Double Reading

I just finished watching Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm and it reminded me of a lot of other family-oriented dramas — and it especially reminded me of plays from the 1950s.
I know it’s hardly profound, but I really like it in movies/plays/etc. traverse into the negative zone (as the movie calls it, borrowing from The [...]

Over on Slate, there was recently a debate between William Saletan and Katha Pollitt about whether abortion is “bad.”
I won’t do any sort of thorough analysis or dissect the argument, but I will say that William Saletan’s arguments about abortion continue to piss me off (despite the fact he’s pro-choice, he still has some moral [...]

I know I may be slow to the trend, but I’ve recently discovered the joy of mp3 blogs. Now, every day, I check two sites and load up on promotional songs and rare remixes. It’s been great.
My current favorite is The Prettiest Pony. From this blog, I’ve managed to get a whole bunch of really [...]

I am a huge fan of any remix by The DFA (which is basically LCD Soundsystem/James Murphy + Timothy Goldsworthy). I’ve managed to buy or download pretty much every remix they’ve done using LimeWire or other methods.
Hence, I was sort of excited, sort of disappointed to see the tracklisting of the DFA remix compilation, chapter [...]