April 2010

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  • 04.30.10
    Philip K Dick’s Spontaneous Human Combustion Engine Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt are due to publish Philip K Dick's legendary Exegesis papers, edited by Jonathan Lethem and Pamela Jackson, in two volumes. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/books/30author.html [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/jJehaCfnXHE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 04.29.10
    Darkness in the North of England Uncategorized | Comments Off
    The other week your correspondent rescued a copy of the Red Riding series from the bargain bin, and it may be the darkest and most daring British TV show since Edge Of Darkness. First screened by Channel 4 last year, and released in US cinemas two months ago, it comprises three individual but interconnected 90 minute films shot by different directors (Anand Tucker, James Marsh and Julian Jarrold), all written by Tony Grisoni, adapted from The Damned United author David Peace's Red Riding Quartet, four novels that cover the period 1974 to 1983, set against a backdrop of serial murders, ...
  • 04.26.10
    Hutz loose Uncategorized | Comments Off
    The Revelatorium has lately been rattling to the sounds of Gogol Bordello's fifth album, and their first for Rick Rubin's American Recordings, Trans-Continental Hustle. Here's busked-up take on the old Roma anthem 'Lela Pala Tute'. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Zpzz9-qW1q0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 04.25.10
    Count to Zero Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Zero History is William Gibson's tenth novel, ETA September. Here's a vintage clip. Dig those retro-futuristic graphics. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/RZeY7M7R3sQ" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 04.20.10
    Ritter’s Gold Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Josh Ritter So Runs the World Away (Independent Records) From this end of the telescope, The Animal Years was Josh Ritter's pivotal moment, the album where he transcended the impressionability of his apprenticeship years and established himself as his own man. Up to that point Ritter was still halfway between callow Candide and consummate craftsman: even songs as good as 'Kathleen' bore the vivid imprint of his bedroom wall heroes. If Charles Laughton had asked of Ritter, as he did Davis Grubb, "Man who are your masters?", even the wags in the back row might've ventured Leonard, Dylan and Townes as well as ...
  • 04.19.10
    Der Schwarze Reiter Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Behind-the-scenes documentary on The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, written by Robert Wilson, Tom Waits and William Burroughs, based on the German folk tale Der Freischütz, and which premiered at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg in 1990. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/vO82BAZOvYk" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/7bYUvnmiXvw" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/4Y3XTkIIfYY" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 04.16.10
    The Things They Carried Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Two decades after its publication, Tim O' Brien talks to NPR about The Things They Carried, one of the finest books of the last 50 years. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125128156
  • 04.16.10
    We’re in a Timezone Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Here's a little retro apocalyptic punk rock hip-hop to warm the cockles of your heart. John Lydon and Afrika Bambaataa do the time warp again. God bless the mark. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/93HWraYnSFc" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 04.15.10
    Wild is the Wind Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington, originally recorded by Johnny Mathis for the 1957 film of the same name. Since recorded by Nina Simone, Cat Power and David Bowie, who along with Iggy, is of the all time great rock 'n' roll crooners when he puts his mind to it. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/90u1IV4dw8o" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
  • 04.13.10
    ‘Who would have thought the old man… Uncategorized | Comments Off
    ... had so much blood in him.' Went to see a fine production of MacBeth at the Abbey over the weekend and was intrigued to hear Led Zep's No Quarter used just before the intermission. Perfect. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/FgHSk91RhL8" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]