Commentary
The Atlanta-based label Dust-to-Digital would like to show us the flip side of The Anthology of American Folk Music, but they don’t like what they hear.
“A play like The Living pricks the conscience of the country. It is the reason I wanted to produce and direct it.”
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial is the latest product of our heated social/political/cultural debates about America’s memorials and their vision of the country’s past, present, and future.
This fascinating book, and the rich literature of films and writings around it, have helped me feel a bit more positive about these shrunken times.
As amusing and informative as The Joe Rogan Experience can be, a few podcast interviews doth not an actual education make.
Not since Jimi Hendrix had there been such a game-changer for the electric six-string.
Throughout much of his career, Louis Armstrong negotiated a balance between being a “popular” artist and a jazz artist.
I’ve hated enough people,” Penny Arcade confessed, “I can’t hate anyone new until 2022.”
Keats is comfortable in that ambiguous space between reality and the imagination, and you will find no finer example of Romantic poetry when he fuses them in the language of an erotic dream.
Book Review: Karl Kraus’s Prophetic “Third Walpurgis Night” — Listening to the Music of an Ocean of Mud
“Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.”— Karl Kraus
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