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The UP Series

Interview with Michael Apted, director of "The Up Series" upon release on "49 Up". "The UP Series" is a series of documentary films, began with the film "Seven Up",which selected 14 seven-year-old B...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:54:00 GMT

Bit o’ Bettye Lavette "Your Turn To Cry"

For some reason, this clip seems to capture a bit of Bettye's magic, though it starts part way through the song, is dark, etc.  If her voice isn't clue enough to what an intense singer she is, ju...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:53:00 GMT

Were In Trouble

A brief swing-by to forcefully recommend "We're in Trouble" a collection of short stories by Christopher Coake. Upsetting, challenging and sometimes quite dark...these attributes will be deal-breakers...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:38:00 GMT

"HEROES"

Re-found this on YouTube: a clip of David Bowie singing "HEROES" from some Japanese TV show in 1977. This is further degenerated than the last found version and was obviously licensed to a Dutch TV st...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:17:00 GMT

College = good?

I read this piece months ago, and, the larger point : education in danger of becoming a luxury good, has stuck with me...The context of the piece, Marilee Jones dismissal from M.I.T., is long out of t...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:48:00 GMT

A Stevie (but not the one you think)

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's ...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:33:00 GMT

DJ

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, thatthere might be a place for people like us.Denis John...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:28:00 GMT

SOME NOTABLE THINGS OF 2006

Just a start so far...*  Scotland with Jo-Ann, Mike and James...The Isle of Skye was like a dream come true (midnight, wide-open skies, a concentration of time with my wonderful friends), the com...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:29:00 GMT

a moment of silence for the lady, please

I just learned that my beloved Ruth Brown passed away yesterday, November 17. Let's show the lady some respect...I had the good fortune to see Ruth play several times in the last decade andcherish my ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 13:53:00 GMT

3:10 am

these words - excerpted from E. Perkins 'Good Friday'...come lay here beside meand i'll fear no deathi'll give you my bodyand i'll breathe your breathno one will harm youinside this songwe will be saf...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:56:00 GMT