Gosford Parkour

(happy birthday, Tony)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:14:53 -0400

(happy birthday, Tony)

"The gloss of preachiness that washes over “WALL-E” overwhelms the haunting, delicate..."

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:40:00 -0400

“The gloss of preachiness that washes over “WALL-E” overwhelms the haunting, delicate spirit of its first 30 minutes. This clearly isn’t a movie made by a robot; the drag is that it ends up feeling so programmed”

- Stephanie, really, no offense intended, but I. don’t. want. to believe you, this time, ok? Salon, qui

100% (as of today)

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:31:00 -0400

100% (as of today)

Deep-Holes, a short story by Alice Munro

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:10:19 -0400

Deep-Holes, a short story by Alice Munro

Gabriele Picco, I want you to believe that I am smart, 2007

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:24:31 -0400

Gabriele Picco, I want you to believe that I am smart, 2007

Thank you for having been here for a little while, George.

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:41:00 -0400

Thank you for having been here for a little while, George.

Oops, it’s that time of the year again.

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:09:49 -0400

Oops, it’s *that* time of the year again.

This is beautiful. Quite long, but beautiful. Canemucca, qui.

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:59:50 -0400

This is beautiful. Quite long, but beautiful. Canemucca, qui.

Chris Jordan: picturing excess. TED, qui.

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:50:00 -0400

Chris Jordan: picturing excess. TED, qui.

Five Dials - a free online lit-mag from Hamish Hamilton

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:34:31 -0400

Five Dials - a free online lit-mag from Hamish Hamilton

pdflibrary

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:26:33 -0400

pdflibrary: (da qui a leggerli, quei pdf, ce ne passa)

"I go through 10 drafts to send a SMS to her, then add in typos to make it seem off-the-cuff"

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:12:03 -0400

“I go through 10 drafts to send a SMS to her, then add in typos to make it seem off-the-cuff”

- confessionizer, qui

"One of the real structural understandings of great literature, from Greek tragedy to Beckett and..."

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:08:13 -0400

“One of the real structural understandings of great literature, from Greek tragedy to Beckett and Faulkner, is that it’s an event. It’s not something that you can contain and narrate, but it’s like this seismic set of ripples that goes on through time, backward and forward. Contemporary novelists don’t really understand that, but contemporary artists do”

- Tom McCarthy interview, Believer, June 2008 (via SurplusMatter, qui)

"Su internet tutto si trova, ma non tutto si cerca. Si trova quel che si cerca, e la qualità di quel..."

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:09:00 -0400

“Su internet tutto si trova, ma non tutto si cerca. Si trova quel che si cerca, e la qualità di quel che si trova dipende dalla qualità della ricerca”

- Gaspar Torriero, qui.

How Darwin won the evolution race

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:32:58 -0400

How Darwin won the evolution race

Gradius, a shoot’em up, recreated as an old style text...

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:52:18 -0400

Gradius, a shoot’em up, recreated as an old style text adventure. Now, this is a nerdish thing.

"If this movie is the culmination of Herzog’s recent documentary work, and one of the films..."

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:33:29 -0400

“If this movie is the culmination of Herzog’s recent documentary work, and one of the films he’ll be remembered for, its apotheosis comes in a long, long shot of that lone, lost penguin wandering off into the Antarctic interior, which at first is ridiculous and then tragic and then noble and then all those things at once. Don’t ask who that little guy waddling off toward his lonely destiny is; you already know”

- Maddin and Herzog: Brothers of the Ice. Salon, qui.

"Questa candidatura seducente dovrebbe essere letta in termini di Bellezza Nera, poiché per molti..."

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 06:02:54 -0400

“

Questa candidatura seducente dovrebbe essere letta in termini di Bellezza Nera, poiché per molti versi il fascino di Obama deriva dalla sua estetica.

È un danzatore, i cui movimenti riflettono l’attitudine culturale delle comunità nere urbane a mantenere sempre la calma e il sangue freddo anche in situazioni di stress, muovendosi con grazia e trasformando le arene sconosciute in un palcoscenico su cui danzare. Si sono aperti dibattiti per stabilire se Obama sia “troppo nero” o “non abbastanza nero”, categorie risalenti agli anni ‘60 e ormai superate, mentre gli osservatori non sono riusciti a vedere quanto la sua campagna assomigli a una coreografia nera.

”

- Obama, la bellezza, la danza. dis.amb.ig.uando, qui

"You have a girlfriend named Alma, who has a long tender horse neck and a big Dominican ass that..."

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:09:43 -0400

“You have a girlfriend named Alma, who has a long tender horse neck and a big Dominican ass that seems to exist in a fourth dimension beyond jeans. An ass that could drag the moon out of orbit. An ass she never liked until she met you.”

- Alma, a oh-so-short story by Junot Dìaz

Now, that’s raising expectations.

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:16:15 -0400

Now, *that’s* raising expectations.