A series of four Honda scooter commercials from 1984.
Lou Reed, by far the best.
Miles Davis sporting a weird haircut and talking some gibberish.
Devo, in an ad that is certainly still shown to entry-level employees in Target’s marketing department.
Most terrifying of all, as usual, is Grace Jones’s offering. She also did one with Adam Ant that [...]
Books I read (rather, finished) in 2008, organized autobiographically:
A History of Old Age, Pat Thane
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee and Walker Evans
Then We Came to the End, Joshua Ferris
In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
Parallel Lives: Five Victorian [...]
