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links for 2010-02-01: Roger Eagle
Roger Eagle – Twisted Wheel Manchester – DJ, entrepreneur, club owner and important influence on the British music scene from the sixties to the nineties. Owned Eric’s club, Liverpool ran the Magic Village and Staxx Club, Manchester Roger Eagle interview … more…
links for 2010-01-28: Lacan at the Scene
Hop Scotch: CSI: photography (Vue Weekly) "what if Jacques Lacan—the brilliant and eccentric Parisian psychoanalyst—had left his home in the early 1950s in order to travel to England and work as a police detective? How might he have applied his … more…
links for 2010-01-18: Eno and the end of records
Eno alludes in passing, to the end of recorded music as a way to make a living "I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky." … more…
links for 2010-01-08: Two Gentlemen of Lebowski
Two Gentlemen of Lebowski The Big Lebowski retold in Shakespearean English, beautifully done. (tags: Shakespeare Lebowski humour film literature)
links for 2010-01-04: big-brained Boskops
What Happened to the Hominids Who Were Smarter Than Us? | Human Evolution | DISCOVER Magazine "Back there in the past, ten thousand years ago. The man of the future, with the big brain, the small teeth. He lived in … more…
links for 2009-12-30: Vic Chesnutt
Boogie Woogie Flu: Of Loss and Longing and Sloppy Satori This is the best of the tributes to the late Vic Chesnutt that I've come across… (tags: Vic-Chesnutt RIP music)
links for 2009-12-17: TV-as-art, Copenhagen fudgerama
Emily Nussbaum on When TV Became Art – The 00's Issue — New York Magazine Whatever else the '00s might or might not have going for them, it was beyond serious doubt the most amazing time for (some) television. Odd, … more…
links for 2009-12-15: generation ships
Charlie's Diary: Designing society for posterity Charles Stross polls his readership: "So. You, and a quarter of a million other folks, have embarked on a 1000-year voyage aboard a hollowed-out asteroid. What sort of governance and society do you think … more…
links for 2009-12-09: hanging with Pynchon
LRB · Hanging with Pynchon A short memoir of encounters with TRP in the early 70s, by poet Bill Pearlman. "One of the things Pynchon liked was to be driven around LA by one of the young women from the … more…