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Saturday, August 7, 2021

Art Angles

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:53 am

And then there is Bardo  College . . .

"Katz approaches her subject from every angle,

its relationship to feminism, multiculturalism and
the counterculture, as well as its (now questionable)
cultural appropriation and even its underlying debt
to Minimalism (the use of repetition and the grid)."

This is from a Roberta Smith piece yesterday morning
in The New York Times  print version:

"A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 6, 2021,
Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: 
Celebrating a Riotous Decor That Keeps Eyes Moving."

Well, perhaps not every  angle.

Thursday, August 5, 2021

Music for Bobos

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 9:49 pm

A play by George Bernard Shaw is the source of the book title at 
the end of the previous post  — "Music is the brandy of the damned ." 
This suggests a corresponding song  title . . .

From the album "The Time of the Assassins."
The above image is not of the singer's own  background.

The Dumbing-Down

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:45 am

"How old is  the 'Big Spider Beck' joke?"

From "Blackboard Jungle" (1955) —

Teacher:

– You see, music is based on mathematics,
and it's just that the next class … 
i
s a little more advanced.

Students:

– We're advanced, teach. 
– Two times two is four.
– Are  four. 

See also Damnation Morning  in this journal and . . .

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

“They’re gonna put me in the movies…” — Johnny Russell

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 1:49 pm

Bobos in Paradise  Reconsidered

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 1:04 pm

"You're gonna need an ocean/
  of calamine lotion" — "Poison Ivy"

Sunday, August 1, 2021

Blackboard Jungle Cruise

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 11:25 pm

See also Big Time in this  journal.

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