Category Archives: Music/Composition/Performance

ustinov: comedic dissection

…Ustinov was particularly acerb about British education. “English adolescence,” he once said, “runs from first childhood to second childhood without a break. With Englishmen of fifty, one can see exactly what they looked like at four. With Italians on the … Continue reading

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ustinov

Peter Ustinov was a British citizen of Russian, French, German, Italian, and Spanish extraction, then resident of America who distinguished himself as an actor, playwright, director, linguist, monologuist, cartoonist and mimic. He once said, “I suppose that if Leonardo da … Continue reading

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iggy: genius of action. raw action

by Art Chantry: one of the things i love so much about iggy is that astonishing mind of his. i’m not saying he’s an intellectual genius (although he actually seems to be in interviews). or that his mind is broken … Continue reading

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ono no no songs

Mourning has broken. Feed the hungry ghosts. The appetite is whetted but never sated. Feed the little beast. Appease. Or it will eat you whole and spit you out. Add this to the idea of The Lost Object. the inability … Continue reading

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hearing the boom of the blood-lust song…

After the seven minutes of gymnastics reqired to complete the poem, “The Congo”, the piece de resistance of the Vachel Lindsay repertoire, Lindsay was hoarse and dripping with sweat, and the audience was almost as exhausted. The wind-up inevitably brought … Continue reading

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two pairs are better than one

When they were playing, the duo-pianists Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale were everyone’s delight; and when they were at a party, they were everyone’s despair. For the specific things that characterized their work on stage, the qualities that made it … Continue reading

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a motionless world of time between

Jean Jacques Rousseau and his Noble Savage. The supposed “enlightened” thinking, of liberal democratic godfathers like David Hume and Immanuel Kant filled with racist delusions. At the opposing spectrum is a Martin Heidegger and the counter-enlightenment which was basically philosophic … Continue reading

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expression of the soul

… Rock and roll “is the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Rock n’ roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous … Continue reading

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letting a good time roll

Joan Baez was introduced to her first large gathering of afficionados by Chicago’s ebullient troubadour Bob Gibson, at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival, and the audience, which had come to see the famous Oscar Brand, Odetta, Earl Scruggs, and Jean … Continue reading

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that was quick.

In the bat of an eye. Lightning.I caught Arturo Brachetti on television last night,on the uber-popular Quebec talk show “Tous le Monde en Parle” hosted by Guy Lepage.As circumstances had it, Brachetti was sitting beside a priest and he really … Continue reading

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