matrix
by jebni on November 20, 2005
Almost three years ago, one of my first posts on this blog was about Steven Soderberg’s version of Solaris, and how it acted like a “mutant womb” or “prototyping space” for our concepts of sociality, and resonated with the discourse (…)
i have sent them you, my only son
by jebni on November 19, 2005
Wow. I actually shed a tear watching the teaser trailer for Superman Returns. The old elements from Richard Donner’s original film — Marlon Brando’s godlike voiceover, the John Williams score — are so elegantly integrated. Interestingly, these things stand not (…)
pushing my buttons
by jebni on November 13, 2005
It’s November 2005, and I still love the Sugababes — I think it’s something fundamental about the way I’m wired. (Their debut LP remains, for me, one of the greatest albums of this new century.) Lately, the closest I’ve come (…)
sirens
by jebni on November 13, 2005
Was briefly in New York this last week, and managed to see Salman Rushdie, Don DeLillo and others at PEN’s State of Emergency event at Cooper Union, at which the literati provided “Readings Against Torture, Arbitrary Detention & Extraordinary Rendition”. (…)
eurochild
by jebni on November 9, 2005
So we go and visit John Keats’ house in Hampstead. In one of the bedrooms upstairs, I find a book of poetry. In this book, I find these verses: I stand firm for our soil Lick a rock on foil (…)
internationalist
by jebni on November 9, 2005
In Highgate, a visit to a certain grave: (Click for the photoset. Note the people buried around him — including a prominent Cliffite…) [ tags: grave, highgate, marx, cemetery ]