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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Diarmid and Broccoli

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Happily, Diarmid Cammell’s good friend, Carol Staswick, wrote to me last night in regard to my recent post on my memories of Diarmid, supply...
Monday, March 2, 2009

Diarmid Cammell, 1945-2009

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Today I received the incomparably sad news that Donald Cammell’s youngest brother, Diarmid Cammell, died this past Friday, February 27, at t...
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Saturday, February 28, 2009

Yakety Yak

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As a form of popular music, 1950s doo-wop was characterized by its playful use of nonsense syllables (take, for instance, the hyphenate “doo...
Monday, February 23, 2009

Goodbye, New Yorker Films

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I am saddened by today's news, as reported by IndieWIRE, that the decades-old distributor of European and arthouse cinema in North Ameri...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Pop Aphorisms: XII

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1. Record Collecting —A pseudo-scientific activity motivated by the same obsessive narrowness of focus that characterizes the autistic mi...
Thursday, February 19, 2009

Importance

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According to John Tobler’s This Day In Rock (Carroll & Graf, 1993), on this day in 1977, Fleetwood Mac released one of the biggest-sell...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

And Then There Were 170

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Frequent visitors to this blog know that I submitted a proposal, on Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night , to Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series of ...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Brundlefly

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A few days ago, over at the 33 1/3 blogspot , John Mark posted a link to an article about performance artist Genesis P-Orridge (second from...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

I’m Singing With My Laptop

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Slightly over a week ago, in my February 1st entry , I observed that it is possible now to make a record simply by recombining fragments of ...
Monday, February 9, 2009

Dewey Martin, 1940—2009

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The local paper reported this morning that DEWEY MARTIN (second from left), the former drummer and singer for Buffalo Springfield, has died...
Sunday, February 8, 2009

The Virtues of Misreading

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In literature classes in our high schools and colleges, the preferred method of study is hermeneutically driven and formally conservative: i...
Thursday, February 5, 2009

Lux Interior, 1946-2009

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Lux Interior (born Erick Purkheiser, second from left), leader and voice of The Cramps, died yesterday from a heart ailment at the age of 62...
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