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where you wanna go with the men from uncool
To see unfamiliar emotional reality behind the facade of familiar material appearances. To somehow counter the nightmare of the pervasive material appearance. Obviously, the word spirituality has some some sappy cliched references and its meaning has not the same relational … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bob Dylan, doug murphy bisonics, fred emney, joe strummer, john cooper clarke, john hind, kaftwerk, Mick Jagger, noel fielding, paul hamilton, Peter Cook, si beex bisonics, simon beacon, smoking ant records, the belfast cowboy, the bisonics, Van Morrison, Wassily Kandinsky
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eye of the tyger
William Blake saw heaven in a speck of dust. Toying on the brink of madness, he always seemed to stop just short of leaping off the cliff, of sacrificing himself to some form of wish fulfilling fantasy. An enigma of … Continue reading
posing with the circus animals
A dual nature. The intertwined carnality and nobility. William Butler Yeats. With age, his imagery turned sensual and direct. A wild wicked old man he would call himself, who regretted the celibacy of his youth and for whom the act … Continue reading
blue ribbon tank: hand fishing the ecstatic trance
The search for genuine American weirdness. To look for manifest destiny under all the rocks, roadside billboards and backwoods of the cultural bi-ways. The new series of Will Ferrell ads for Old Milwaukee is a case in point of combing … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bob Dylan, Edward Bernays, frank the tank, greil marcus old weird america, Harold Bloom, heckler and associates seattle, howard stern, jennifer aniston, kid rock pabst blue ribbon, limp bizkit, metropoulous brothers, old milwaukee advertising, pabst blue ribbon marketing, Richard Brautigan, Robert Crumb, Sigmund Freud, The Band, will ferrell
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touching a flaming comet
The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading
what if there was no back then
Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged emmanuel levinas, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Max Brod, pauline pistis, Randy Newman, Robert Crumb, Sam Harris, Theodor Adorno, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, William James
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mixed blessings
The emancipation of selfishness. The fecund faculties of myth making. Harold Bloom created a furor with his article on Mormonism, but for the most part it was misinterpreted, or rather interpreted in a literal sense. Bloom understood the fantastical and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged angela aleiss, Arthur C. Clarke, christen dalsgaard, Christopher Hitchens, david ward, dr. fawn brodie, edgar young mullins, edward hicks noah, glenn larson, Harold Bloom, ivan wolfe, joseph smith mormonism, marion k. smith, Mitt Romney, orson pratt, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Robert Crumb, terryl givens
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see a little light
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i’ve always had an affinity for bob mould. not only have i deeply admired the music he produced in the astonishing band ‘husker du’ (and, later, the band ‘sugar’), but, we’re both smart (and smart … Continue reading
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