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Continue reading →: I tried and finally found a way, Pt. II
Another edition of the Woods-Soto interview re Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry; this time we address These Foolish Things and Stranded.
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Continue reading →: News flash: corporations are people too
The consequences of a misreading of this case continue, evinced by today’s Supreme Court ruling. A couple of weeks ago I finished a superb history of the period, Jack Beatty’s Age of Betrayal. Pick up a copy. The Santa Clara County controversy is discussed in full.
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Continue reading →: Ah….
A great day: Animal Collective as the #1 album of the year according to the Pazz & Jop poll, and a Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts. Anyway, I have a couple of comments here and here. I will now drink a glass of wine and read Wallace Stevens.
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Continue reading →: I tried and finally found a way
I’ve waited years to discuss Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry with a smart critic and fellow enthusiast; Scott Woods gave me the chance. At his excellent blog Rock Critics, Scott posted the first three of our multi-part discussion/interview on all things Roxy/Ferry, in which we discuss my introduction to the…
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Continue reading →: “I sit here by myself and you know I love it”
Like a lot of artists from this era, shifts in production tastes cut her adrift, but that’s no reason to overlook Joan Armatrading. This cut is one of the best entries in the I-love-you-but-leave-me-alone genre (see New Order’s “Leave Me Alone” and Lucinda Williams’ “Side of the Road”).
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Continue reading →: Best of the decade – Music
Since Stylus didn’t publish my list, here’s mine. 1. M.I.A. – Kala 2. Bob Dylan – “Love and Theft” 3. DJ Shadow – The Private Press 4. Ghostface – Fishscale 5. Kylie Minogue – Fever 6. The Mekons – OOOH! 7. The Go-Betweens – Oceans Apart 8. Miranda Lambert –…
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Continue reading →: “Was I behind the curve?”
From Roger Ebert’s “Making Out Is Its Own Reward” post, his reflections on college life before the sexual revolution: It was one night in the Capitol that I saw for the first time one man kiss another one full on the lips. This took place among guys we knew at…
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Continue reading →: “Slavering man-eater”
I do wish Anthony Lane’s review of Donald Spoto’s new Grace Kelly biography posited the most obvious remark: if Kelly was so damn frosty, so aware of the sexual ecstasy inspired by the tension between her vanilla ice cream exterior and the raging volcano within, why didn’t Douglas Sirk cast…
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Continue reading →: Sitting on a tin can
Good Christ. I’d thought the son of David “Bowie” Jones would keep far enough away from the temptation to write and direct a script in which Major Tom has lost the wife and son he loves very much (they know). What is it with these thirtysomething male filmmakers and their…
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Continue reading →: Eric Rohmer – R.I.P.
No surprise: he was pretty old. The laziest criticism he ever got – Gene Hackman’s character in Night Moves bitches that watching a Rohmer film was like “watching paint dry – was also the most inaccurate. When one of his filmed scripts (which is what they remained essentially, despite world-class…
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