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Posted on May 12, 2016 by nadia bulkin
“There is a Bear in the Woods” is named after a Ronald Reagan campaign ad, from 1984. It’s a classic in high-strategy fear-mongering, and I recommend watching it while listening to the soundtrack to The Witch, for full horrific effect. My story, “There is a…
Category: advertisement, lyrics, politics, storiesTags: my playlists, my stories
Posted on February 24, 2016 by nadia bulkin
In college I tried to argue that Peter Pan was a post-colonial fable. I based this on the scene where the revolutionary but already somewhat dictatorial Peter, having defeated the imperialistic Captain Hook, puts on Hook’s coat and hat, pantomimes a hook with his hand, and…
Category: politics, storiesTags: my playlists, my stories
Posted on October 31, 2015 by nadia bulkin
As is appropriate for a story that’s a reworking of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space,” “Violet is the Color of Your Energy” is named after two songs centered on color: 311’s laidback, beachy “Amber,” and Hole’s angry, feminist “Violet.” I doubt that MRA…
Category: lyrics, storiesTags: horror, my playlists, my stories, nebraska
Posted on July 5, 2015 by nadia bulkin
“Seven Minutes in Heaven” is named, of course, after the terrible suburban teenager party game. Like my protagonist-narrator, I never played this game. Despite going to middle school and high school in Middle America (Nebraska), I always felt like too much of an outsider…
Category: lyrics, storiesTags: my playlists, my stories
Posted on November 8, 2014 by nadia bulkin
“Girl, I Love You” is named after a song by Massive Attack, but this playlist is an atmospheric and moody one. I also really lucked out that each song has a wildly appropriate music video (was I actually writing a story to explain the…
Category: lyrics, storiesTags: my playlists, my stories, women in horror
Posted on November 8, 2014 by nadia bulkin
The first thing I do when I get a new kernel of a story is start compiling a playlist for it. I don’t know if I could write without music; it’s a huge source of atmospheric and linguistic inspiration, and quite frankly, I name…
Category: lyrics, storiesTags: my playlists, my stories, nebraska
