Double Reading

This double-set of playlists is for the month of May. I felt that I had been listening to such good new, recent music lately that I had to devote one mix to just that, hence “May I.” The “May Tu” mix is just random. As for the titles, I thought they were extremely clever, but [...]

What is it about primetime soap operas that make me love them so much? The double-crossing? The affairs? The oil businessmen? The absurdity? I just can’t say. Today I started watching season one of Dynasty and I’m hooked — just like Dallas and Knots Landing before them. But seriously, Dynasty is hardcore. Maybe more hardcore [...]

Have you ever seen a movie that you think has some deeper meaning but you just don’t get it? And then after some consideration you wonder if you did infact miss something or whether the movie was just fucking with your head the entire time — trying to be all pretentious and meaningful but really [...]

I really need to stop myself, but after seeing Childstar last night, I went to Tower Records (well, first I went to American Apparel and bought two shirts) and picked up eight CDs… and it only cost me like $35 (though a lot were singles). Somehow they had some massive clearance thing on a bunch [...]

The main reason I went to see Childstar was because Jennifer Jason Leigh was in it. The review said something about it being a movie about a Macaulay Culkin-esque child actor who is abducted. Really, though, this film is about the Hollywood exploitation of child actors. But I’m not sure what the ultimate message is, [...]

At work we have quite a lot of random list-serv type “groups” that we can join. My coworker, who is a vegetarian like myself, has been a part of the vegetarians group for quite a while. On a whim, my another coworker and I joined the group yesterday as well. Let me say, it isn’t [...]

Salon.com has an interesting (and somewhat catty) exchange between James Howard Kunstler and Amory Lovings: “Sparks Fly.” I don’t know much about Kunstler, save the Salon.com interview “After the oil is gone” from last week, but I have read Lovins’ Natural Capitalism and found it to be a really inspiring and thought-provoking book. I’m not [...]

Mysterious Skin is broken down twice: First by colors (I just finished the “Blue” section), and then by characters (“Brian Lackey”, “Neil McCormick”, “Wendy Peterson”, and “Deborah Lackey”). So far, this book is amazing. I’m usually not a fan of “gay literature” (and I wrote about why a few times during my Lesbian and Gay [...]

The movie was cancled becase the film was held up in customs or in Chicago or something so I didn’t get to see it. So sad.

Over at Salon.com there is an excellent piece about depression: “Van Gogh on Prozac.” The piece actually goes into some things I’ve been wanting to post about for quite a while actually, especially based on some recent conversations I’ve had with various people about the nature of depression, the definition of “normal,” the use of [...]