Mystery solved.
Two and a half years ago, I decided that it would make sense for me to have an outlet to share things that I was excited about. So I started this blog. It was conceived as a way of archiving things....
View ArticleRojak: Last supper.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted There is this about Imre Kértesz over at the Quietus. [via the...
View ArticleOmnivore: Books.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). I actually missed this last week. Meanwhile, I’ve finished The Universal Home Doctor (Simon...
View ArticleBaudrillard and the violence of the image.
There is a deep misunderstanding of the process of meaning. Most images and photographs today reflect the misery and the violence of human condition. But all this affects us less and less, just because...
View ArticleFrank Zappa and film.
Over at the Quietus, a look at Frank Zappa’s contributions to the world of film. [via The Quietus] d
View ArticleNew Janelle Monáe.
Janelle Monáe has released another track off of her upcoming album The Electric Lady. “Primetime” is a duet with Miguel, and I suppose only adds to the impression that this is shaping up to be a great...
View ArticleJulia Holter review round-up.
Here are links to a few reviews of Julia Holter’s latest, Loud City Song. Ultimately, Holter doesn’t choose between the city and the wild, isolation and the collective. She says that the album is...
View ArticleWerner Herzog documentary.
Werner Herzog has released a 35-minute documentary on YouTube. Titled From One Second to the Next, the film is about the consequences of texting and driving at the same time. [via YouTube] d
View ArticleRojak: Clichéd.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Whoa, what a busy week. Here’s a Rojak to end it on. Assorted New Cults song...
View ArticleYu Xiang review.
Yu Xiang, using simple language, striking syntax, and hypnotic refrains, keeps her poet’s eye and mind attentive to the not-so-hidden heart of quotidian life. And what does she find there? People,...
View ArticleSpoilers.
Hey, do you want to know who the literary winners are at this year’s PEN Translation Awards? Well, then, check it out in the link. I’m not going to spoil it. [via Translationista] Yeah, this is also an...
View ArticleAnimation aesthetics.
My central idea in constructing the world of the film was to prove that something totally artificial and unreal could still communicate emotion and hold cinematic truth. The film makes no effort to...
View ArticleExperimental music.
Pitchfork has a feature on experimental music records of 2013, and it’s introduced me to a couple of cool things. [via Pitchfork] Below! [Félicia Atkinson] [Agarttha] Enjoy! d
View ArticleRojak: Hold it.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted Anna Calvi’s new album, One Breath, is coming 7 October. Here’s a...
View ArticleOmnivore: Slow reader.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). I’ve been reading really slowly lately because of certain personal matters I’ve had to take...
View ArticleThe Ghosts of Place.
Once more, I am standing outside of 70 High Street, Lewes. The figure in black who crossed the landing before disappearing into the brickwork is nowhere to be seen, save that of a memory that from time...
View ArticleBorges on Johnson and Boswell.
….Now, in the same way that we have seen how Johnson is similar to Don Quixote, we have to think that just as Sancho is the companion Quixote sometimes treats badly, we see Boswell in that same...
View ArticleFour short stories.
Find out which are the ten countries where Shakespeare’s plays are most studied and performed. Hire gangs of professional thieves in these ten countries. Purloin from public and private libraries,...
View ArticleLynch’s strange formula.
Hey, the Ultraísta remix album is out right now, which makes it a good time to revisit David Lynch’s fantastic remix of “Strange Formula”. [via YouTube] d
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