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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Ali Akbar Khan, 1922-2009

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The Los Angeles Times reported this morning that Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a key figure in introduci...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Now In Its 20th Year

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Today, over on his WatchBlog , Tim Lucas announced that Donna had informed him VIDEO WATCHDOG has officially entered its twentieth year of p...
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Friday, June 12, 2009

Take Your Girlie to the Movies

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“Take Your Girlie to the Movies” was originally a hit in 1919 by famed vocalist Billy Murray, the most popular male singer in America before...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Cathedrals Are Not Built By The Sea

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I’ve mentioned a few times previously on this blog my customary habit of scouring the bins for used records at my local Goodwill Store. The ...
Sunday, June 7, 2009

A Dirty Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

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It is an error to believe that the Hollywood Production Code prohibited sexual content—it did not. Rather, it simply codified its ciphered e...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Rocky Mountain Way

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We’re heading off this morning the Rocky Mountain way, planning to spend a couple of days or so with Becky’s niece and her family, who live ...
Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Private Parts

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Near the end of the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, Justin Timberlake reached across Janet Jackson’s chest in order to remove a cup fr...
Monday, June 1, 2009

“More Popular That Jesus”

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The way the story goes, John Lennon’s infamous remark about the Beatles being “more popular than Jesus” was printed in an interview that app...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

God Is Dead, And Nothing Is Permitted

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As Jacques Lacan observed, after God is dead, nothing is anymore permitted. Or rather, although everything is permitted, it is hedonism devo...
Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Nerd and the Poseur

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Last time I wrote about the movies Diner (1982) and High Fidelity (2000), both of which suggest the way that the homosocial behavior of th...
Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Collector

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Movies such as High Fidelity (2000) explore the perils of record collecting, the way that the homosocial behavior of the obsessed collector...
Monday, May 25, 2009

Iconoclasm

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In Richard Brooks’ film, Blackboard Jungle (1955)—the movie that demonstrated the appeal of rock ‘n’ roll to Hollywood studio heads by virt...
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