a story in this week’s Time magazine is being called the definitive Barack Obama puff piece…According to political analysts, the Time piece features the most lack-of-depth reporting on Obama ever published…”I’m not quite sure how he intends to turn around the economy or get us out of Iraq,” said California resident Geoff Mills, an ardent [...]
The Real Tuesday Weld - The Day Before You Came
The Abba song, The Day Before You Came, covered by The Real Tuesday Weld
Duane Hanson (Wikipedia, Duane Hanson) was an American artist known for his hyperrealistic sculptures - you can see a few of them in the Saatchi gallery, London. I found them irresistible from the first time I saw them; irresistible but slightly unsettling, which might have something to to with the Uncanny Valley, that sudden revulsion [...]
After I found an excerpt from Jean-Phillippe Rameau’s Les Indes Galantes I played it repeatedly for several days until Helen bought the DVDs of the William Christie-directed production by Les Arts Florissants. Patricia Petibon is magnetic in the Fourth Entree, Les Sauvages; what a voice.
I read an suggestion that the depiction of the ’savages’, Les [...]
This from the excellent blog, Ghost of a flea:
I could weep. It is post-punk in a minivan, yearning for a lost, and largely fabricated, youthful art-school rebellion, this sort of personality not only destroyed art in the 1920s, destroyed music in the 1970s and destroyed the social sciences in the 1980s, it now insists on [...]
Davos jumped the shark when Robert Scoble started interviewing, via cameraphone streamed to a server, numerous utterly baffled Great and Good.
Meanwhile, Helen’s under the impression that Davos created the Daleks.
