Still On Holiday Roundup
Have you seen the trailer for the new Sherlock Holmes movie? Check it:
Two views: Morrissey “greatest lyricist in the history of British popular music” and Morrissey is not a poet. From the latter:
Being solemn about pop squeezes the life out of it. Its lyrics and its tunes are not designed to be separated. The truth about pop lyrics is that if you’re reading them, you’re not really listening.
These guys may be over thinking it. “I dreamt about you last night/and I fell out of bed twice” is still one of my favorite lyrics of all time.
Slate reviews Aleksandar Hemon’s story collection Love and Obstacles. I saw Hemon read last week at the Decatur Library and dashed home to start reading.
Dear Yahoo Answers, Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school? (via Librarian.net)
Dude runs the risk of being labeled a “phony” – will publish a sequel to Catcher in the Rye.
The Boston Globe suggests a summer reading list.
May 26, 2009 8:38 am 4 Comments
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By Dr J, May 27, 2009 @ 9:54 am
A serious question: Is that trailer a parody?
By Tim, May 27, 2009 @ 1:00 pm
Nope. The new film is directed by Guy Ritchie who wanted to de-sanitize the Holmes story. He may have gone too far in the other direction perhaps.
By Rx, May 27, 2009 @ 8:11 pm
Downey is looking like Iggy Pop these days. That’s cool, both are clean and sober.
By Dr J, May 28, 2009 @ 10:26 am
I expect the kind of guy who’d marry Madonna to make better decisions than that.