A New Weekly List of Ephemera Quote of the Week: "The renegade spawn of more than one bastion of privilege, [Oliver] Stone has tried over and over to make a movie this perceptive and knowledgeable about contemporary society. Now he's been left looking like a chump by a dude who not only never went to college but gave the world Se7en and Fight Club..." Tom Carson in GQ on The Social Network. Sideways by disassociation: Shopaholic: Rock Star Juice Boxes (via Trendhunter) Item B: spin the big trend wheel Item C: monitter, a twitter … [Read more...]
BOOT HEELS, WANDERING
October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Image via Wikipedia"People had become so identified with Bob Dylan, a certain Bob Dylan, that his move away from that image they had of him forced them to do the one thing that they didn't want to do, which is to question themselves. And when they questioned themselves, they went crazy. They went bonkers. It was as if the world that they had come to understand as true, as wonderful, as pure, was suddenly being snatched away from them by the very figure that they had identified with. That's why it was all felt so powerfully..." Sean Wilentz, … [Read more...]
ALBUM ART: OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS
October 21, 2010 By 1 Comment
...Is it too much of a stretch to suggest that rock album art gave generations of suburban adolescents in the 1970s and '80s their first exposure to surrealism and open-ended narrative? The cover of Hejira presented the lightly cultured teenager I was then with a visual puzzle that absorbed me in a new way. On the front gatefold, Mitchell's body is double-exposed with an image of a prairie highway; the songs on the album are about travel. I wanted to know, though, about the wintry sepia landscape in the background. The photograph winds around … [Read more...]
NOWHERE BOY
October 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment
EIGHT REASONS TO SEE NOWHERE BOY Aaron Johnson's thoughtful-anarchic 16-year-old John Lennon, young enough to blush.Kristin Scott-Thomas's ferociously understated Aunt Mimi, a broadax in pearls.Anne-Marie Duff as Julia Stanley, John's natural mother, whose guilt smothers him with too much and the wrong kind of love.For the way Bill Justis's "Raunchy" rings out of the young George Harrison's guitar during his impromptu audition on the back of a bus.For David Threlfall (once and future Smike from the RSC'S Nicholas Nickleby) as Uncle … [Read more...]
UNHEAR IT SOLID
October 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Because the unconscious radio can be an unruly beast: Unhearit. After you click there, think "Doo-doo-dit-dit Doo-doo-dit-dit T-J Max!" (via Netted by the Webbys...)Related articles by ZemantaSticky Song Solvers - 'Unhear It' Will Fix that Horrible Chorus Stuck in Your Head (trendhunter.com)Got a song stuck in your head? This site can fix that problem. (thenextweb.com)Unhearit Helps You Get A Catchy Song Out Of Your Head (laughingsquid.com)The rodent eats cat food in the nighttime (ask.metafilter.com) … [Read more...]
