Tuesday, 27th of June, 2006

Me interviewed for FourPlay at Australian Music Online: Link

The Postal Service’s We Will Become Silhouettes is one of my fave “up” songs ever, and here (linked) is an exquisitely adorable video for it, complete with Ben Gibbard as plump Daddy, and the gorgeous Jenny Lewis as Mum, with Jimmy Tamborello filling an unclear family role. The faux-nostalgic look, and the retro-futuristic sections, are all just perfect. Yay for teh intarweb! and thanks, Pitchfork!

Sunday, 25th of June, 2006

Over at Thermostat, I’ve posted some reviews for the next issue of Cyclic Defrost:
me at Thermostat.

Friday, 2nd of June, 2006

Robert F Kennedy, Jr, writes an in-depth article in Rolling Stone called “Was the 2004 Election Stolen?“, to which the answer is, unsurprisingly by now, a resounding yes.
What’s particularly outrageous is the brazenness and arrogance with which the Republicans went about the perversions of justice in Ohio (in particular) in order to secure their victory. The whole thing is worth a read, but I should warn those with high blood pressure that you may want to take it in small doses.

Edit: More (if not indeed far too much!) info at The Brad Blog
Update: Mark Chu-Carroll of Good Math, Bad Math has an analysis of the mathematical side of the article in which he says it is, unfortunately, bad maths. He still believes it’s likely the election was stolen, but probably not for the reasons RFK gives. Oh well.