By the Seventies We Were Living in the Future
Synth Britannia is a documentary about the emergence of British synth pop (trailer here), from the “sinister” 1971 Moog score for A Clockwork Orange to Depeche Mode, and the Telegraph…
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With All Due Respect to Cormac McCarthy
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold and the ditch he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Not in a weird way.”…
Universal Authorship
You saw it coming. Your grandma has a blog and your friend’s tweets are invading whatever small sliver of silent privacy you had left. We’re all becoming authors. Is this…
Richard LeComte: The Last Book I Loved, The Assassin’s Song
Having read several textbooks in library science and young adult novels over the past few months, my memory turns eagerly back to The Assassin’s Song by M. G. Vassanji, which…
This Stanza Isn’t Alike
Over at FLATMANCROOKED, Aaron Davidson writes about his pleasing experience using Stanza: an iPhone application used primarily for reading books. Specifically, Davidson muses upon his reading of H.G. Wells’ The…
Chelsea on the Rocks: Twilight of the Hotel Chelsea
Abel Ferrara has attempted, with mixed success, to capture a little bit of the legend and a little bit of the sordid actuality of the Hotel Chelsea in his new…
Random Media Notes
New York Times posts 35.6 million dollar loss (apparently that’s good news). Two deals were made yesterday that could finally mean cash for Twitter. Should needy newspapers accept donations? Analyst…
The Upshot of Colorblindness
“’Scientists and artists start by asking similar questions about the natural world,’ Jerram says. ‘They just end up with completely different answers.'” Check out Greg Boustead’s cool profile of artist/scientist…
Morning Coffee
Look, I know it’s been a long week and you still have one more day to go. Look at these pictures of waves. Everything is going to be ok. Women…