October 19, 2021
Kate Bush - Live at the Apollo (full concert video)
Adrien Brody Finds His Chill
Nearly 20 years after winning an Oscar and staking his claim as one of his generation’s most serious actors, Adrien Brody is finding a glorious new gear. After the Oscar, every interaction with other people was somehow different. “It was as if a storm rolled in,” he says. “Everything started blowing away—the life I knew.”
Don't change, people kept telling him. Don't change. So he didn't. But then they went off and changed. They talked to him differently. Friends wanted to go into business with him. Photographers wanted to take his picture. Directors wanted him for their movies. None of it quite felt right. “It feels like it was a decade of finding out who and where I was. A lot of living and losing and winning and losing,” he says.
Atwood & Chee & Lerner & Porter & Waits & More
Inque Magazine will launch next month. It will be a printed literary magazine with a limited run of 6000 copies issued once a year for 10 years. It will feature no advertising, no web-equivalent, and will not be reprinted. In addition to a wonderful list of contributors and a hell of a masthead, Jonathan Lethem will publish a 10-chapter novel in the mag, one chapter per issue for the decade. [more inside]
All In The Game Yo, All In The Game
Why The Wire is the greatest TV series of the 21st Century out of The 100 greatest TV series of the 21st Century [BBC] [more inside]
We're not all that different / I promise not to scare you
A thread (reader, original tweets) on the Authoritarian disposition -- 33% of the population take the stance and there's little benefit to reasoning with them, "how do you manage a democracy containing them?"
#striketober international
#striketober isn't just for the US. Half a million workers in South Korea are prepared to stage a one-day general strike. [more inside]
anyone who enjoys wild birds is a birder! birding is for everyone!
The Birdability Map is a crowdsourced map that describes in detail the accessibility features of birding locations all over the world. It is a work-in-progress, and anyone can contribute to it by submitting a Birdability Site Review. [more inside]
languages, customs, avatars, and nasty safeguards
"But no matter: you can be made perfect; you can put on the immerser and become someone else, someone pale-skinned and tall and beautiful." "Immersion" is a short science fiction story by French-Vietnamese author Aliette de Bodard that won the 2012 Nebula Award and Locus Award for Best Short Story. It never explicitly uses the word "assimilation," or "immigrant."
There's something kind of odd about tricking people for a living
The collection of Ricky Jay, actor, sleight-of-hand master, and scholar of magic history, is going to auction. [more inside]
VIRUSCRAFT II
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