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the real greil
by Art Chantry: this is a hardcover promo copy of a collection of greil marcus essays called “ranters & crowd pleasers: punk in pop music, 1977-92″ (doubleday, 1993). social critic and writer of mucho density, greil marcus and i had … Continue reading
expression of the soul
… Rock and roll “is the most brutal, ugly, desperate vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. Rock n’ roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous … Continue reading
science of fictions of zimzum
Something on gnosticism and in particular, the use of gnosticism by Franz Kafka. Like anything else, there are various strands of thought on the subject, often mutually exclusive and arriving at different conclusions. A wonderful description of Kafka and how … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged aline kominsky, Bob Dylan, David Mairowitz, Drama of Works, Franz Kafka, Frederick Crews, Gershom Scholem, Gnosticism, Greil Marcus, peter kuper, Puppet Kafka, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Crumb, Sander Gilman, Stanley Corngold
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post punk: johnny rotten
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) I’m not very comfortable with the new popular label “post punk”. to begin with, it denotes a time frame – it comes after ‘punk’, right? ok, so how do we define 1) “punk” and IT’S time … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Curt Cobain, Greil Marcus, Iggy Pop, jah wobble, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, john lydon, Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols, joy division, keith levene, MOJO magazine, phil strongman, post punk, Public Image Limited, The Ramones, the sex pistols, the sonics, Velvet Underground
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time-lapse
Its called time-lapse photography and one of the newest to receive critical acclaim in motion photography is Dominic Boudreault from Quebec.He has gained a certain measure of notoriety from his video titled “The City Limits”. Shot over twelve months, it … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged brothers quay, dave and max fleischer, dominic boudreault, dominic boudreault the city limits, eadweard muybridge, George Melies, Greil Marcus, greil marcus old weird america, hans zimmer, hans zimmer time, isabelle porter le devoir, Jeremy Blake, leland standford, Muybridge, norman m. klein, ross ching, Theresa Duncan, timelapse photography, wrik mead
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The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?
A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertrand Russell, beyonce, Carl Jung, Carlo Ginzburg, daniel pinchbeck, Dionysus, Greil Marcus, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, James Hillman, jeremy narby, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Ken Kesey, Lady Gaga, mercea eliade, rogan taylor, stanley booth, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Titian
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one of the boys: men in long black coats
John Lennon was once quoted as saying that Bob Dylan was intentionally opaque in his lyrics so as to position himself as “secure in his hipness”. It is often taken that Dylan provided the Beatles with the understanding of depth, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged andy greene, anthony scaduto, art blog, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Camille Paglia, Charles Baudelaire, Constance Rourke, elliot mintz, Greil Marcus, Heinrich Heine, henry timrod, james damiano, jann s. wenner, jann wenner, John Lennon, johnny cash, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Joni Mitchell, joseph heath, Larry Charles, robert shelton, scott warmuth, Steve Jobs, Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, William Burroughs
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two state solution
There is a feedback loop at work here: Do we really want more separation from Canada, statehood, or does all this incessant chatter about it simply desensitize the issue into the realm of indifference and boredom? Or, in today’s consumerist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Benjamin West, Bob Dylan, bruce mallen, Carl Jung, clotaire rapaille, Greil Marcus, ian and sylvia, Irving Layton, John Verelst, louis joseph papineau, Mordecai Richler, napoleon bourassa, Northrop Frye, patriotes movement quebec, paul bennett le devoir, rheal seguin, victor-levy beaulieu
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soliloquy: photos of american monologues
Small vignettes that serve as a form of Americana that bend the universal into the national.Taking an extravagant oral style of the past and coaxing it into sensitive human revelation. Whether one considers them Mark Twain or an even older … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alec soth, alexander Farkas, Alexis de Tocqueville, Damien Hirst, Edgar Allen Poe, ellis washington, emily dickinson, Greil Marcus, Henry James, Luc Sante, Mark Twain, michael a. ledeen, Nathaniel Hawthorne, neal riemer, Walt Whitman
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will you stay or will you buy?
Rock the Cashbah.The commodification of punk. Was it all about the look? Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): When these durn kids these days talk about punk bands, they always get all misty-eyed and slobbery over the clash. Yet, they think of the … Continue reading
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Tagged art chantry, bernie rhodes, don kirschner, French Situationist, Glenn Beck, Greil Marcus, Guy Debord, joe strummer, john robb, Johnny Rotten Sex Pistols, julian temple, Julie Burchill, Lady Gaga, Malcolm McLaren, mick jones, morrisey, Sex Pistols, the clash
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