Archive for April, 2006



Continental Club, Austin TX

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Great Heights

Love, reign o’er me
Love, reign o’er me, rain on me
Rain on me
— The Who, “Reign O’er Me,” 1968
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height… height…
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
— Radiohead, “Paranoid Android,” 1992
they will see us waving from such great heights
‘come down now’ [...]

Famous Insults

While cleaning out my grandmother’s house last summer, I found this excellent book, The Little Book of Famous Insults.

It was published in 1964 by the Peter Pauper Press, and features sixty pages of zingers uttered by obscure figures from world history (drawing heavily on the apparently not-yet-cliched utterances of one Oscar Wilde), plus some really [...]

Drawing Restraint

It only makes sense that Matthew Barney and Björk should chop off each other’s legs, turn into whales, and float away in the Japanese sea.




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