We'll have to see how successfully they pull it off, of course. Back in the '70s, I thought the whole "opening up the museum" thing was going to create better museums, but the last few exhibits I've visited that stand out in my mind adhere to the old-school do-the-research-and-label-everything model. The flashier exhibitions have just seemed dumber, not better.
Of course, the…
It's not that Moore hasn't written great stuff. I swooned over what he did with Swamp Thing back in the '80s and I agree with Time magazine that Watchmen was one of the best novels of the '80s (I'm not sure I'd go as far as "one of the greatest novels of the 20th Century," but give me a late night and the right lubrication and I might make either side of that argument). And I admired From Hell, thinking it too…
Marks pulled this quote for his email: "Then a tremendous event occurred. A small band of modern humans—it may have been as few as 150 people — crossed from Africa into Arabia via the Bab al-Mandab (“Gate of Grief”) at the southern end of the Red Sea. Their descendants proceeded to populate all of Eurasia, Australasia, Oceania, and the…
Making a summer record is something to proud of and while the Sugarplum Fairies may not ring the Summer 2006 bell the loudest, the smooth tones, quiet vocals and jangle moments on this, their third full length, become more vivid when it’s sunny, over 80 and cares begin to slip away. The vibe from this duo of Austrians, Silvia Ryder and Ben Bohm, is easy to dissect: whispery, unruffled vocals from Ryder backed with lots of midtempo guitarage (slide, acoustic, chimey, tremolo) from Bohm, all of it bathed in the glow of earnest…
Installment 12,009 in the long running Lyrics vs Music argument.
Is Dylan a poet?
Well, let's see.
"I want you I want you I want you, So bad."
That would be a big NO!
(much laughter).
Oh fuck you, you always were a music guy anyway. How about this?
"They sat together in the park As the evening sky grew dark, She looked at him and he felt a spark tingle to his bones."
(much silence)
With cheeks to match her pretty pink dress, Morgan Jet walks into the office, a pleasant wrinkle upon the day's usual sights and sounds. She sings.
She steals my seat, knocks my cell phone to the floor, spreads pencil shavings all over my desk, scribbles across dates on my calendar, and, with a few lucky deft strokes, manages to shut down my computer. She smiles.
Run in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, the ad's headline reads: "You've heard this song before!" Following are four alarmist predictions from John Philip Sousa (player piano), an unnamed record label executive in 1925 (FM radio), the MPAAA (VCR), and ASCAP (cassette tape). The prediction each time: technology will strip artists of their ability to…
Umm hmm. To quote Corey Doctorow, "I don't think any consumer ever woke up in the morning and said, 'Today, I'd like to be able to do less with my discs.'"
Seltzer responds: "I have not been asking for media free of charge. I have been asking for it free of usage and interoperability restrictions that go beyond copyright. The difference is critical -- I fully support a market in which creators…
Obviously, there will be a test.