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From this morning's CBC:

Filmmaker Ben Wheatley is 'a cup of tea away from anarchy'British director's new film, High-Rise, explores the intersection of condo life and class warfare ( Read more... )

Simon Reynolds wrote Rip It Up And Start Again, the best book I've ever read on my favourite period of pop music: the post-punk era, 1978-84. I've been meaning to post something about the book but haven't gotten around to re-reading it, which I would like to do.

Meanwhile, here is an interview with the author, on the connection with one of my ( Read more... )

Well, the end of the week and time for some undeserved vitriol, but I've been meaning to do this for some time and have eaten enough aniseed balls to get in the mood for it.

A few weeks ago I found a copy of an older science fiction book called Japan Sinks, written 1964-73 and published in the latter year by Sakyo Komatsu, an author who is ( Read more... )

Yoinked from jeffreyab.

This is a list of the 50 most significant science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you've read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you started but never finished, and put an asterisk beside the ones you loved.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien ( Read more... )

Sitting here eating my sandwich early and I want to tell you what I did before I came here to sit and eat my sandwich.
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My various calendars tell me that the moon is in its first quarter. Ho hum. But it's also the time of the Tanabata festival in Japan. The Japan Atlas says: "The festival traces its origins to a legend that the Cowherd Star (Altair) and Weaver Star (Vega), lovers separated by the Milky Way, are allowed to meet just once a year--on the seventh day of ( Read more... )