Don’t Quit Your Corporate Job And Move To Paris

“What am I doing with my life?” I would wonder as I threw their poopy underwear in the washing machine. I had a college degree! Two months ago I was traveling to conferences and giving presentations on Twitter! I used to make car payments and go out to nice dinners!

Lindsey is a writer working and living in Austin, TX. She enjoys cheap red wine, Netflix instant, and fried ...

When Fischy Met Sydney

By 2004’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Anderson had turned his gaze a bit more starboard. Still, it’s hard not to see this Dick-cum-Respiro tale as the magnificent Anderson’s own meta-evolution.

He's also written for Option, Coke Machine Glow and the Trouser Press Record Guide and been published in The ...
 

On Being Brave Enough To Start Again

So you’ll push the new ones away instinctively. Half of you will be relieved and the other half will pang with melancholy. You want to be braver—because when it comes down to the bones of it, all you really are is scared. You wish it was as simple as calling out to your mother and having her check under your bed and in the closet for the boogey man, but you’re on your own now, with no one to protect you from night terrors but yourself.

Kate George is the Managing Editor at Portable.tv. Lives like Die Hard but with a Katy Perry vibe. Follow her on ...

Five Songs You Shouldn’t Listen To In The Bath

I love Metric. Many people do, and justly so. But be aware that if you listen to them while reclining on the chipped enamel of your bath under a dim, fly-spotted bulb, you will feel like the protagonist of a twenty-minute short about heroin addiction, badly edited by a film student from Montreal.

Chris Emslie recently graduated from the University of St Andrews and now has very little to do with his time. ...

A Tale Of Two Worlds

I come from a land of rice paddies and lotus flowers, of corrugated tin roofs and occasional air raids. A land of teeth stained red from betel leaves, of gold bangles and bright silk, of merchant vendors and henna tattoos.

He enjoys reading Vogue and W magazines and his interests include waiting around on cobblestone streets for Scott ...
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