hegemony rules

So, I'm sitting in my empty apartment watching bad TV after a long day of moving most of my worldly belongings into a pod for my move to Chicago. The "bad TV" in this case is the movie Fatal Attraction, which was being sponsored by...

wait for it...

eHarmony.com.

I'm at a loss. A loss!

• The Movie Review: 'The Happening'
  M. Night Shyamalan's latest movie, The Happening, is not merely bad. It is an astonishment, so idiotic in conception and inept in execution that, after seeing it, one almost wonders whether it was real or imagined.
  (tags: pop_culture film review the_new_republic criticism)

Pictures from my Japan trip are posted on my flickr collections page. It was a good trip, but I'm still suffering from the 16 hour time difference and feeling a bit...off. My favorite description of jet lag comes from William Gibson's Pattern Recognition:



"She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."

Another in an ongoing song chart meme series.