reading list
What I'm reading: February 4
What I’m reading: February 4: * Susan Sontag’s Journals and Notebooks. – By Katie Roiphe – Slate Magazine – * Essay – Consider the Philosopher – After the Death of David Foster Wallace – NYTimes.com – * Final touch: A cosmetic lift for your funeral? – Health care- msnbc.com – A really great photo essay on after-death cosmetic
What I'm reading: November 25
What I’m reading: November 25: * Is it OK to be liberal again, instead of progressive? | Salon – * Annals of Culture: Late Bloomers: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker – * How do different religions define death? – By Nina Shen Rastogi – Slate Magazine – Part of my continuing death/ death ritual obsession. Seems like
What I'm reading: November 19
What I’m reading: November 19: * Silent Party #5 | Pitchfork – Eric Harvey sort of breathlessly goes through Kanye West, iTunes’ Genius feature, privacy, and the British Journal of Psychiatry * New York Times headlines that read like Zen koans. – By Jessica Winter – Slate Magazine – * Move Over, My Pretty, Ugly Is Here
What I'm reading: July 9
What I’m reading: July 9: * Why we need movie critics. – Slate Magazine – Will someone make a similar argument for music critics? I don’t think they can, just for the simple economics of what’s being critiqued. Now, when new movies ‘leak,’ when it becomes just as easy to
What I'm reading: June 26
What I’m reading: June 26: * Up All Night With Amy Winehouse : Rolling Stone – Still horrifying, fascinating, etc. * Book Review – ‘American Nerd,’ by Benjamin Nugent – NYTimes.com – Not a good review, which sucks, I was looking forward to this. Also, no mention of Nugent’s girlfriend, who’s not a
What I'm reading: June 23
What I’m reading: June 23: * The New Republic: Postcards from Nowhere * David Foster Wallace – Commencement Speech at Kenyon University – Oddly sweet. * The Great Lil Wayne Debate: Is Tha Carter III A Classic? – I think this done, completed thing that has been released can be willed into classic-status, though the
Islands-Metric / Webster Hall
Looking for Big Hassle’s Sophie in Webster Hall’s balcony– Me: Hello, are you from Big Hassle? Girls: No, we’re from Canada. And so 80% of the night went. I love the Canadian invasion, by the way–Islands are joyful, AIDS Wolf fascinating, Wolf Parade tilt the room.