December 2010
14 posts
“Three months later, Werner Herzog called Korine to give praise to the film...”
– Harmony Korine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In fact, having seen and listened to so many things along the decades, I have...”
– Caetano Veloso interviewed by Beck
“Facebook is a very big business dedicated to opening new markets for American...”
– The Idler » World’s Most Boring Man Nominated ‘Person of the Year’ by American Magazine
“Take it from pop-friendly me—if you’ve spent more time with the...”
– Robert Christgau: CG: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
“The lead, like the title, should be a flashlight that shines down into the...”
– Author and Journalist John McPhee on the Importance of the Lead - WSJ.com
“Later, Burgess spoofed Kubrick’s image, firstly in the musical version of A...”
– A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. “where a Kubrick-like character is beaten” — wow.
“You are so serious, as if
a glacier spoke in your ear
or you had to walk...”
– Frank O’Hara on Bunny Lang
“I don’t want to get into apocalyptic statements, but I think the time is...”
– The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - Lester Bangs reviews Lick My Decals Off Baby
“John Leland’s writeup in a Spin magazine column wrote about the single...”
– I Can’t Wait (Nu Shooz song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Update to my previous post
I replied to Oscar and asked how he found me. He said he found me through the Library of Congress. I asked for details and he said that my contact information was “in one of the correspondence at the Library of Congress.” I don’t know how someone would go about finding my name and e-mail address somewhere in the Library of Congress’s realm. He reiterated his comments...
“Hi Mike,
I came here in 1966 as an American serviceman, joined the U.S. Navy....”
– I received this e-mail today at the address I use for my freelance work (it’s on my website, business card, etc.). I don’t know this guy. The subject matter suggests that he somehow knows that I’m a writer.
I wonder whether he found my business card on the bulletin board at...
“… [A]ny picture’s improved if you draw a cigarette in it. There’s nothing...”
– Paris Review – Lynda Barry on ‘Picture This’, Nicole Rudick