Author: J T. Ramsay

Because Scors­ese clings so des­per­ate­ly to nar­ra­tive that it dis­torts our belief in style.

Word is that an indict­ment will come down short­ly for Karl Rove for his involve­ment in the Valerie Plame affair. But don’t yelp your war whoop just yet. As help­ful as it may be for this admin­is­tra­tion to crum­ble beneath the weight of its own hubris and cor­rup­tion, it’s those fac­tors and not any mean­ing­ful…

As the Amer­i­can pub­lic slow­ly lum­bers toward apa­thy about the cur­rent polit­i­cal sit­u­a­tion, both domes­tic and abroad, there are folks whol­ly ded­i­cat­ed to protest­ing the mil­i­tary-indus­tri­al com­plex before it can rend asun­der all the val­ues it intends to protect. Peo­ple often ask ques­tions about the seem­ing hope­less­ness of the cur­rent sit­u­a­tion as though the same…

Fur­saxa — First Uni­tar­i­an Chapel, 4/17/2006 I’ll reserve com­ment­ing too much on this per­for­mance since said com­men­tary is already spo­ken for, but Fur­saxa proved as mes­mer­iz­ing as I’d heard. Her per­for­mance com­pris­es lay­ered iter­a­tions of loops and delay. As the notes decay and are renewed, the sound is one of addi­tion and sub­trac­tion — with…

Hur­ry. It’s not a chimera; he’s a ghost. [via Pound for Pound]