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I watched Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime, the sort-of-sequel to Happiness. It does have an exciting cast, with Paul Ruebens being pitiful, Ally Sheedy being mean, Shirley Henderson being kooky, Charlotte Rampling being old, etc. It is less disturbing/shocking than Happiness, and sadder, and the title is good (are we not all living in wartime ( Read more... ) -
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M pointed me to this (or rather told me not to watch it because it's too disgusting.) Spoken word fun.
(On the subject of spoken word, deliberating whether to see Mr Henry Rollins this August.) -
Bloglines is the shittiest website in the internets
When will people realise that Tim Burton's Alice is just the Hook of our generation ( Read more... ) -
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Robyn's new album (Part 1) is not very good. Instead of the good old days of songs about nazis, bees, and doing incomprehensible things to her enemies, she's aiming at cool-as-ice synth-pop diva. Or more likely, she's coming in the studio for 10 minutes, mumbling a bit, then going down the pub. The first track, Don't Fucking Tell Me What To Do, ( Read more... ) -
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Also brilliantly mocking is Terry Eagleton on Craig Raine's new sort-of novel.A pair of female nipples are 'asymmetric hernias'. There is much rustling of the author’s Things I Saw Today that Look A Bit Like Other Things notebook. This is a poetry conceived in the wits rather than the soul ( Read more... ) -
Woo! Dissin' Hitchins!
in the LRBHitch-22 is a long, discursive, occasionally gripping, intermittently diverting but sometimes rather boring book. It is not very funny, despite being crammed full of jokes. Many of these jokes come from the table talk of his literary friends. We get a long account of the sparkling wordplay that was a feature of the all-male Friday lunches ( Read more... ) -
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What would life be like if you could sue your favourite pop artiste if their songs proved to be untrue? No more "I will always love you" for certain. But it would do wonders for Hefner and possibly even The Ramones.
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