Boston Globe Good Will Hunting retrospective omits Elliott Smith
Which, you know, kinda sucks, since Elliott’s music was pretty pivotal to the whole movie, and it really launched him past hipster obscurity to a wider audience. So let’s do the retrospective: Elliott Smith left the band Heatmiser in 1994 because he was tired of having all his songs played like big rock songs, and [...]
Wonderfulness
There were two spectacularly wonderful things that I found online yesterday: Guardian: Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark’s clock. This isn’t a new story, but the acquittal of the members of the Untergunther on trespassing charges is. And the concept of people breaking in to fix broken things is one of those delightful moments that makes [...]
