amsterdam
Transforming Escape
Escape. I’m in a Death-Star-black reclining chair, surrounded by sharp objects, medical paraphernalia, and images of flowers and skulls. A multicoloured giantess is leaning over my naked torso, pressing her clattering needle gun against my flesh to inject me repeatedly with ink. I came here – to a half-sunken city of forbidden pleasures – entirely…
Transforming Discomfort
Transforming Amsterdam
I had very few preconceptions about Amsterdam, because references to the largest city in the Netherlands are oddly rare in North American pop culture. In Pulp Fiction, Vincent Vega has recently returned from hiding there, and he tells his partner Jules all the rules surrounding marijuana: “It breaks down like this: it’s legal to buy…