January 2008
3 posts
Heima - Sigur Ros →
I just want it on the record that I found and bought this film a full day before Very Short List said I should. Ok. So Heima (‘at home’ in Icelandic) is a artful, languid and beautiful spin on the usual rockumentary, even if you don’t know or don’t care about Sigur Ros. Though a musician friend who watched it with me called them “one of the most valuable additions in...
Race Doesn't Matter →
The writer James Howard Kunstler - he of cutting, insightful, funny, big-picture fusillades on urbanism and strip-mall America - thinks we all need to change just about everything we’re doing, from our civic souls to our building practices. If you give his famous books Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere a fair reading, you’ll think so too. I just discovered his blog, including...
