OR: KIND OF LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF AN AERIAL VIEW: Unifying the conceptual approach to Day Glow Freaks is the particular use of names. The album's title is borrowed from the "Kid Charlemagne" lyric "all those dayglow freaks who used to paint the face / they've joined the human race..." and is tied … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2011
FORGET CHINA, HAPPY BOOBDAY
"When I first heard Elvis's voice I just knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody, and nobody was going to be my boss," Mr. Dylan once said. "Hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail..." Bob Dylan, quoted in David Hajdu's NYTimes Op-Ed Bob DylanRelated articlesBob Dylan … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XI:4
BEAT THIS FOR COOL: The Project Repat Kickstarter Video from Project Repat on Vimeo, aiding Boston NFPs: Newton-Tanzania Collaborative (www.newtontanzania.org) and Smallbean (www.smallbean.org). BLURB OF THE MONTH: "Never, I repeat never, in the annals of entertainment has one man devoted himself … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XI:3
QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "Is it possible to be beside the point in your own memoir?" Gary Rivlin, reviewing Paul Allen's Idea Man in the NYTimes. LETTERHEAD OF THE MONTH: (via letterheady) Milton Glaser did a lot of logo work for record labels, including Bearsville. His Design Study … [Read more...]
DETEROIRATA XII:1
RADIO RADIO, PLUS LA CHANGE Source: Frugal dad HOW TO IMPOSE YOUR PERSONALITY PARENTHETICALLY “ ‘God does not play dice with the Universe,’ Albert Einstein advised physicist Max Born (Olivia Newton-John’s grandfather) in 1936.” via ‘Turing’s Cathedral,’ by George Dyson - … [Read more...]
ELLEN WILLIS:
Nona Willis Aronoqitz, editor and daughter twitter conference hashtag: #ellenwillis2011 Ellen Willis on tumblr Rest Is Noise: Willis Resurgent NYT Obituary, 2006 Out of the Vinyl Deep, University of Minnesota Press … [Read more...]
ARE WE GONNA MUSH?
Image via WikipediaTimes Book Review Letter, May 1, 2011:...Wallace's novel and essay and McCarthy's review are excellent demonstrations that the issues of will and choice and agency are, in our era of neurobiological investigations, not sterile and abstract. They are descending from the lofty and, … [Read more...]