My piece on the brilliant movie Sita Sings the Blues, including an interview with animatrix/writer/director Nina Paley is up on Coilhouse:
Sita’s magnificence is a testament to the tireless hard work and innovative vision of Paley, a longtime alternative cartoonist, who made the whole film on her home computer over five years. The ideas for [...]
Buddhist monks build temple from beer bottles:
Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew [...]
Moe Hamzeh of The Kordz during the Cedar Revolution, photo by Lynsey Addario
My piece on the growing heavy metal culture in the Middle East is up on Coilhouse:
In 2007, the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad chronicled the trials of Acrassicauda, dubbed “Iraq’s only heavy metal band.” No doubt many did a double take at trying [...]
* I found out today that someone recently called me power-hungry. I’ll take that as a compliment, especially in this city.
* I have a craving for steak.
* Kathleen Sebelius is coming to Asheville
* While I’m on the topic of this fair town, what it really needs is a fetish/latex fashion place with some decently affordable [...]
I wrote a rough draft of the following in 2005 after a visit to Ground Zero — looking at it over three years later, I find that it sums up my thoughts on this day.
My first visit to New York was years ago. I went as a gangly kid, smack dab in the middle of [...]
Johann Hari finds out what the kids in the Middle East are listening to:
I first realised that my never-quite-abandoned adolescent taste for heavy metal had a political edge in – of all places – the Jaballya refugee camp in Gaza. I was interviewing teenagers about their strangled lives and expected to hear the usual Hamasnik [...]
I am human, nothing human is alien to me.
-Terence
Holy shit. From this fascinating article in Radar:
Gen’s royal “we” has taken on an added resonance after Jaye’s death, since in a way he’s speaking for both of them: The pandrogeny project is still ongoing, but in a different form. Now Gen feels it’s his duty to represent both himself and Jaye on this physical [...]
I have mixed feelings about most mashups, but this is just awesome. Who would have thought that two of my favorite songs (and videos) would go so well together?
