June 2011
Two students performed Steve Reich’s...
Two students performed Steve Reich’s...
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A truly great moment in New York history.
Last night, I saw New Yorkers of all different ages and creed band together against the current of hatred under their very feet, hatred that had roots going back for centuries, hatred that just fed on itself and encouraged more hatred.
Despite the obstacles placed in their path by laws and society, a few brave souls imagined better things and managed to convince those in power to learn from the...
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“Watching Miyazaki’s movies, one gets the sense of humankind (and its...”
– Matt Zoller Seitz’s praise for Miyazaki really nails why his films are so good and yet so different from most.
Seitz wrote this as part of his Directors of the Decade feature on Salon, and each of the eleven entries is just as excellent.
“Ugggggghhhhh.”
– David Foster Wallace, in response to the question, “What do you think of the modern state of American literature?” (via booksinthekitchen)
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“At twenty-five I find myself full of the wildest radicalisms, and look with...”
– Randolph Bourne in “Youth” from Youth and Life, page 5.
Today I turn 25!
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How the TV schedule became the most depressing...
Is it just me not being a child/teenager anymore, or is there genuinely not anything on anymore worth watching?
Every night, Discovery/History/A&E/National Geographic/etc. are showing wacky dudes in wacky jobs or shows to scare white people with. The networks have gone to shit, and the remainder of channels are either showing reruns of network shit or in their own solipsistic subject areas....
