Tag Archives: Gary Tillery

beatlemania : because we said so

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Dave

Celebrity as a cultural signifier. The need for the sacrificial. Are myths to a large degree, constructions, fabrications, which are conspirational in nature? Something to serve a base need as a substitute for finding meaning in life. Here, the victim … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged albert goldman, Denis Dutton, eric gans, Gary Tillery, Harold Rosenberg, hugh schonfield, John Lennon, Milan Kundera, rene girard, Ringo Starr, Sean Lennon, The Beatles, tomas kulka | Leave a comment

imagine if you can: yes!

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Dave

John Lennon’s message was fairly straightforward: don’t swallow wholesale what you’ve been told. Affirm your independence or it will be taken from you. Assert your individuality. Don’t let yourself be imprisoned by rules and regulations devised by others. All easier … Continue reading →

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FIXING A HOLE: IN MEMORY OF WALLS AND BRIDGES

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Dave

Are trauma and memory walls and bridges to the truth?… “The premise for this … film comes from an Ono film score, published in 1968: The cameraman will chase a girl on a street with a camera persistently until he … Continue reading →

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11:11:11 IMAGINE NO REMEMBRANCE

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Dave

First of all, should we begin by remembering ourselves? What underlies the tension between recollection and forgetting; the desire to remember and the impulse to forget? Can there be a pleasure associated with both? Ultimately, there is a will that … Continue reading →

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MOURNING HAS BROKEN: “Mother” & Wedded to Distortion

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Dave

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live….Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative… ( Oscar Wilde ) The more justification there is for a grievance, the more … Continue reading →

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THEY FOUND OUT: Theres a Place That Goes to Nowhere

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Dave

He saw thinking as a form of intoxication. He recognized that drug-exploration, the pursuit of visionary experience, could be an extension of a rational and intellectual quest: “The dialectics of intoxication are indeed curious,” he wrote. “Is not perhaps all … Continue reading →

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SOMEONE KEPT MOVING THE DOOR

Posted on November 8, 2010 by Dave

Nowhere Boy. Everywhere Man. In any examination of John Lennon; mainly because of the exalted, now mythological esteem held, there is a real danger of loss of perspective and sliding into idolatry, hero worship and misplaced identification. The lesson of … Continue reading →

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REMEMBER: ECHOES and MEMORIES

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dave

In his Rolling Stone interview,John Lennon said that it was pain which had made the great artists what they were. Memory, oh memory, what you do to me? /Today is all I really need to know. /Why do you have … Continue reading →