Monthly Archives: November 2009

Here, There, Everywhere

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Dave

They call him the Roger Federer of the composer’s baton. Classical music’s latest rising star Gustavo Dudamel, known for his flamboyant and overly enthusiastic on-stage performances and for his out of this world curly hair. He has become very popular … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged classical, dudamel, gothenberg, Gustavo, gustavo dudamel, music, orchestra, prodigy, rising star, sweden, symphony, venezuela, youth | Leave a comment

A Seriously Absurd Sort Of Man

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Dave

The lost tribe of Judah wandering, shambling through the suburbs of Minneapolis. Caught in this strange web of dependency and interdependency, on each other and on their omnipresent identity which hangs over them like a black cloud with intermittent and … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged A Serious Man, Arthur Koestler, Barry Levinson, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Fred Melamed, Fred Melamedi, Joel and Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Khazars, Liberty Heights, Michael Moore, Michael Stuhlberg, Rush Limbaugh, Sari Lennick | 1 Comment

Green Graffiti

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Dave

Kids love writing on stuff. Crayola disasters on walls, spilling paint all over the place. And some kids just never lose that urge to vandalize walls. this is the origin of graffiti in my opinion. People who feel the urge … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Art | Tagged authority, eco, eco-friendly, environment, graffiti, green, tags | 1 Comment

Grace Lee Boggs & The Maccabean Theater

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Dave

Activist, feminist, and ultimately a poet of creative non-violence. The narrative ebbs and flows, capturing the imagination with lyricism ,substance and form; the cacophony of empty rhetoric relegated to the recycle bin. Its a critique against racism, militarism and materialism … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bar Kochba, Barack Obama, Grace Lee, Grace Lee Boggs, JFK, Maccabean theater, Maccabees, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, The Inconvenient Hero, Tracey Chapman | Leave a comment

Sink Your Teeth Into This

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Dave

Ask a 12 year old girl about what movies she likes, what books she’s been reading, what guy she thinks is cute. The answer will probably be the same for all of those questions. She’ll probably tell you something like … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous | Tagged edward cullen, new moon, robert pattison, twilight, vampire | Leave a comment

Art As Rhetoric Prepared Medium Rare

Posted on November 22, 2009 by Dave

Soutine once shocked his neighbours by hanging a side of beef in his garret so he could paint it. The carcass collected fleas, putrified , and this death on exhibition alarmed the tenants to bring the gendarmes to put an … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged A Beggar in Jerusalem, Abstract expressionism, Avner Mandelman, Chaim Soutine, Cubism, David marcus, Dr. Alfred barnes, Elie Wiesel, Fauvism, Franz Kafka, Golden gate Jerusalem, Jackson Pollock, Kafka, Kooning, Kotel, Le Boeuf Ecorche, Old masters, Rembrandt, Tablet, Temple Mount, the Louvre, Van Gogh, willem de Kooning, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

Who Moved The Cheese.

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Dave

In business terminology Luck= A Prepared Mind. However, when you make the rules and shape the outcome, luck can become the normal, even banal. Matt Taibbi’s reporting in Rolling Stone, ”The Great American Bubble Machine”, is like a bad rash, … Continue reading →

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Crocodile Hunting in Berlin

Posted on November 21, 2009 by Dave

Until Death Do Us Part…But until then there is a lot of road to haul. How does one explain a condition that has been genetically stamped into humanity since the origins of the oral tradition and the hieroglyphic scrawling of … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Aristotle, Berlin, City of Smoke, City of Stones, Claude Levi-Strauss, Graphic novel, graphic Novels, Jason Lutes, Malthus, Nietzsche, Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Weimar Republic | Leave a comment

Gotta Serve Somebody

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Dave

Sex and guilt taken to an illogical extreme or a battle of the sexes following the established occidental trilogy of sex-guilt and death. Mortified by guilt, degraded, hung, mutilated ; A combination Alfred Hitchcok and Agatha Christie without the mystery. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Antichrist, Charlotte Gainbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danny DeVito, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lars von Trier, Nietzsche, The Antichrist, Throw Momma From the Train, William Dafoe | 3 Comments

Beaudelaire & the ''Beats''

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Dave

Take a phenomenon. And then de-fang it. Commodify it. Beatnik, a media stereotype of the 1950s and early 1960s, was a synthesis of the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s into moralized and unflattering … Continue reading →