Here’s a fun link to some blog posts about The Wire, a truly fantastic TV show (that I watch exclusively on DVD).
A long-standing dream of mine is about to be fulfilled. I’ve got tickets to see Tool in Boston in July, and the funny thing is, I have no idea what to expect. I don’t know if they put on an elaborate show or a simple one, if Maynard will be outspoken like Eddie Vedder or …
Apart from being the title of a great (read ‘stupendously entertaining’) new film, that is the number of queries Mr. Daniel Lazar claims to receive each week in his form letter response to my own query. It was really a very polite rejection, though. More on the movie: don’t see it for historical accuracy; don’t …
William Gibson is one of favorites. Here’s an article on Japanese culture. He wrote it a couple years before Pattern Recognition came out. If you’ve read the book, you’ll spot the London-Tokyo connection developing here: I’ve always felt that London is somehow the best place from which to observe Tokyo, perhaps because the British appreciation …
I’ve finished reading Infinite Jest but Infinite Jest has not finished with me. David Foster Wallace’s book has stuck in my head the way few other books have (The Sound and the Fury, V., Gravity’s Rainbow, and London Fields are the others). To paraphrase Wallace (on Infinite Jest, not the others, but to me personally …
On Beauty by Zadie Smith is an astoundingly good book. It’s more controlled than the excellent White Teeth and just as funny. It’s modelled after Howard’s End, so you have to give her the benefit of the doubt for a couple pages as she begins ‘with Jerome’s e-mails to his father,’ but once the story …
