Macaulay Culkin into a painting workshop. In December 2013, a viral video that Culkin co-produced and directed of himself eating a cheese pizza was uploaded to YouTube, co-starring Phoebe Kreutz. He was parodying Andy Warhol consuming a Burger King Whopper in Jørgen Leth's documentary "66 Scenes from America". Culkin was promoting the debut of his New York-based, pizza-themed comedy rock band the Pizza Underground. Their tour began in Brooklyn on January 24, 2014. In late May 2014, Culkin stormed off stage at Rock City during his kazoo solo after fans began booing and throwing pints of beer at the band. They subsequently
City at the End of Time books include characters who dream of cities in the far future (the Kalpa, and the Last Redoubt in "The Night Land") which are surrounded by encroaching chaos. The Kalpa also draws on Arthur C. Clarke's future city, Diaspar in his 1956 novel, "The City and the Stars". Influences of other past works on "City at the End of Time" include H. P. Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936), in which people exchange personalities in dreams across time, and Olaf Stapledon's "Last and First Men" (1930), in which the last of humanity in the deep future mentally contact people