What an opportunist. God, I wish he’d stop with the “Medicare for all” stuff.

No.

It’s an absolutely incredible album (and I have no skin in this game at all, although I do have a phd in music) and his stuff is so far ahead of his peers it’s little wonder the guy’s living one long continuous nervous breakdown.

Where would jazz be if Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington had both been murdered in 1925?…

Scram!

Another 9/11 memory: a couple days after, in the New York Times, an op-ed by (awful) composer John Corigliano called “Today We Are All Israelis”

It was news to me.

I hate to say it but I remember very clearly the moment at which I felt the abyss between me and feminism open. It was September 12, 2001, and I found myself arguing with a very intelligent, beautiful, award-winning New York musician who insisted 9/11 was actually “an attack on women”

I’ve said it before, but damn, Boston, that is one dispiriting hunk o’ brutalism.

(I guess I should be clear — that was not serious. For some reason I just wanted to see “robust-in-the-archaic-periodPuddingPants” on my screen)

I know. I refuse to see it before September 12. I might even wait until the 14th or 15th, out of respect.

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THANK YOU, Your Majesty.

It is insidious.

Not too long ago, Yasmeen Ghauri, ethnically half Pakistani, often appeared on the cover of Vogue, along with Heather Stewart-Whyte, of full-blooded mixed-southeast-Asian blood. (Christie Turlington, come to think of it, is half Salvadoran; Helena Christensen, half Peruvian.) They also peopled the pages of Victoria’s…

Yes, it was a terrible semiotics prof.

Indeed, a good place to start. If it means anything, I would highly encourage you to take the plunge if you have a film in your head; I’ve found the actual industry is far more vital and open than film school had ever suggested. :)

All the way.

Yep.

But the problem is that — in my experience at least — a semiotics class doesn’t do jack, and maybe even makes it worse. I went to a university in Evanston, Illinois, and the typical film student jackass there is the worst kind of jackass. I don’t think anything compares. And the point of the semiotics course is…

No kidding? Wow.

Man, she’s even more of a dipshit than I imagined. Fuck her.

Iranians are a lot like Americans. They’re bewildering. Same culture produces Forugh Farrokhzad and this dipshit. We somehow made David Lynch and Mitch McConnell.

It’s an amazing song. One reason among others that it has that peculiar floating quality is that it never resolves to the tonic chord, like Radiohead’s “The Tourist,” the final song on OK Computer. It’s always hovering around an authentic cadence we never hear.  

That’s not correct. We’re too fat.

Plus, the definition of the word is otherwise meaningless. Just looked up the word:

Yes. We simply don’t know yet.