“Good Goodnight,” Aqualung
“Deep in a Dream,” Frank Sinatra
“I Love You So Much It Hurts,” Jimmy Wakely
“Alicia Ross,” Kathleen Edwards
“Everything Changed,” Aqualung
“Summerday,” Dar Williams
“United States of Pop 2009 (Blame It on the Pop),” DJ Earworm
“Get It Wrong, Get It Right,” Feist
“White Tooth Man,” Iron & Wine
“Brahms: Violin Sonata #3 in D. Minor, Op. 108 – 1. Allegro,” Annie Sophie Mutter, Lambert Orkis
“Apres Moi,” Regina Spektor
“Bayless St.,” Rickie Lee Jones
“Time Will,” Hercules and Love Affair
“Everything’s Just Wonderful,” Lily Allen
“Sleep on the Left Side,” Cornershop
“Light-Pop’s Principle,” Laura Nyro
“Going Home,” Leonard Cohen
“Night Ride Home,” Joni Mitchell
“Keep this Party Going,” the B-52’s
“The Moonlight Butterfly,” the Sea and Cake
“Sorry to See Me Go,” Teddy Thompson
“Sonnet,” the Decemberists
“The Circle Married the Line,” Feist
“Make Love So Hard,” Darden Smith
“O Fole Roncou,” Luiz Gonzaga
“Fix It,” Grizzly Bear
“Be Mine,” Alabama Shakes
“My Step” (IndieAnimalJones Remix), Little Dragon
“Afro Blue,” Lizz Wright
Playlist: iPod shuffle, 4/3/12
April 3, 2012Quote of the day: FANTASY
April 2, 2012FANTASY
A woman has the right to pretend she’s being raped by a pirate if that’s what she wants to pretend. Very few people act out their fantasies, except in Northern California.
— Anne Rice
Quote of the day: APRIL FOOL
April 1, 2012APRIL FOOL
April Fools’ Day is the day for pranks and hoaxes. One such famous April Fools’ Day hoax was the so-called “Jupiter Effect” of 1976. During an interview on BBC Radio 2, British astronomer Patrick Moore announced that a very rare planetary event was about to take place—that Jupiter and Pluto would soon align in relation to Earth, and their combined gravitational pull would momentarily override Earth’s own gravity and make people weigh less. He called it the Jovian-Plutonian Gravitational Effect, and said that if people jumped in the air at exactly 9:47 a.m., they would experience a floating sensation. Moore signaled, “Jump now!” over the airwaves, and within minutes the BBC switchboard was flooded with calls from people who claimed it had worked.
–The Writer’s Almanac
Theater review: AN ILIAD
March 30, 2012
My review of Denis O’Hare (above) in his adaptation AN ILIAD, directed by Lisa Peterson, has just been posted on CultureVulture.net. Check it out here and let me know what you think. The show has been extended through Sunday April 1 at New York Theater Workshop.
Photo diary: a stroll through MOMA
March 30, 2012
Seeing decades of Cindy Sherman self-portraits in such profusion surprisingly increases my admiration for her. The transformations, especially involving crazy makeup and wigs and costumes, make them impressively theatrical. My favorites are the clowns, a logical and witty extension of her more grotesque experiments.
The “Exquisite Corpse” show has very little to do with the Surrealist-spawned parlor game among artists and a lot to do with artistic rendering of body distortions. I encountered some intriguing artists new to me (Andre Racz, above is his “The Flesh Fly”) and surprising pieces by old favorites (a fascinating multimedia collage by Jean Cocteau, below).
These smartphone pix of Paul Wunderlich’s delicate drawing “Chair Man” (above) and Kenyan artist Wangenchi Mutu’s multimedia piece “One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack” (below), which hangs right outside the “Exquisite Corpse” show, don’t do them justice — worth checking out in person.
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