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Link: https://youtu.be/nm6JnhPbHCQ
“Inside London’s Hedonistic, Polyamorous Unicorn Movement” by VICE
“When a charismatic former alcoholic named Shaft had his life changed by Burning Man, he realized that he actually identifies as a unicorn. No longer able to face the monotony of work and life in the real world, he decided to form a polyamorous and hedonistic movement with other like-minded unicorns.
Donning glittery horns and galloping through London’s streets, Shaft’s unicorns set about trying to create a free-love utopia.
But as the unicorn revolution begins to clash with the realities of life and love, some of the “glampede” became disillusioned, and Shaft’s reasons for starting this whole thing came into question.
Is this the hedonistic, free love revolution we were promised in the 60s? Or is it as fake as the unicorn horns they wear, a desperate and clever ploy by Shaft to escape his own inner loneliness by starting a cult?”
Whoa, I wish that my name was Shaft.
Sounds not entirely unlike the club kid scene of 80s NYC.
Or the Unicult scene of 2020s Seattle.With the return of Grunge looming nigh, and Unicult burgeoning in its old Mecca, what shall be the implications? Will the unicorns get mud on their pavonine hides, will their rainbows become gradients of chem-eroded earth tones, will their pop songs get slow and lo-fi and depressive? Or will they shine against the Fukushima fog like glints of light on broken glass in a trash can?
Personally I’m thinking of trying to start something that sounds like The Futurians or Flipper or Icky Boyfriends or Brainbombs (lyrical content aside) but with more sparkly twinkly melodies and of course radioactive fog ala John Maus and Two Knights and Marietta and stuff like that.
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