CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (10)
JOHN LURIE, DISRUPTOR
PLANET OF PERIL (53)
Career novels for boys — they did exist!
22nd
May
May
Morrissey
HiLobrow.com was recently drugged, blindfolded and pushed through a series of strangely booming rooms en route to an exclusive listening party for the new...
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22nd
May
May
How Can I Counteract?
FIRST PAGE FROM GOOGLE on the phrase “how can I counteract?”: How can I counteract the depressing hospital setting? How can I counteract the...
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21st
May
May
My Wes Anderson Problem — And Ours
WES ANDERSON’S Bottle Rocket (1996) raised the hopes of hilobrows everywhere, and his Rushmore (1998) fulfilled those hopes in spades. So what happened? Anderson...
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21st
May
May
Fats Waller
FATS WALLER (1904-43) lives in some impossible space between Paganini, St. Augustine, and James Brown. Tracks like “Handful of Keys” show Fats challenging Art...
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20th
May
May
Jimmy Stewart
JIMMY STEWART (1908-97) endlessly reprised Everyman… yet his most iconic films are perfect set pieces of horror. Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, supposedly a...
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20th
May
May
The Feral is Beautifully Broken
Is Call of the Wild truly feral? Or merely fascist?
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19th
May
May
Joey Ramone
Look at the way people describe JOEY RAMONE’s (1951-2001) voice: “bleat,” “snarl,” “hiccup.” Would they say the same about Ronnie Spector? His voice was...
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