on planet parasite everything was controlled by something else. particularly interesting were the bipeds who believed they uniquely witnessed these conditions but considered themselves independent thinkers, despite some constant complaints […]
Way to go Lina Wertmüller, set the world on fire. There was a scene in the Seven Beauties where two criminals meet during world war two. One is Giancarlo Gianinni […]
The comments on Youtube for Mozart’s channel under Lacrimosa. Ludwig van Beethoven Mozart, I’m waiting for your new pieces to come out JubbyBrab Dude you can’t even hear. cohanks @JubbyBrab […]
last class tomorrow. we’ll play back the theft songs. one of the last assignments was to take a famous song and vary it so it is not necessarily recognizable; theft […]
Rejected for SSHRC grant, so it goes. Too many unknowns to ever know the true picture behind the rejection business. Applied to three teaching positions in recent weeks, two teaching […]
One time, thirty years ago at Karen’s house, after the twins went to bed, Mani told us about returning from a trip in the states and the border guard who […]
Two album presentations in one class. Sail Away by Randy Newman and Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair. My evil plan is working. I decided not to try and find […]
I am amazed. I never knew Get Back started as a song to confront the anti-immigrant rumblings happening at that time in London. I’m amazed when John mouths the lyrics […]
In Lloyd Price’s book Sumdumhonky, another thing that stuck with me from his reflections, was that life itself might be the ocean and all the waves coming to the shore […]
In PhD-land, lots of talk about power and how to disrupt it. I have my doubts, even if there are instances of it seeming disrupted, it seems momentary and power […]