Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hah—trick category, since there isn’t one, and a Rolling Stones Christmas album is about as likely as a string section on a Gov’t. Mule album. I throw it in as an excuse to mention that we saw the Stones a couple of years ago. In fact, the same week that a number of the newspapers had a great picture of Mick coming out of his osteopath’s office. The concert was pretty good–Keith...
Thoughts From The Heart On The Left (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Here are the thoughts that I presented at Walker Valley UMC on the 2nd Sunday of Advent, 10 December 2000. The scriptures for this Sunday are Malachi 3: 1 – 4, Philippians 1: 3 – 11, and Luke 3: 1 – 6. ————————————————————————— Over...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/11/2009
A Serious Man may be getting rave reviews – but it's like nothing the Coens have made before. Joe Queenan on weird one-offs and the directors who make them About halfway through the very funny, very disturbing, very ethnic new film A Serious Man, the modern-day Job who is the serious man in question climbs up on to the roof of his ghastly 1960s Minneapolis suburban home and tries to adjust...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
What a long, strange trip it was. Author - Relix - Arts - Literature - Little Jean
Diary of Lisa Taylor, reluctantly 4 (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Funny what you take away from movies you see. This new Cohen brothers one is rich in authentic detail and of course did make me laugh or feel smug in instant recognition of Jefferson Airplane songs or Santana's Abraxas (no, am not that old, it's just tha that at 13 I was hanging with much older boys who liked their hippy music and dreamt of living in California.) Primarily the movie made me angry....
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
After over 20 years of collaborating with composer Carter Burwell, it’s pretty clear that the Coen brothers have found their musical counterpart when it comes time to score a film of theirs. In the Coen’s latest darkly comedic film, A Serious Man, Burwell provides some of the most contemplative music of his career. And in [...]
Music News & Events (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Thursday, November 26 9 am to 11 am Back to the Garden: Woodstock Remembered. Recalling the 1969 music festival that rocked the world including performances by: Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joe Cocker, CSNY, The Who, Arlo Gut... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Twilight zonetoday is limited to USA Today : The books and movies employ the classic romance-novel formula in scores of books from Jane Eyre to Harlequin romances, says Elisabeth Gruner, an English professor at the University of Richmond who has studied the Twilight phenomenon. ( Maria Puente ) She may have studied the Twilight phenomenon but not so much Jane Eyre, we think. Speaking of Jane Eyre,...
Oceans Never Listen (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Joel and Ethan Coen do many things extremely well. But the one thing they do to almost perfection is never waste a frame. So they prove once again in their latest film A Serious Man . This strong and direct film is pitch perfect. Each scene has a reason to exist and is neither too short nor too long. There is such care in each frame of each scene that to watch a Coen Brothers film is an entirely pure...
WNEW: Where Rock Lives (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
To honor WNEW's legendary Firecracker 500, every day we are highlighting the music that populated the 1991 and 1996 lists, with classic videos, live performances and little-known facts about the songs and how they came to be... The Smothers Brothers...
AMERICAN DIGEST (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
BACKSTAGE: A Preface to a Prologue In response to yesterday's note about the publication of Let It Bleed: The Rolling Stones, Altamont, and the End of the Sixties a friend and alphablogger whose judgement I respect writes to ask that I write more about what I saw moving through the 60s like some long-haired WASP Zelig. To recapitulate a remark from yesterday, it's a popular thing to say that "If...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Directors: Ethan and Joel CoenRunning time: 105 minutes***THOSE aesthetic wiseacres the Coen brothers seem to have been inspired by their roots for their latest movie. A Serious Man is set in 1967 Minnesota – a time and place that echoes ADVERTISEMENTJoel and Ethan's teenage years as sons of Jewish academics. But you don't know the Coens if you were expecting a warm memoir.Odd, cerebral and sometimes...
Phawker (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
ROCK SNOB ENCYCLOPEDIA: Spence, Skip: Like Syd Barrett, Spence was a crazy diamond who reached for the secret too soon. After wandering in and out of grace in the late ’60s, he spent the next 30 years howling at the moon in a trailer park oblivion of welfare and disease, until his death in the [...]
The Clue Batting Cage (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This is a music related post. One thing Alinsky warns against is over-reach and setting off a counter-revolution to your own revolution. Maybe we're fortunate that the kinds of people who are attracted to progressivivsm tend to be childishly impatient... dare I say, demanding . It's no secret among those who know me that some of my favorite rock music comes from the late 1960's and early 1970's ...
homegame (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Some time back, before the market value of their target audience's homes fell by 70 percent of so, concert promoters assembled a few 18-wheelers full of $50 bills and visited a few formerly well-known musicians. Their proposition was simple: A Jefferson Airplane reunion tour. The idea was promptly rejected by Grace Slick with the immortal words, "What could be more pathetic than a bunch of old...
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