Philosophical Musings on a Bicycle - A Review of Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne
Not quite a guide to bikes or linked to any Ché styled escapes, "Bicycle Diaries" is an off-the-cuff observation on the bikability of places such as Manila, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. Or rather, it’s a series of philosophical musings on urban planning, globalization, art, and music linked by Byrne’s favored mode of transportation. More
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Nixon at the Movies
The Vietnam War gave us the M-16 rifle and new uses for Agent Orange. It also allowed the last president of the US to turn executive privilege into a malign political energy that powered Hollywood’s Silver Age in the early ‘70s. So argues Mark Feeney, author of "Nixon at the Movies," which looks at Richard Nixon’s political career through the movies of his times. More
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About A Band: Joe Pernice's "Meat Is Murder"
Of all the loves you can have, the strangest is probably the love of an obsessive fan for his favorite band. No other love slides so easily into arcane geekery (debating Ian Curtis’ favorite breakfast cereal) or pretension. We’re talking about love; the kind that sanctifies your teenage neuroses; that pushes the day you’ll turn into mom or dad away a bit further. The kind of love that makes you an insufferable prick to almost everyone else. More
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Reviewing Jose Saramago's "Blindness"
A review of Jose Saramago's "Blindness." It is something too familiar, too intimate, stuck in the uneasy company of nightmares and overexposed film. Lingering on longer than the usual allegory-cum-dystopia, when the lights go out you get the feeling that they could go out anywhere. More