I finally saw The Hurt Locker, after wanting to see it forever. I don’t remember what about the original reviews or trailers made me think I’d like it, but the absolute orgy of praise it has received in the months since release only built up the interest.
And now, I don’t get it. I think the [...]
My love of The Wire connects pretty well with my interest in David Harvey, who taught at Hopkins for a long time and treated Baltimore as an immense site for empirical geographical work. I also suspect that the show’s taking place in Baltimore is part of Walter Benn Michael’s fascination with it, which he’s polished [...]
Fellow combattant Chris broke down with a few sentences the entirety of the Radiohead œuvre in a comment to my last post, in which I announced my new year’s resolution: to finally listen to some Radiohead and see what the fuss is all about. To figure out, in other words, what I’ve been missing.
What’s funny [...]
Continue reading about Kid A and why this is going to be hard
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Personally, and I think I’m not so different from most people who say things like “The Wire is the best show in television history,” I came to it rather late—only starting the first season on dvd as the fourth season wrapped up on HBO. Needless to say, I was completely caught up (having watched the [...]
I took two years off of blogging, passed my oral exams, failed to come up with a dissertation proposal, and am now teaching a class that can’t possibly have anything to do with my dissertation. I spent my time away from blogging by crypto-blogging elsewhere, but as that slowed down, so did I.
And now I’m [...]
