Birthday Song
What song was top o' the charts when you were born? (Or, if you're older than the pop charts like me, on your 18th birthday?)
What song was top o' the charts when you were born? (Or, if you're older than the pop charts like me, on your 18th birthday?)
One of the best reads I've had in the last few years was Mark Haddon's <I>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</I>, a story written in the first-person voice of Christopher Boone, an autistic 15-year-old.
I forgot to mention something else that the Musical Fidelity pieces seem to add to my system's performance: <i>depth</i>.
To some people, music doesn't make any sense. There's a name for that: amusia. Auntie Beeb 'splains it to us.
Jeremy Clarkson gives good rant on over-used words that really ought to be considered offensive.
Hours of mindless fun drawing and watching your own flipbooks. If I can do it, you can do it.
<A HREF="http://www.clivejames.com/index.cfm">Clive James</A> has a website, which is full of stuff that'll keep you riveted to your chair.
You didn't think people did it for the money, did you?
In <I>FilmMaker</I>, Scott Macauley has written a spirited preview/interview of Richard Linklater's <I>A Scanner Darkly</I>, which he says is the first faithful film based on a Philip K. Dick novel. I hope so, because the early trailer I saw had an overly-rotoscoped look that I didn't simply hate, I detested. Macauley makes me want to see the movie anyway.
Chet Raymo argues that George Herriman's love struck cat and brick-tossing mouse "turned the deterministic world of Newtonian physics upside down."