Saturday Music Club: third stream music Bachanalia
Nina Simone: Love Me or Leave MeThe Modern Jazz Quartet: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" BWV 645 The Swingle Singers: Sinfonia dalla Partita n°2 in DOm BWV 826 The Modern Jazz Quartet: The Golden...
View ArticleSam Moskowitz interviewed about Will F. Jenkins/"Murray Leinster"'s prophetic...
The speculations Jenkins/Leinster introduced in that story were unusually sound...particularly in broad outline...A copyright-legit posting of "A Logic Named Joe" by "Murray Leinster" (one of the few...
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Italo Calvino: creating such possibilities, as a "minor writer"
Maria Popova, in her blog, quotes from Italo Calvino's collected letters in translation, in a post Bill Crider directs us to:'As a young man my aspiration was to become a “minor writer.” (Because it...
View ArticleSchoolhouse Rock (and Pop and a bit of Rap): Saturday Music Club's E/I Sunday...
Amy Burvall and company's rewriting the lyrics of popular songs and performing them as learning aids to teach history and related subjects:"Elizabeth I" (a variation on "She's Not There," the Zombies'...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Much Ado About NothingBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links (and two takes on varying productions of Miss Marple stories)......
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FFB: AGEE ON FILM by James Agee (Modern Library, 2000)
James Agee wasn't our first serious film critic, nor was he the first to write intelligent film criticism for a lay audience from the perspective of a participant in the film industry. But he was among...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some songs of protest
O Rappa: Vem Pra RuaThe Tell Me More report that introduced me to the song.Rick Ross remixed slightly by Turkish protesters: Everyday I'm Çapuling!The Weavers: Venga JaleoNotable in this slideshow: the...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: more links (Richard Matheson...
Thriller episode scripted by Richard MathesonBelow, two days after the passing of Richard Matheson, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the...
View ArticleJune's Underappreciated Music: the links
Ran Blake and Steve Lacy: "The Man I Love"Patti Abbott: Tuesday Night Music; Saturday Night MusicJ. A. Bartlett: Bobby Bare: "(Margie's at) The Lincoln Park Inn"Sean Coleman: Elf: Carolina County Ball...
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FFB: Elmore Leonard week: DJIBOUTI
I hadn't read John McFetridge's 2010 review of Djibouti, or if I had I'd forgotten it (and as with many such blog reviews including this one, the comments and replies are as valuable as the original...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: So...how does one get a band like (Detroit-based...
? and the Mysterians: I Need SomebodySons of Adam: Feathered Fish (1966)Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels: Sock It to MeThe Godz: Radar EyesLove: Seven and Seven IsThe MC5: Kick Out the JamsDeath:...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: more links
Thelma ToddBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for your...
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Friday's "Forgotten" Books: The Links
This week's selections of books with insufficient attention paid (usually...a rare few below to one degree or another deserve their relative obscurity) include a few classics and items by writers whose...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some music programming on US Public Broadcasting:...
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service (network, founded 1970):Austin City Limits: "Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys""Neko Case"Soundstage:"The World of John Hammond" featuring Bob DylanFrom Jump...
View ArticleVirginia Woolf, then Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Tuttle, Clive Barker, and film...
This labels itself as the only surviving recording of Woolf's voice, fromWords Fail Me, on the BBC, April 29th, 1937.(courtesyDangerous Minds; transcript and background at AtThisNow)"April 1990":...
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Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links
Orphan BlackBelow, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links...as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for your...
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guest essay by Barry Malzberg: NEW AMERICAN REVIEW (later AMERICAN REVIEW),...
I have not yet read (or re-read) enough of the issues ofNew American Review/American Review I have rather haphazardly collected over the years to do a worthwhile review of the publication, but knowing...
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update from Richad Lupoff: FFB: WHAT IF? Volumes 1 & 2, edited by Richard...
The Hugo Awards, of course, are (mostly) literary awards voted on by (shrinking fractions of the) membership of the WorldCons, the World SF Conventions held annually, most often but not always in the...
View ArticleSaturday Music Club: some musicians I've studied or worked with
Andrew Soucy conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra: "Sleigh Ride" (performance begins at 4:45)The Virgin-Whore Complex: "The Coldest Night of the Year"Herb Smith and Michael Thomas with the...
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