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McCartney, Spector, Wings and Now
"The Long and Winding Road" Here's my nit to pick with McCartney: He notoriously hated Phil Spector's overblown production on this ballad, and the spare "Let It Be … Naked" version was released as a corrective, yet when he plays the song live, he has Wix synthesize the Spector orchestrations. At … [Read more...]
FATHER’S DAY RERUNS
[via: eventbrite.com] A relative of my wife's worked on this documentary, which proved both thoughtfully nostalgic and psychologically harrowing. File under: Murry Wilson Narcissistic Father Syndrome. Showtime: Family Band: The Cowsills Story. MORE FAMILY DIRT: Sly Stone's … [Read more...]
Retronaut – Girls in the Window
Girls in the Window, by Ormond Gigli (Retronaut) Related articles Awesome Photos Of Buddy Holly And Waylon Jennings In A Photo Booth Retronaut for Prompts & Inspiration We Dare You to Not Laugh at These Vintage Visions of the Future Stunning Behind-the-Scenes Photos Show Iconic … [Read more...]
NICK LOWE COUNTRY: “All Men Are Liars,” Ellis and Rose
Robert Ellis and Caitlin Rose, "All Men Are Liars," Lowe Country, No Depression Americana and Roots Music. … [Read more...]
Banksy Coke Bottle
Banksy – Letter on Advertising | Rap Genius Related articles A Solution to Intrusive Advertising The Coke Ad That Could Destroy All Other Products, Especially Coke 'Lost' Banksy mural may fetch £1 million at London auction Banksy's Re-use of the Accidental Napalm … [Read more...]
DETERIORATA XIII:1 BERNSTEIN, 50 SHADES, CLIVE JAMES, EE CUMMINGS, BELUSHI
By far the most influential musicology of my young adulthood, steering me towards specialization. via Open Culture: Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures (1973). See Elitism for Dummies (on Young People's Concerts, 2005) via NYRB: Why So Popular? by Tim Parks Touching yourself” was strictly … [Read more...]
DENK, SCHWARTZ, SEBOK
Jeremy Denk wrote a piece in the current New Yorker about two of his piano teachers, one of whom we shared. A friend wrote to ask about my reaction, so I replied: "Joseph Schwartz was really quite a terrific teacher, and invested in the idea of teaching on an individual level. We were all … [Read more...]
DUCHAMP WAS HERE
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JAGGER, ESCHER, LEIGHTON
Refused at first, then bought three months later. Interview with cartoonist Robert Leighton at Inkspill | Inkspill - New Yorker Cartoonists News. And this: Mick Jagger to MC Escher, Escher demurs. Related articles These hyper-realistic drawings mess with your … [Read more...]
WE ARE BRADLEY MANNING: Hedges Knocks Press
...The cowardice of The New York Times, El Pais, Der Spiegel and Le Monde, all of which used masses of the material Manning passed on to WikiLeaks and then callously turned their backs on him, is one of journalism’s greatest shames. These publications made little effort to cover Manning’s pretrial … [Read more...]
CHILDHOOD RESEARCH
...The things in Anderson’s films that recall Cornell’s boxes—the strict, steady, foursquare construction of individual shots, by which the cinematic frame becomes a Cornellian gesture, a box drawn around the world of the film, as in Moonrise Kingdom’s dressing room scene, with the little bird-girls … [Read more...]
WHAT WOULD FAULKNER SAY?
...Where are the writers of that stature today in the Tea Party South? I was made aware of the odd mix of gain and loss when I went back to Atlanta to see my beloved grandmother. She told me not to hold change between my lips while groping for a pocket to put it in—“That might have been in a … [Read more...]
KIM GORDON ON COBAIN, BECK ON BOWIE
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: "I don't want to talk about 1993. Want to talk about 1994." Kim Gordon Looks Back - NYTimes.com … [Read more...]
DOWNTON’S ROB JAMES-COLLIER, EARS BUZZING
How has your life changed following the success of Downton? I’ve been to parliament in England. We went to the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Paul McCartney was off-key completely, but I’m a massive Beatles fan, so who cares? I was there. I’ve been to South America to promote this show. … [Read more...]