As I write this, I’m somewhat pressed for time, and thus don’t have the ability to write up an amazing line of thought connecting the three pieces linked below. However, I suspect that one could be created; were I more professorial, I would write this post up in the form of an essay question.
One: Christopher …
One: At the excellent new Atlantic Correspondents blog, Hua Hsu discusses limited-edition books/magazines/art. It’s a good argument, and I’m glad to see it made in a high-profile place. (Odd case in point: I just ordered the upcoming issue of Yeti. It’s one of my favorite publications out there, both in the scope and quality of …
Recently, a press release arrived in my inbox noting that Skyscraper was making the shift from print to online effective immediately. One piece in particular stood out to me in a fairly encouraging way:
We will also no longer be restricted by word and page counts, meaning we can feature more content and go into …
Doug Mosurock on Los Llamarada:
Trash rock drums pound out the sex beat. Vocals are delivered in a nasal monotony best likened to those of Mark E. Smith, pinning the tension between the instruments to taunting heights. The synths and piano provide some of the more delicate moments in an otherwise brusque album; creepy, spectral tones …
The Voice has posted 2008’s Pazz & Jop.
My ballot can be found right…here. I am pleased to see that I was again the sole voter for roughly half of my choices in the “Singles” category.
I think I’m also going to follow Reed Fischer’s lead and post what I jotted down at the time that I …
In Slate: Ron Rosenbaum on Jeff Jarvis.
Worth reading for most anyone interested in the debate on how technology will affect journalism, book publishing, and — for lack of a better word — print.
Paper Thin Walls has called it a day. Something of a retrospective is now up.
I’ll miss it. Not only because I did a fair amount of writing for it, but because it cultivated a style of honed-in music writing that I daresay doesn’t exist anywhere else.
Plus, this was pretty damn funny.
Reading Manohla Dargis’s review of Tropic Thunder today, I found myself getting thematic echoes of the work of another acclaimed New York-based critic. The topic came in the review’s last paragraph, focusing on the character played by Tom Cruise:
What’s most notable about the film’s use of blackface is how much softer it is compared with …
Lately, I’ve been delving more and more into the TPMCafe Book Club — I’m pleased to see that they’re veering more and more into both books on politics from across the ideological spectrum, but also throwing in the occasional novel (specifically, Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland). I have, though, noticed some hostility from the comments section when …
I should also say that, having cited him below, Christopher Orr’s take on the film is pretty close to my own.
So I went to see The Dark Knight yesterday after work. Did I like it? That I did, though at times it seemed like a strange fusion of The Wire and The Long Halloween — but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in my book. It Batman Begins factored in an homage to the character’s …