Matt LeBlanc is dead. Long live Matt LeBlanc.
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture, Television on 10. Jan, 2011 | 4 Comments
Quick; who is the most successful actor or actress to come out of the sitcom Friends? My guess is that 90 per cent of you replied Jennifer Aniston (which is crazy, even if it’s true. Here are all the movies Aniston has done since 2005: Derailed, Rumour Has It, Friends with Money, The Break-Up, Dirt, [...]
Full orchestra performs John Cage’s 4’33″
Posted by Simon in Art, Music on 20. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
The term “ambient music” may bring to mind the likes of Brian Eno or Aphex Twin. Used as a genre colloquialism, the label has come to be defined by soft, droning, electronic, atmospheric sounds. Background music, essentially, intended to induce a relaxed emotional state. As much as ambient owes to Eno however, in my mind [...]
Morning Dump: Mr. Romance, Balanced book reading, Welcome to Lagos,
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 28. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
Are New York Times book reviewers biased towards white dudes from Brooklyn? When was the last time you read a book by a female author? Do you get the hype around Jonathan Franzen? I’m crazy tired so sorry about the lazy rhetoricals. But yeah, Chris Jackson wrote something about some such and I dug it [...]
