the debut special for a comic who’s been making the rounds in the New York comedy scene for many years.
Bodies of Work: The Ballet and Bone of

Apr 11, 2024 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Dylan Fugel

Languid, tensile, alluring, sweaty, supple, pliable. To watch Beau Travail is to watch the human body in motion, the day-to-day procession of existence in a corporeal form powerful enough to inspire the most primal emotions in others. From the very first moments of the film, when we see native Djiboutians dance and sway to the pulsing beat of Tarkan’s ‘Şimarik’, we are transported to a cinematic world that seeks to exist beyond mere language.