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...]
Archives for October 2009
DO YOUR SCALES
MISSION OF BURMA: SOUND SPEED LIGHT (MATADOR)
REMASTERED REVISIONISM
Haven't jotted down the firehose of details I'm still catching listening through the EMI Beatle remasters, but I enjoyed this podcast with Nik Cohn, who was always more of a Stoner, and poses the most reasonable push-back... … [Read more...]
WHITMAN SELLS JEANS MINUS IRONY
HOCKNEY WRIT LARGE
Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney's iPhone (slideshow). … [Read more...]
DON’T BOGART THAT NOBEL
Very curious how Gary Wills will weigh in given what he wrote in the NYRB: ...An example of this imperial system is the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.[5] In the 1960s, to secure a military outpost without fear of any interference from indigenous peoples, the two thousand Chagossian … [Read more...]
Contact me
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LISTS, CONTINUED
from Swear I'm Not Paul: This month's Uncut Magazine has a list of their 150 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century so far (i.e. the best ones of the decade or noughties or whatever), and so far I've been unable to locate the full list online. Therefore I'm going to take the time to type them all out … [Read more...]