This evening, my continuing obsession with Vin Diesel led me to watch Fast & Furious, the fourth installment in the Fast/Furious franchise, a series that takes our culture’s odd tendency to conflate loud gas-guzzling cars and barely clothed females as far it can possibly go. And then it takes it further. And then, somehow, it [...]
Check out this fantastic, and award-winning, short film by my friend and fellow Clarionite, Justin Whitney: Rumpled (click on film #18, “Rumpled”). Based, no less, on a short story by another friend and fellow Clarionite, Keyan Bowes. Good times.
dan2bit said this perfect thing about William Gibson today, while we were chatting about his latest: Spook Country was good, in that elliptical Gibson way, where you know he’s done a ton of research in order to write the perfect throwaway paragraph about a barstool. Couldn’t have said it better myself. In fact, I’ve spent [...]
Digital music distribution is the best thing to happen to music since wax records, but it has had one unfortunate consequence: the slow sundering of the notion of an album. Or the redefinition of that notion, at any rate. As far as iTunes, or any mp3 player, is concerned, an album is nothing more than [...]
The beagle, staring urgently at the giant, off-camera bone my mom got him for Christmas.
My friend Clay Sails has put together another album, called Not In Kansas. It’s really good, as consistently engaging and it is stylistically diverse, with tracks ranging from folkish ballads to funk interludes to catchy, electronically-infused pop tunes to kick-ass rock screeds. It’s already in heavy rotation on my iPod. You can download the full [...]
Bruce Springsteen, in an interview with 60 minutes: As an artist, your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. Twenty years later, and the dude’s still blowing my mind.
I defy you to get to the end of this video without a giant, ear-to-ear grin plastered on your face. It’s pure, distilled happiness: Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo. (via Nani)
Came across this building while I was walking around DC the other day. It looks like something Dali would have designed, if he’d been an architect: I’m sure there’s some sort of profound metaphor to draw out of this (the futility of human endeavor? our sagging moral standing in the world? the slow-motion disaster of [...]
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