• Home
  • About
    • blog riley
    • Tim Riley
    • Contact
  • AJBlogs
  • ArtsJournal

blog riley

rock culture approximately

You are here: Home / 2006 / Archives for September 2006

Archives for September 2006

FOOL’S PARADISE

September 30, 2006 by Tim Riley

LEARNING THE GAME or: How John Lennon Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Inner Geek Perfect Sound Forever LONG BEFORE "POST-MODERN" became pure jargon, Buddy Holly put quotes around his "normalcy" to disarm rock machismo. Holly, the "King of the Sixth Grade," hiccupped his hormones out loud, … [Read more...]

WHO’S MORE PARANOID

September 26, 2006 by Tim Riley

NIXON... OR BUSH? HERE AND NOW story aired today: interview with David Leaf, co-director of THE US VS JOHN LENNON. … [Read more...]

PARENTHESES OF THE WEEK

September 24, 2006 by Tim Riley

ARCHLY ANTI-STARCH "I appreciated the relative anonymity of the actors (one doesn’t want recognizable faces in trash), but what is Samuel L. Jackson doing in “Snakes on a Plane”?" --David Denby in the New Yorker. … [Read more...]

DEATHLESS EQUATIONS

September 18, 2006 by Tim Riley

WHERE THE PAST PEEKS INTO THE FUTURE "Archimedes Palimpsest," a 10th-century parchment document, has been rotting for hundreds of years, besides being erased and painted over numerous times. And lost. And rediscovered. On August 3, Uwe Bergmann, a physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator … [Read more...]

Hey Lauer: WHAT ABOUT THE SAUDIS

September 15, 2006 by Tim Riley

MORE DREAMS OF JOE HILL Mother Jones has posted an Iraq war timeline that's even better in its interactive edition: Lie By Lie IF I WERE AN ASSIGNMENT EDITOR Write me a story about how gas prices have fallen by as much as 20 percent in the past month, and do a comparison of gas price … [Read more...]

FACETIOUSLY: VOWELS IN ORDER

September 11, 2006 by Tim Riley

HATE TO AGREE WITH THESE GUYS Tierney in Friday's Times: Compared with past threats — like Communist sociopaths with nuclear arsenals — Al Qaeda’s terrorists are a minor problem. They certainly don’t justify the hyperbolic warnings that America’s “existence” or “way of life” is in jeopardy, or … [Read more...]

CATCHING UP W/EMMYS

September 6, 2006 by Tim Riley

Let us be frank: godless sodomites is a COMPLIMENT in this day and age, ESPECIALLY if you don't get it. But we hasten to add: Annette Bening wuz ROBBED. (And we ADORE Helen Mirren. AND Jeremy Irons.) … [Read more...]

This is an Archived ArtsJournal blog

Tim Riley

NPR critic, Author, Emerson College Journalist and Campus Speaker Tim Riley contributes to HERE AND NOW out of WBUR Boston. Read More…

rss thumbnailfacebook thumbnaildeliciousThumbnailyoutube thumbnail
Lennon cover qrcode gplus page pinterest
Lectures: Jodi Solomon Speakers

FEVER playlist

Books

IMG_0444
hardrainknopf
Feverpbpc
madonna_lg
RileyALLBOOKS2



Archives

This blog published under a Creative Commons license

an ArtsJournal blog

Copyright © 2026 · Magazine Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in