The Charleston City Mouse

“Gossamer” by Southern Femisphere If You Like: Superchunk, Do Make Say Think, Rainer Maria,  Weezer A Digital Single by post-punk hypnotists, Southern Femisphere, Gossamer is an excellent and well-qualified indie-punk cut.  Gossamer’s rock and roll is raw but polished a la “The Steve Albini Sound” with plenty of casually specific indie-rock indulgences:  Soft/loud dynamics, dual harmonies, guitar-solos consisting almost entirely of fret harmonics, crash cymbals that mysteriously seem to layer the white-noise guitar sound, and lyrics that climax with the vocals going from urgent to forceful in a way that…

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I have wanted to love and adore Wes Anderson’s warm, primary color laden, fairy-tales of likeable, rootless eccentrics caught up in P.G.-Wodehouse-ian plots for a very long time.  I have not loved nor adored anything at all by Anderson since Rushmore and have most frequently been disappointed by his films, and left feeling emotionally confused about whether it is my own ill-gained smug middle-agedness that prevents me from loving and adoring The Royal Tenenbaums as much as my friends seem to have, and if per chance it is my own…

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Business-to-business culture and practices of the last decade show a sharp increase in business owners who value honest-to-goodness transparency, multi-network idea sharing, resource pooling, and even (gasp) giving back to the community over the notorious materialism and “evil-empire-building” mentalities of past decades. The new model for business is to do something the right way and trust that eventually, the money will be there. Facebook for example, which has billions of users isn’t even profitable yet, but I doubt you ever hear Facebook’s founders murmuring about how they should’ve done something…

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