Infinite Philistinism

Never seen the original Karate Kid ; today it's raining and miserable and I don't feel like trekking through the bullshit (and Puert...

Imagine this: it's 1994. You're moderately fascinated by the whole idea of "indie rock," which is about to crest faster th...

[NB: I just wrote this this afternoon because it's been preying on my mind for literally years and I didn't want to draft this and t...

Last year, The National released "So Far Around The Bend" on the Dark Was The Night compilation; they stated it was a one-off, a ...

Spoon, Transference -- transference, of course, being the Freudian idea of something reminding you of a past event whose past, inappropriat...

Context: The Magus is a really annoying novel by John Fowles that took me nearly two months to finish. First published in 1965 and re-issu...

5:35 PM: Hello. Festivities begin shortly. 5:42 PM: So yesterday, sucking up how stupid and odd it felt, I stayed inside, drank up and watch...