24 Hour Party People

I loved this film! It is a documentary Tony Wilson and *Factory Records*, a Manchester UK record company that was formed during the "revolution" in popular music begun by the Sex Pistols in Britain. Joy Division and later New Order recorded for this label. I think this film fascinates me because I never understood as an adolescent how it was that bands with a punk origin started making what is essentially dance music; somehow this bugged the 18 year old version of me, but doesn't seem to bother me at all now.

Holiday Reading

I received a big pile of books for christmas, and was so excited I seem to have begun three of them more-or-less at once -- I seem to be saving the fiction for later. I'm reading:

• Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus
• Imagining Numbers by Barry Mazur
  

and I just finished

• Mathematics and the roots of postmodern thought by Tasic.

[Note: in my original post, I misspelled Tasic's name -- argh...]

It is worth pointing out that I was reminded to read Lipstick Traces by the (fun!) review of Tasic's book by Michael Harris in the Notices of the American Math Society; this review can be found here: Postmodern at an Early Age (http://www.ams.org/notices/200307/rev-harris.pdf)