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andy warhol was always saying things like: "if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning." he documented a dis...

cronopios and famas is a fun little book by julio cortazar. it is split into three parts-- an "instruction manual," a fairly aloo...

10. celebrities that sneak around my store on the down-low, but get recognized regardless. 9. watching kinsey with my mom. now, i won...

i often find that my greatest problem, artistically, has more to do with vocabulary than with form or content. meaning that it's neithe...

i have mixed feelings about j.k. huysmans' "french decadent classic" against nature ... first and foremost, it is one hell of ...

an album i'm enjoying lately is mitchell akiyama's small explosions that are yours to keep , which i found via the infinitely usefu...

i can't get tropical malady out of my head. it's been over a week since i've seen it, and i'm beginning to debate spending ...

i've spent the past month or so dealing with kafka-- i finally read the castle from cover to cover, followed by walter benjamin's f...

(...my vacation was totally fantastic...) 10. the window seat, and its quick peeks at that sprawling geo-quilt we call a landscape... the d...

i like george romero for many of the same reasons i like sam fuller. both are inventive, intelligent film-makers who give and give and giv...

i was fairly excited at the prospect of a grittier batman. i like the darkness of batman, the way he always seems unsure about his own proje...

by 10:30pm on jeweler's row in philadelphia, the diamond rings and gold chains are locked up for the night. in the store windows, struct...

donald richie's a hundred years of japanese film is an informative, insightful, and occasionally frustrating read... informative -- fir...

after years of curiosity, i finally saw robert frank's cocksucker blues . the film documents the rolling stones' 1972 tour for exile...

well, i only completed two books during the month of may, for reasons both bad (weird work schedule, volatile attention span) and good (work...

i should post more about music...) jj turned me on to the music of antony and the johnsons a while back, shortly after i missed seeing the...

most film footage involving athletes-- whether narrarated by bob costas or directed by kon ichikawa -- tends to focus on ideal forms and cir...

haven't done one of these in a while... ten good things for the springtime ("the only pretty ring time") 10. led zeppelin...

at the store, we're selling a mounted print of this salvador dali painting . the museum is coming to the end of a major dali exhibition,...

... there's a corridor i find myself gravitating towards. it's a glass connector path, very well lit, with rocking chairs for watchi...