Rosanne Cash The List (Sony) Mission of Burma The Sound The Speed The Light (Matador) John Fogerty Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again (Verve) Chris Potter Ultrahang (ArtistShare) Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch) the-dream Love vs. money Lily Allen It's … [Read more...]
Archives for 2009
DARLENE SINGS SMIGEL
(via Annie) … [Read more...]
TWEET CLOUD
LENNON, MCCARTNEY, TRAFFIC, WEATHER
Peter Carlin's Paul McCartney: A Life (Touchstone) "Among the many virtues of Carlin's sympathetic yet discerning portrait is the way he turns so many familiar details into a fresh life story. This is the Cute Beatle you only thought you knew, whose good cheer feeds off ferocious ambition. In … [Read more...]
VISION THANG
There's too much to say about the remasters, still lost in stereo detail, haven't even cracked mono. But since you're already decked out, ask for this handsome "empty" box set. It lets you slip all your discs into a single spot, and includes slots for LOVE, Anthology and BBC, and lets you fetishize … [Read more...]
DUVAL’S ARMY CORPS RULING
"The Corps' lassitude and failure to fulfill its duties resulted in a catastrophic loss of human life and property in unprecedented proportions," Duval wrote. "The Corps' negligence resulted in the wasting of millions of dollars in flood protection measures and billions of dollars in congressional … [Read more...]
RABBI HESCHEL
"Deeds set upon ideal goals, deeds performed not with careless ease and routine but in exertion and submission to their ends are stronger than the surprise and attack of caprice. Serving sacred goals may change mean motives. For such deeds are exacting. Whatever our motive may have been prior to the … [Read more...]
MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT: POST-MODERNISM CUBED
(notes toward the essay nobody's written yet...) As a ginormous crossover pop star, Michael Jackson embodied the era's cosmic mismatch of outsized talent and crashingly banal taste, the black Barbra Streisand. Tipped just a few degrees in the right direction and he could have been a colossus, a … [Read more...]
Dario Robleto Lion or Lamb, 2007-2008
WAYNE’S FULL NELSON
"As far as Harry was concerned, Victor Ramdass Singh was just another Nervous Camera director, who worked tirelessly to make the audience realize at every moment that the picture was indeed being directed." This passage appears in Don Carpenter's 1975 novel The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan. No … [Read more...]
CROP CIRCLE COP QUOTE
"A police officer contacted UFO experts after claiming he saw three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle in Wiltshire...." … [Read more...]
IYA 2009 Posters
Soundtrack: Donald Fagen's "IGY" … [Read more...]
FARBER, MANNY FILE UNDER
I've been planning a post devoted to some of the screamers I've been compiling from the Farber anthology, but first Duncan Shepherd from the San Diego Reader: "It is highly salutary to read what was written about such movies before any ossification of critical orthodoxy. The close-up and in-context … [Read more...]