South America, Part 10
Picking up where I left off at Machu Picchu, we headed down into Aguas Calientes (trans. “hot waters”) by coach and by the time we got there …
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Clarice Lispector, Hour of the Star
Hour of the Star is a short novel by Clarice Lispector, a Ukrainian-born Brazilian author with an interesting life story. This is her last …
What IS That Noise?
I recently spruced up a post I wrote four years ago about Biosphere’s wonderful album Substrata. I added the following footnote about the …
Guardians of the Galaxy: A Short Review
Finally saw Guardians of the Galaxy today. Here are fifteen observations about the film that may or may not constitute a short review.
My Amazing Subversive Revolutionary Adolescence
Understated Classics #26: Come On Die Young by Mogwai
I’ll tell you about punk rock: punk rock is a word used by dilettantes and ah… and ah… heartless manipulators about …
Whatever Happened To That Hat?
The hat in question is a Wilco baseball cap that I bought at a gig of theirs in 2004, the night that Germany got eliminated from Euro 2004. …
Album Digest, June 2014
Watter are a “supergroup” composed from various members of Grails, Slint, and other bands. I did not know anything about Hundred …
Album Digest, May 2014
This month was strange. I didn’t listen to much new music and after last month’s bumper digest there’s probably a reason for that. Not to …
South America, Part 9
In a tour full of highlights, Christmas week of 2013 was nonetheless one of the greatest weeks of my life. I may have moaned, groaned, and …
Should I Drop Dropbox?
I am thinking about whether I want to use Dropbox to sync my files anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I love Dropbox. It came along in beta …
Album Digest, March 2014
I’m back in the UK so it’s back to posts about albums each month. This one is a bit different because I didn’t listen to very much new stuff …