Hilary Clinton wants to send 100 00 more troops to Iraq, and when I was trying to formulate a response to this, i-tunes popped up with this song. Its weird, it seems like i-tunes has replaced the goats stomach, tarot cards and dice as divination too[…]
Here you can download a Tuvan throat singing duo covering Love Can Tear Us Apart, and its amazing, hard, low, moaning–and as sad as anything, at first its a novelty, but throat singing always seems to be better at tragic then comic, and the bar[…]
It is so strange. It refutes the nobility of poverty that is so canonical in country. Though it features grinding poverty, welfare taking the children away, and dying babies, it also has a mother selling her child into white slavery. But the oddest t[…]
1) the girl with the golden voice– has all of these connections to money and class, to fame, pop desire that completely is against the idea of hazzards–radical reinvention of american pop culture. everyone knows golden voice means golden […]
is peter halley a comics artist ? no a) he doesnt work on paper (ie he is not ephemeral) b) he doesnt use words (is the usual conflation and split b/w language and image requiste?) c) his work can appear apart (ie can it be modular and still be seque[…]
Alan Jackson Talking Repair Man Blues. Alan Jackson is the best example of countryist, a historically minded obsession with purity mars the rest of his music and this is the latest example, after examples like Gone Country (which, even with the huge[…]
Reading this http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/cfinch/finch5-18-05.asp catty, and bitchy review of the new Johns show by Charlie Finch, of Caluga and Most Art Sucks fame, caused me deep anger. Not only because it seemed to be homophobic, but al[…]
Ashley Andel went to an art high school, and reads lots of art and design books, plus he listens to music loads, and reads magazines, lots and lots of magazines, porn, tabloids, art rags, and everything else–he works in a toy store, one of thos[…]
http://www.robotsonstrike.com/motion/ROSnebraskaqt.html robots on strike has made a short video, with a small ambient soundtrack, black and white, blury scenes of nebraska, hand wound and sped up–sounds almost dull and horribly prententiuos, bu[…]
I was reading Revolution in the Head, and the writer told me that the song You?ve Got to Hide your Love Away had no queer content at all?and I always thot it was the most queer song in pop before the rainbow broke ca 1970, reading the lyrics again an[…]