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Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Rubber Soul. Looks better than the usual tribute record—especially Ben Harper's "Michelle."
The Smoking Gun has posted recently discovered mug shot portraits of heroes of the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott protests and a 1961 Freedom Riders protest. This is a must-see web tribute.
Thank you TSG.
James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia theory, is not optomistic about human life on earth.
Okay, no Lance this year, but the TDF is still going to be exciting. Ditto, the Tour de Georgia, even if it does venture into Tennessee.
Are we hardwired to appreciate certain landscapes,stories, foods, and experiences? Denis Dutton argues that culture is not the whole story of art. Interesting essay, but this is an argument that's going to take a lot more space to make. I'm waiting for the book—but this article makes me want to read it.
For all you TinTin fans out there—an amazing piece of sculpture.
Thanks Jeff!
Typically, I didn't discover Henry Green through reviews, a college class, or a bookstore display. Somebody left Blindness in the record store I worked in and, after it spent sufficient time in the lost and found box, I took it home one night when I'd run out of stuff to read.
The British upper-class landscape was familiar from Waugh, Powell, and Huxley, but the language was fresh and almost baffling. I loved it.
I became convinced that admirers of Green quite possibly might be promoting his work by leaving books scattered around for receptive minds to discover—a viral marketing…
If you're you're an American guy of the male persuasion, you've undoubtedly seen Eldon Dedini's cartoon's in Playboy depicting lecherous, yet enchantingly innocent, satyrs and nymphs. He also drew storyboard art for Disney and regularly contributed cartoons to Esquire and The New Yorker.
I always loved Dedini's stuff—his compositions were full of life and charm. Unlike a lot of Playboy's cartoonists, I always knew Dedini liked women (and that his nymphs weren't really trying to outrun his satyrs).
Fantagraphics is publishing a 220 page collection of Dedini's work this summer. It's a…
Bluelines for the March issue are in. I was flagging an error, when JA came around and:
"Stephen, your career here at Stereophile rests on the question I am about to ask you."
A giant brick wall of fear was smashed into my brain.
A shock trooper in a stupor, yes I am.
"Oh no," I started to run off, "I don't want to hear it. Elizabeth, answer this question for me..."
But before I could dodge the bullet,
JA fired: "The Ramones: Yes or no?"