"As far as Harry was concerned, Victor Ramdass Singh was just another Nervous Camera director, who worked tirelessly to make the audience realize at every moment that the picture was indeed being directed." This passage appears in Don Carpenter's 1975 novel The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan. No … [Read more...]
CROP CIRCLE COP QUOTE
"A police officer contacted UFO experts after claiming he saw three aliens examining a freshly made crop circle in Wiltshire...." … [Read more...]
IYA 2009 Posters
Soundtrack: Donald Fagen's "IGY" … [Read more...]
FARBER, MANNY FILE UNDER
I've been planning a post devoted to some of the screamers I've been compiling from the Farber anthology, but first Duncan Shepherd from the San Diego Reader: "It is highly salutary to read what was written about such movies before any ossification of critical orthodoxy. The close-up and in-context … [Read more...]
DO YOUR SCALES
MISSION OF BURMA: SOUND SPEED LIGHT (MATADOR)
REMASTERED REVISIONISM
Haven't jotted down the firehose of details I'm still catching listening through the EMI Beatle remasters, but I enjoyed this podcast with Nik Cohn, who was always more of a Stoner, and poses the most reasonable push-back... … [Read more...]
WHITMAN SELLS JEANS MINUS IRONY
HOCKNEY WRIT LARGE
Lawrence Weschler on David Hockney's iPhone (slideshow). … [Read more...]
DON’T BOGART THAT NOBEL
Very curious how Gary Wills will weigh in given what he wrote in the NYRB: ...An example of this imperial system is the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia.[5] In the 1960s, to secure a military outpost without fear of any interference from indigenous peoples, the two thousand Chagossian … [Read more...]
Contact me
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LISTS, CONTINUED
from Swear I'm Not Paul: This month's Uncut Magazine has a list of their 150 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century so far (i.e. the best ones of the decade or noughties or whatever), and so far I've been unable to locate the full list online. Therefore I'm going to take the time to type them all out … [Read more...]
HEARING UNHEARD NUANCES
"The Beatles remasters have finally hit the street and all across the world, music fans are gorging themselves on the most fabled and revered repertoire in pop music history. This may well prove to be the last hurrah of the CD age and certainly the marketing gurus at Capital have been working … [Read more...]
REVERSE BEATLES TELESCOPE
The Incredible Flying Earpiece (Fraud's Deviant to Fudd's Law) Beatles' Digital Remasters Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS September 9, 2009 … [Read more...]
NOTES FROM ALL OVER
[cover: Chip Kidd, 1988] Of the scores of Beatles books I've skimmed over the years, Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album by Album, Song by Song, the Sixties and After , by Tim Riley, is one of the few I've taken the time to read because of its depth, insight and readability. Written when the author was … [Read more...]