You've probably seen the Facebook meme where you are given a band and have to answer a few questions about them ( Read more... )

The Pretty Hate Machine re-release started me thinking about albums qua albums. In the days of non-sequential playback and individual track distribution, the death of the album as a cohesive artwork has been frequently bemoaned. I'm not going to do that; my usual style of listening based on individual tracks has been influenced by a dislike of ( Read more... )

The meme claims that this is a list of books made by the BBC of which, the average person will have read six. I'm dubious that the BBC had anything to do with this list, but I'm don't care to check it myself, so I'll lazily indicate my skepticism and move on to the list.

As Mash says, "If nothing else, it's a good way to pick some summer reading ( Read more... )