Sometimes artists still do act as prophets, calling people out on wrongs: The Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has called for Tony Blair to be tried for war crimes, in his acceptance speech to the Nobel committee. Go, Pinter, go!
Month: December 2005
Back To The Cutting Room
Well, it looks like the week before and the week after Christmas will be a little different than I imagined. I’ll have a fair amount of packing to do, I’ll probably need to find an apartment for March, and it looks like I’ll be in Canada for something like 2 weeks. Lime is going to be able to leave around Feb 1st and will need to be back by about Feb 18th. Since a person cannot pack, pack, pack all day, one of the things I plan on doing is some writing and revision. I’ll have basically two weeks before …
What is this thing called… SF?
Kat has written a wonderful post about the question of the difference between fantasy and SF, and why some people like one and not the other. I’ll throw in my own two cents: I think these kinds of fiction speak to different areas of the imagination. I started out as a reader and writer of fantasy, simply because I loved imagined worlds; the more complete an imagined world, the more I loved it. (I’m sure this was at least in part fueled by my fascination with the Forgotten Realms line of products from TSR. I regard it now as a …
Is This The Song You Mean?
I think this is the song you wanted, Lime — Ryuichi Sakamoto’s “Rain”. It’s popular here in Korea, so maybe that’s the one.
“I Haven’t Been Listening to Any Music Lately.”
That’s what my website claims, so it must be true. Actually, I have been, but on my poor, limping, half-functioning mp3 player, not on my computer. That’s why nothing is showing up on my audioscrobbler feed, and that’s why my website thinks that I haven’t been listening to anything at all. Ah well. But in fact, during all of my recent trips, I have been listening more to audio narration than to music. I’m enjoying Lawrence Lessig’s book Free Culture, which I’m listening to in free audiobook format. Lawrence Lessig rocks, and that’s just that. And you know, releasing his …