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TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS
OR, MODERNITY'S ELEVATOR SHAFT Chiming on all the chatter about use of the Beatles in the "Lady Lazarus" episode of Mad Men last week. Most of the speculation circles around the cost of using the track, the first on a major American TV show ($250k, big whoop). But few seem interested in tying … [Read more...]
VATICAN TO NUNS: DROP DEAD, PART LCMMMXXVII
My friend Julia Lieblich (author of the new book Wounded I Am More Awake) wrote a story about the Vatican that ran in the Washington Post: So when I heard that the Vatican had ordered a crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. sisters, accusing them of spending too much time “promoting … [Read more...]
Saadiq, plus Colbert on Catholicism at TIME 100 Awards
Rafael Saadiq made the Time 100 Most Influential People, here's the On Point show commentary (at 29:00) from yesterday. Colbert hosted the dinner: "Also, Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke is here tonight. Also an instant, instant feminist icon. Famously tested, testified before Congress, … [Read more...]
QUOTE OF THE WEEK, LENA DUNHAM
What were your favorite books as a child? Do you have a favorite character or hero from one of those books? Is there one book you wish all children would read? I have tattoos from children’s books all over my arms and torso. The biggest one is of Ferdinand the bull, which Elliott Smith also had, … [Read more...]
BEETHOVEN OPUS 132, III
Experience Music Project, NYU
That abject fabulist Daphne Carr sold me a three-for-ten deal on her Pop Papers singles from Feedback Press. She was pushing "Endlessly Horny for Wonder and Magic: How Jim Steinman's Bat Out of Hell Perfectly Captured the Pre-Pubescent American Id (and Nearly Ruined Me for Life)," by Tim Quirk, … [Read more...]
HARRY SHEARER’S MODEST PROPOSAL
If posting taxpayer-funded birth control sex tapes on the web was Rush Limbaugh's answer to Catholic school sluts on the Fed contraception dole, shouldn't we also get access to his insurance-covered rehab program? Shearer also picked up two vastly under covered stories from this past … [Read more...]
Eroica: opening chords through history
Eroica opening chords … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XII:1
QUOTE OF THE MONTH "They gave Kafka to the troops," closing line of Leon Wieseltier's essay on books in the New Republic. RUNNER-UP Docked a notch for the ease of this target: Rick Santorum vs. Megadeath's Dave Mustaine, from Mother Jones. Points for plenitude. BEHIND IN MY TV Just … [Read more...]
DAMAGE FREE VULCAN
JOYCE, THE MILLMAN BLOG
Finally: ...A recent and worthy addition to the desert island disc genre comes from an unlikely source: actor Sam Neill’s blog. Neill, the star of such films as The Piano and Jurassic Park and Fox’s new J.J. Abrams-produced TV series Alcatraz, is one of the most knowledgeable and … [Read more...]
MADONNA’S SUPER COMEBACK BOWL
Listen to story, from today's HERE AND NOW, WBUR-FM Boston. mp3 download Related articles Madonna's Pre-Super Bowl Style (stylelist.com) Madonna will welcome LMFAO to Super Bowl halftime stage (latimesblogs.latimes.com) Madonna! Madonna! Madonna! Madonna!!!! (perezhilton.com) Madonna … [Read more...]
TOP CENSORED STORY OF 2011
First heard about this on Media Matters podcast, which featured Project Censored last week: ...But look at it we must, for in its own way it illustrates the problem faced by our returning war veterans writ large—a point emphasized by the fact that the hand itself is disembodied; it could belong to … [Read more...]
BOB GRUEN’S ROCK SEEN (ABRAMS)
Where's the screensaver edition? … [Read more...]