NOT TO BE KILLED New Joe Strummer biography by Chris Salesicz just out in UK from HarperCollins, FSG will release it stateside next spring... But it's already gettings raves from the Times and Guardian, and I'm gonna get me a copy when I head over November 7. … [Read more...]
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FACETIOUSLY: VOWELS IN ORDER
HATE TO AGREE WITH THESE GUYS Tierney in Friday's Times: Compared with past threats — like Communist sociopaths with nuclear arsenals — Al Qaeda’s terrorists are a minor problem. They certainly don’t justify the hyperbolic warnings that America’s “existence” or “way of life” is in jeopardy, or … [Read more...]
CUT AND RUN WITH HONOR
A little behind the beat on this, but when Kozinn makes remarks like this, you can bet people take notice: A couple of weeks ago Giles Martin stopped in New York on his way to London, and invited me to hear his "Love" mixes on a five-channel surround system at Magno Studios. I was knocked out by … [Read more...]
METAL LESBIAN FANTASIES
I. Date: May 16, 2006 10:33 PM Subject: finished your book To: Tim Riley and boy do I have comments. They are too lengthy to go into right now, but I hope to soon. In the meantime... My main question is: What is this book about? What I expected was a book about Madonna, Bowie, Elton, Mick, k.d. … [Read more...]
SKATE A LITTLE LOWER NOW
BOOK OF THE WEEK from SWEDEN, recently featured at Liverpool's Beatles Days, not nearly obsessive enough... TOP TEN PODCASTS Beatlegs John Winn KCRW's Left, Right and Center le show Harry Shearer Media Matters from beautiful downtown Champagne Urbana Democracy Now Amy Goodman Soundcheck … [Read more...]
BOLDFACE HEAD
2005 DEPT. OF OVEREXPOSED Samuel Jackson Christopher Hitchens Jane Austen Jeffrey Toobin Chuck Klostermule Tom Hanks Tom Cruise Jennifer Aniston ON THE EDGE Douglas Wolk Jeffrey Tambor HALL OF FAME John Goodman JT Walsh Pope John Paul II Billy Graham Paris Hilton Lorne Michaels Whoopi … [Read more...]
INFINITY GOES UP ON TRIAL
My No Direction Home review will go live from this page at app. 12:50 pm today, watch this space for the link later this week. Don't miss Scorsese's Dylan tonight and tomorrow. TOMORROW Beatle roundup on WNYC's Soundcheck 2-3 pm. TOMORROW NIGHT TUESDAY, SEPT 27, 7:00pm (NOT 7:30!) with Rolling … [Read more...]
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FRIDAY’S ULTIMATE “DUMP DAY”
Don't know what the story is with O'Connor stepping down, but nobody's got it yet. If she really took ROVE and RHENQUIST by surprise, she's even cannier and more venal than her vote for W. suggested. After all, this move is the ULTIMATE swing vote, right? unused radio script for PINK FLOYD (aired … [Read more...]
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...]
FANTASY RE-ENACTMENTS
"John Lennon's ex-lover May Pang has slammed his widow Yoko Ono for erasing her relationship with the late Beatle from the Broadway, New York musical about his life." Starring Joan Collins as Yoko Ono, Linda Blair as May Pang, Tab Hunter as Peter Fonda, and Brian Dennehy as Leon Wildes (Lifetime, … [Read more...]
OF THE BEGINNING
MR writes: I mentioned "Day In the Life" in the same breath as "Rite of Spring," and the "Eroica" in class today. Free chicken wings if you can guess the context for all these... TR: Uh, context here is simple: false endings. MR: Neat idea. I've never thought of the Eroica's ending as false. … [Read more...]
ELITISM FOR DUMMIES
Can classical music ever reclaim the populist influence of Leonard Bernstein? Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts (Kultur Video, 9 DVDs) The Joy of Music (Amadeus Press) Leonard Bernstein: An American Life (WFMT Radio Network, produced by Steve Rowlands for CultureWorks Ltd.) Leonard … [Read more...]
THINGS THAT PASS FOR KNOWLEDGE
Vexing how persistent these misperceptions are, long after the battle was waged, won, and consumerized. Talking about the pre-Beatle years in the early 1960s, Bruce Bawer writes: "Those years were America’s liberal moment, and a pivotal point in American history." But his lengthy article in the … [Read more...]
DEVIN MCKINNEY: Still Gaining Acceptance
Milo Miles in WBUR's Arts pages: 1) Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History" by Devin McKinney (Harvard University Press). This looks to be the standard-setting meditation on the Beatles by a devoted, visionary fan too young to have known Beatlemania first-hand (McKinney was born in 1966). … [Read more...]