January 2011
28 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-23) →
Gino Bordin (36)
Joan of Arc (36)
Karate (27)
The Dismemberment Plan (25)
Get Him Eat Him (22)
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“We value human lives well lived not for the completed narrative, as if fiction...”
– Ronald Dworkin, “What is a Good Life?”, NYRB
“This withered anatomy would read about being ‘stayed with flagons.’”
– Washington Irving
“Strange Fruit”, performed by Karate...
“Through our scientific and technological genius we’ve made of this world a...”
– Martin Luther King Jr., ‘Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution’ , June 1965.
Yes, yes, yes! This quote may even ring more true today than before.
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52 Weeks, 52 Books: 1) Super Flat Times by Matthew...
A collection of stories detailing an anomic and absurd alternate world, but not sci-fi as such. Definitely worth reading.
After hearing Derby, a Brown MFA grad and Pawtucket resident, read a story at Ada at the end of last year, I pushed his first collection of stories up towards the top of my to-read list. I’d advise you to do the same— this collection of stories, themed around the...
Whatever happened to the Joggers? They put out two...
“And before I had heard of Duchamp, I saw Don Van Vliet take a slice of toast...”
– Peter Gordon on Captain Beefheart
The Awl: Larry Polansky is Making Hardcore Beats →
Yes, yes, he is. All the last half minute needs is a drummer sitting on his crash and pounding the kick.
I just wasted so much time reading this but it's... →
