Double Reading

I don’t know if you would call this a guilty pleasure or what, but I don’t keep secret the fact that I often listen to conservative talk radio. Now if you read any of my posts about politics, I would hope that it’s pretty clear that I’m about as far from conservative as they come.
That [...]

So far Did Someone Say Totalitarianism is proving to be one of my favorite Zizek books. It doesn’t use as much pop culture examples (jokes, Hitchcock movies, Kafka, etc.), but focuses more on politics and philosophy and ethics. It’s been a long time since a book has caused me to think so much, and that’s [...]

Pitchfork has the exclusive scoop that The Knife have signed to Mute records. Mute is a pretty cool label, and as Pitchfork says, they will fit in quite well.
Although this is great and means the stateside release of their latest album Silent Shout (which I’ve been planning on doing a review of soon — I [...]

I’ve been trying to come up with some sort of an events calendar/database for stuff like upcoming concerts, talks, CD/DVD releases, etc. that are of particular interest to me. So far I haven’t found a solution I like (so I may just write something on my own), so in the meantime I’ll just do a [...]

You know you have too many CDs not when you run out of shelving space (because you can always increase that) or when you go to buy used CDs and you have 25 percent (or some higher-than-it-should-be-percentage) of the CDs you see… no, you know you have too many CDs when you have a “wish [...]