Marginalia

[coalescent]

Genius: "FACT! As of today, November 10, 2004, it is one year since 'Hey Ya' was released in the UK. So all you Beyonces and Lucy Lius and Babydolls GET OFF THE FLOOR.' And keep reading down to the 'note to DJs' at the end ...

Via tamaranth (several days ago), the Guardian interviews Neal Stephenson.

At Locus, Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person like The Incredibles a whole damn lot.

Philip Pullman clearly never saw 'Isaac and Ishmael', or maybe just disagrees: "The Christian right in America is the mirror image of the Islamic fundamentalists," he says.

An adaptation of The Master and Margarita causes controversy: 'Russia's Orthodox church has reacted with dismay to a film of the seminal novel The Master and Margarita, saying it offers a version of the Gospel that is "nothing but negative" and fearing it will offend or confuse many believers.' Shocking.

Comments

[ex-susumu64.livejournal.com]

But I like it! It's like riding the best rollercoaster in the world, while having buckets of water thrown in your face, in space, on fire, in 3D.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

... like some kind of horrible hallucinatory experience, then? :-p

[ex-susumu64.livejournal.com]

You mean the best kind, right? Music should be fun! Stop listening to Radiohead and get with the happy sound of omnipresent party pop.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Music should be fun!

I agree entirely. Well, I agree partly. OK, I think it really depends on your definition of 'fun'. But more importantly, I disagree that the experience you described would be fun. Under almost any definition. :-p

[ex-susumu64.livejournal.com]

I concede I may have gotten a little carried away, there.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I think it was the bit about being ON FIRE that lost me, really. :)

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

Everyone knows being on fire is fun: ask a Buddhist monk. Then again I'm still listening to Bootylicious so what do I know.

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY!

Niall; sound advice here!

[snowking.livejournal.com]

YES.

But somehow more fun than all of that.