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This is my way of saying goodbye.

If If Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats and this article on the Leica M8 in the New Yorker are, respectively, film’s wake and eulogy, this article (and the paper it references, Useful Void: The Art of Forgetting in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing) are why we should be mourning.

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Searching for Sebald.

My project starts on page 242, and yes, I’m aware of the (at least one) typo in my contribution and the first thing I’ll do when I return home tonight is check the proofs and either drink in self-loathing or quiet celebration. Nevertheless, it’s a beautiful tome, 631 perfect-bound pages, and I’m honored to have contributed six of them.

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2008 November 11

Some families set their dramas on the stage of a castle, a city apartment, a suburban bungalow. Mine was wed to the four wheels of a 1990 Toyota truck.



Echoes

  • Kanye West - Robocop
  • 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
  • Pink Martini - Tempo Perdido
  • Pink Martini - Taya Tan
  • Pink Martini - Song of the Black Swan
  • Pink Martini - Hang On Little Tomato
  • Pink Martini - Let's Never Stop Falling In Love
  • Pink Martini - Taya Tan
  • Pink Martini - Song of the Black Swan
  • Pink Martini - Hang On Little Tomato

Data compiled by Audioscrobbler.


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