Richard Wright, the keyboardist whose somber, monumental sounds were at the core of Pink Floyd’s art-rock that has sold millions and millions of albums, died Monday in London, where he had lived. He was 65. [From Richard Wright, Member of Pink Floyd, Dies at 65 – Obituary (Obit) – NYTimes.com]
“Anathem” (Neal Stephenson) I’m currently about halfway through Stephenson’s latest book and it is an amazing, rich, thought-provoking, deeply intellectual, and engrossingly emotional novel. The kind of novel that you want to live in for a good long while. Even though I have over 400 pages to go, I’m already a bit sad that it …
The Bourne Political Analysis So he’s only an actor, but he makes some damn good points. David Tennant Watch Out This is one reason I love Doctor Who: it’s the kind of show that inspires and makes people want to be a hero. Sure, I can quibble with some of the episodes and the writing …
I’ve been an a political kick the last couple of weeks what with all the convention folderol and elephant dung-slinging that’s been going on. But there are other parts to my life . . . like being a geek. Here’s my current desktop arrangement: (GeekTool is showing my current iTunes song, the background is “Surreal …
Briefly (because I need to go to bed), Christian Bale is great as Batman, but he does have a tendency to make his “Batman” voice all dark and gravelly like he’s trying to talk in a particular dark and brooding kind of font. I seem to remember is was obvious in the last film, but …
Listening to Radio Paradise after uploading the new episode of Letters to Lost Friends, and David Bowie’s “Life on Mars” is playing. Damn but this is a good song:
Thanks to Neil Gaiman for turning me on to Mitch Benn: There’s more over on YouTube, but these were my favorites.
I just finished watching Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech and can already imagine the media and conservative spin on it boiling down to the notion that he can sure talk pretty, but there’s no substance behind his words. I think anyone who dismisses Obama as nothing but a good speaker is missing the point …
From the mouths of puppets: This was created by a group called monochrom which is an: art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological …
Searchable Database of the Bush Administrations LIes: It would be a terrible mistake for the world to allow this man to continue to flaunt his obligations to the international community, to continue to build weapons of mass destruction under the dark of night, and to one day wake up in a situation in which we’re …