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 1979, Afrika Bambaataa, ambient music, Art Garfunkel, “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy?”, “Rapper’s Delight”, Bad Timing, Blood and Guts in High School, Brian Eno, David Bowie, DJ Kool Herc, Fear of Music, George Lucas, Jean Luc Godard, Jenny Holzer, John Lennon, Kathy Acker, Lodger, Manhattan, McDonald’s Happy Meal, Music for Airports, New Romantic, New Wave, One Trick Pony, Paul Simon, Rod Stewart, Sauve Qui Peut (La Vie), Scary Monsters (And Super Freaks), Sony Walkman, Stanely Kubrick, Stardust Memories, Sugarhill Gang, Talking Heads, The Empire Strikes Back, The Shining, Truisms, Universal Zulu Nation, What Were You Doing in 1979?, Woody Allen 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 [...]