Double Reading

Has anyone else noticed that ever since the stock market hit 11,000 the other week the amount of spam has gone way up (esp. for things like “Rising Star Stocks” and “MicroCaps” and “Wall Street Insider” and “Penny Stocks”)? Either that, or Gmail‘s spam filtering algorithm has changed. Either way, it’s rather annoying.

In my continuing effort to succumb to popular and mainstream television culture (see: Desperate Housewives, The West Wing), I’ve added Lost to the list of current TV shows that I am now going to follow. I all started sometime in the fall when Molly made a comment about how a friend had gotten (or was [...]

On Friday (Jan. 13th), I got to see the Seattle premier of new documentary Zizek! at the Northwest Film Forum. The film is distributed by Zeitgeist Films, a company I became familiar with because they also distributed the somewhat life-changing The Corporation. I’ve know that they were working on a movie about Slavoj Zizek, my [...]

(This idea was inspired by a comment Slavoj Zizek made in the movie Zizek!, which I saw tonight and I will post thoughts on soon. This tirade isn’t directed toward anyone, and it makes sweeping overgeneralizations. Consider it a polemic, in that case, and let it provoke your mind.) It seems to me that a [...]

(I thought up two more ways to analyze my music-listening habbits (via iTunes [my iPod may tell a totally different story...]. Enjoy!) Five-Star Songs Discovered in 2005 “Try Again” by Aaliyah from Romeo Must Die “Until the End of the World” by Apoptygma Berzerk from Harmonizer “The Woodlands National Anthem” by the Arcade Fire from [...]

About a month ago I started reading a book titled How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. More than any other book I’ve read recently, Posthuman profoundly changed the way I think about the world and sort of put into focus some themes that I have been interested in for a [...]

(Okay, so I didn’t get this finished before Pitchfork’s Top 50 Singles of 2005 [which inspired this list], nor did I get it finished before the end of 2005, but oh well. Also see part 1 of my list.) The List (cont.) “DARE” by Gorillaz from Demon DaysI don’t know what more I can say [...]