Chris deBurgh – Spanish Train The battle between the Lord and Satan is rarely depicted as friendly and even more rarely discussed is the Lord losing. From Job to Charlie McDaniel the Lord and His servants win- which is why Chris deBurgh is […]
When I walk home, I pass a cross walk, and there is a button so that the blind can have an audible signal. Now I’m not blind, and have no need to press the button, but the sound is so wonderful- like a clockwork nightengale made into an autom[…]
Liza When I was in high school, and it was New Years Eve, I wasn’t invited to any parties and my parents were out, Cabaret came on television and I fell in love: the scene with the sweater, the clinging desperate drunken dancing, the growling […]
Bow Wow Wow-See Jungle! See Jungle!, Go Join Your Gang Yeah ! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy ! I was in one of those warehouse garage sale places, with musty clothes, old office furinture, boxes of records and casettes and, of course a life size bl[…]
Jump Cuts, quick shifts-maybe 40 in a four-minute video, so we are left with almost subliminal images. It’s a memento mori for the media age. A self-referential monument for a martyr who realized dying young was a guarantee of immortality. […]
Jazz in Paris has exotic implications:Josephine Baker dancing hoodoo at the Revue Negre , Paul Robeson intoning marxist lullabies on street corners and at the Opera House; Nina Simone singing one song or three hours worth depending on how she felt ab[…]
Abortion is not very popular among New Country’s demographic; when children are involved it’s usually a positive thing, a sign of God’s providence. There are hundreds of ‘well she got pregnant young, but we pulled through song[…]
Reading a book on American Avant Garde music, i finally saw a picture of the inside of a prepared piano. There were the nuts and bolts I expected, but also near the bass end of the instrument-some where between the B and F Keys were two Dairy Queen […]
Neko Case-Bonus Track on Blacklisted The album is over and you almost take it out of the player, and then static, crickets, the rushing of water are all heard, so you listen. A guitar starts in, then Nekos voice, then a Wurlitzer playing an old f[…]
Morrissey on Craig Kilborn He wears a cardigan and a lavender lace up shirt. A mimes broad patrimonies gesture almost deflects his doughy face. He has gained forty pounds and he looks tired. He has wrinkles and gray hair and a collapsed pompadour. My[…]