Update: My lord, this is a ridiculous movie. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but a sci-fi version of Hair with macrame-brassiered psychics groaning out meditations on mortality, um, wasn't it. Despite being an amazing failure at basically everything, the movie makes me very sad for there's no way that anything like it would be put out by 20th Century Fox today.
The first issue of lit mag n+1 has a pretty sweet review of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion and, for a short piece, has a lot of concise things to say about what's going on in his writing.
There's also an interesting discussion about Wallace and Jonathan Franzen, the one-liner of which is "The truth is, Wallace has already written his next big novel - it's called The Corrections." And in discussing the connection between the two writers the reviewer (Chad Harbach) goes on to say:
Even Franzen's selection of his fictional family's surname (lambert, n.: the centimeter-gram-second* unit of brightness equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface...) must be read either as conscious or unconscious homage to Wallace's Incandenzas.I guess it necessarily has to be either conscious or unconscious. But, still, these sorts of connections kinda flip my wig.
The first issue of lit mag n+1 has a pretty sweet review of David Foster Wallace's Oblivion and, for a short piece, has a lot of concise things to say about what's going on in his writing.
There's also an interesting discussion about Wallace and Jonathan Franzen the one-liner of which is "The truth is, Wallace has already written his next big novel - it's called The Corrections." And in discussing the connection between the two writers, the reviewer (Chad Harbach) goes on to say:
Even Franzen's selection of his fictional family's surname (lambert, n.: the centimeter-gram-second* unit of brightness equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface...) must be read either as conscious or unconscious homage to Wallace's Incandenzas.I guess it necessarily has to be either conscious or unconscious. But, still, these sorts of connections kinda flip my wig.
Today is both the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X (41 years ago) and the Japanese release of the original Legend of Zelda (20 years ago).
I noticed that Ev has introduced a link to a Google self search in the About Me section of his blog. The query is 'evan williams OR evhead -bourbon' ... excluding bourbon because there's also a Kentucky whiskey of the same name.
So, here's what a query for 'jason goldman' looks like that excludes results in the top 10 that don't actually pertain to me:
jason goldman -jazz -palm -glbtq -usda -lacrosse -"sister gooch"Turns out there's a lot of namespace contention out there.
I've been taken to a Zapotec ruin wherein grows a psychotropic tree flower. Expect few updates.
Update:
On the heels of the previous post is the whole "Did the Stones self-censor at the Super Bowl or not?" controversy. Which is pretty sad because it seems clear from the quotes that the Stones did agree to be censored and are now acting indignant to save face.
But check this out: I'm watching Sky High (the Disney movie about teenagers with super powers). And the soundtrack is mostly covers of 80s classics like "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" and "She Was". There's even a cover of "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" about which the less said, the better.
In any case, the finale takes place at the Homecoming Dance. And the final shot is a triumphant scene of superteens cutting up on dance floor to Bowling for Soup's milquetoasty pop-punk cover of "I Melt With You". Except in this version the opening lyric has been changed from "Moving forward using all my breath / Making love to you was never second best" to "Moving forward using all my breath / Being friends with you was never second best".
So I ask you, honestly, what about the children? Who will stand up for the innocents when crimes like this are being committed against them by media conglomerates?
Up to that point, I must say, Sky High's not all that bad. A little unimaginative in the superpowers department, but all around serviceably funny.
The NYT reporting on the Rolling Stones planned halftime appearance at the Super Bowl this Sunday:
Jagger said the network should not be concerned about what the Stones will sing, although no one is publicly divulging the song titles beforehand. "They needn't worry about it," Jagger said. "Calm down more and take life as it comes." He underscored his remark with a blunt obscenity, to humorous effect.Verily, it was thus.
