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Happy New Year @JohnnyGoodyear!
Love this thread. I hadn't caught up in a while. Spotted some real gems posted on the previous page!
Cheers!
Might be of interest to you:
https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/rick-rubin/
Shining shoes to a glassy finish for an hour or so is really relaxing and therapeutic.
Talking Heads / full concert. Rome, 1980.
Not too shiny just so damn good.
Not sure if the Mariachi chaps are aware of the fundamental subject matter here, but hafta say Hugh is looking particularly well:
As an exile of a sort this paragraph rang my soft bell:
Arendt had said of herself, in the “Shadows” letter, that “she did not belong to anything, anywhere, ever”; so, too, Rahel was “exiled . . . all alone to a place where nothing could reach her, where she was cut off from all human things, from everything that men have the right to claim.” Avoiding that helpless “place” became the goal of Arendt’s life and thought. The categorical imperative of her political theory might be phrased: Thou shalt not be a shlemihl.
From this piece in The New Yorker.
Flute-playing without pants? That means no codpiece either.
Ian Anderson is not amused.
Beware, the chair does FM
[Bulgarian Proverb]
Daniel Cohen writes for the LRB about the staggering impact of Spotify – and the power of algorithms to shape our musical taste. An amazing stat: in response to the fact that artists only get paid if their songs are played for more than 30 seconds, the proportion of US Number Ones with a chorus starting within the first 15 seconds has risen from 20% in 2010 to 40% today.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n09/daniel-cohen/to-monopolise-our-ears
Worth a read. I was surprised about the Pavement song, I hadn't heard it before (and I was a huge fan in the 90s, and still am). The Galaxie 500 song is less surprising to me, the intro with the crashing cymbals is really striking and a friend of mine used to always single that track out because of it.
Whatever the drawbacks of the algorithm (and there are many) it's great to see these two songs emerge out of the soup. Of course listeners should then go and check out the rest of those artists' catalogues rather than just let Spotify spoon-feed them stuff, but humans can be lazy
I think we're due a strong backlash against having so much of our culture algorithmically decided, don't you think? Algorithms incentivise the creation of "content" as opposed to art.
Man got hit by lightning, not too far from here. Good piece.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/09/struck-by-lightning-my-face-burned-and-my-memory-disappeared-here-is-how-i-made-it-back
Kid's home. Busy on the back porch with weed and headphones. Tells me I must be the last who's heard about
https://rabbitholesounds.com
might be so, but just in case...
I'm currently slowly working my way through the archives of the "How We Made" series from the Guardian. I had read quite a few of them when they were originally published, but also missed quite a few. They're really interesting, they should publish a book from these.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/series/how-we-made
Did you know for example that one of the original writers of Video Killed the Radio Star released his version of the song first, but it didn't chart, lacking the production tricks from the subsequent version by the Buggles:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/30/the-buggles-how-we-made-video-killed-the-radio-star
Or what about the casting of Francis Ford Coppola's The Outsiders? Unknown actors Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, and Patrick Swayze, all in the same movie:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/nov/01/how-we-made-the-outsiders-francis-ford-coppola-and-c-thomas-howell
Or that the Bangle's Eternal Flame was partly inspired by a Spinal Tap skit:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/03/vocals-nude-bangles-eternal-flame-susanna-hoffs-how-we-made
Where Is My Mind was inspired by a small fish chasing Charles around in the Bahamas:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/02/pixies-how-we-made-where-is-my-mind
There's also one on my favourite cinematic trilogy:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/nov/04/julie-delpy-ethan-hawke-how-we-made-before-sunrise-trilogy-sunset-midnight
(An another on Dazed and Confused, I'm sure as an Austin resident you are a fan of Linklater)
The amazing story of Kevin Smith's Clerks:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/may/07/how-we-made-clerks-kevin-smith
And finally, Bohemian Like You was inspired by a brief stop at traffic lights of a classic BMW:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jan/22/how-we-made-the-dandy-warhols-bohemian-like-you
Just read this one, it's great:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/aug/06/how-we-made-smash-hits-magazine
I loved those films! His ideas are always interesting and unique.
Very interesting and worthwhile thread-contribution there young man. The Smash Hits piece took me (way) back....among other shameful periods in my life, my alter-ego at the time wrote a few pieces for The Face, but none as good as the Ask-A-Man-A-Question type column I wrote for D.C. Thompson's Etcetera mag. It folded after a year
I can't say what it costs on other sites, but here is my app-alterntaive rec for this Sunday morning on what is Memorial Day weekend in the USA...just paste
travels in hyperreality umberto eco
into Amazon and for $2.99 (on Kindle) you'll get a view (largely from the 70s) of an America long gone and still violently here.
A very fine collection at a very good price from dear old Mister Eco
https://publicapologycentral.com/
Sample or just daydream....
https://www.tree.fm/forest/29
Archaic Torso of Apollo
We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.
Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:
would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.
[Rainer Maria Rilke]
It’s a sonnet … thoughts about poetry …
Wir kannten nicht sein unerhörtes Haupt,
darin die Augenäpfel reiften. Aber
sein Torso glüht noch wie ein Kandelaber,
in dem sein Schauen, nur zurückgeschraubt,
sich hält und glänzt. Sonst könnte nicht der Bug
der Brust dich blenden, und im leisen Drehen
der Lenden könnte nicht ein Lächeln gehen
zu jener Mitte, die die Zeugung trug.
Sonst stünde dieser Stein entstellt und kurz
unter der Schultern durchsichtigem Sturz
und flimmerte nicht so wie Raubtierfelle;
und bräche nicht aus allen seinen Rändern
aus wie ein Stern: denn da ist keine Stelle,
die dich nicht sieht. Du mußt dein Leben ändern.
Light as metaphor for truth etc.
Rhyme scheme [abba cddc eef gfg]
All the best, greetings
https://danepstein.substack.com/p/soul-and-inspiration
Oh, I didn't know Cynthia Weil had recently died, she (along with Barry Mann) were giants.
Everything was something once.
Currently working my way through wayward genius and documentarian Adam Curtis’ most recent (2021) series of his thought provoking visual essays, illustrated with amazing found footage collaging and sublime soundtracking:
Check any of his series out on BBC iplayer or YouTube. They are all provocative and deliriously fascinating, and as distinctive an artistic language in his way as the great and very different Ken Burns. It just makes me shudder to think how much raw archive he must trawl through to make them.
(It also taught me where Eno got the title of his piece Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy from.)
A short taste of his style from an earlier piece: