Two nights ago I finished watching Julie Taymor’s interminable Across the Universe, essentially Rent with Beatles songs. I can even hear her pitching it that way to the studios. It’s a noble and even interesting experiment, but done with a suspicious lack of care, considering the conspicuous electronic-pitch-witchery for many of the cast’s attempts at […]
The other day I received a wonderfully important email from a publicist — about their hiring of another publicist, something I’m sure I needed to know. Soon, I can hope to receive press releases about press releases, and promo CDs of recordings of label board meetings. Scott Walker – Use Me (Bill Withers cover, I […]
Besides this one, what’s the worst blog ever? We hear so much about amazing blogs, even suffer books purporting to collect excellent blog writing (aka, a good agent tricks old media into a healthy advance), but I’ve never read anything with a big enough set to chance collecting those blogs effectively serving as the equivalent […]
http://youtube.com/v/KoNEspmcknc It makes the hairs on my neck standup
A friend and I have been backing and forth-ing about the current and final season of the best series ever produced for television. Reams have already been written (some better than others), but I’ll add: Few novels come close to the storytelling skill, importance, and breadth of the Wire. I almost want to call it […]
Here’s the third track from the Japanese version of the new Boris album, Smile, entitledBoris – [][]!(at least that’s what it’s called in bad windows translation of Japanese text. But the exclamation mark is theirs. The language of love persists.) I bring you strong enthusiasm for this track. What sort of badassness allows one to […]
http://youtube.com/v/bb14rWGRYp4 “Ibitsu,” From Boris’s Akuma No Uta (PS – I have Boris’s forthcoming Smile. Not immediately impressed.)
There’s been alot of talk about the next song, maybe too much talk. Sorry. But it seems true that Sam Cooke’s “A Change is Gonna Come” is seeing a resurgence, most due to the political season, these primaries (and later the general election) being our current chance to put the country back on track after […]
If I had the mental power today, I could maybe count on one hand all the tribute albums I find worth hearing, or maybe on two fingers. I do have the mental power today to suggest reasons for tribute albums’ general suckitude: labels forcing the participation of shitty new sign-ees, lackluster efforts on the part […]
Stop Loving Everything 