An Englishman in New York
Gary Younge discovered that America is a big country—too big to be just one thing.
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D.B. Belches Worst Vile Drivel On Ten Oceans
That's an anagram of "Brown's bestseller <I>The Da Vinci Code</I>." Oh drat! I just gave away answer #4 on this important cultural quiz. And, if you haven't already done so, read Tony Scott's hilarious review of the movie from yesterday's <I>NY Times</I>.
Cool Is Cool, Too
After a hard afternoon of sunbathing, relaxing in the dark living room is nice, too.
Sun Drunk
Bagheera and Huckleberry have pruned the Venetian blinds so they can bask in the late afternoon sun.
Where's Corey?
Erstwhile <I>Stereophile</I> scribe and <I>Audio</I> editor Corey Greenberg has a new mission: To bring back the manly art of wet-shaving with a badger hair brush and a "real" razor. No matter how obscure the subject, Greenberg's always an entertaining read.
Voice Shatter
If you like (or even if you don't like) the album version of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy," try this slow live jam.
Maybe We’re Crazy. Probably.
Often when I think I have nothing to write about, I remember. I remember. I remember JA commenting on <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/101205itdoes/">one of my entries</a>:<br>
"It's amazing how you can write 300 words about nothing, and make it seem important."
History in MP3
Everything from Woodrow Wilson to "Houston, we have a problem."
Simian Syntax
Apparently, unlike high school students, monkeys communicate in complete sentences.
Porn Leads the Way?
Here's an interesting article about porn as a technical innovator, which is something I've been fascinated by for years—no, I don't mean porn, which seems to confuse almost everything I actually enjoy about sex with simple hydraulics. What I find interesting is that every innovation that Hollywood and the record labels decried as the end of the world was actually embraced by and made mainstream by porn. Video cassettes took movies, dirty and otherwise, out of crappy theaters and into our homes; DVDs improved the audio and video quality of the product, while mainstreaming owning the product; and the Internet made art films (and "art" films) as available in Sioux City and San Francisco. I certainly wouldn't bet against the adult entertainment industry's success at streaming video into the home. Wanna bet that Hollywood ends up with a distribution model more like Vivid's than Blockbuster's?