2001: A Space Odyssey was on cable recently, and watching it from beginning to end for the dozenth-or-so time, prompted me to surf around for related clips on YouTube. I found this annotated video clip of György Ligeti’s “Lux aeterna”, the otherworldly music Kubrick used in the scene where the astronauts fly to the Tycho [...]

A few highlights:
– Charlie Rose’s interview with Singapore’s Lee Kwan Yew. Charlie let Yew talk, which was good. Yew offered his insights into the current situation in North Africa & the Middle East as well as China & East Asia, India, and of course Singapore.
– Lunch with the FT: Roger Waters. The [...]

After watching the Giants game at my mother’s Sunday, we turned  on Turner Classic Movies. In the Venn diagram of things we can all watch, TCM is where the  overlap is.  We caught the last few minutes of Forbidden Planet, which reminded me of these lyrics from the song Science Fiction / Double Feature:
Science Fiction [...]

Thanks again to those of you who voted for Portfolio Armor for iPhone in the StreetApps Challenge. I mentioned yesterday I’d put up a 1990s flashback post, travel permitting. Thanks to in-flight WiFi, travel permits, so here it is. By the way, if you haven’t voted yet, you can do so by clicking here. Much [...]

We’re going to see Sherrie Rene Scott’s new show Everyday Rapture Saturday night. Meant to see this during its run at the Second Stage Theater last year, but missed it. As an aside, the Second Stage Theater is a great off-Broadway theater. Future Broadway hits often play there first with the same casts, and you [...]

Some weekend Cult, via YouTube,
Rain in Raleigh:

She Sells Sanctuary in São Paulo:

Alex Chilton of Big Star passed away in New Orleans Wednesday. I don’t know if I ever heard any Big Star, but I remember the Replacements song about Chilton. From YouTube, here’s Paul Westerberg of the Replacements playing “Alex Chilton” at Irving Plaza in NYC, back in ‘96:

A commenter on YouTube writes,
dont even like [...]