I’m leaving tomorrow for a few days in Vegas, and I won’t be back until Monday night. I’m probably taking my laptop with me, so I won’t be totally incommunicado — and there are a few posts scheduled to appear here in my absence, including the Friday Random Guess 10 — but don’t be surprised if I’m quieter here and on Twitter than usual.
Day: September 30, 2009
September in song
A relatively quiet month, musically. Here’s my mix for September:
- “See You Later Aligator” by Louise Attaque
- “Bastards of Young” by the Replacements
- “Tops” by the Rolling Stones
- “Pale Blue Eyes” by the Velvet Underground
- “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” by David Bowie
- “It’s Lonely at the Top” by Randy Newman
- “Fascination Street” by Xu Xu Fang
- “Technicolor” by Nurses
Wednesday various
- The most controversial magazine covers of all time [via]
- Meanwhile, and incidentally NSFW, Sean Lennon recreates his parents’ famous Rolling Stone cover. Personally, I find the new photo to be exceptionally boring and actually a weird reversal of John and Yoko’s original. There’s also maybe something a little creepy about their son recreating that photo, especially if the naked woman holding on to him here is some kind of stand-in for, or commentary on, Yoko Ono. But in general, I just find it pretty uninspired.
- The Origin of Glenn Beck. The more things change…
- Hot on the heels of charges of sexism in certain science fiction anthologies comes word that it might also be a problem in the horror genre as well.
- And finally, hey! My sister is going to Mars — I mean Sydney, Australia — for her honeymoon!