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What Do Magazonans and Your Average Airplane Passenger Have in Common? We’re All Very Bad at Understanding the Size of America

Posted on November 20, 2022November 20, 2022 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

by Jordan Mark Sandvig It is hard for me to put into words how much I love the feature length Marcel the Shell with Shoes

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New Name, Who This? The Best of – and Retirement of – the Rapper Known as Vision the Kid

Posted on April 25, 2022April 25, 2022 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Before starting The Hiigh Low – who on earth starts a blog in 2020? – I made music. A lot of it. Over a decade+

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CODA: The Story We Didn’t Know We Needed

Posted on March 28, 2022March 28, 2022 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

by Jordan Mark Sandvig CODA winning Best Oscar may upset cinephiles but historians are licking their chops. “Blindness cuts us off from things; deafness cuts

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Is 50 Cent the Lebron James of Hip Hop? 6 Reasons The Comparison Isn’t as Far-Fetched as You Think

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Preface: some weird synchronicities happened at the Super Bowl last night. 50 Cent was a surprise guest though most of us assumed he would be.

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Top 10 Albums of 2021: 3 Deaths, 2 Weddings, and a Pandemic, the Music That Got Me Through 2021

Posted on December 18, 2021December 19, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Yea it’s a Top 10 Albums of 2021 List! No it’s not 10 albums long (it’s 9)! Yes it also contains blurbs on 3 honorable

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged 2021, big red machine, bleachers, bon iver, cultural commentary, culture III, good for you, haim, hip hop, houndmouth, how long do you think it's going to last?, justin vernon, khruangbin, king's disease 2, migos, nas, pop culture, prescriptions for dreamers, silk sonic, sob rock, take the sadness out of saturday night, taylor swift, the moon and stars, think piece, top 10, valerie june, year in review15 Comments on Top 10 Albums of 2021: 3 Deaths, 2 Weddings, and a Pandemic, the Music That Got Me Through 2021

Why Every Straight Man Should Dress in Drag At Least Once In Their Life

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

On Halloween, 2018, I dressed as my then-girlfriend (now-wife) and she dressed as me. The results were, as expected, hilarious. First of all, she looks

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged costume, drag, dressing like my girlfriend, halloween3 Comments on Why Every Straight Man Should Dress in Drag At Least Once In Their Life

How The Death of My Brother Made Planning My Island Wedding During a Pandemic Even Harder

Posted on October 12, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

Often in life, you don’t realize what you’ve been through until you’ve been through it.  Okay, that sounds dumb. But follow me. A car spins

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Posted in Feature Articles, Pop Culture DiaryTagged corona, fog of grief, grief, pandemic5 Comments on How The Death of My Brother Made Planning My Island Wedding During a Pandemic Even Harder

What The Strongest Conceits in Movie History Taught Me About My Love of Making Lists

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

And Why Horror Has So Many Sub-Genres Colin Farrell is a publicist cheating on his wife: just an all-around gross sentence and also the opening

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Top 11 Performances in Batman Movies

Posted on June 1, 2021June 9, 2021 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

With the trailers for Matt Reeves’The Batman (2022) getting re-mixed and re-edited we thought we’d take a moment to look back at the canon of

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Sex and the City vs The Devil Wears Prada: A Tale of Two Soundtracks

Posted on May 18, 2021March 4, 2022 by Jordan Mark Sandvig

One City, Two Soundtracks, Two Very Different Results As a white guy who legally became an adult in the 2000s – but whose emotional readiness

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Posted in Arts and Entertainment, Feature ArticlesTagged anne hathaway, david bowie, meryl streep, sex and the city, sjp, the devil wears prada1 Comment on Sex and the City vs The Devil Wears Prada: A Tale of Two Soundtracks
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