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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Singles 4/21-4/29
While the score for Courtney Love’s would-be comeback sounds about right, I can’t stop playing it. I’m a sucker for the way Love inhabits a song so thoroughly that she can at the same time step back and delight in … Continue reading
Shercrock.
If Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law had agreed to star in a Sherlock Holmes movie in which they sat over a fine meal and good wine, debating the subtleties of detective work and numerology as if they were André … Continue reading
Portrait of a Bush: Laura Bush’s memoirs
I like Laura Bush. Blame my attraction to self-possessed middle-aged women. Her fashion sense, skin tone, modesty, obvious intelligence, and gravelly tones (which sound as if they’ve been roughened by brandy and lots of cursin’) — all pluses. It’s no … Continue reading
And another thing…
Hearing “Bring’em Out” this afternoon for the first time since 2008, I can’t wait until the inevitable T.I. compilation.
A new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex which, yes, remains unloved, unread, and unfashionable. You’ll have an easier time of it if you treat it as a novel whose narrative voice switches from colorless to unforced empathy … Continue reading
4/21 Singles!
I wax and wane on the LCD Soundsystem single. After eight years of discussion I don’t want to hear about them anymore. In a more ecumenical state of mind I would have forgiven James Murphy’s tics as examples of how … Continue reading
35 Shots of Rum: Shot of Love
It took thirty minutes of watching 35 Shots of Rum to figure out that Lionel (Alex Descas) is Josephine’s (Mati Diop) father, not her lover. In the manner of the Taiwanese cinema with which she shares stylistic affinities, Claire Denis … Continue reading
Diane Wood: “Principled convictions,” persuasive powers
Glenn Greenwald makes the case for nominating Diane Wood.
Unspooled: Don’t monkey with my business
Before I knew how Robert Christgau felt (“As public figures and maybe as people, these imperialist wimps are the most deplorable pop stars of the postpunk if not post-Presley era”), I knew how their bass lines and gauche synthesizers felt: … Continue reading
Obama to Health Secretary: Give visitation rights to partners
Real progress of a sort.
