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May 5, 2011August 3, 2011 - Uncategorized

What Were You Doing in 1979? (part 1)

Paul Simon was making One Trick Pony. Art Garfunkel was starring in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing.

January 4, 2011June 1, 2011 - Uncategorized

Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 2

Part 1 Re: Johannes’s comment on my recent post, I first saw people using “avant-garde” to refer to work made…

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January 2, 2011April 30, 2011 - Uncategorized

Why I Hate the Avant-Garde, part 1

[Update: Part 2 is here] Re: Greg’s most recent post on the term “avant-garde”—I’ve already discussed this somewhat here, here…

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