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The Midnight Archive, Ep. 2: Occult NYC, Part 1
The second episode of a new series on the occult side of New York City. This is an interview with Mitch Horowitz—I've noticed some of the buildings he mentions, walking around Midtown.
Continue reading...The Greatest Music Video in History
Friday, January 28, 2011
“Cosmic Slop” by Funkadelic (1973) Now and forever my battlecry will be: Bring back the 70s!
Continue reading...Koons, Hirst, et al: The Dustbin of Art History
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The UK’s Prospect Magazine has an interesting, instructive discussion of the decadent narcissistic bankrupt quality of much modern art. It helped me understand why I find it so repellent, and am so antsy for the next authentic vision to arrive.
Continue reading...Will The Beatles be forgotten?…only if YOU forget them
Friday, June 4, 2010
Jim Emerson in The Chicago Sun-Times has written a column about how disorienting it was to realize that the 17-year-olds at a recent high school graduation did not recognize a reference to the Beatles tune “Drive My Car.” As a result, Emerson wonders whether The Beatles’ days are numbered as a relevant item of our [...]
Continue reading...Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives: The King
Friday, May 14, 2010
Mel Brooks famously declared “It’s good to be the King,” but does Terry Jones agree? In this documentary, Jones profiles Richard the Lionhearted (a spendthrift psychotic who hated England); Richard II (actually quite reasonable); and Richard III (who wasn’t even a hunchback). As with the Emperors of Rome, it appears that our contemporary view of [...]
Continue reading...Albert Goldman and Hunter Davies on Beatles Biographies
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
This is a two-part news program from 1989, where the author of the muckraking “The Lives of John Lennon” (just released at that time) debates Hunter Davies, the author of “The Beatles” authorized biography from 1968. Davies is very charming, and makes some very good points about Goldman’s tendency to veer off into—well, the nicest [...]
Continue reading...Attention millionaires: Beatles for Sale!
Monday, April 19, 2010
Roger over at WogBlog has an excellent head’s-up on a massive collection of Beatle personal items/memorabilia from Beatle author Geoffrey Giuliano and one-time Beatle designers The Fool. (A lot of this stuff—which is really mind-blowing—seems to have originated with Derek Taylor, or directly from George and John.) I don’t know what I think about memorabilia. [...]
Continue reading...42 Ways To Kill Hitler
Thursday, April 15, 2010
I’m still watching this—it being Tax Day and all—but I was powerless not to post it. Overheated, loaded with cliché (“the Germans are a proud people,” “the dustbin of history”—and that’s just in the first segment), the doc is great fun for twelve-year-olds of all ages. “One planned to give der Fuhrer a bouquet designed [...]
Continue reading...Ancient Rome in Glorious 3-D
Monday, March 29, 2010
I’ve been fascinated by ancient Rome from the moment I started watching “I, Claudius” on PBS at age eight (that was 1977, for those of you keeping score). Every Sunday night, my mom and I would curl up on the couch and watch Derek Jacobi brilliantly stumble and stammer his way through the bloodshed and [...]
Continue reading...The Great War, Sir Mike, and Me
Monday, March 8, 2010
In the fall of 1990, I had no interest in World War I; then as now, I studied history for the story of it, and there didn’t seem to be any narrative in that conflict. No personalities, no resolution, just four years of static, blood-drenched dress rehearsal for the much more satisfying sequel played out [...]
Continue reading...At last! It's here!
For 30 years, Ravin fans wondered: What if Tom Larkin had survived? Now, the story can be told.
Mixing alternative history, hardboiled noir, parody and satire, Life After Death for Beginners is a must-read for every Beatles fan. "A cross between The Rutles and Three Days of the Condor. I loved it."—Jonathan Schwarz
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