Jul
31
Horace bragged at the end of his Odes, “Exegi monumentum aere perennius”: I have raised a monument more permanent than bronze. (Like M.I.A. singing ”no one on the corner’s got swagger like us.”) Great authors have been reassuring themselves with this line ever since. (Like T.I., Jay-Z, Kanye, and Lil Wayne sampling M.I.A.’s aforementioned line for the song [...]
Jul
28
The band OK Go, who created a sensation several years ago with their treadmill theatrics, have teamed up with Google to create a “Chrome Experiment” in interactive HTML5 web browsing. The Arcade Fire lent their song We Used To Wait to a similar Google project last year, although to far grander and more moving effect. The [...]
Jul
27
I wrote a post about the beautiful teaser video that the French DJ M83 sent out a few weeks ago in anticipation of the release of his new double-disc album, now officially titled Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, which is due out October 18th. The song Midnight City is the first hint of what’s to come; check it [...]
Jul
27
Readers using Chrome might find that the fonts on The Lynx do not appear as they should. (Text appears enlarged and in a strange font.) I myself have had this problem since this morning. The site’s fonts look normal if you’re using Firefox or Safari to browse the web. I hope this is a temporary [...]
Jul
24
Jerome by Lykke Li from Wounded Rhymes: Lykke Li is a Swedish singer whose 2008 debut album, Youth Novels, has been followed by this year’s excellent Wounded Rhymes. You should be listening to her music. She has a distinctive voice and her songs range from the relatively sparse Unrequited Love to the grandly [...]
Jul
23
From The Communist Manifesto: Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones … All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, [...]
Jul
23
The video for Back to Black has Amy standing at a funeral —it’s such a shame that we now have to witness her own.
Jul
21
As I was walking around the East Village one night, I happened upon a silent film projected onto the side of a building from a bar across the street. (I think it was on the corner of 5th Street and Avenue A.) It was beautiful to see the black-and-white images playing out their drama as [...]
Jul
18
You must read B.H. Fairchild‘s poem “The Book of Hours” from his 1998 collection The Art of the Lathe. I insist that you click on the title to read it in its gorgeous entirety. The poem weaves together the personal life of “the art historian, who has arrived frazzled/and limp after waking late in her boyfriend’s apartment” [...]
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