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The Times has a nice splash on Buckley, upon the UK release of the film Thank You For Smoking.
In the world of dino rock, several really interesting tidbits today. For some unknown reason (I'm betting the right blend of meds), Brian Wilson did not push Mike Love off the roof of the Capitol Tower in L.A. when the three surviving Beach Boys met up there on Monday to get a framed metal-coated record signifying that their latest greatest hits compilation had turned the sales odometer over to 2x platinum.
And then word from the UK that The Who, which is now a duo, are creating—and yes, I was being kind there—another of the specialty we hoped, for their sake they’d finally forsaken,…
The Royal Academy of Art has been displaying David Hensel's One Day Closer to Paradise at its summer exhibition. There's just one problem. Apparently they've lost it and have been displaying the empty plinth instead. Here's the kicker: Nobody noticed until the sculptor visited the exhibition.
Hensel isn't so much disgusted as amused: "It says something about the state of the visual arts today."
I think we've established that I like lists by now. It's not that I'm convinced they're always right, but rather that they make starting places for discovery and discussion. In other words, they're a jumping-off point rather than a destination.
Blog of a Bookslut pointed me towards World Hum's fifth anniversary top travel books list, which fulfills both functions nicely. I'm unfamiliar with at least half of the books on this list and I'll be looking for many of them. Others are just plain wrong.
Paul Theroux's Great Railway Bazaar at number 3? Theroux may be a great writer, but he…
"VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks." Mission accomplished, I'd say—but then, I'm already a huge fan of Edward R. Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Via Grow A Brain.
Alright, dammit, I give in: The new Sonic Youth album is pure beauty.
But it's not "a straight-up Sonic Youth field on fire, with a compact potency of rock n roll enlightenment."
That's just silly-talk.