Reasons to Live: Our Mantras for Life-Affirmation (Part One)
by: IOW Staff Readers, I’ve been trying to work on a piece for awhile based on a journal I had as a kid. Most kids keep things like “diaries” or […]
Tag Archives: Dominick Mayer
I Get Wet (and Old): How I Confronted Mortality at an Andrew W.K. Show
by: Dominick Mayer I’ve hit the moment where I feel old at rock shows. Granted, I knew this was coming. And yeah, I’m 23, so if you read no further, […]
It Takes More Than a Movie to Fix a Culture: Why Bully Won’t End School Violence
by: Dominick Mayer Two prefaces to the following article: 1) This is going to sound remarkably negative, and that’s by design. My dear friend, Patrick Gill, has already said, in […]
Goodbye, Shelf Full of Music
by: Dominick Mayer Note: This post was originally featured on HEAVEMedia. You can find the original here. Last night, I sold my entire CD collection. I think the first moment […]
Immortalizing Adolescence: The Legacy of Xanga and LiveJournal
by: Dominick Mayer Everybody remembers their first blog. It’s hard not to romanticize it; after all, this is a chronicle of a time when things were simpler in hindsight, but […]
The Kung Pow Test: How to Weed Out Potential Mates
by: Dominick Mayer What really matters is what you like, not what you are like. Books, records, films, these things matter. Call me shallow, it’s the fuckin’ truth. – Rob […]
“Avarice: The Last Airbender”: Why No One Goes to the Movies Anymore
by: Dominick Mayer The last week of 2011 bought with it quite a bit of ado regarding the decline of overall box office sales for U.S. movies, a decline that […]
Masturbation Positivity: It’s Not Just Sex With Someone I Love
by: Dominick Mayer There is nothing more cunning, ruthless and casually amoral than a 12-year-old boy who’s just discovered the miracle of masturbation. I know this, because I was, and […]
The Penis Conundrum: My Hang-Ups about the NC-17 Sex in “Shame”
by: Dominick Mayer It’s tough for me not to blindly rally behind Steve McQueen’s Shame for a number of reasons, chief among them the fact that I’m all for a […]
