Naomi Fry

1 week ago | wired.jp | Naomi Fry

ドアーズに、特にそのボーカリストであるジム・モリソンに熱狂するということには、自分が紛れもなくティーンエイジャーだと感じさせてくれる何かがあった。 ドアーズは、1965年からモリソンが27歳で亡くなった2年後の73年までの、わずか8年間しか活動しなかったロックバンドだ。ドアーズの楽曲は、興奮しやすい思春期の心に、たまらない魅力をもって語りかけてくる。セックスと死と狂気がぎっしり詰まったあまりにも詩的な歌詞が、心に残るオルガンの音色で奏でられ、黒いレザーを着たワルな少年が耳元で囁くように歌う。エッセイストのイヴ・バビッツがかつて書いたように、「どんな女性も虜にしてしまうほどチャーミング」なボーカリストだ った。 14歳の頃にドアーズの音楽を聴き始めたわたしは、危険な大人の世界に初めて足を踏み入れたように性的な魅力を感じ、自分が求められているような気分にもなった。驚きと憧れを呼び起こす音楽だった。別の言い方をするのなら、決して否定的な意味ではなく、セックスというものに目覚めたばかりのヴァージンのための音楽だった。 謎めいた死 現在、Apple...

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Naomi Fry

In March of 2016, Jennifer Garner had recently separated from her husband of ten years, the actor and director Ben Affleck, when she was asked by Vanity Fair to comment on what the magazine referred to as her ex’s “midlife-crisis tattoo”—a large, multicolored back piece of a phoenix rising from the ashes. “You know what we would say in my hometown about that? ‘Bless his heart,’ ” Garner said dryly, then added, “Am I the ashes in this scenario? . . .

1 month ago | newyorker.com | With Vinson Cunningham |Naomi Fry |Alexandra Schwartz

Download a transcript. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. For nearly as long as we’ve been waging war, we’ve sought ways to chronicle it. “Warfare,” a new movie co-directed by the filmmaker Alex Garland and the former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, takes an unorthodox approach, recreating a disastrous real-life mission in Iraq according to Mendoza’s own memories and those of the soldiers who fought alongside him.

1 month ago | newyorker.com | Naomi Fry

On the first episode of “Paul American,” a new reality-TV show currently streaming on Max, the YouTuber, influencer, and wrestler Logan Paul mounts a PowerPoint pitch for his fiancée, the Danish supermodel Nina Agdal, in order to convince her that being on reality television would benefit the couple.

2 months ago | newyorker.com | With Vinson Cunningham |Naomi Fry |Alexandra Schwartz

Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. Gossip, an essential human pastime, is full of contradictions. It has the potential to be as destructive to its subjects as it is titillating to its practitioners; it can protect against very real threats, as in the case of certain pre-#MeToo whisper networks, or tip over into the realm of conspiracy.