August 2007 Archives
Headaches have themselves
by Jerry Fodor
Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: DOES PHYSICALISM ENTAIL PANPSYCHISM? by Galen Strawson and et al · Imprint Academic, 285 pp, £17.95
Are we talking about non-combatants?
It only takes 30 seconds for Weaver to equate herself with William Shatner (Star Trek) and Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) in Directv's new HD ads...the kind of ad they USED to make for the Japanese market. What kind of cash does Sigourney need to justify this low-rent move? Remember Robert Ulrich selling penile implants?
Brian Lehrer Show
Tuesday, August 14
SENTENCE OF THE MONTH
from Peter Carlin's Catch A Wave: The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson (Rodale) p. 110:
"It was just like the old days with his Wollensak recorder, except much, much weirder..."
Geoff Dyer, author of THE ONGOING MOMENT, in the current Threepenny Review on the ECM label:
...Recent ECM releases are of a very high standard, but in many ways Khmer (the follow-up, Solid Ether, kept dissolving into a clatter of drum'n'bass) is a high point in the ECM project precisely because it seems so conspicuously at odds--sampling! remixes!--with the ethos of the company. (Having the courage of one's convictions is, as Nietzsche pointed out, a pretty modest virtue; "having the courage for an attack on one's convictions" is another matter altogether.) The ECM sound is as recognizable as Blue Note's from the 1960s. It's a style of music as much as a label; unlike Blue Note, it has never become a reductive or formulaic one. Which is why, of course, we are still listening to the old records (a CD of Arbour Zena is winging its way to me in the post; what will that be like, twenty-five years after first hearing it?) and listening out for what's coming next (a new double live CD of Jarrett playing solo piano is due out in a couple of months; what will that be like?)...
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Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
rock culture approximately
Laura Collins-Hughes on arts, culture and coverage
Richard Kessler on arts education
Douglas McLennan's blog
Dalouge Smith advocates for the Arts
Art from the American Outback
For immediate release: the arts are marketable
No genre is the new genre
David Jays on theatre and dance
Paul Levy measures the Angles
Judith H. Dobrzynski on Culture
John Rockwell on the arts
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
jazz
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
media
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Martha Bayles on Film...
classical music
Fresh ideas on building arts communities
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
Bruce Brubaker on all things Piano
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
publishing
Jerome Weeks on Books
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
theatre
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
visual
Public Art, Public Space
Regina Hackett takes her Art To Go
John Perreault's art diary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog

