"...He had a white-labelled 45 rpm test pressing on the turntable and he put it into play. The room was filled with this amazing sound. I had no idea what it was, but it was the most incredible thing I'd ever heard. I slowly and numbly felt my way through the aural maze and discerned what I thought … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2008
Elvis: Suppressed
from Ray Connolly in the Daily Mail... … [Read more...]
Up Past the Dawn
Greil Marcus on "rock poetry" in last week's Guardian: The June 1966 issue of the youth-oriented American fashion magazine Glamour carried an unusual feature: lyrics from the soon to be released Bob Dylan song Visions of Johanna, which Dylan had been performing onstage, alone, with an acoustic … [Read more...]
When You Put Your Foot on the Brake…
Your Life Is In Your Foot's Hands. … [Read more...]
Fabled Loins
David Thomson updates his scabrous, eye-peeling, brain-sizzling Biographical Dictionary of Film with an entry on Angelista, She To Whom Attention Must Be Paid: "...Who knows, the world may last long enough for her to play Dagny Taggart in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, or the mother of apocalypse in … [Read more...]
None But the Brave
Marc Crispin Miller on HBO's RECOUNT in the Huffington Post: ...However, it is at the very end that Recount cops out most egregiously. The last shot is a great one: a grim Kubrickian view down a long corridor, with floor-to-ceiling shelves on either side, all loaded up with crates of ballots -- … [Read more...]
Turn On Your Radio
Second half of On Point this morning, at 11:30 EDT, I'll talk about Gnarls Barkley, Erykah Badu, and Beck... will post podcast as soon as it's available. This gets repeated tonight across many public radio stations. … [Read more...]