So Azure and I saw Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy last week. Wasn’t perfect, but at least I can review it in a fitting fashion, like so: “Mostly Harmless.“ * …and glean…
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About a month ago, I finished Susanna Clarke’s “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell”, though I didn’t really put the book to rest for three weeks after. It’s a massive tome; I…
Punting is tougher than it looks. It’s certainly harder than the guides ferrying tourists up and down The Backs make it seem. Arrive in Cambridge on a warm, sunny weekend (happens…
I steeled myself for my upcoming capitalist indoctrination (B-school starts next week) by watching ‘Battleship Potemkin’ on Sunday. The movie, in fine socialist form, was free for the masses – it played…
Came across a truly strange artifact on TV last night, while taking a breather from war coverage on RAI: the ‘Whacketts’ episode of Max Headroom, a now-quaint cyberpunk TV series from…
Rob Swigart’s ’Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval’, originally published as an ‘interactive novel’ back in ’86, has been migrated to the web, complete with Commodore-era graphics. I’m also fond of the (subsequent)…
“I dreamt music” : Yamaha CS80’s and late ‘70’s analog / voltage-controlled synths, to be precise… While Vangelis’ textured soundscape to Blade Runner has long been recognized as a groundbreaking electronic…