Tag Archives: Don Mclean

cry him a river

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Dave

Varying degrees of madness. A creepy but vulnerable figure escaping his awkward urges with bloodhounds on his trail. It is an intangible sliver of hope. Peter Lorre gives pause for a reflection on the nature of evil, particularly who the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Anne Sharp, Don Mclean, Felix Nussbaum, Franz Kafka, Hal Erickson, Norman Rockwell, Peter Lorre, Sholom Aleichem | Leave a comment

flight from reason: a merry prank on a dark star?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dave

It was the end of the world as they knew it. It was the Age of Unreason. Works of pop art like the Campbell’s soup can by Andy Warhol, the Impossible Art of Ralph Ortiz killing chickens,and Dennis Oppenheims, “Cyclonic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Andy Warhol, Bruce Eisner, Dennis Oppenheim, Don Mclean, George Bernard Shaw, Hunter S. Thompson, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Neal Cassady, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, Phil Lesh, Ram Dass, Rich Griffin, Steely Dan, Stewart Brand, The Grateful Dead, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe | Leave a comment

DREAMING Of A SUMERIAN CHRISTMAS: God Anxiety Between Two Rivers

Posted on December 21, 2010 by Dave

The Sumerians stood in awe of their gods, whom they conceived as dwelling in the forces of nature- which might capriciously destroy men- as well as in man-made temples and figurines- where they might be cajoled into acting as humanity’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alan Boyle Cosmic Log, Arnold Toynbee, C.S. Lewis, Don Mclean, Elizabeth Boase, Elizabeth Bose, Iraq National Museum, Iraq National Museum looting, John Russell Massachusetts College of Art, Kevin Tibbles, Leonard Woolley, Sumeria, Sumerian art, Sumerian history, Woolley, Zaccharia Sitchin | 2 Comments

MALEVOLENT WILDLIFE: Oh, The Amazon is Calling

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Dave

There’s a danger zone, not a stranger zone Than the little plot I walk on that I call my home Full of eerie sights, weird and skeery sights Ev’ry vicious animal that creeps and crawls and bites!! On the Amazon, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adam Gabbatt, Adam Gabbatt Guardian, Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Waterton, Charles Waterton amazon, Charles Wilson Peale, Christopher Danzig, Don Mclean, Don McLean On the Amazon, Douglas Engle, Ed Stafford, Ed Stafford Amazon, Eric Beech, Henry Walter Bates, Richard Spruce, Richard Spruce English botanist, Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Stuart Grudgings, Tom Remington, William McGovern | Leave a comment

FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Dave

She’s got no braids in the inkwell, no money on the prize. Ain’t got no boyfriend behind her that she can’t hypnotize. And if you wanna see yourself without delusions or delies. All you do is just look into her … Continue reading →

Posted in Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexander Bain, Bertha Newcombe, Betty Friedan, Bruce Mazlish, Don Mclean, Edward Bernays, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Emily Davies, Feminism, Friedrich Nietzsche, Harriet Taylor, Herbert Marcuse, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, John Stuart Mill The Spirit of the Age, Marcuse On Liberation, Sigmund Freud, Utilitarianism, Women's suffrage | 2 Comments

A Hopalong with the Man in Black

Posted on September 26, 2009 by Dave

”Like all heroic tales, the story is an intertwining of many lives, including Grace Bradley, a 12 year-old girl who fell in love with a charismatic silent film star and ten years later fulfilled her childhood vow to marry him, … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Don Mclean, Grace Bradley Boyd, Herbert Marcuse, Hopalong Cassidy, Mark Jenkins, T.V Westerns, Topper, William Boyd | 6 Comments

A Banjo in Babylon

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Dave

” Babylon” ,Psalm 137 is read against the backdrop of the Babylonian exile, often interpreted as a metaphor for personal exile and the search within. The psalm is generally understood as an allegory for sinful thought which is brought into … Continue reading →