Chilean Economist Manfred Max-Neef … [Read more...]
WEAK FILM, TERRIFIC CLOSING CREDITS
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Other Guys, end title sequence by Picture Mill The Other Guys, end title sequence by Picture Mill … [Read more...]
PAVEMENT, FOOTNOTE EDITION (KEITH HARRIS)
September 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via WikipediaOne last time: The thing about Pavement isn't that they chose diffidence, or irony, or aloof distance (or whatever other residual Gen-X cliché you're compelled to recycle) as an aesthetic posture. It's that they seemed to find themselves, like lots of us, inherently diffident, and ironic, and aloof, and distant (and whatever) in their relations with others, and they created the sort of language and noise we needed to communicate amongst ourselves. And in the process, they found that plenty of emotional truths, and plenty of … [Read more...]
JAMES LEVINE CHASES HIS OWN GHOST
September 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via WikipediaFrom Daniel Wakin's NYTimes report on James Levine's podium return (September 17): Despite evidence that working too hard in the past has contributed to his health problems, Mr. Levine, 67, is scheduled for a nightmarish week in October. He will lead the Boston orchestra in Mahler's huge Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") at 8 p.m. on Oct. 7. On Oct. 8, he conducts a 1:30 p.m. repeat concert. Mr. Levine must then be in New York the next day for a 1 p.m. "Rheingold" and back in Boston that evening for another … [Read more...]
DAVID THOMSON ON THE WIZARD OF OZ
September 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via WikipediaFrom David Thomson's Have You Seen...? A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films:The song [Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," which Louis B. Mayer had tried to cut] is in the film. It won the Oscar for Best Song that year. And I think it is the moment where a very strange, confused movie puts its foot out on the ground and says "Home!" For the rest of her life, Garland could not get off a stage or a nightclub floor without singing the song. And no one should kid you that her life was better than … [Read more...]
BEATLES VS. STONES, OLDHAM REFS
September 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Funny, I never would have taken John Schaefer for a Stones perv. But there it is: (Or click here to listen, from podcast riley.) … [Read more...]
BIO
September 10, 2010 By
Tim Riley (triley60ATgmail.com) critiques music for NPR's HERE AND NOW out of WBUR Boston, and is Journalist-In-Residence at Emerson College. … [Read more...]
BOOKS
September 10, 2010 By
FEVER (Picador, 2005) surveys rock's gender styles through key figures like Elvis Presley, Tina Turner, Girl Groups, Smokey Robinson, Pete Townshend, Rosanne Cash, Joni Mitchell, Chrissie Hynde, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, and rock couples from Sonny and Cher through Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. Radio Interviews: On Point (NPR) 7/8/05 Marketplace 6/9/05 Wisconsin Public Radio 8/10/04 Here and Now (NPR) 9/13/04 On Point (NPR) 9/13/04 … [Read more...]
SLEEVAGE: MINIMALIST ALBUM COVERS
September 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Related articles by ZemantaMinimalist 1960s redesigns of classic album covers (boingboing.net)New and Notable: Hard Ton (albumartexchange.com)Paint My Album on Flickr (albumartexchange.com)Movie Posters Using Shapes Straight Lines - Minimalistically Geeky (geekpinoy.com)Noel McKay: vintage (vinyl) album cover (bilerico.com) … [Read more...]
