Archive for December, 2008

Lykke Li

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

The next post-modern post is still in the works. However in the meantime I thought I would highlight my latest musical fascination. Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson, thankfully shortened to "Lykke Li" for a stage name (she's Swedish in case you are wondering). I picked up her album ...

Post-Modernism: The Universe – Its Vastness or Lack There Of

Friday, December 5th, 2008

I read the updated version of Steven Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" several months ago. For those of you unfamiliar: "A Brief History of Time attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang, black holes, light cones and superstring theory, to the nonspecialist ...

The Sickness of the Modern Age

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Note: I originally published this as a whole, but decided this morning to make it a series, so I have stripped out some of the content for length. “We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All ...