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I know you're not merely offering a stereotype since you're limiting it to gay men you have encountered, but your statement sounds as funny to me as mine did to you. I don't think that's the case all across the board, and certainly the gay people I know (which, admittedly, isn't a lot) aren't...

In bourgeois terms, the nuclear family is indeed a VERY new phenomenon, but not only because of the predominance (necessity?) of extended family groupings prior to the 20th century. The actual rearing of children, until recently, was largely accomplished by nursemaids, tutors, and assorted...

I know a touring rock band from out your way that keeps a copy of Dance Mix '94 at their merch table for utility purposes. If I was interested in pursuing this sociological phenomenon a little further, I'd ask some of the students to participate in an iPod "show me yours and I'll show you...

I was just came back to this thread, and it reminded me how white headphones are getting perilously close to being in the MAJORITY on campus. It is amazing how many people (affluent suburban teens and twentysomethings) who only own 12 CDs and generally lack the technical skill to download music...

Alright, I'll bite. What's the scoop?

"Sharp distinctions like those between A and B films, or between short stories published in magazines in different price segments, do not so much reflect real differences as assist in the classification, organization, and identification of consumers. Something is provided for everyone so that no...

Oh, and I should mention that the best beer in Canada doesn't leave the province of Québec.

The article I referenced was actually the wrong one (sorry!). I meant to link to an article from the Edm0nton Journal (which I couldn't find) that mentions the same statistics, but doesn't end up feeding right back into the hands of the C0nservative Party of Alberta. The Journal article cites...

Of all the threads to stumble upon while I'm trying to dramatically curtail my drinking. I'm so thirsty now. Where I live, the popular local beer is a wheat ale called Grasshopper. Ale is a bit of a misnomer in this case; it's piss-coloured, HIGHLY fizzy, and served ice cold. The pint is served...

So I'm thinking of replacing the standard white earbuds that came with my iPod. I thought, "why not?" I was in A&B Sound yesterday looking at some different models by Panasonic and Sony. I'm willing to pay about $50 CAD (which I guess is like £50, when you think about it), and the models I am...

Did you mean L'Année dernière à Marienbad? As far as I know, Hiroshima was all Resnais, whereas Robbe-Grillet actually wrote Marienbad and Resnais adapted it. Yeah, Barthes is cool. Whenever some poor misguided soul mentions to me how "subversive" they find The Simpsons or how "scathing" they...

71 is not too shabby, I think. The very act of writing a novel (of which Sontag wrote a handful) seems to decrease the average life expectancy to about 50 - 65 years (and add a propensity for dying in the south of France). So yeah, she's ahead of the novelist curve, but behind the philosopher...

Hmmm... So maybe not worth purchasing?

I'm wondering if anyone on here has heard Vordul Mega's The Revolution of Yung Havoks yet? The press that I've read so far has been unanimous in finding it somewhat underwhelming, but I'm more interested in hearing a review straight from someone who loves Cannibal Ox as much as I do.

And what do you think about the frequency of "Security Updates"?

I found an old comp on Sub Rosa the other day -- Japanese Avant Garde or something like that. It's from 1992, and some things are kind of dated (interesting to think that avant music dates itself as readily as anything else) but there's lots of great stuff: some Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, etc...

Twice weekly I am the "music section guy" in a big-box book store (like a Barnes & Noble or a Borders). All the music played in the store is corporately playlisted by a deaf marmoset in Toronto, so I suffer the indignity of being the proxy/effigy for the ire of anyone with remotely decent taste...

Somewhat off-topic: In the 1910s and 1920s, a lot of artists and intellectuals -- whose backgrounds, lifestyles, and opinions would be ordinarily associated with the left -- went right. Quite right, in some cases. Many of these ideological forays were little more than flirtations, and...

Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dans le labyrinthe (I hold the English version open in my left hand in case I get stuck, which I do) Jon Stallworthy, Louis MacNeice Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism (a rare point...