Opinion
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I love Eastern Europe, particularly love Eastern European classical composers, like Bartok, Dvorak and Gyorgy Kurtag. They are my favorite composers, after Shostakovich and *maybe* Scriabin. My extraordinary roommate Mo and I just made a deal to throw a walkup-eviscerating party the second either 1. Rove gets indicted or 2. Bush or Cheney gets the […]
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who else w/ “freedom: lifeschedule” wants to go see bela tarr‘s seven-hour film with me at moma this week? i know it sounds tedious, but another of his films werckmeister harmonies is one of the most beautiful movies I’ve ever seen, stark yet imaginative political allegory, drawn from Tarr’s experience living in Hungary under Communist […]
blogs going on all the time about this hearing
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senator grassley: “i understand america”
“before we give you the keys to the car, we just want to know where you plan to take us”
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Russell Feingold right now is ruling my world; in the Alito hearings, he basically just berated the president for his “unilateral”/dictatorial rule. watch it live on the internoid here I for one am feeling extremely proud (and simultaneously terrified); some of these folks (Feinstein!) are speaking well and with dignity. This is also inspiring my […]
spoiler alert
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I just watched Dogville starring Nicole Kidman, on the advice of Jessica and her therapist. It actualizes your pain-fantasies of cracking loco and machine-gunning everyone who ever treated you like shit. Almost like a baptism. Highly recommended. (Also redeems Lars von Trier’s cynical character-pantheon of fragile/tragic martyr-women who have no reprieve from the insistant press […]
“death to neoliberal globalization”
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wow more proof that all the best leaders possess good humor: An adroit humorist, Marcos brought guffaws from the crowd as he described his rooster’s attempts to find love in the barnyard, which always ended in Penguin falling over before he could mate. That anecdote was told to persuade people to accept other kinds of […]
mr. filibuster
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Schumer has been standing up for what he believes is right, it would be cynical and unnecessarily divisive to say his character is born of political opportunism. * nytimes editorial on scaryass alito *Nevertheless, I do not regret *not* approaching him in Prospect Park last week, I was mad sweaty and stanky and he was […]