The Arena, Fri JT This twisted house and techno night continues its strong inaugural year with a lineup of cosmic analogue workouts.
The same threat hangs over them if they don't abide by twisted "house rules", which can include not seeing friends; not having access to the phone, the car, or money; having to cook certain meals or prepare food in a particular way; or wearing clothes approved by the partner.
Despite a decade of prolific productions, globetrotting DJ sessions and international acclaim, Smith's twisted house permutations may fly right over the heads of some listeners.
Harry Allen deals in twisted household archetypes.
That these things are unsafe was kind of part of the appeal, but people were expecting twisted ankles, not house fires.
Rolling at last along the familiar, shore-hugging route toward Boston, I witnessed the dingy, everyday trackside environs progressively turn into something I'd seen before only in photographs of the World War, with broken-off telegraph poles, twisted and roofless houses, overturned billboards, and side streets overflowing with sodden trash.
Then word came that Mr. Francis's body had been found amid the twisted wreckage of the house.
(Anderson) Digitalism (Friday) This in-demand production team has worked its mad science on hits from Cut Copy, the White Stripes and Red Hot Chili Peppers, weaving those rock hits into twisted, distorted bleats of house music.
Two detached wheels were atop a house, a twisted propeller stuck out of the earth and charred strips of the fuselage lay on the ground covered by debris and broken concrete blocks.
At 6 30 p.m., Mercury Lounge, 217 East Houston Street, at Ludlow Street, Lower East Side, (800) 745-3000, mercuryloungenyc.com; $15. (Anderson) Digitalism (D.J. set) (Friday) This in-demand German production duo has worked its mad science on hits from Cut Copy, the White Stripes and Red Hot Chili Peppers, weaving their rock tracks into twisted, distorted bleats of house music.
You are aware that everything is violent, twisted, fantastic, that the houses tilt and crush you, that there are shadows where no shadows should be, that the townsfolk are not human.
