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AND NOW I WILL DECLARE MY LOVE FOR BLACK SABBATH

Thursday, March 30, 2006

$The Rabbi\'s Cat$

Recipe for a kick-ass drive to work: Black Sabbath’s PARANOID. (First heard, coincidentally, in Sean’s Golf.) I can usually get through “War Pigs” and “Paranoid” by the time I get to the library. Most people only credit Ozzy’s vox and Tommy Iommi’s guitar work for Sabbath’s greatness, but the rhythm section was unbelievably heavy and tight. Just listen to the way the bass moves under the power chords in “Paranoid.” Awesome, dude.
Unrot your brain with video games? (Thanks, Don.)
The Fez has been with everyone. (Don, again.)
Lynda Barry is coming to Oberlin.
And speaking of Lynda Barry, how the crap did I never see Matt Groening’s LIFE IN HELL comics? (Barry and Groening are friends.) A lot of his chart-like comics in one of the books remind me of Kenneth Koch… Check out this cool map charting the similarities between Springfield and Groening’s hometown of Portland.
Don’t forget the reading tonight at Mac’s Backs.

THE NEW DIET

Friday, March 17, 2006

Best job in the world: writing about Ghostface Killah for lame-o New Yorker readers. I’ve heard the album, and it is great. (A fun note: Ghostface comes right after George Saunders on my Ipod artists menu.)
If your eyeball pops out of socket…panic. (I would.)
Anders Nilsen’s illustrations for Hans Christian Anderson’s Fairy Tales.
Chapter One of Naomi Klein’s NO LOGO, which I read ages ago, but still think is brilliant. Search the whole book on Google Books.

DRAWING CRUMBY COMICS AND LISTENING TO KID A

Friday, March 10, 2006

$Year\'s Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga$

“Actually, a lot of these poses in these panels I took from freeze-framing the Fly Girls on In Living Color.” – R. Crumb
Meghan says KID A is the ultimate work-in-the-studio-with-headphones album. If, like me, you’ve been out of touch with your Radiohead fandom, check out their blog. Lots of cool pictures recording the new album. Also, check out Stanley Donwood’s slowly downward. His photoshop work and site design for Radiohead…big inspiration for me when I was 17.
Ray Kurzweil on Science Friday: the singularity is near.
Short story: Eric Puchner reading “Animals Here Below.”
Short story: Etgar Keret, “Actually, I’ve had some phenomenal hard-ons lately.”

Sean on “Tonight You Belong to Me,” from The Jerk.
Virtual drum machines. Awesome.
Great interview with Dan Savage from a while back.
Oh, Project Runway. It was probably the safe bet to give Chloe the money, but damn, I really liked Santino. (Andre and Tim at Red Lobster, Tim Gunn singing Closer, the musical numbers…)

IF YOU DON’T KNOW, NOW YOU KNOW

Tuesday, February 28, 2006

meghan’s bookshelf. (it’s official, folks!)

AS LONG AS IT ISN’T BORING

Saturday, February 18, 2006

Next month is Small Press Month.

Last year was actually a pretty good year for short fiction: the Story Prize has recommendations. (See if you can match the recommendations with the advisory board.)

I like Maureen McHugh’s book a lot (and I liked her reading at Mac’s way back too) and her blog posts are very long and make me feel stalkerish.