On this day in 1982, David Crosby fell into a drug-induced slumber while taking a spin on the San Diego Freeway. Although he crashed into th...

For Georges Bataille, who thought a great deal about what constitutes human pleasure, for pleasure to be what it is, it has to exceed a limi...

According to Roland Barthes, virtually all music criticism “is only ever translated into the poorest of linguistic categories: the adjective...

I’ve noticed pop-ups consisting of “IQ Tests” seem to have become ubiquitous on the web lately, an interesting phenomenon that I cannot let ...

Jacques Lacan observed that public life in the Western world, rather like the majority of primitive communities, is subjected to the laws of...

In theory, rock ‘n’ roll is an egalitarian artform, having derived from an ideology of amateurism (as opposed to professionalism). Because o...

As if in response to the massive media campaign that has geared up to promote U2’s latest album, NO LINE ON THE HORIZON , Andrew Gumbel has ...

In my and Rebecca’s book, Donald Cammell: A Life on the Wild Side (FAB Press, 2006), we discussed Donald Cammell’s proposed film of Vladimi...

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...

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

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

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