Tacos! |
Election day 1968 I watched people going to vote, I was sitting near the window of Mrs. Reine's eighth grade American History class, I saw two of the sixty million who for George Wallace that year (Ge...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:52:00 GMT |
Computer |
here's some of what happened, stuck a CD in the slot and it was too fat... it was a reissue of Horowitz playing the Rach 3rd. I hadn't stuck anything in there since I got that one out and imagine my ...
Posted by on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:03:00 GMT |
West Side Story |
West Side Story. well.. there's more to it than Tony and Maria. Age of Anxiety is largely confessional and a wish list. Bernstein's masterful orchestral writing stands in stark contrast to the deri...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:34:00 GMT |
Harmonic Convergence |
Nothing like overstated headings. Times reports the Met commissioned Julian Schnabel to paint a portrait of Placido Domingo. Costumes dept. brought around some items, a breast plate, and a a cape pr...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:25:00 GMT |
peering thru the cracks |
there's come to be a certain once a month-ness...I haven't willingly stayed to the end of a picture in a while, so when I heard that Eric Rohmer was still alive at 88 and actually made I film I though...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:26:00 GMT |
Arabesque |
an observation from an interview in this art mag (Whitewall) "My work is not about memories but rather about problems and difficulties in the present." L. Bourgeois. ... Saw this dude getting off th...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:40:00 GMT |
Bête comme un Peintre |
Faith, Hope, and Impossibility by philip Gustonthere are so many things in the world -in the cities- so much to see. does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:31:00 GMT |
Oh, yes...it def. changed my life... |
I'm not even sure whether it was dance music or what, but it felt ultra-hyped like American Idol, teams of hipsters competing, pseudo-grass roots movement to create an awesome new sound in under two h...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:53:00 GMT |
Ben Hur, Art and Ethics |
Gram-ma’s letters... yeah, there’s some real gems. When I got them I was tempted to throw them all over the living room, and then just pick one up and read it. Too tedious in chronolog...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:55:00 GMT |
Mozart, necessary evil... |
What’s worse? hearing the train leave as you hit the subway station or trashing Mozart on his birthday? Okay, is that a real question? Let’s pretend they’re not totally unrelated.....
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:53:00 GMT |
