Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Dear China

From this page.
As Murakami would have it, after the quake.
Together with this set of photos from an australian news source.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

This Just In: Independent News Sources Pay Off

Because on this week's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, I knew the answer to the bluff-the-listener news quiz.
Yes. The one about the lesbians.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Jonny Greenwood Mark II

Well I'll be darned if Jonny Greenwood didn't rip off Iannis Xenakis' Metastaseis just a little bit for that incredibly epic opening piece of his...where all the noise of multiple strings converges to a single note. I think Greenwood's version is called simply, There Will Be Blood. Perhaps this is not an isolated phenomenon.