Humanizing The Vacuum

In a career of autograph hound hysteria and enthusiastic bootlicking, this sentence by Kathryn Jean-Lopez is breathtaking in how badly it m...

Marcello Carlin's new blog examines, with his typical daft scrupulousness, every number one album on the UK chart. I pick up on his dist...

On my iPod , I've got Wire's "One of Us" and David Byrne -Brian Eno's "Strange Overtones" back to back, uni...

From Woody Allen's Spanish diary : JULY 3 Scarlett came to me today with one of those questions actors ask, “What’s my motivation?” I sh...

Enjoying, after fitful attempts, the copy of Bonnie Raitt's Luck of the Draw that I bought in April for just over 12 cents, I wondered...

Dennis Perrin's dyspepsia is where I'm at these days: My inbox fills with liberal "alerts" and related wailing about the ...

The false dichotomy between European hedonism and American psychotherapy aside, Vicky Cristina Barcelona really does live up to the hype as ...

Not an official release, of course, but this version of "Ceremony" by Our Heroes is exactly the kind of simulacrum of despair for ...

...it must be hurricane season. The latest is Tropical Storm Fay. This one is a rainmaker and an annoyance, not a disaster like Hurricanes K...

How on earth do you explain this oddly defensive review of James Wood's How Fiction Works ? If Walter Kirn hasn't read Henry James...

Thanks for Patti Page, "In The Midnight Hour," "Respect," among many others (although not Dylan's "Gotta Serve...

In accordance with this meme , here's my pick for the worst alt-rock classic of the nineties. Maybe it's no classic, but The Cranber...