
Mel Gibson, Audacious Filmmaker or Creepy Stalker?
– February 21, 2004Posted in: Photo Headlines
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Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway: Harkaway's latest novel greatly improves on his previous book, The Gone-Away World, which I'm already on record as praising. Angelmaker adopts genre elements without ever feeling like a genre book, and it leads me to believe that Harkaway is well on his way to a narrative grace close to China MiƩville's. Yet inexplicably this very fun book, which includes an eightysomething badass named Edie Banister, a mysterious mechanical object that may destroy the world, farcical scenarios involving lawyers and the police, and some unexpectedly moving moments about fatherhood, doesn't appear to be getting much attention in American newspapers. Nothing from the snobs at The New York Times Book Review, nothing from The Washington Post. And since I can't get Harkaway on Bat Segundo, I hope this Jump Up and Down mention gets you hopping as well.
The Age of Insight by Eric Kandel: Unless you're really pressed for time, forget Jonah Lehrer. If you want to understand creativity and its relationship to neuroscience, then the bowtie-wearing Nobel laureate is your man. In addition to being a physically beautiful book (you will drool over many of the paintings), there are helpful overviews on optical illusions, science, biographical backgrounds, and many vital figures from the Vienna Secession. Kandel's enthusiasm (and his call for greater unity between the humanities and science) is contagious. All Content Copyright Their Respective Authors. All Rights Reserved.
Would you please take down this creepy fucker because I just don’t have the energy to do it. Although I do take note of the subtle juxtaposition of this item directly below the Hitler reference …
Um, I hope you realize I mean “take down” in the sense of rub out, frag, and otherwise terminate with extreme prejudice; was not a cry to take down the picture.
OK, going drinking now.
Damn, Savras. Honored that I’d be your last stop before a Saturday night constitutional.
And if Gibson falls, I suspect it will be his own doing.
hes a great director and god bless him