THE DADDINO FAMILY TREASURY OF CHRISTMASES PAST Christmas 1971
My first Christmas. Perhaps someone thought it would be cute to let the six-month-old me wade in a sea of wrapped presents. At that age, I’m not sure what it would’ve accompl[…]
MORTON FELDMAN – “Why Patterns?” I quite honestly don’t want to listen to this fucking thing again. I played it while watching a TV show a few days ago and felt a chill, then felt…irritation. I turned it down and just le[…]
Thanks to my job I’ve had some heavy-duty exposure to the Manchester United marketing machine recently – a John Simm-voiced video profile of their youth academy focusing specifically on skills development. It was rich with the kind of d[…]
MORTON FELDMAN – “Why Patterns?” Outside, construction to the new room was still unfinished. The floor was dirty with Long Island sand; the apartment, eclipse-dark. Frigid, it was always frigid, what with it being on the ground and […]
MORTON FELDMAN — “Why Patterns?” Indeed, why patterns? Well, repetition can lead to knowledge, and knowledge can lead to predictability, and predictability can lead to comfort, the comfort of knowing you live in a predictable univer[…]
NELLY — “Hot in Here” This is how softcore porn works, right? Woman complains about the heat, woman takes off her clothes, woman wants to have…THE SEX! Or maybe Nelly just do some nasty dancing out on the dance floor. Or maybe[…]
No More Moby!: Why on earth is he so popular?: A Slate writer seems to believe it is APE LAW that all music must rock, and with that, a promising anti-Moby rant turns to dog food. OK, once more, with feeling — the antirockist position in a form[…]
WILLIE NELSON – WILLIE NELSON’S GREATEST HITS…AND SOME THAT WILL BE Dig this: a little girl is born in the middle of WWII. She is Italian and she is Catholic and from Brooklyn. She also more than a little sensitive, in a good way. I[…]
David Wild and David Plotz give the ’80’s a poke with a long stick to reassure themselves that, yep, they’re still dead. Inanity ensues. If they want to be comtemptuous of their subject, fine. It’s their perogative. The proble[…]
Robert Christgau’s Consumer Guide: Also in the Voice this week is Da Dean’s verdict on bootlegs. He likes them! He gives the a new bootleg compilation that’s appeared in certain lovely record stores a big fat A! Can you dig it? But […]