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Continue reading →: Of martyrdom and legerdemain
A lot of reviews have compared Hunger to The Passion of Joan of Arc. It’s closer to Bresson’s A Man Escaped, as remade by a drama queen who lingers too long on shit smeared on prison walls so the audience can appreciate the Genet-esque poetry-in-squalor. Although surely no accident that…
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Continue reading →: Ebert: “The Essential Man”
While I knew cancer cost Roger Ebert the ability to speak or eat properly, I’d no idea he looked so terrible. For all that, though, I applaud his bravery; let people see the ravages of cancer. But he still loves movies, and may love writing more. From Chris Jones’ Esquire…
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Continue reading →: Now the party’s over
Scott Woods and I finish our Roxy/Ferry chat, during which we weigh in on Bowie versus Ferry and the merits of David Buckley’s superb biography The Thrill of It All.
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Continue reading →: “Of COURSE we believe those things.”
Please, Mr. Obama, use sarcasm like this more often. Thanks.
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Continue reading →: Ready for the floor?
The most beguiling song on Hot Chip’s One Life Stand is “Brothers,” a ballad in which Alexis Taylor or Joe Goddard, I still can’t tell them apart, commemorates playing X-box and enjoying the company of a sibling or an intimate male friend. Stacked harmonies and thick synthesized chords create unexpected…
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Continue reading →: “Losses”
It was not dying: everybody died. It was not dying: we had died before In the routine crashes– and our fields Called up the papers, wrote home to our folks, And the rates rose, all because of us. We died on the wrong page of the almanac, Scattered on mountains…
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Continue reading →: “She thinks that he begins to see”
My single of the week, Hurts’ “Wonderful Life” applies a DFA-esque production to Johnny Hates Jazz: it’s as spacious and uncluttered as a modern loft, but with walls painted orange and gold. Listen to Arthur Baker’s (!) retro-nuevo madness on the remix.
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Continue reading →: Singles 2/8
A buttload of singles, none exceptional. Dennis Ferrer – Hey Hey (6 out of 10) Lady Antebellum – American Honey (5) Powderfinger – Burn Your Name (5) Nick Jones & The Administration – Who I Am (5) Gold Panda – Quitters Raga (5) These New Puritans – We Want War…
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Continue reading →: The cul de sac of desire
The next and, to my ears, most interesting chapter in my discussion with Scott Woods on Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry: the solo years between 1985 and 1999. Listening to this again, I’m not sure how well I defined “sophisti-pop” and how solo Ferry seemed both part of yet above…
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Humanizing The Vacuum 