I’d meant to mention I caught the Matthew Barney/Björk collaboration Drawing Restraing 9 on Wednesday. And I have to say, I’m a little surprised: It was over two hours with perhaps 5 minutes of dialogue. The rest was ship imagery, Japanese dancing, abundant supplies of vaseline, sea urchins, and flensing. Lots and lots and lots […]

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Ah, my geek heart warms: a photoshop contest in which comic book characters, mostly of the spandexed persuasion, are inserted into classic paintings (or, in a few cases, sculptures). [HT: Boing Boing]

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Ezra is right about Will Saletan’s recent Slate column on the HBO drama Big Love. Saletan writes: Talented writers and actors are trying to make plausible the idea that American women raised in an age of sexual egalitarianism are bighearted enough to share a husband. He goes on to point out all the ways that, […]

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I finally caught the BBC import Hustle, about a team of stylish grifters, now being aired in the U.S. on AMC. It’s very good indeed; catch it if you can. It combines the fun aesthetic of the Ocean’s 11 remake and its sequel with the more competent plotting and characterization of con movies like The […]

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I remember how after first discovering the early incarnation of Napster as a college student in the late 90s, I pretty quickly came to realize how limited my musical taste was: Plopped in front of an infinite jukebox, it had taken surprisingly little time to track down pretty much everything I was interested in but […]

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A public service announcement: While the movie Ocean’s 12 is highly forgettable, the soundtrack is pretty great. I’ll need to keep it in rotation for an infusion of lounginess now that, to my eternal dismay, they’ve discontinued the Shag calendars.

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Well, now it’s closed, so my praise comes too late to motivate anyone to go see it, but I wanted to note that the PostSecret exhibition, which I saw before the holidays, was excellent. It’s the sort of project that’s made possible by the Internet, but only has its full impact offline. Partly that’s because […]

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Wow, my taste in music was nowhere near as well developed as this kid’s when I was 15. I’ve apparently become one of the old people who needs to resort to pinging teenagers to find out about cool new music. At least I can do it through the relatively less embarrasing medium of a podcast […]

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Back from the holidays and ready to blog. In the meantime, you can check out the track “Merry X-Mas” from Quasi’s forthcoming album.

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If you’re in the city Wednesday evening, there’s a benefit concert for an old high-school classmate of mine, Jennifer Falkenstern, who has been fighting leukemia. Stop by and help out if you can.

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