Anobium’s Grand Alchemical Amalgam of All Things Awesome in 2012
The Anobium staff is proud to present what 2012 meant to us in terms of music, film, and literature. BENJAMIN VAN LOON Top 5 Albums 1. Gaza: No Absolutes in Human Suffering [2012] – A soundtrack for universal entropy. Heavy and dark as the Caspian Sea. 2. Old Man Gloom: No [2012] – I waited something like 10 […]
Conversation with a Deadhead, Part 2
[Part 1] ANOBIUM: What strikes me most from what you’ve said about the Grateful Dead in class is the word “community.” When I first learned about the band, one of the strongest points made was the bootlegging culture—the fact that there are recordings of nearly all of their shows. Do you think the Grateful Dead […]
Conversation with a Deadhead: Part 1
Not a week into my “Philosophy of Art” class, Stan Spector, Ph. D, made his predilections known: “The electric guitar was the greatest invention of the twentieth century.” It’s one of those self-evident statements that takes your breath away with the sublimity of its expression. Like a mathematical equation, it makes complete, beautiful sense after […]
Object-Oriented Poetry: Sheer Indefinite by Skip Fox
Forget Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite reveals that our day’s poets are, rather, the computer programmers of the universe. If our universe is indeed a virtual simulation, like so many Hollywood movies and conspiracy theorists posit, Skip Fox’s Sheer Indefinite is the reference manual to its sublime syntax. And […]
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