Arcade Fire’s new interactive music video for the song “Neon Bible” off their album of the same name. See also: Arcade Fire playing “Neon Bible” and “Wake Up” in a cargo elevator and the middle of their audience in one of the more touching videos I’ve seen.
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Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible music video
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Radiohead’s In Rainbows preview
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Rolling Stone has assembled the best-sounding live versions of all the songs from Radiohead’s upcoming album In Rainbows. Seeing as how the band’s vowed to not give journalists copies before the October 10th release date, this is the only way to glimpse the album before then.
David Foster Wallace and his Essay Collection
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007David Foster Wallace - author of two excellent non-fiction essay collections, a few different short story collections, and a little novel called Infinite Jest - is guest editor for The Best American Essays this year. His duties are to select the essays included in the collection and write an introduction to them all, and the latter was just placed online by the publisher. It’s an excellent read, covering everything from the purpose of essays to his role as a filter of them.
Remnick on Kasparov
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007The New Yorker recently featured what was ostensibly a profile of Gerry Kasparov, former chess champion and current opposition leader in Russia. But it was written by David Remnick, the current editor-in-chief of the publication and long-time reporter on Russia since winning the Pulitzer Prize for his book-length account of the fall of Communism. The result is a thorough, engaging report on the current state of Russian politics aka. Vladimir Putin, one that goes well with his earlier profiles on Putin and others in Reporting, Remnick’s recent collection of New Yorker pieces.
Chinese-Made Toothpaste
Sunday, September 30th, 2007A man in Panama found a tube of toothpaste which listed a dangerous chemical in its ingredients, which he brought to the attention of authorities there. This innocuous action led to subsequent international recalls of the toothpaste and the beginning of the current fervor over the safety of Chinese-manufactured items. So much for one person being inconsequential.
Word Salad
Sunday, September 30th, 2007“Word Salad” is a term used to describe the confused, usually repetitious language symptomatic of some types of mental illness (like schizophrenia). Examples: BEWARE THE MARK or internet classic TIME CUBE.
dubguy101
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Notice something that all this guy’s Flickr favorites have in common? Yep, he’s serious, and the internet finds another way to out-weird my wildest expectations.