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9/7/2001
This just in: a Milo Miles Interview on rockcritics.com, obviously done as an email exchange, where all the usual suspects are rounded up, treated with original flair, and summarily dismissed in favor of more interesting things. "Back into your straightjackets, you lunatic bums." 8/14/2001
My sister-in-law, Ann Laschever, wrote this piece about her brother Adam for Newsweek: When The Unthinkable Happens 7/27/2001
7/19/2001
The New York Review of Books doesn't like Dylan much. JOHN LEONARD: Liaisons Dangereuses I wrote them a letter about it, doubt they'll print it. 5/18/2001
Found some worthwhile sites yesterday using bookmarks from Fast Company: Heavy.com: anti-TV GlobeXplorer: real-time satellite photos from around the world, zoom away Memoirs from Hihiyama: Hiroshima Perfect: a British web guide, choice links 5/16/2001
The Chronicle: 5/11/2001: Is Rock 'n' Roll Dead? Only if You Aren't Listening The "prominent scholar -- well known in the field of popular-music studies and in the larger realm of cultural studies," is Lawrence Grossberg. 4/27/2001
Bobos in Radioland, by Dan Kennedy, an account of the Christo vs Lydon affair at WBUR. Missing issues: how is Connection listenership in the post-Lydon phase; why does WBUR broadcast religious programming every Sunday, especially now that BU President/Texan/Fascist/"Dem" Gov Candidate John Silber no longer rules the roost. Who's still picking HIS cotton? 4/21/2001
4/7/2001
The Village Voice: Music: Reason to Believe by Chris Nelson. This makes you wonder why "City in Ruins" isn't on the live disc. As much as I admire the aim of "Land of Hope and Dreams," it's not as good as this song.
The Village Voice: Music: Used Cars by Todd Kristel is patently unfair, but funny, in a kind of Dave-Marsh-parody kind of way. We're all gathering at Vince Winkel's tonight for the HBO show. Vince is elated, running around the office all week showing people the blur of a dot he is in the crowd in one of the sleeve shots. 3/27/2001
8:15 pm and both kids in bed. Moses still clamoring for something, but that almost doesn't count. Fed, bathed and lights out, both kids. Today was pretty good, finished off my Charlie Rich column, now all it needs is a lead. Adam awoke a tad early very fussy, so we handed him back and forth until we heard Moses arise. I went downstairs to pee with him, then we actually got back into his bed and got twenty more minutes of snoozing, which set me up fine. Found this essay at the office: Ron Rosenbaum on why Albert Finney should have won the Oscar. While I don't think as little of Benicio Del Toro as he does, it's a pretty cool angle. {later} Of course, Moses was calling me because he pooped his pants, which I half-predicted. Then he needed a glass of water. Sara is out watching some theater with Judy, and guess what? There's nothing on TV. But I'd rather surf and blog anyway. 3/22/2001
Our Mobsters, Ourselves (1) is the best thing I've read on the Sopranos, which I've been on the fence about. Obviously, it's quality stuff, and very watchable, but I haven't gotten addicted like many others. I struggle with point of view on the lead, on the whole subject: what are we supposed to think of this guy? I certainly don't sympathize or pity him, but I do enjoy him. And I find his efforts to get therapeutic help kind of touching. 3/14/2001
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1/24/2001
Best piece on Ken Burns: DAVID HAJDU: Not Quite All That Jazz, in The New York Review of Books. Extra points for teasing out reverse racism and anti-semitism. Harvey Pekar is crankier, in the Austin Chronicle, but does he pay enough attention to Gerald Early? 12/28/2000
12/24/2000
Geoffrey O'Brien, Editor-in-Chief of the Library of America, illuminates the Beatles' phenom for The New York Review of Books: "Seven Years in the Life." In a zillion years, Luc Sante could never write anything this good. 12/15/2000
More quotes: in the Christian Science Monitor piece by a Public Arts freelancer, Lynne Margolis, in Pittsburgh. 12/13/2000
12/7/2000
Got another call from Sonicnet, another Fab story. I think they make me sound pretty burned out on this. 12/5/2000
"Onstage and doing what they do best, they're happiest and perhaps most completely themselves. The thing that robs them of the chance to be average human beings is also the very thing that buys them love."--Stephanie Zacharek on A Hard Day's Night. 12/3/2000
11/30/2000
LRB | Alex Ross: The Biggest Rockets: Mahlermania, in the London Review of Books. Great archive here.
J. Hoberman on A HARD DAY'S NIGHT: The First Days of Disco Christgau's Consumer Guide: U2, Polly Jean, Outkast, and Amy Rigby. 11/26/2000
Always searching for this country-pop single from the fall of 1970. I can hear the melody, and catch a few of the words, but the rest is misty. New Yorker recommends this site: Lyrics World - MAIN INDEX. 11/13/2000
Just found a very good background piece, Peter Viney on Moondog Matinee. I've been listening to this one a lot lately, and burning my own custom version of the Japanese pressing with extras from the newly remastered releases. +++++++++++++ 11/6/2000
Best Underwear Model Turned Actor: Mark Wahlberg in The Yards NP: the Jimi Hendrix Experience box, the Band remasters, Madonna's Music, Teenage Fanclub's Howdy, and Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys (Bloodshot). 10/24/2000
MONTHLY HOTLICKS ARCHIVES September 2000 Summer 2000 April-May 2000 March 2000 February 2000 January 2000 December 1999 November 1999 October 1999 September 1999 August 1999 10/13/2000
Riley quoted in Sonicnet article on Beatles' Anthology. And I just found this: Beatles/Playboy Interview 1965 (pg 1) |
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