September 2009
11 posts
Why Good Writers Can Be Bad Conversationalists →
“If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then...”
– Carl Jung, Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious - NYTimes.com
A New Horizon for the News - The New York Review... →
Excellent and thorough article worth reading for anyone invested in the state of journalism
“We should be forever cured of our romanticism were we willing, in order to think...”
– Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
“A million things to say, some extraordinary, welled up in him, choked his...”
– Bernard Malamud, The Assistant
The Raincoats—“57 Ways to End It...
shoegazer aesthetics.
bunnynico:
“Throughout the course of history, numerous works of art have stood at the forefront of their respective genres. British indie band My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless is one such work. Their unique sound on the album defined a sub-genre of indie rock known as shoegaze. This thesis is the first major academic study of My Bloody Valentine and their decisive presentation of shoegazer...
“You are merely making words…knowledge means everything to you. Even your...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love
Bringing ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ to the Big... →
This nice little profile about the making of Where the Wild Things Are seems to be more a profile of Spike Jonze than anything else, which is all right. The one problem I have is, while Spike Jonze is very deserving of a profile and I learned a lot from this, the article somewhat brushes aside the contributions of screenwriters, only mentioning in passing Charlie Kaufman and Dave Eggers.
In any...