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can I bring my pets?
from Everything Is Terrible.
Weekend summary
Balloon Boy turns out to be a hoax.
Barack Obama weighs his options in Afghanistan…yawn.
Hilary Mantel wins the Man Booker award for her historical novel Wolf Hall.
Public Organ gets a new home.
Nietzsche’s critique and Exodus
I’ve been browsing a copy of the Bible (King James Ed.) my parents gave me for Christmas last year. Besides wondering exactly why my parents saw fit to give me a bible this of all years, it has been interesting to read with a mind towards F. Nietzsche’s critique of Christian morals. I had to [...]
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glen campbell
“By the time I get to Phoenix”. #3 in 1967, written by Jimmy Webb.
beat girl
Opening credits to Beat Girl (1959), directed by Edmond Gréville:
fred astaire
from “Swing Time Bojangles”:
sunday smells
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a half-baked marxism for our half-baked times
I keep putting this one off. N+1 Magazine ran Mark Greif’s “On Repressive Sentimentalism” in their latest issue. Not sure why I purchased a subscription in the first, but the tome-like issue arrived on my doorstep about a week or so ago and I’ve finally made my way through the piece. As if by coincidence, [...]
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this period in music
ZE 30 – ZE Records 1979-2009
Founded 1979 by Michael Zilkha and Michel Esteban, ZE records was something of a touchstone of early 80’s post-punk and no wave music. ZE went defunct in the mid-80’s but the label has been restarted to reissue old records now considered classic. This record is the best choice for [...]
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