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 conceptually to the song titles on the album. I interpreted the "freaks" as a group of people with whom you were once familiar but have since become estranged. Likewise, I saw Day Glow Freaks as an opportunity to tell the stories of Steely Dan … [Read more...]
FORGET CHINA, HAPPY BOOBDAY
May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
"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 Fires Back on Accusations of 'Censored' Show in China (wcbsfm.radio.com)David Wild: "Forever Young": A 70th Birthday Playlist For Bob Dylan (huffingtonpost.com)Dowd Blows In Dylan's Wind (dave-lucas.blogspot.com)Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan! … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XI:4
May 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 more dutifully, studied more scrupulously, and documented so diligently these bizarre and astonishing feats of physical and mental derring-do than the man they call 'America's Scholar of the Unusual'--magician, author, bon vivant, raconteur, … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XI:3
May 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 Center maintains a flickr page. #HASHTAG OF THE MONTH: #different dylan: "Don't This Rice, It's All Fried" (where are you @Robsheff?) Related articlesNYC/CreativeMornings Video with Milton Glaser (swiss-miss.com)PICKED: Old Jews Telling … [Read more...]
DETEROIRATA XII:1
May 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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 - NYTimes.com AND SLEPT STRAIGHT THROUGH SOCIAL HOUR Conference paper name generator … [Read more...]
ELLEN WILLIS:
May 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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?
May 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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, yes, sometimes ridiculous heights of philosophy into the real world of human moral, social, jurisprudential and political actions. (See Daniel Wegner's wonderful book "The Illusion of Conscious Will," published a few years ago.) Did you know that if … [Read more...]
