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Listen: http://twofeetmusic.com or: http://477records.com My writing here: http://lareviewofbooks.org. Also at http://themillions.com I'm here now: Substack.
AS LONG AS I'M BEAUTIFUL, I'M EVEN MORE ALIVE THAN THE OTHERS.
The Obama library is an abomination...tear it down now and start over...
Little known fact: Both Ignatius J. Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces) & Horse Badorties (The Fan Man) are 2 of the few hotdog loving characters in American lit. Ignatius eats more hot dogs than he sells in his job, & Horse steals a hot-dog emblazoned umbrella & considers himself…
Great interview with @BorisDralyuk and informative intro by Sarah Gear asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-i…
Too many people are on their phones talking out loud at the gym these days. But sometimes the stories are interesting. The woman next to me just said: She got divorced and two years later she died and then her kid… and then she switched machines and now I wanna know the end of…
"Reviews are rooted in the most fundamental unit of the art business—the personal encounter with individual works—and in the economic implications of that encounter. The specificity of the review is both aesthetic and social." newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
Yes, sure, Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick, 1975) is a great film but for a historical picaresque precedence it should be watched in conjunction with The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
Former President Joe Biden has sold his presidential memoir for an advance in the range of $10 million. Are you fucking kidding me... wsj.com/business/media…
This seems about right: 'the splendor of a society derives from its vices, its ills, its excesses and its shortcomings.' (Baudrillard via Mandeville)
Finished Ballerina, Modiano's latest novel (it's good). He names 23 streets in 100 pages. Looked them up to see the character's peregrinations. Remembered my old apts on rue Guillaume Tell in the 17th & Rue Lacroix in the 18th. So long ago. Almost, as he might say, lost in the…
Here, here's the problem: "We were four women at a vegan restaurant in downtown Manhattan" there you go...you need BLOOD, guts, life...not vegetables...no one is getting hard over vegetables...everyone knows this... nytimes.com/2025/07/21/mag…
Mickey and Nicky is a terrible movie. thank god they shot him in the end or i would have. plus, can't stand movies filmed entirely in the night
RIP Ozzy When not touring he lived in the British countryside with his wife in a home he nicknamed Atrocity Cottage. 'People would come to stay with us,' he wrote in his autobiography, 'and they’d never be the same again.' nytimes.com/2025/07/22/art…
I remember: Etan, a first-grader, disappeared while walking alone for the first time to his school bus stop in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo on the morning of May 25, 1979. He was never found. wsj.com/us-news/pedro-…
