Backward Mutters

  • Music is the “quickening art”. Alive Inside Film of Music and Memory Project – Henry’s Story

    Music is the “quickening art”. Alive Inside Film of Music and Memory Project – Henry’s Story

  • “Any reasonable ordering of the books must have The Last Battle as the final story, and must place Prince Caspian before The Voyage of the ‘Dawn Treader,’ since the latter is very straightforwardly a sequel to the former. Also, The Silver Chair cannot come before either of those books, since…

  • “I will tell you truths while I can…”

    Just prior to Gwyneth announcing her “conscious uncoupling” to Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin, she spoke about her plans her the next year with Lily Harrison at E-Online. “She added, iI think it’s different when you have an office job, because it’s routine and, you know, you can do all the…

  • “Published last year, Jonathan Crary’s 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep begins with the effect of digital culture on our sense of time. A world that is always “on”—the irony of “sleep” mode is that it avoids turning off a device—entices or requires humans to be the same.…

  • ‘Precious, precious, precious!’ Gollum cried. ‘My Precious! O my Precious!’ And with that, even as his eyes were lifted up to gloat on his prize, he stepped too far, toppled, wavered for a moment on the brink, and then with a shriek he fell. Out of the depths came his…