April 2010
51 posts
From "The Body in Question" (1978).
“Where is your heart?” “Oh, about right here. I can hear it ticking away. I hope.” “How large do you think it is?” “About … that big.” “And do you think that’s its shape?” “That’s the shape.”
(Watch it here.)
I write about La Roux — for the Portland Mercury. →
BEFORE ELLY JACKSON became a chart-topping synth-pop star in her native England she was a finger-picking folkie with a taste for Nick Drake and Joni Mitchell. The change happened instantly in a tale as old as the sequencer: A contrarian’s mind, cursed with thoughts too delicate to withstand the earnestness of rock, finds release at the push of a button. This is the oft-told story of New...
Martha Nussbaum on Sir Kenneth Dover...
From The New Republic:
Sir Kenneth Dover, who died on March 9 just days short of his 90th birthday, was a scholar unsurpassed in his mastery of ancient Greek language, culture, and thought. What Dover could do without effort, most scholars could not do even with the most painstaking labor. When his autobiography, Marginal Comment, first appeared in 1994, I was visiting Dover and his wife Audrey at...
What did the lady forget?
maryandleo:
Haven’t seen it.
I saw What Did The Lady Forget? (1937) during a year-long stretch when I worked at the Portland Art Museum. I got into films for free and must have taken in around 200 movies in either of PAM’s two theaters that year. Consequently, I have a bad habit of conflating the details from many of these films. So this will be a fun experiment where I’ll...
