Tag: Ursula K. Le Guin
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The Matrix Resurrections, revisited!
The problem with the Matrix movies has always been that you can’t live in the future. This might be true on a philosophical level, but in cinematic terms there is a more immediate problem: the future world of the films has never looked or sounded like a destination. Resurrections tries to rectify that, filling the desert of…
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Pick Three – Ekumen
Carrying on from yesterday’s Le Guin theme, the first in a series of posts where I pick my top three tracks from a random record, in this case the self-titled debut album from New Orleans hardcore band Ekumen. Every track on Ekumen is great, most of them are extremely short, and the band makes a…
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Hey Now, You’re (An) All Star
My current thought about Ursula K. Le Guin is that for someone so ubiquitous her work is strangely underrated. Le Guin was an institution for a long time before her death. She’s now so beloved that any reminder of the fact she was a part of a living, thriving, thinking community for several decades can…
Blue Box // Recorder 