Modern Vampires of the City
Growing older feels strange and beautiful at the same time. MVOTC is one of my favorites of the year so far.

Growing older feels strange and beautiful at the same time. MVOTC is one of my favorites of the year so far.

Brian Murnion is a filmmaker, creative director, poet, and self-proclaimed intellectual scrub from Billings, Montana. He spends an unreasonable amount of time obsessing over the connective tissue between music, film, literature, and whatever else seems culturally or aesthetically significant at any given moment. His curation process is equal parts curiosity, fixation, and blind luck, driven by the irrational hope that brilliance is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the chaos.
Photographed by Anna Bauer.
Madly in love with the old world. Film grain, analog cameras, fashion, and cars. Bring it back.
Romy Schneider and Alain Delon at Hotel Du Cap.Picture by Edward Quinn, May 11, 1959.
Birth follows a woman who is preparing to move on with her life after her husband’s death, when a ten-year-old boy appears and calmly insists that he is her husband reincarnated. I first saw this film in 2004, alone, late at night, at the Lagoon Theater in Uptown, Minneapolis. I remember wondering what sort of…
Flying to New York today and “White Light / White Heat” during the flight. One of the better pop records ever recorded. The Velvet Underground was one of the last groups of the 19th century to accomplish a tour de force in creative innovation. Few artists can match, or even tentatively do what they did. We…