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 … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2010
BOOT HEELS, WANDERING
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 … [Read more...]
ALBUM ART: OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS
...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 … [Read more...]
BOOK WITHOUT A PLUG
NOWHERE BOY
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 … [Read more...]
UNHEAR IT SOLID
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 … [Read more...]