Writings of the Nomad Junkie
My Dying City
fragments of a radio drama (a New York Horror vol.II)
COMING SOON!
Building upon the ominous aspects of gentrification that began in the monologue What Happened to the Brother on the Block? (A New york Horror Vol.I) My Dying City is part rock opera, chamber drama, and tone poem & will be recorded as an album in 2010 so please check in for updates!
Featuring Featuring original music from the ficticious The Children of Warhol,My Dying City is a montage of discussions, nightmares, and tales of people who are trying to make sense of the shifting landscape around them and throughout the world. Trapped between what is, what was, and what should be.
Featuring Featuring original music from the ficticious The Children of Warhol,My Dying City is a montage of discussions, nightmares, and tales of people who are trying to make sense of the shifting landscape around them and throughout the world. Trapped between what is, what was, and what should be.In this highly anticipated radio drama, the Nomad Junkie's rants, raves, and neurosis takes centerstage in this disjointed, asphalt-laden, construction-obsessed, hipster repelling, imaginative radio program that celebrates and mourns the death of the Big Apple and acts as a serious warning to the cultural emptiness, homogenization,and suburbanization of this once great city.
A labor of love and in the works for nearly two years, My Dying City is darkly comic, passionate, unsentimental, and it presents "spatial deconcentration" and gentrification as a mirror of corporate globalization. It is the Nomad Junkie's final eulogy for NYC and a contrarian challenge to the contemporaneous bubble-gum-hip-hop-romp of Jay-Z's rose colored fairy-tale celebratory New York-ode "Empire State of Mind," a perfunctory inspirational advertisement for the Big Apple.
(c) "Poison 42" by Nina Fleck, used with permission
Featuring original music from the ficticious The Children of Warhol, My Dying City is a montage of discussions, nightmares, and tales of people who are trying to make sense of the shifting landscape around them and throughout the world. Trapped between what is, what was, and what should be.
The Nomad Junkie's radio play encourages you to back up and step into your own looking-glass and find out what "home" means to you...In a rapidly eroding society of "folk culture," the concept of neighborhoods as we know it may soon become extinct as the world slowly twists and turns into one gargantuan suburb.
Please check in for updates!
