I haven’t managed to get together a post in quite a while, so I have a big pileup of stuff. I’ve tried to keep each piece short, but occasionally failed. First, a few of recent albums that I’m excited about: Bolted, by Forest Swords One of my favorite artists of recent years, with his first …
I have a mixed bag this time around. I’ll start with this video, which isn’t really a video but a sound file with an image attached so that somebody could put it on YouTube. Because of a film I watched recently, I’ve been listening to Chinese music played on theguqin, a seven-stringed zither played seated; …
My favorite film of 2013 was, by a fair margin, Spike Jonze’s Her. The critical reception has been pretty uniformly positive, as far as I have seen, so I won’t simply pile on. The main thing I have been saying to people to whom I’ve recommended the movie is that there is much more to …
Interlocutors: “The Firehose of Certainty” by Rumaan Alam, and “Ambivalence is Awesome” by Ian Leslie Everybody knows that social media contain a lot of ranting and pontificating and vituperation. We now have access to many different channels for communicating our thoughts, and we fill those channels up with our opinions about things. Essentially, Alam’s piece …
I am quite late with these this week, but hey. The weekend got away from me. It’s a pretty long list this time, though, with three good reads, some crazy pictures of bugs, and then some new music. Article: “Crimes Against Humanities” by Leon Wielseltier I have to admit, when I saw the title of …