I probably didn’t listen to enough records to do this legit, but since it was requested these are the ten records I submitted to the Village Voice critics poll.
James Blackshaw – Litany of Echoes (Tompkins Square)
Blackshaw distances himself from the folk tradition that has sustained him thus far by taking an unexpected classical turn and [...]
My review of Love is Overtaking Me, a small measure of evidence that I still do music writing.
Zizek tells a story about Stalin that illustrates something key to the function of spectacle, symbol, and power. During a session in the Soviet parliament, a member of the assembly openly chastised Stalin in a disagreement. Following this, a lone assembly member stands up and shouts him down, saying something like ‘don’t you know you [...]
Who do we talk about when we talk about the “hipster”? It’s a vapid question, but maybe an unavoidable one. A cover article by Douglas Haddow in the forthcoming Adbusters (recalling Christian Lorentzen’s more competent “Why the Hipster Must Die” in Time Out New York last year) slams this (alleged) group and what he alleges [...]
Jonah Goldberg apparently failed his Postmodernism 101 course and is still raw about it. His latest stab at quasi-journalism in USA Today sees him zeroing in on the core of Obama’s alleged ethical perversity: he’s a ‘postmodernist.’ His big reveal: ’postmodernists’ believe that “reality is ’socially constructed’”. Oh, the scandal.
I try to stay out of the fray, contemplating sweetness and light, maybe spend a weekend morning perusing the NY Times Magazine — then some schlock like this comes along and ruins it for me.
For such an overlong article, the writer amazingly either didn’t do research beyond swallowing CocoRosie’s glittery PR pill whole or [...]
CARILLONS from Falconator Films on Vimeo.
The impetus for this performance piece (filmed by Bryce Myhre) came from the process of making the song “Voodka”. By breaking down the song’s many layers into looped sub-mixes on cassette tapes to be controlled separately, the arrangement became freed up temporally and also spatially (for the subject moving through [...]
For the last 3 or more years I’ve been working on this project with Eric Graf and Mitch Manger. That time has been spent working in private really, but now the mixes are done and we are happy to begin unveiling Carillons to whatever modest public we can scrounge up. The website has streams of [...]
In my dream the marionettes were afire.
There was no backdrop. Rather a hole in the theater wall staging the selfsame city.
The usher was useless. He kept talking about shuttlecocks.
You were an empty body.
