SOUNDTRACK: TINDERSTICKS-Trouble Every Day [soundtrack] (2001).
This is the second soundtrack that Tindersticks made for director Clair Denis. This disc is rather unlike Nenette Et Boni, in that this soundtrack is much more stark. There are several moments on the disc where there is nothing but silence for several seconds. “Core on Stairs” features a bass [...]
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David Foster Wallace–comments in The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus (2004)
Posted in Books about writers, David Foster Wallace, Essays, Funny (ha ha), Infinite Summer, Language, Smarty Pants, Tindersticks, Word usage on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
David Foster Wallace–”Order and Flux in Northampton” (Conjunctions No. 17, Fall 1991)
Posted in Conjunctions, David Foster Wallace, Funny (ha ha), Infinite Summer, James Joyce, Romance, Short Story, Smarty Pants, Tindersticks on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: TINDERSTICKS-Bloomsbury Theatre 12.3.95 (1995).
This is a rare and out of print live CD from an early Tindersticks show. My friend Lar found it used for me in Ireland (thank you!). But it turns out he found it for me about a week before it was reissued as a bonus disc with the Second Tindersticks [...]
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s Humor Category (2004)
Posted in A.M. Homes, Aaron Naparstek, Amy Fusselman, Ben Greenman, Books about writers, Chris Bachelder, Christopher Monks, Clay McLeod Chapman, Corporate skewering, Daniel Handler, Darin Strauss, Dave Eggers, Demons, Denis Johnson, Digression, Dip-in Books, Dreams, Ezra Pound, Funky Web Sites, Funny (ha ha), Humiliation, J.M. Tyree, Jake Swearingen, Jim Stallard, John Hodgman, John Moe, Jonathan Ames, Jonathan Lethem, Kurt Luchs, Lawrence Krauser, Margaret Atwood, McSweeney's, Mike Bullard, Myla Goldberg, Neal Pollack, Negativland, Neil Gaiman, One Ring Zero, Paul Auster, Political Humor, Postmoderism, Rick Moody, Sci-fi, Sean Carman, Sex & Violence, Smarty Pants, Sports, Stephany Aulenback, Summer, Supernatural, Technology, They Might Be Giants, Tim Carvell, Todd Pruzan, Zev Borow on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: ONE RING ZERO-As Smart as We Are (2004).
I had this CD sitting around my house for about 4 years. I had received it as a promo disc from Soft Skull Press (along with several other books on CD) and I just never put it on. Then one day I was going through all these [...]
Zsuzsi Gartner-”Summer of the Flesh Eater” (The Walrus, September 2009)
Posted in Canadian Content, Canadian Music, Drinking, Funny (ha ha), Jeffrey Eugenides, Kirsty MacColl, Marriage Trouble, Neko Case, New Pornographers, Short Story, Smarty Pants, The Walrus, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me, Zsuzsi Gartner on October 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
SOUNDTRACK: NEKO CASE-Middle Cyclone (2009).
I first learned of Neko Case through The New Pornographers. Their song “Letter from an Occupant” blew me away. But when I’d investigated her solo work, I learned she was more of a country singer than anything else. Reviewers said that Middle Cyclone broke from that mold a little into more [...]
Struan Sinclair–Automatic World (2008)
Posted in Death, Fantasy, Funny (strange), Jarvis Cocker, Postmoderism, Pulp, Sci-fi, Smarty Pants, Struan Sinclair, Suicide, Supernatural, The Walrus, Unreliable narrator on October 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
SOUNDTRACK: JARVIS COCKER-Further Complications (2009).
I really enjoyed Pulp’s Different Class album when it came out. In fact, I liked it so much I made sure to get This is Hardcore and even the one before the got big, His n Hers. I felt like the earlier stuff was just okay. So either they hit their [...]
Mark Connors & David Foster Wallace–Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (1990)
Posted in Books about music, Boston, MA, Consumerism, David Foster Wallace, De La Soul, Essays, Gangsters, History, Ice T, Infinite Summer, L.L. Cool J, Mark Costello, N.W.A., Public Enemy, Research, Run D.M.C, Schoolly D, Sex & Violence, Short Books, Smarty Pants, Steely Dan on October 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: SCHOOLLY D-Smoke Some Kill (1988).
Since this disc is featured so prominently in Signifying Rappers (and the book is named after the best track on this disc) I thought I’d dust it off and listen to it again. I got this disc probably in 1989 at the suggestion of my friend Al. He recommended “No [...]
Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp and Other Essays
Posted in Bill Clinton, Books about music, Books about writers, Boredom, Consumerism, Corporate skewering, Dave Eggers, David Foster Wallace, Dip-in Books, Donnell Alexander, Drinking, Drugs, Eddie Vedder, Essays, Free Speech, Funny (ha ha), Gangsters, Glasgow Phillips, Gods, History, Jess Mowry, M. Doughty, Marc Herman, Martha McParlin, McSweeney's, Michael Moore, Might, Missoula Montana, Oddities, Paula Kamen, Political Humor, Racism, Religion, Research, Sex, Sex & Violence, Smarty Pants, Soul Coughing, Supernatural, TV on the Radio, Technology, Ted Rall, The Future, Travel, Tripp Hartigan, Wikipedia, Zev Borow on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
SOUNDTRACK: TV ON THE RADIO-Dear Science, (2008).
The problem with TV on the Radio for me is that their first EP is so damned good that anything else they do pales in comparison. Having said that, Dear Science, comes really close to topping that EP. I liked Cookie Mountain (their previous disc) but I felt like [...]
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