Filed under: media
It looks like Michael Crichton was right about the immanent death of print media: http://www.slate.com/id/2192382/
What else was he right about?
Filed under: music
I have a new mix up at muxtape:
karateisland.muxtape.com
You know, songs for listening to. Check the site out, its a pretty cool idea. I would say more but I think it probably speaks for itself.
“Yes, we live in a world where the popularity of Wolf Parade is enough to sustain not one, but three yelpy moustache bands, yet the Horseshoe doesn’t even fill for HILOTRONS’ CD release. There is no God.”
-From Cokemachineglow
Yesterday at Darwin’s, slinging sandwiches and non-fat lattes at entitled Cambridge housewives, grumpy elderly people, and kids who look like they just finished their A&F photoshoot, I played the latest HILOTRONS record. This elicited two different responses from customers. (more…)
Reading the first essay — the customary “note from the editor”, done in a slightly more editorial manner by Sven — in the recent issue of AGNI, (full disclosure: I am an editorial assistant at this particular magazine) I noticed that Sven had seen something in Cormac McCarthy that I had seen in my favorite author, Vladimir Nabokov. In relating his experience watching a youtube video of McCarthy speaking to Oprah, he explains that he wonders why McCarthy seems to lack something of the sturm and drang he expected in the interview. I once noticed this in Nabokov in the one taped interview I am aware of him allowing.
As a side note, I would suggest that you just take a moment to imagine a famously technophobic literary critic watching Oprah interview a reclusive genius on television for her polarizing book club. (more…)
