I thought I’d already done this one. I cherish The Beatles, and as such am usually torn about covers of their songs. Every now and then, though, there is one that is worth it, without question. This is one of those times. Without further ado, “She Said, She Said” by The Beatles and covered by [...]
Archive for December, 2010
Side by Side #9
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Side by Side, The Beatles, The Black Keys on December 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The Coming Envelope Issue 2
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was recently introduced to a terrific new magazine, based out of Toronto and Chicago: The Coming Envelope. It’s conservative in size (only five writers per issue) but wide in scope, giving a home to a myriad of work that might be declined elsewhere for being unclassifiable . They describe themselves as such at their publisher, [...]
A Review of Josh Davis’s Review of Robert Lopez’s Asunder
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Asunder, Big Other, John Madera, Josh Davis, Kimberly King Parsons, Robert Lopez, Robert Lopez’s Asunder, Time Out New York on December 5, 2010 | 8 Comments »
After reading a two-hundred-and-sixty-or-so-word review, that is, Josh Davis’s review of Robert Lopez’s Asunder, a review which amounts to little more than a trifle, little more than a throwaway, a throw-up (in graffitists’ parlance), an, at best, anemic piece of slapdash flash nonfiction; you might say, forgivingly, “Oh, given the constraints, what else can you [...]
A Relative Century
Posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
I have just finished reading A Terrible Beauty by Peter Watson, a book I’ve been working my way slowly through for the last several months. It is a history of the twentieth century, but as a history of ideas. Not, I have to say, an especially good book: much of the writing is journalistic, ideas [...]
Living Art Backwards
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Jones, Brothers Quay, Bruno Shulz, Hymnen, Jan Svankmajer, John Lennon, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Revolution No. 9, tool, Victor Hugo, Yoko Ono on December 2, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Johannes’s comment here reminded me of something I was mulling over this morning. Often one comes to a work of art backwards, tracing out lineages in reverse chronological order. In particular, one often approaches older works through the more contemporary, popular artworks they inspired. For example, when I was in high school, I saw certain [...]
Organized Efforts at Book Banning Are On the Rise
Posted in Uncategorized on December 1, 2010 | 10 Comments »
If I believed in hell, people who ban books would occupy a very special place in it. They’d have to sit at bar stools in replicas of the gayest gay bars, reciting Howl over and over again, while devilish bartenders endlessly pump out boiling liquid shit into steaming mugs and force those righteous bastards to [...]
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