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10 Best Mind-Bending Sci-Fi Movies Based on Books by John March 29, 2023 6 min 5 mths Are you ready to have your mind blown? Look no further than these 10 incredible movies based on Sci-Fi books. From
by Ted Gioia Face it, books are too damn long. Especially 800- page novels like Samuel R. Delany's Dhalgren . Even book reviews need to get shorter—or so I judge by watching the Incredible Shrinking C
Max Ochs Answers some questions from the producer Q: What do you remember about the folk-rock scene of the 60’s ?. A: Playing open mikes with Richie Havens and Tiny Tim at the Fat Black Pussy Cat in a
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Features Technoise Words Justin Farrar Published Feb 8, 2012 Photo Credit Header - Chris Carter Leslie Keffer - Natasha Vikotria/Viki - Daniel Epstein Have an idea for a feature on RA? Get in touch wi
Dusted Reviews Steve Coleman and Five Elements - The Mancy of Sound Recent Reviews Dusted Reviews Artist: Steve Coleman and Five Elements Album: The Mancy of Sound Label: Pi Recordings Review date: Aug. 9, 2011 Last years Harvesting Semblances and Affinities was something of a breakthrough for…
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How to be interesting (in 10 stupid-simple steps): 1.Go exploring. Explore ideas, places, and opinions. The inside of the echo chamber is where all the boring people hang out. 2. Share what you discov
Out To Lunch : Freddie Hubbard(tpt) Eric Dolphy (as, flt, b clt) Richard Davis (b); AnthonyWilliams (d); Bobby Hutcherson (vib). (Blue Note BST 84163)Recorded: New York 25 February, 1964. The American
Jelly Roll Morton was the first jazz intellectual.That is to say he was the first to develop theories as to what jazzis, how it works, and who was able to explain his ideas lucidly,systematically, as
Stevphen Shukaitis hears the continuing resonance of Joe McPhee’s Nation Time , his 1971 free jazz album rooted in the US black cultural nationalist movement of the 1960s and 70s, and McPhee's later interest in the ideas of management theorist Edward de Bono "They return transformed into insects,…
Stevphen Shukaitis hears the continuing resonance of Joe McPhee’s Nation Time , his 1971 free jazz album rooted in the US black cultural nationalist movement of the 1960s and 70s, and McPhee's later interest in the ideas of management theorist Edward de Bono "They return transformed into insects,…
What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image. —Daniel J. Boorstin
This issue of Lapham’s Quarterly doesn’t trade in divine revelation, engage in theological dispute, or doubt the…
The ordinary course of a cure is carried on at the expense of life: they incise us, they cauterize us, they amputate our limbs, they deprive us of food and blood. One step further, and we are completely cured. --Michel de Montaigne
President Barack Obama during his first months in office seldom has…
A year before the US entered WWI, New York City—particularly Little Armenia on Lexington Avenue and Little Syria near City Hall—was home to an immigrant enclave whose lives back home were being wrecke
61 % des spécialistes marketing affirment que l'amélioration du SEO et le développement de leur présence organique constituent leur principale priorité en matière de marketing digital. Et ça tombe bie
Later, lost far at sea, when you're trying to forget all you've left behind, the memory will bubble up unbidden: a village that once lay by the ocean. Here are the neatly packed homes with gray-tiled
'It's Extremely Hard': Inside Australia's TikTok Economy Creators want you to take their work seriously – and understand they aren’t all rich. 2.10.22 Tech Weapon Manufacturers Are Making Robots That
Throughout his career, W. G. Sebald wrote poems that were strikingly similar to his prose. His tone, in both genres, was always understated but possessed of a mournful grandeur. To this he added a willful blurring of literary boundaries and, in fact, almost all his writing, and not just the poetry…
Christian Muñoz-Donoso is going to make this job pay, he’s got to move quickly. He has a list of 10 videos to shoot on this warm June morning, for which he’ll earn just $200. To get anything close to his usual rate, he’ll have to do it all in two hours. As he sets up his three video cameras on the…
Founded in 2003, Snarkmarket is a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, design, books, music, movies, the future, and the past. The title, it should be said, is a misn
There is a horse in the Apple Store and no one sees it but me.
I think, “Why?” What is the villain here that blinds all of these people to this situation? Am I nuts for thinking this is exceptional? Does anyone else see this? Did I accidentally drop acid and not realize? I must take a photo. I must…
Study for Roger , 2012 Did I mention that I made a big pixelated Predator drone for the New Aesthetic panel at SXSW, this year? It pretty much defined the first three days I was in Austin since it's a
Zazzle : you’ve never heard of it. One of thousands of designer nonsense words necessitated by online commerce, invoking within the reptile mind something ugly, pointless and incredibly popular. And Z
The only game in town, and a rigged one at that. In what is swiftly becoming ‘living memory’, capitalism is now the only economic, social and political system deemed possible, the logic of its late in
Also featured: 3-DIMENSIONAL TELEVISION, cameras that RECOGNISE YOUR FACE and frickin' ROBOTS WHICH CLEAN YOUR HOUSE. And so I am standing in Piccadilly Circus listening to William Gibson talk about h
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I witnessed the New Aesthetic panel at South by Southwest 2012. It was a significant event and a good thing to see.
If you know nothing of the “New Aesthetic,” or if you have no idea what “SXSW” is, you should repair your ignorance right away. Go peruse…
Report from Austin, Texas, on the New Aesthetic panel at SXSW . At SXSW this year, I asked four people to comment on the New Aesthetic, which if you don’t know is an investigation / project / tumblr l
L.A. Weirdos On the glorious idiosyncrasies of three 70s West Coast singer-songwriters. by Contributor Underscore Rock Pop/R&B April 11 2012 Illustration by Mike Renaud Underscore surveys undervalued artists, scenes, and eras of the musical past. Listen to an "L.A. Weirdos" playlist compiled by…
Rereading LeRoi Joness The Dead Lecturer A splinter of language flares into mind before sleep, in crawling traffic or some waiting room of defunct magazines. So a few years ago a phrase began stalking me: A political art, let it be / tenderness . . . words of a poem from The Dead Lecturer by LeRoi…
Has any concept more completely defined and disfigured public life over the last generation than so-called elitism? Ever since Richard Nixon’s speechwriters pitted a silent majority (later sometimes “
New York City is the great circling bathtub drain that young people from the college towns and mid-sized cities of North America disappear into, unable to resist the siren song of their own cosmopolit
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Text Size Send by Email This is one of the saddest songs I ever heard. The following is drawn from the pages of The Stranger , 21 April 1999 . (I actually wrote a far, far longer version of this essay
Tonight, the prolix, improvisation-happy Ohioan C. Spencer Yeh will play a set with cellist Okkyung Lee and pianist Magda Mayas at the Knitting Factory. And while there's no way to predict what his set might sound like, it's a fair bet that it'll differ from the two shows he played last week and…
How did you first get involved with SunnO)))? “Probably through [Sunn O))) engineers] Randall Dunn and MellDettmer, the studio that they work in, they're also good friends ofmine. And we did something
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