As a consequence of last night’s extremely rare screening on TCM of Donald Cammell and Nic Roeg’s Performance (1970) starring Mick Jagger, ...

I highly recommend you tune in, or set your recorder, to Turner Classic Movies (TCM) tonight as there is a rare screening of Donald Cammell ...

These are the days when no one should rely unduly on his “competence.” Strength lies in improvisation. All the decisive blows are struck lef...

In Luis Buñuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid , characters frequently entertain each other’s foot fetishes. Céléstine (Jeanne Moreau) indulges Mon...

I’ve written previously on this blog about one of the central myths informing rock culture (first established by The Velvet Underground and ...

In their well-known book, Metaphors We Live By , George Lakoff and Mark Johnson argue that metaphor is not simply a literary device but an i...

In contrast to December 7 1941—the date “which will live in infamy,” the day the Japanese navy attacked the United States naval base at Pear...

Although I wouldn’t consider myself a “hard core” fan (the designation suggests a degree of irrational obsession), out of curiosity I noneth...

I’m extremely happy to report the publication of Steven Beasley’s biography of Big Band leader Kay Kyser, titled Kay Kyser: The Ol’ Professo...

“Baroque pop,” commonly understood to refer to any ornate, or heavily arranged, pop song, seems to me to be a subgenre of what is sometimes ...

According to James R. Kincaid , when discussing the issue of laughter, “some degree of oversimplification is inevitable.” At the core of the...

Legend has it that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims and took place at Plymouth Plantation in 1621. Americans memorial...