Entries Tagged 'Arts' ↓

Andrew Leonard’s great review of the third volume of The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson, The System of the World: The summit of Mount Stephenson. I’m currently about an eighth of the way through and it - and the two previous volumes - is as engrossing as any fiction I’ve read. And I’m not particularly a historical fiction, science fiction, or a fantasy fan.

to Flickr and he’s already got a very compelling photostream!

JPG Magazine. From Heather Powazek Champ and Derek Powazek, who have consistently brought wonderful new creative things to the world.

a really fun Interview with Chris Dyer on his Zeke’s Gallery site. Dyer’s a very illustration-driven painter who seems to generally paint in acrylic on busted skateboard (as opposed to, say, oil on canvas).

about Leonard Cohen, who is about to turn 70. One they missed, and that I am reasonably sure is not apocryphal, is that he still owns a house in Montreal, and the house serves as a local Zen Center. [link via Kate's Montreal Weblog]

Johnny Ramone dies at 55. Sorry about the morbid humour, but at this rate the Ramones will be completely extinct before much older groups like the Beatles or the Stones.