What album is John Lennon carrying into Abbey Road studios for PEPPER sessions, 1967? (From I Love Music.)Jane Dark has good stuff on Critical Karaoke, the latest teeny-bopper craze out of the EMP, including Greil Marcus doing Roxy Music's "More Than This" by way of Bill Murray. And this is a … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2004
SIX FEET UNDER: Eight Miles High
The front page of Sunday's Seattle Times featured a photo of coffins containing bodies of US soldiers being secured inside a cargo plane at Kuwait International Airport. Tami Silicio, a contractor who took the photo, was subsequently fired from her job. Here's a simple litmus test: papers that run … [Read more...]
DEADWOOD’S SWEARENGEN: Swear Engine
...My feeling is that Deadwood will be an examination of morality. About men with an untouched world at their feet, with the power to turn it in the direction they wish. Some men, like Swearengen, want to spoil the land for their own gain. Law and order is a threat to his violent, corrupt existence. … [Read more...]
LENNON THE BRAND: Skeptical Coverage
Sat 10 Apr 2004 John and Yoko. Her supporters are critical of lingering British dislike for the women they think stole their Beatle. by TIM CORNWELL, ARTS CORRESPONDENT, THE SCOTSMAN IF HE were alive today, he might well have approved. As Yoko Ono prepares to bring the most complete collection of … [Read more...]
PRESS CONF #12: Smell the Stupidity
Lotta traveling, lotta sleep disruption, good to be back. Britain was grand, especially the Elgar and the "adorable" little Fawlty Towers hotel I stayed at in Liverpool. Spencer Leigh invited me to appear on his Merseyside Radio show Saturday night with CP Lee, a very funny Dylan author from … [Read more...]
OUT AND ABOUT: No Gore Please We’re British
4 April 2004, 7.30pm Barbican Hall, London ELGAR: The Apostles LSO, Richard Hickox, conductor John Mark Ainsley, St John Alastair Miles, Judas Alice Coote, Mary Magdalene Claire Rutter, Blessed Virgin/Angel Teddy Tahu Rhodes, St Peter James Rutherford, Jesus (Brian) London Symphony … [Read more...]
PUT THE MONEY DOWN: (in a tin cup)
So I arrive in London last night after an interminable British Airways flight after watching SHATTERED GLASS, that movie about the NEW REPUBLIC fiction scandal, which I stuck with only because people like Chloe Sevigny and Steve Zahn were in it. Lead performance was pretty decent, it was the writing … [Read more...]