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Category Archives: Music
Juxtaposin’: Missed Connections
Blowhard, Esq. writes:
Juxtaposin’: Parting Shots
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:
Notes on “The Red Violin”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Like writer-director François Girard’s other well-known picture, “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould,” “The Red Violin” is a series of short subjects. Here, though, Girard attempts to link these subjects into a mystical narrative based … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music
Tagged canada, Film, Francois Girard, Greta Scacchi, movies, Samuel L. Jackson, The Red Violin
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Notes on Carousel/Liliom
Fenster writes: Eddie Pensier, a child of the opera and a co-blogger here, got me going to the Met, and I am thankful for that. But, still, I have never been much of a fan of Broadway musicals. Music class … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Budapest, Carousel, Hammerstein, Hungary, Liliom, molnar
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Notes on “C.H.U.D.”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: It stands for cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers. Released in 1984, “C.H.U.D.” is a late-in-cycle New-York-in-the-’70s movie that in some ways reminds me of Tim Burton’s “Batman,” itself an end-of-cycle New-York-in-the-’70s movie. Certain scenes, like the opening, … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged C.H.U.D., Douglas Cheek, Film, horror, movies, New York City, Parnell Hall
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Note to K—-, on Frank Zappa
Fenster writes: K—- The excellent music blog run by Jeff Meshel has a nice appreciation of Frank Zappa up, focusing on the song—if you can call it that—“Help I’m a Rock”, from the Mothers of Invention’s first album Freak Out!
Couldn’t Do It Today
Blowhard, Esq. writes: The lyrics, just in case you didn’t know: Gold Coast slave ship bound for cotton fields Sold in the market down in New Orleans Scarred old slaver knows he’s doin’ all right Hear him whip the women … Continue reading
Juxtaposin’: Here Comes
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Curation: “Rhythm of the Rain”
Paleo Retiree writes: I always think of the song as “Listen to the Rhythm of the Pouring Rain,” and it’s one that, ever since it was released in 1962, has never failed to cast a little spell on me. Thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Music
Tagged Music, the cascades, the Ka'au Crater Boys, trish trang, van morrison
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