I'm listening to Margot & the Nuclear So and So's now. They sing songs about vampires and kittens, mice and clowns. You might like them. Their story is one of poverty and despair and desolation thwarted by sudden friendship, a burst of creativity, and life on the road. It sounds familiar, but then not. They make music with trumpets and cellos and keys.
English comedy doesn't work in German—and that's no joke. Blame it on a "geographical accident."
The real horror of <I>The Da Vinci Code</I>? It's Tom Hanks' hair.
<I>Moistworks</I> has a great post on the "lost to history" NYC bebop wars, which have left a historical record by spilling over to the Caribbean and migrating to London, where—wait for it—"they were fought by proxy, in the streets of Notting Hill, by a host of Trinidadian stick-fighters and calypsonians."
Just what I need—another daily stop on my Internet rounds. Zimmer, an alarmingly prolific, vastly entertaining science writer, has a knack for explaining complex ideas simply enough for <I>me</I> to grasp. Check out his coverage of the <I>Homo floresiensis </I> (Hobbit Man) brouhaha.
I remember when <I>The Virginia Quarterly Review</I> was the perfect panacea for insomnia, but something has happened to that august publication: It woke up! These days, it has become a must-read, from Art Spiegelman's latest multi-chapter opus to well-written articles such as this one on Winsor McCay's <I>Little Nemo in Slumberland</I>.
Music was playing,<br>
so I sat there, quietly.
Over at <I>IGN.com</I>, Hilary Goldstein and Richard George have compiled a list of the top 25 X-Men characters. Granted, it's a shamelessly blatant tie-in to Friday's release of <I>X-Men III: The Last Stand</I>, but it also points to what I suspect will be that movie's biggest weakness, judging from the trailers I've seen.
Rob Pegoraro, <I>The Washington Post</I>'s personal technology editor, reviews Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11, which MS claims, possesses an ease of use and simplicity to match iTunes." As if MS would <I>recognize</I> ease of use if it bit them in their text assembler.
<A HREF="http://www.he2006.com">Home Entertainment 2006</A> is only days away, taking place June 1–4 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Attendees will find a wide variety of special events, product demonstrations, and entertainment options throughout the show.