Invented punk rock
as we know it;
penned one of the
great singles of ’68;
inspired an essay entitled
“James Taylor
Marked for Death.”
[Obit]
Archive for February 4th, 2013
R.I.P. Reg Presley
Posted by s woods on February 4, 2013
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Film Culture No. 27, Winter 1962/63
Posted by s woods on February 4, 2013
World-historical, man.
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“Ramones are rubbish…”
Posted by s woods on February 4, 2013
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Maura Johnston’s Digital ‘Zine
Posted by s woods on February 4, 2013
Interview with Maura Johnston regarding her new online venture, Maura Magazine.
I really wanted to see if this model would work. I’ve been on the Internet for 20 years. I started doing Web stuff in 1994 and I always loved that you could find weird stuff — boutiques interests that people just wanted to put on the Web. And I feel like with the push to constantly grow pageviews and always shoot for the stars or shoot for the 18-34 male demographic that seems like the default of Internet culture, you lose a lot of the stuff that made the Web an interesting place to be and burrow down. In a curious way — not in the, ‘Oh my god, this is so weird — look at this stupid idiot’ kind of way.
Issue list for Maura Magazine. (You can preview articles but, far as I can tell, need an iPhone or iPad to read the entire thing.)
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Anxiety of Influence #13 & 36
Posted by s woods on February 4, 2013
Many critics claim they avoid reading other reviews until they’ve filed theirs. The reasons: ‘I don’t want to be influenced’ or ‘I want to preserve the sanctity of my reaction’ or ‘I don’t have time,’ the last of which is really the only legitimate. Apart from being next to impossible in the post-Internet age, the insulation presumes that our reviews are original creations, untainted by any number of phenomena, from the quality of the download to the hangover we’re nursing.
Alfred Soto, “The importance of mediation” [please read the rest]
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Richard Kramer on Kael
Posted by s woods on February 4, 2013
A Broad’s Laugh: On Pauline Kael by Richard Kramer (Los Angeles Review of Books)
And there was one more moment between us. She called me. She was in the hospital, although she didn’t say that. Her voice was weak, this writer whose voice was always so strong, all brass section, all parade. ‘What will become of all of you?’ she asked. ‘What will you do with no good movies?’ How do you answer that? I tried to keep it cheery. ‘Have you heard about this movie In the Bedroom?’ I had seen that, a few weeks earlier. It was the first movie that came to mind. ‘Oh, someone sent it to me,’ she said. For a moment she sounded like herself, confident, more than a little bossy, sexy in her very personal way.’It’s just a piece of shit, honey. That’s all it is. That’s all anything is, mostly.’ Then I could hear her starting to fade. ‘Except for Sissy Spacek, of course. Who has ever been like her? Or Diane Keaton! Or Streisand, in Yentl. God, I adored that strange girl in Carrie —’
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