television

Deadwood, which turns out to be about America and Shakespeare, ends badly. It’s as if the producers found out the show had been canceled with two episodes...

music

The new Queens of the Stone Age album, Era Vulgaris, is excellent. Like a great dessert, it is slightly perverse, simple in its presentation and complex in its ...

television

Deadwood is the best telenovela* I have ever seen. Everyone has just arrived, there is no law, life is cheap, labor is back-breaking. It should have been on Tel...

movies

notes on a scandal the philip glass score is deliciously suggestive. the pan across the notebooks in the opening sequence. the sober conversation that follows t...

reading

why we want to love robots: “When we talk a system, we’re talking the operator as well… Not just the machine, but the human.” (via bb)

music

nirvana, nevermind, 1991 with the passing of time, the guitars no longer matter. instead, i notice how the vocals distort naturally with emotion. how the bass b...