Archives for 2004

From: Jonathan Dorfman Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:02 PM To: 'triley@artsjournal.com' Subject: A few words Tim:  Hope you/kids/Sara are well.  Love to get together soon.  Congratulations on the book: I’m sure that future comments will differ from those Grace Slick!  Screw Publisher’s Weekly!   … [Read more...]

Fever: How Rock & Roll Transformed Gender in America Riley, Tim ISBN: 0-31-228611-2 St. Martin's Press Hardcover $24.95 2004/06 When Elvis walked onstage and sang "Love Me Tender" or "Hound Dog," he changed and challenged more than just popular music. According to Riley, his gyrating hips and his … [Read more...]

Byliner helps you track your favorite writers from wherever they may contribute, easy interface, totally addictive, even has a chart for most accessed stories. Includes RSS feed for Bloglines, which is now a daily fix. Also, this guy gave up his anonymity for NY Times, wouldn't you? I'll bet his … [Read more...]

Gary Giddins looks pretty sharp leaving the Voice with this piece, don't he? Alongside Sasha Frere-Jones and Alex Ross, music suddenly becomes the boldest section in the back of book. Could be a golden era until someone forgets. (Does anyone else find Nancy Franklin overrated?) Now if the profiles … [Read more...]

"His aesthetic is its own punishment," Keith Harris on Nick Hornby's NY Times Op-Ed piece today. Sasha Frere-Jones calls him Nick "Mojo-Magazine-Invented-Me-In-A-Diabolical-Laboratory-And-Now-They-Can't-Kill-Me" Hornby. … [Read more...]

Here's my NPR story on Loretta Lynn and Melissa Auf der Maur from last week, buried at the bottom of the page (direct RM link here). Guess which title is wearing much better than the other one? … [Read more...]

Soda tragedy befalls key work station -- anxious fingers twitch daily -- email on other machines feels foreign, off-putting -- reading to fill my head with ideas, develop articles -- mental nail-biting lies down on already stressed workload, finance dilemma -- film at 11. PS: SCTV DVDs came in the … [Read more...]

So I'm doing tons of reading. And planning for future posts. And taking notes on everything I need to be doing once I get my unit ramped back up. We went to see SHREK 2 today. Man that franchise has some bad tunes -- almost redeemed by use of Tom Waits in the bar. AND double-check that list below, … [Read more...]

What with the mess surrounding the Pioneer 563a's ability to play certain DVD-A titles (and KEY titles at that: GAUCHO, PET SOUNDS), I've been gravitating towards the SACD/CD format for both sound and convenience. The backwards compatibility factor weighs heavily, as many of the CD mixes surpass … [Read more...]

Our man Devin McKinney gets high praise for MAGIC CIRCLES from novelist Andrew O'Hagan in the NYRB: The Beatles are the super-boomers' house band. Even people who don't care about popular music—especially those, one might argue—are conscious of how these English songwriters may have harnessed the … [Read more...]

Bill Murray's induced a couple double-takes since his Oscar nod and one of the funniest Golden Globe acceptance speeches in its history ("Often we forget about our brothers on the other side of the aisle -- the DRAMATIC actors..."). He referred to the director who baked his souffle (LOST IN … [Read more...]

STATE OF PLAY (BBC America). You may watch this for Kelly McDonald (from Gosford Park), your brother may watch it for Polly Walker (of Enchanted April), either way it's instructive how the Brits use beauty not merely to sell a story but advance a plot. It is unimaginable the MP Stephen Collins would … [Read more...]

What album is John Lennon carrying into Abbey Road studios for PEPPER sessions, 1967? (From I Love Music.)Jane Dark has good stuff on Critical Karaoke, the latest teeny-bopper craze out of the EMP, including Greil Marcus doing Roxy Music's "More Than This" by way of Bill Murray. And this is a … [Read more...]

The front page of Sunday's Seattle Times featured a photo of coffins containing bodies of US soldiers being secured inside a cargo plane at Kuwait International Airport. Tami Silicio, a contractor who took the photo, was subsequently fired from her job. Here's a simple litmus test: papers that run … [Read more...]

...My feeling is that Deadwood will be an examination of morality. About men with an untouched world at their feet, with the power to turn it in the direction they wish. Some men, like Swearengen, want to spoil the land for their own gain. Law and order is a threat to his violent, corrupt existence. … [Read more...]