I strongly disagree with the use of "cocksucker" as an insult. Isn't that a positive quality? Perhaps it comes from Gibson's strict Catholic morality: he'll deign to get his dick sucked but he'll be mad about it later.

I got da blues, da blues, da blues, da blues.

The four most recent Newswire posts regarding upcoming movies, as of right now: Total Recall reboot, Carrie reboot, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, RoboCop reboot. I guess my childhood really, truly was the apex of popular culture…

My understanding: the terms "pro-life" and "pro-choice" emerged from the abortion debate in the U.S., and are only relevant in that context. No one's against the abstract concept of 'choice' just like no one's against the idea of 'life'; these aren't so much philosophies or ideologies as they are positions regarding a…

Prioritizing Interruptions
Minimizing Interruptions
Identifying Time

NEW SYSTEM or CHEMICAL PHILOSOPHY.

I haven't read the book being reviewed, but having read stuff by both of them I can say with some confidence that Jeanette Winterson is a waaaaaayyyyyy better writer than Augusten Burroughs.

Aspartame, Aspartame!

Chill. Chill out, George R. R. Martin.

As a devoted acolyte of in-person art-viewing (museums, art galleries and art exhibitions in general), I really think that the best way to experience art outside the gallery is with a well-produced art book. I find it easier to focus on a page than on a screen, but even if that's not an issue - the images in books (if…

No, I hadn't really heard of that; it looks great… but yeah it's true -  you could probably spend years digging through all the stuff featured on/hosted on/presented by wfmu.org.

For the last few years I've been trawling the world of music blogs, downloading countless free (sometimes, yes, illicitly-posted) albums and discovering all sorts of amazing stuff (right now really is an incredible time for media-lovers; it won't last forever…). A great introduction to this (rather daunting) world is…

"Soundtracks for the Blind" is totally amazing - there are whole worlds in that album…

I love the crowd reaction at the end; little moments like that are what make bootlegs like these valuable, beyond just the early-bird sneak-peek factor.

Not crazy about them, but I really like this song (which features Huun-Huur-Tu):

Lady Lamb the Beekeeper is actually really good - the description makes her music sound like twee bullshit, but she actually takes more of a dark, wrenching, forceful approach to things; I think part of the reason that her bio sounds awkward is that she's just really young…

Yes; here's proof:

On the subject of film in general, more for still photos than movies* - one reason that it would be sad to lose film entirely (yeah, it hurt to write that), is that film just looks really good; right now, it's actually a very economical way to make photographic images. For less than $100 you can get a used Nikon 35mm…

Yes. As much as people talk about the endless potential for storing digital information, they forget that digital data is (for now, at least) actually really difficult to archive; hard drives are designed to last a few years, not for millenia. For me, it always comes back to something I heard about libraries archiving…

Speaking as a big fan of performance art (yes, there are some of us out there), I don't think this project really sounds any more ridiculous than most performance art; lots of performance art is supposed to be ridiculous, that's part of the point: sort of opening up a space for ridiculous behavior that doesn't really…