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Rojak: David Lynch’s hair.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted Herbert Blau dies. [via The Beckett Circle] Stop-motion animator Ray...
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Sample this.
You can stream Daft Punk’s upcoming album Random Access Memories right now on iTunes. [via iTunes] In related news, here is one of those Collaborators videos, this one featuring Paul Williams. [via...
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“Machines for Life”.
“Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great,” says Bangalter, talking about the proliferation of home recording and the laptop studio. “But on the other...
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Edition Additions: Genesis.
Here is my copy of Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis with a reference tapir. d
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The Black Spider.
Over at Three Percent, Chad Post is talking about Jeremiah Gotthelf’s The Black Spider, which is coming out from NYRB in November in a new edition translated by Susan Bernofsky. [via Three Percent] It...
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Furry trout.
“I met Sjón when I was sixteen,” begins Björk, whose clear, ever-hopeful voice threatens to trick you into believing that the forty-seven-year-old performer is still in her midteens. I look around: all...
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Omnivore: Special diets.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). Wittgenstein’s Mistress. Passion Pit. Cartoons. Vampire Weekend. Malone meurt. Youth...
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Rojak: “This is Major Tom to Ground Control.”
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted By now, surely you’ve heard Colonel Chris Hadfield’s great cover of...
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Banville annotates.
I’m trying to keep this week light for reasons. Here is John Banville scribbling marginalia in a copy of his novel The Sea. [via The Guardian] d
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Random Access Memories review round-up.
So the robots known as Daft Punk landed yesterday with Random Access Memories. Here is a small collection of links to reviews of the album. Spin: “It’s the increasingly rare widescreen collision of...
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Happy birthday, OK Computer.
It’s 16! [via Consequence of Sound] It’s also one of those things that just makes you feel so old. d
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Gordimer vs. Coetzee
She took the microphone and said she was “surprised, shocked and distressed” that, having come to speak out about the treatment of Rushdie, she now needed to defend Cosaw. “I think that it is very...
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Omnivore: Just one.
Omnivore is a regular report on some of the things that I’ve been enjoying during the week (or thereabouts). I’ve sort of been on holiday this week, and so I haven’t really done much. I did finish...
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Rojak: This happens to me a lot.
Rojak is a regular collection of assorted links as well as a bulletin summarising the week (or thereabouts) on this blog. Assorted The latest edition of Five Dials discusses, among other topics, Kate...
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Monday translation.
Do we as readers subconsciously make these “corrections”? How far can they go? One of the things that always surprises me when talking about Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway is how little attention is given to the...
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Freewheelin’ at 50.
The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan is fifty (fifty!) years old, and Consequence of Sound has a feature on it right here. [via Consequence of Sound] d
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Free music.
Hey look, David Byrne and St. Vincent have released some music as a free download. They’ve called it the Brass Tactics EP. Follow the link for your download. [via Love This Giant] d
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Franca Rame, 1928-2013.
The theatre artist Franca Rame has died. [via The Guardian] She was, as many readers will know, one half of the great Rame and Fo duo. Here she performs the monologue Lo stupro (The Rape): [via...
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