I have a soft spot for this show, but what really impresses me about this article on the long-running series is that the Sci-Fi network stuck with the show and worked to get viewers versed in its backstory and mythos, instead of just moving it to different time-slots each week like the "real" networks do.
Michael Chabon's rant about the imposition of predetermined boundaries and contours, of a formulary of play—and why Sid in <I>Toy Story</I> wasn't necessarily a Norman Bates in the making.
Headline of the year.
<I>The Independent</I> interviews Jared Diamond, author of <I>Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed</I>. The good news? We may not be doomed. The bad news: Yet, that is.
The link is to <I>The Guardian Unlimited</I>'s podcast of Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debating blasphemy. You might think you don't have time to listen to a 78 minute argument? Well, think again—<I>this</I> you've got to hear.
On June 14, 2004, I made a silly, little mistake.
<B><I>The River in Reverse</B></I><BR>
Verve Forecast
As a follow-up to my last entry, I was sitting in my favorite watering hole over the weekend, listening to my favorite jukebox㬎 tunes for 5 bucks–when a couple sitting at the bar next to me struck up a music conversation about what was playing: Elvis Costello, The Shins, King Sunny Ade, Lefty Frizzell, James Brown, Arctic Monkeys, you name it. At one point, talking about the cover art of an album I can’t remember now I said, being the absent-minded old man of the bunch, 'Have you ever seen that record?'
I'm going to be on the road for the rest of the week, so blogging will be even more irregular than usual. I'll be visiting NHT's facility in Benecia, CA—so check the <I>Stereophile</I> Galleries for some instant gratification—and I <I>will</I> be putting up new links, just not as early.
My friend Jeff gave me a copy of the new CD remaster of this David Byrne/Brian Eno disc—and it's great. Now Byrne and Eno, "in keeping with the original spirit of the album," offer listeners access to the original multitrack recordings and a chance to remix them through a Creative Commons license. They also offer a chance for the remixes to be posted in a daily Top 20, as chosen by the site moderators.