Too bad NPR has thrown Shearer into its slagheap of tired satirists, his Crescent City show learned me more about the town than anything else in the past couple of weeks... That one SONG taught me more... It's the Bush limbo dance: how LOW can you GO, creating unlikely heroes along the way... This … [Read more...]
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DON’T BOGART THAT JOINT, MY FRIEND…
Three lists for Rock Snob's Dictionary's "real" and "snob" formats, which makes more and more sense as you work on it: REAL FAVS (changes daily, no particular order) 1. BLONDE ON BLONDE + BASEMENT TAPES + BEFORE THE FLOOD + LOVE AND THEFT, Bob Dylan (w/Band etc) 2. LET IT BLEED, Rolling … [Read more...]
ACTING!
We were imprressed with Garret Dillahunt when he played Jack MacCall, the dazed dumbfuck who up and shoots Wild Bill. Last week he showed up on ER as Sam's Ex Steve Curits (they pulled a Bewitched switcheroo), another dazed df. Suddenly he's back as dapper perv Francis Wolcott, and goner Crop Ear as … [Read more...]
IMPLACABLE, or, whatever…
from the GRAND POOBAH OF THE DISMISSIVE FOOTNOTE, I give you Luc Sante on Dylan: "Chronicles works so well in part because in writing it Dylan apparently found a formal model to adhere to or violate at will, and if he did not have in mind any specific nineteenth-century account of callowness and … [Read more...]
LITERAL IS THE NEW SURREAL
HANDS I'VE SHAKEN (no particular order): Oscar Peterson, Eddie Albert, Andras Schiff, Stephen Bishop Kovacevich, Phyllis Diller, Marian McPartland, David Lindley, Rosanne Cash, Richard Thompson Zubin Mehta, Leonard Bernstein, Peter Guralnick, Greil Marcus, Vince Aletti, Joel Krosnick, Jan DeGaetani, … [Read more...]
TRUE LOVE TENDS TO FORGET
Here's my review of Dylan's Chronicles on WBUR's Arts pages. Here's the passage nobody else seems to have noticed yet: "...In the midst of all this blarney, there are scenes that conjure up dodged bullets. Once, while sitting around Johnny Cash's house after dinner with Graham Nash, Kris … [Read more...]
“I’M NOT WORTHY”
Ron Rosenbaum writes: "Whatever it was, it gets him on the road again: On the verge of dropping out, he now books two hundred concerts for the next year—and only illness (an infection around the heart, wouldn’t you know) has suspended this "endless tour" ever since. I suspect we ought to be grateful … [Read more...]
SO REMOTE HE’S OVEREXPOSED: Prince
From Time magazine, we give you, THE WIFE: "We teach little girls that we don't like them to be greedy, pushy or overly aggressive," says Sara Laschever, co-author of Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide. "Once adulthood is reached, studies are conclusive that neither men nor other … [Read more...]
RUECKERT READS! Rare Host, Good Call-Ins
Wisconsin Public Radio Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 10:00 AM Veronica Rueckert's guest, after ten, says that, contrary to what conservative critics say, rock'n roll has helped baby boomers and later generations become better friends, better parents, and better citizens. Guest: Tim Riley, pop … [Read more...]
OUT OF EAR’S REACH: Visions of Spam
An ambitious scholarly treatment of Dylan puts his lyrics beneath the microscope. By Tim Riley Posted on Slate, Monday, June 21, 2004 Cherish the cultural moment: Just as Bob Dylan sells his soul for a Victoria's Secret Venetian holiday, the academy ushers him into the Great Hall of Poets. With … [Read more...]
FEVER’S PROGRESS: Plus Cover Poetry
"Missing the Point" No. 3 on Austin's Book People New and Noteworthy page. Keep track. ART OF COVERS Ever since David Byrne's BELEZA TROPICALE (1989) compilation, I've followed Bahia's Caetano Veloso, even wrote up his Knopf autobiography for Boston Review, a piece that never ran. One of the … [Read more...]
PRESS CONF #12: Smell the Stupidity
Lotta traveling, lotta sleep disruption, good to be back. Britain was grand, especially the Elgar and the "adorable" little Fawlty Towers hotel I stayed at in Liverpool. Spencer Leigh invited me to appear on his Merseyside Radio show Saturday night with CP Lee, a very funny Dylan author from … [Read more...]
EAT THE PRESS: “I Am Not Gonna Change, See?”
One more gripe (What flunkie decided Dave Mathews should play ACOUSTIC guitar on "I Saw Her Standing There"??? And Vince Gill's solo got buried!) before MOVING ON to my own FANTASY GRAMMY CATEGORIES: DVDsThe latest in pushing pre-recorded CDs is to stick a limited edition performance DVD in the … [Read more...]
EVERY PICTURE: Down in Front
If you check this page at all, you should click on over and buy Dick Waterman's BETWEEN NIGHT AND DAY, which will provide you with the best blues screen saver you could ever hope for. But now there's more: ebay is hosting a page of Waterman prints that would make perfect gifts for any music hound in … [Read more...]