“Float On,” is that you?

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Hellenic scholar Ephraim Lytle outlines some of the dubious departures from history in 300.

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Yeah, yeah, Captain America is dead. As Agent Brand from Joss Whedon’s run on Astonishing X-Men said about Jean Gray’s demise, which occurs about twice a year, “Yeah, that’ll last.” The editors at Marvel are already refusing to rule out a resurrection, which is the same as guaranteeing it. Even Aunt-Fucking-May can’t stay in the […]

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The new Amon Tobin album is awesome. That is all. UPDATE: Ok, this is pretty cool. Have a listen:

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I somehow missed this earlier, but Tyler Cowen has a piece in the International Herald Tribune noting that American cultural products don’t enjoy the kind of monopoly on global attention spans some imagine. Now, while it may hearten those who spend sleepless nights worrying about “cultural imperialism” or creeping homogenization, some of the data he […]

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…this band. That is all.

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So, I figured it was finally time I own Swimming to Cambodia, long one of my favorite films, on DVD. Except it appears that it’s only in print on DVD in Canada (fortunately also region 1, so it works fine on an unhacked U.S. player), meaning you can find copies easily enough on Amazon or […]

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Just found on Wired: The Shins have a self-shot documentary called Behind the Shins. So, shouldn’t they just have titled it Calves*? Also posted, the video for their song “Phantom Limb,” compiled from concert footage shot by fans on cell phone cameras. *Doh! I originally wrote “Hamstrings.” This is what happens when you post uncaffinated, […]

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The new Apples in Stereo album rates, at absolute minimum, an 8.1. Please modulate your crack consumption accordingly. Or at the very least, attempt to find a reviewer who (1) does not hold the frankly inexplicable view that the middling Her Wallpaper Reverie constitues the band’s “peak” and (2) actually knows that the album is […]

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It turns out I really like The Coup, an incredibly talented duo who (like another of my favorite hip-hop acts, Digable Planets) also happen to be hardcore evangelical Marxists. I’m resigned to the fact that lots of artists I like are going to have politics I find distasteful, but seriously, do the best hip-hop groups […]

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