"November Spawned a Monster"

Current Music: Morrissey: Bona Drag Reading Baudrillard can make your head hurt, but it's getting taught so I gotta finish up The Ecstasy of Communication. Though the man has since gone off the deep end (almost: his little bit on 9/11 and terrorism is quite good), he certainly was prophetic. Today lecture is about subjectivity as a "network."

Gretchen sent along http://www.dokaka.com/">this link for Dukaka, Japan's answer to Bobby McFerrin. He has some pretty hilarious covers of Steely Dan and . . . Iron Maiden. Good for a pick-me-up. Warning: Do not listen with your mouth full of food or drink (unless, of course, you have purchased the keyboard protection warranty from Comp USA).

Watched The Haunted Mansion last evening. Laura was dead-on (so to speak): The story is about a butler who kills his master's fiance because the fiance is obviously a "slave." The Mansion is a thinly veiled plantation, of course, as the thing takes place in . . . New Orleans. It's a remarkable ending: souls to go heaven and hell, a la Snow White, however, this time the "saved" ending is explictly "in yo' face." A remarkably bad film, but also remarkable: the political unconscious is in yo fuckin' face. It must be read up against Song of the South, which I also have a bootleg of.

Speaking of bootlegs, the three-hours-plus version of "Alan Smithee's" Dune is on its way.

Alright, off to school with me.