Category Archives: art

Plaid Looks Good to Me

January 20, 2008 – 3:37 pm

I rarely end up actually liking a band more after seeing them perform live. In fact, it is mostly the case that I see a performer live and can’t bring myself to listen to them again for weeks or more. There are a few groups that actually increase my interest in them. This is especially [...]

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Happy Birthday Karel Čapek (and robots)

January 9, 2008 – 10:58 am

Today is the birthday of Karel Čapek, who is attributed with popularizing the term “robot,” which he introduced in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (or R.U.R.). He gives credit to his brother Josef for inventing the word, which has its roots in the Slovak word robota which translates literally to “serf labor.” Čapek is [...]

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Nick Cave Heart Plato

June 2, 2007 – 1:25 pm

Whilst warming some soup and sipping sports drinks on a Saturday afternoon chatting with the ghost of Linda Blair about how to evict the demon that has taken residence in my stomach this past week (the Devil and Daniel Johnston documentary, while interesting, lent no clues to this end), I decided to once and for [...]

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