The Browser: News & links to raise your eyebrows & furrow your brow. New headlines may be added as the day goes on. Stay tuned.
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Wendell Berry’s poem on the Writer’s Almanac today is awesome.
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ReadWriteWeb.com points me to Music Blog Zeitgeist:
MP3 blog aggregator Hype Machine launched a new microsite today called the Music Blog Zeitgeist. There you can listen, for free, to entire albums from the most blogged-about musicians of 2008. Bringing together a whole host of different technologies to create one experience, the site is beautiful and a lot of fun to navigate.
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I want this shirt. If you feel an outpouring of gratitude for my criticisms of Slumdog Millionaire, feel free to send me this as a thank you. I wear an XL, so you might have to wait until they’re in stock again.
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At IFC Daily, my new favorite blog on cinema, David Hudson is surveying reviews of Silent Light, one of my top ten favorite films of 2008.
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Will Mickey Rourke play the villain in Iron Man 2?
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So… Arcade Fire *is* working with Richard Kelly after all.
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What is “Love is Concrete”? It’s a new place to creatively collaborate. And to collaboratively create.
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Defamer on the Top 10 top ten lists…
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More to come, most probably.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Two things about Wendell Berry: That really is a great poem in the Writer’s Almanac (although the link is wrong – it sends you to tomorrow’s Writer’s Almanac. There should be a 7 at the end of the link, not an 8.)
Second, Rob Mathes, one of my favorite arranger/composers, has written a new orchestral piece based on poems by Wendell Berry. The title is “A Standing Ground: Concertino for Orchestra,” and the Nashville Symphony will play the world premier next month. I’m really looking forward to hearing it.