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you don't get a geek pie like this for nothing What we really need to determine is whether old X always seems bored, disenchanted, etc. Does anyone have any idea if this type of disengagement with the present (mainly on political grounds) has appeared in literature prior to, I dunno, 1850...

Dry air seems to cause it. Here on the windswept prairies, many people unknowingly walk around with a raging sinus infection at all times. Those that also work in air-conditioned environments suffer the worst, bloody boogie-wise. As your climate is considerably more humid than mine, I'd ask if...

I guess it's just like the mid-80s (I'm guessing, I wasn't really debating these sorts of things back then) when everyone who had lived through the late seventies and early eighties suddenly realized that everything had been completely co-opted and assimilated. So I don't think it's anything to...

It's kind of like looking at a bunch of teenagers and saying, "they dress like retards and listen to crap music." The second we start to evaluate for the truth of such a statement, we are drawn into the trap: these things are only revelatory as far as the position of the narrator is concerned...

I saw two discs from the Ex's Terp label advertised on Aquarius Records a while back. One was by an Eritrean singer called Tsehaytu Beraki, the other was a Malian musician called Djibril Diabate. The MP3 clips offered on the site were AMAZING. Has anyone heard these? The Terp label's presence...

The last sentence jumped out at me. It seems to me that "emancipation of humanity" is the very flagship myth project of liberal capitalism, and that any analysis that leads to an examination of said emancipation is liable to feed right back into the gaping maw of the beast, so to speak. I also...

The only picture this paints for me is one of insecurity. I don't mean that to sound hostile, but I see an undercurrent of neurosis in this "code-switching" discussion. I realize you're not claiming it's bad, but the examples you use are very loaded and problematic. Do you have another example...

Holy crap, that's timely! For the past few days I've been totally obsessed with the literary potential of the post-apocalyptic (regular or zombie style apocalypse) novel/film, particularly the playing out of all the attendant political questions involved in "starting again." Unfortunately, I'm...

heteroglossia inna canuck style Must be an American thing. :) Coming from Canada*, this all sounds totally bonkers. Of course people speak/act differently in different situations. Do you guys actually think this is a bad (or even noteworthy) thing? (There were some comments about...

I share many of the concerns voiced here. I am firmly on Canadian soil and so is my webserver. Got some bandwidth to spare, but wonder what the hit would be?

I wrote a reply to this and then somehow deleted it. A summary of sorts: I read the first six pages of Black Sun on Amazon (the library will have to wait until Tuesday) and I can't help but think that the "abyss" of which Kristeva writes is fundamentally out-of-step with Melancholy Now. Isn't...

That track "This Ain't a Game" -- a bit long in the tooth, but that's how you sample. That flute thing, damn. I like the grime that's more obviously "written" better than the sampled grime, though. It reaffirms that no matter how far music disappears down the tunnel of self-referentiality...

Ah fantastic! Thanks! I will have to check out your recommendations. I am wondering if the modern melancholy is really the same thing as the one described by Mr. Burton. (Only one way to find out!)

There is good news! Motivation can be enhanced by taking your vitamins! I've been taking these gelcaps called Super Cod Liver Oil and I think I'm slightly better able to figure out what I'm doing. Aren't they kind of extinct anyway? Should I feel bad about eating their livers to help me...

Melancholy. What is it, and what does it mean? Did it exist before ... say ... 1850?

If someone was standing up in front of my committee, I'd be mainly interested in hearing about how they plan to use the past as a weapon against the present. That would never get old. As for Originality, I think it's something I'd leave to those who do what "10,000 other musicians" are doing...

I'd agree with this to a degree. Most people only own 12 CDs and see music as either an adjunct to a fashionable lifestyle (or an adjunct to an adjunct, if you think about all the 12 CD people who own iPods), or as a perfunctory form of therapy (like an air freshener, a greeting card, a fond and...

Good luck getting it going, Vancouver. My next trip to Vancouver is not for three months, but if there is a night to go to I'll check it out.

This is a practical question. I'm sure everyone struggles with procrastination, low energy, and general laziness to some degree, but it is really affecting my life. I'm struggling with it a lot at the moment -- unsure of what could be physiological (vitamins/nutrients/glands/whatever) and what...

I have a bad cold, so my lovely English Bay Pale Ale (by the aforementioned folks at Granville Island Brewing) has been rendered tasteless. I blow my nose, sip the beer, blow my nose, sip the beer, but it's all so pointless. I'd forgotten how integral the scent component is... BTW for Canadian...