Mason Inman's Blog

Tuesday, February 21

from the New Yorker, Feb. 6, 2006

"I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."

âJonathan Safran Foer getting Buddhist in his novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Yay!!!: Das Experiment: this depressing but moving film holds lessons for recent prison abuses in Iraq (read my post on this)

Yay: In the Mood for Love: tender and moving, but it didn't blow me away, like it did a couple of my movie buff friends

Yay: 2046: the sequel of sorts to "In the Mood...," I liked this one better; edgier and with an existential sci fi story embedded in it.

boingboing: David Pescovitz is co-editor of this directory of wonderful things.
inky circus: Anna Gosline, Anne Casselman, and Katie Law are the triumfemate behind this science-and-culture blog
Slashmark: Mark Husson is an unrepentant Star Wars fan.
Yingpow: Catherine Meng is a poet, music connoisseur, wandering worker.

Allmusic: helpful bios & discographies, and more authoritative and comprehensive than Amazon
Discogs: same kind of thing as Allmusic; started with electronic music, but now branching out to rap & indie rock
Freedb: an independent archive of CD album info
NewsGator: an online news aggregator that helps you pluck the diamonds from the manure, at home or on the road
Powell's Books: the best used bookstore in the world. (disclaimer: I used to work here, "The City of Books")