I assumed in recent weeks a tacit agreement had emerged for a doubling of the list lengths.

Dillard & Clark - Why Not Your Baby
Robert Cray - Right Next Door
Lisa Stansfield - This is the Right Time
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Blue Trail of Sorrow
Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Positzos - Los Teenagers Bailan Changui
Omar Souleyman - Hafer Gabrak Bidi
Dave Holland Quintet - Go Fly a Kite
Pet Shop Boys - Liberation
The…

Oh, I don't know. I may be imagining this, but I think Christopher Ricks commended his readings as being sort or neutral and non-tendentious. I like them because they lack any verbal emphasis that would impose too emphatic a sense of the poem. I think that's a terrible mistake readers of poems often make, actually.…

The Jeremy Irons recording for the BBC (from last year?) was excellent as well. As was his reading of 'Four Quartets'.

That seems like a credible interpreation of the hyacinth passage, and it's also widely assumed that Phlebas, the drowned Phoenician sailor, was Jules Verdenal, for whom Eliot may have (or may well not have) had romantic feelings. To characterize it as a 'gay poem' would be massive exaggeration, though.

I agree, though it's illustrative of it having zero aristic value that it isn't even occurring to anyone to judge it aesthetically on its own terms. That's always a good indication something is artistically worthless. It's garbage, so it's just a question of whether or not it's garbage with a socially progressive…

Nonsense! Everything automatically, systematically changes when women are at the helm. Like, you know, the female guarded wings of extermination camps. And rapacious Fortune 500 companies: http://www.clickhole.com/ar…

So it's meta-condescension. Droste-effect condescension. Sounds like a generous interpretation, but could be. It's still condescending either way, though. Still, I don't know his material well. I thought it was a competent performance and the album may be great for all I know. That was just a minor first…

I'm looking forward to giving this a try. There was a degree of preening condescension in the Letterman performance he'd do well to keep in check, though. He may be smarter than the rubes, but there's nothing so penetrating in those lyrics to suggest he's a sage.

It's easy to make fun, but I think it's clear this woman has a good heart.

Now I'm afraid you didn't think I was joking. I was joking!

'Looking at the turmoil of life [. . .] we find all occupied with its want and misery, exerting all their strength in order to satisfy its endless needs and avert manifold suffering, without, however, daring to expect anything else in return than merely the preservation of this tormented individual existence for a…

Thing is, Kanye's such a narcissist that it wouldn't even occur to him that Beck made him look small and ungracious. He just thinks: 'Yes, I am a genius! Yes, everyone aspires to be me!'

Still can't look at that dude and not think of Brian Fellows.

I don't think it's more complicated than that he's a shitty person and people are observing that.

Or just maybe respect to other people receiving an award. Is that not something black people can care about?

OH YOU'RE SORRY ALRIGHT.

I take it 'irrelevant' was meant? I don't know, I think it's entirely appropriate for a narcissist whose own squalid metric of value relevance is.

I'm imaginging myself, heart light as a feather, throwing my wide array of costly, labour-intensive and ineffective cleaning products into the trash, over which a big red X appears.

That dog looks like he should have been Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity at Harvard circa 1890. That's the noble face of a sage.