Discovering Daytrotter
I can’t say I agree with the premise that it’s more difficult to discover new and interesting music, but I can promise you I’ll be spending some time on Daytrotter.…
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Science Saturday
What goes into the formation of an icicle? Arguing can be good for you, apparently. Tried to see the Perseids meteor shower on Thursday night, but down here light pollution…
Where did all the music go?
Breaking it down. THE OLD GUARD Just want to return to the old days. What are the old days? The nineties. Yes, the CD replacement business still existed, you could only buy…
Saturday Morning Links
It’s my little sister’s 40th birthday today. I doubt she’ll thank me for mentioning that here. HTMLGIANT jumps on the book club wagon (and we’re glad to have them). Their…
Herbert on Leonardo
“The peculiarity of Leonardo’s disquiet is that it does not manifest itself in violent gestures. It is disquiet that respects the line, disquiet controlled and therefore doubly disquieting. How great…
Chordal Wheeling
There are geeks, there are music geeks, and then there are the chordal crusaders, the modal moradeurs. In their own words, “powerambient” band Chord summons the feeling “of a single…
September’s Monthly Rumpus: Where’s Steve?
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: Where’s Steve? Click here to buy tickets! On September 13th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. 7pm. Featuring authors Creston Lea, Katie Crouch,…
“Untitled”
SMITH Mag’s Pekar Project has posted a comic created by Harvey Pekar before his death.
A Dark, Dark Summer Day: Fahey vs. Hollywood
How much bad Hollywood filmmaking can one man take in a day? With my wife and kids out of town for a week, I decided to find out.
New York Alki
Rumpus contributor Ryan Boudinot, author of The Littlest Hitler, talks with I09’s Charlie Jane Anders about his forthcoming novel, Blueprints for the Afterlife. The novel takes place in a full-scale…
Friday the 13th Book Club Round-Up
-Tao Lin’s in the spotlight this month; his latest book Richard Yates is our August Book Club pick, and it seems like everyone has some questions for him. Including, well,…
“Model Release”
William T. Vollmann’s invoice to Penguin for “four street prostitutes’ modeling time,” from Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary (the Good, the Bad…). Larger version here.