Inspired by Davis’s recent post, I’d like to propose an experimental thread. So, please feel free to experiment in the…
Looking at Movements, part 4: New Wave (UK)
Part 1: The Post-Punk Revival Part 2: Post-Punk Part 3: No Wave Part 4: New Wave (UK) Part 5: New…
Autocritique
re: Jimmy Chen’s (very funny) obit for this site, and some comments made there by my friends Tadd Adcox and…
David Foster Wallace, on Television, on Television as the Dominant
I’m very fond of quoting from Roman Jakobson’s 1935 essay “The Dominant”. Lately I’ve been thinking about this passage in…
The 1970s vs. the 2000s (in Hollywood film, at least)
Paul’s post “Science in the Ghetto” got me thinking about the infantilizing of Hollywood movies. I wanted to see if…
The Special Relationship #3 (a guest post by Jarred McGinnis)
(Read about Episode 1 & Episode 2, + check out the show’s Facebook invite) …The reason the show is called…
In Memory of Ari Up
Ari Up, co-founder and lead singer of the post-punk band The Slits, died yesterday. She was 48. She was also…
Laptops
I finally broke down and bought one, my first ever. (Was I until now the only blogger to never own…
This Wednesday: FC2 in NYC: Margo Berdeschevsky, Brian Conn, Lance Olsen, & Rob Stephenson
Just wanted to help spread the word for those not on Facebook: An Unnameable Reading: Fiction Collective Two in Brooklyn…
Looking at Movements, part 3: No Wave
Part 1: The Post-Punk Revival Part 2: Post-Punk Part 3: No Wave Part 4: New Wave (UK) Part 5: New…