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"Nothing is wasted, not the years of 'l'entre deux gerres,' not the unhappy years of Eliot's disastrous first marriage, not Proust's forays into the world of high society or Wittgenstein's into that of Austrian village schools. Nothing you have done. Nothing I have done. To us it may seem like that, but not to those we have come in contact with, or ( Read more... )

It'd be a good idea for folks to quit griping about the "pro-Obama" book Gwen Ifill has allegedly written. Unless anyone's actually read the book, opinions on the matter come from groundless speculation and thorough ignorance ( Read more... )

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so, Mitsuhiro Yoshimura. Oh man!
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What a thrill tonight's been!
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Look at this dumb article: Top 10 albums every music snob name-checks. Honestly, since when are Dylan or Wilco the sole domain of "snobs"? And I've seen many a music snob to hate Mars Volta (no opinion on them personally). On the other hand I think they're right about Moon Pix, which is one of my favorite albums, and the specific aspects of its ( Read more... )

The most annoying aspect of the format war is the attention lavished on product that doesn't deserve it. In short, if a movie is good, then it's good no matter what. My copy of Liquid Sky is a cheap bootleg with misspelled menu text and no subtitles, which is fine: I'd be cool with there being a special-edition release, but the movie stands on its ( Read more... )

This is really relaxing (though as I watch I'm playing harsh noise, which may detract somewhat from its calming qualities):

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