shangri-la
by jebni on November 16, 2003
The other night I saw a snippet of Frank Capra’s Lost Horizon on TV, and was captivated by its seemingly avant-garde use of splitscreen stills over dialogue. I only just discovered that these parts were a much later restoration of (…)
I was the king of the alley, mama, I could talk some trash
by jebni on November 15, 2003
Hon’s marking of Born in the USA as having the worst album cover ever got me thinking about Bruce Springsteen again. I’m not really a fan, but I think his contradictory codings are really interesting, not least the utterly mistaken (…)
this ain’t rock’n'roll, this is genocide
by jebni on November 10, 2003
Oh don’t lean on me man, cause you can’t afford the ticket I’m back from Suffragette City I almost missed out on Bowie tickets!!! And they were just as expensive as those goddamn Prince tickets, which I passed on because (…)
p-city
by jebni on November 9, 2003
Look ma, no Matrix Revolutions blogsmog! + + + The girl behind the counter at the comics store likes my fingernails, and tells me that I have good taste for buying Paul Pope‘s THB 1.v.2. The much-feted Australian collective Rinzen have designed (…)
then we take berlin
by jebni on November 7, 2003
This week I learned two things: If headphones are armour, then an iPod is like a fucking NORAD HQ bunker. The more water I drink (which is currently lots), the more I feel like crying. Why is this?
garage days
by jebni on November 2, 2003
I spent an entire non-working day in front of my Mac yesterday, and this got me thinking: OS X has ushered in a new era of hobbyist commoditization, with great, well-branded little products like NetNewsWire and SubEthaEdit, written by single (…)
“If he gets up, we’ll all get up — IT’LL BE ANARCHY!”
by jebni on November 2, 2003
In my dream last night, I was in an excellently dodgy ’80s movie with Molly Ringwald, whose character falls in love with her kidnapper. The highlight was scene where the authorities are chasing the kidnapping antihero after Molly has been (…)
distractions
by jebni on November 1, 2003
Sorry to everyone who’s been trying to get hold of me — I’ve been hiding. + + + Two more things to increase my attention deficit: John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Marx’s Grundrisse. + + + Amazingly, the friction of Tarantino’s Total (…)