Y’know, I’m actually keeping an archive of these Unrequired Reading posts, if you’re really bored at work. Meanwhile, here’s this week’s collection of links I didn’t have time to post about. I oughtta be done with The Big (400 pg.) Year-End Issue of my mag by the beginning of next week, so that should get me back to posting more regularly about stuff. Which in turn will get you commenting more regularly, dear readers.
Till then, there’s more after the jump!
The AV Club offers up a list of “Best Albums” of years past. The frightening irrelevance of these records reminds me of the time one of my coworkers told me that Radiohead was the only relevant band in the world, and another coworkers disagreed with him, contending that in fact Pearl Jam was the only relevant band in the world. I never felt so happy to be irrelevant.
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David Lynch on movie-making, critics, cats, and Ronald Reagan.
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Johnny White’s: We Never Close.
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A Confederacy of Dunces: We Never Open.
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It’s not a monkey with four asses, but it’s still pretty messed up.
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Evidently, it’s time for A Very Special Episode of House.
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My wife, on opera and heckling.
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In closing, I give you Lifestyles of the Rich and Fascist.