February 2010
97 posts
“Go Places,” (Lite Mix) by The New...
“One thing I thoroughly appreciated about “Shutter Island” is the way...”
– Jim Emerson
Ok srsly, what kind of performance-enhancing drugs... →
ferrrn:
“brb I’m conducting hundreds of interviews and then using them to write my new Obama biography, but i can totally handle them at the same time as i’m running tny-er!”
“Our first exposure to unvarnished Ewok behavior occurred at the victory...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: “Yub Jub Means “Devour The Weak”: An Authoritative Study of Ewoks, From the Field Notes of Davo Atten-Boru and Pladdo Cardigun, Exo-naturalists.”
The Wolfman Japanese Poster →
Man, the Japanese posters for movies are awesome. Above, the poster for The Wolfman, which is way more interesting than the film it advertises.
Collaboratrice Consummate →
Charlotte Gainsbourg—IRM
(Because Music, December 2009)
Review by Hugh Lilly
The title of Charlotte Gainsbourg’s third album in as many decades was inspired by the sound (and French…
The Cøpenhagen Harmonies →
Efterklang—Magic Chairs
(4ad, January 2009)
Review by Hugh Lilly
The fourth full-length LP from this Danish four-piece—best described as The Postal Service meets The Polyphonic…
Shutter Island →
The Shutter Island Japanese one-sheet
BOSTON, 1954. At the height of the Cold War, two US Marshals are called to a mental hospital for the “criminally insane” on the titular island…
This Bitter Earth / On The Nature of Daylight →
Max Richter’s piece “On the Nature of Daylight” is hauntingly beautiful by itself, but when, in the closing titles of Shutter Island, it’s combined with Dinah Washington’s “This Bitter Earth,”…
She & Him: “In the Sun,” from the...
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The Simpsons: 20 Years, the Complete Twentieth... →
With the conclusion of its twentieth season, The Simpsons became the longest-running serialised television show of all time—overtaking Gunsmoke’s twenty seasons. It’s commonly argued—in…
Howl →
The Wolfman, starring Benecio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Hugo Weaving and Emily Blunt, is a remake of George Waggner and the German émigré writer-director Curt Siodmak’s 1941 B-picture The Wolf Man
“If you were to play the “Eroica” for a fourteen-year-old hip-hop scholar versed...”
– Alex Ross, “Listen to This”
“I have a habit of finishing books in hotels. I sent off The Rest Is Noise from...”
– Alex Ross: “Listen To This”
“Inside Information” from To the Best...
“Why am I interested in lists and why do readers like lists so much? Because...”
– The Millions Interview: David Shields (Part One) (via thefeeling)
Bach in Time →
Bach in Time
The Cello Suites, by Eric Siblin (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Review by Hugh Lilly
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello are among the most…
