Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing.
Posts Tagged ‘Art Garfunkel’
What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Jenny Holzer, The Shining, Jean Luc Godard, David Bowie, Woody Allen, Brian Eno, Manhattan, Kathy Acker, Art Garfunkel, Stanely Kubrick, Blood and Guts in High School, John Lennon, New Wave, Talking Heads, George Lucas, The Empire Strikes Back, DJ Kool Herc, Paul Simon, One Trick Pony, Bad Timing, Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), Truisms, Lodger, Scary Monsters (And Super Freaks), New Romantic, Rod Stewart, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, Afrika Bambaataa, Universal Zulu Nation, Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”, McDonald’s Happy Meal, Sony Walkman, Stardust Memories, ambient music, Music for Airports, Fear of Music, 1979, What Were You Doing in 1979? on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The Multifaceted Mike Batt
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 4'33", A One Minute Silence, Art Garfunkel, Bright Eyes, Elisabeth Beresford, John Cage, Lewis Carroll, Love Makes You Crazy, Mike Batt, The Hunting of the Snark, The Wombles, Watership Down, Zero Zero on June 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For the past few weeks, Mike Batt’s “Love Makes You Crazy” has been on constant repetition at my apartment: Like the greatest music videos, this one launches us directly into a fully-realized world that’s simultaneously novel and derivative, four minutes of elaborate production design that ultimately leads nowhere. And it takes its brilliant conceit both [...]