Tag Archives: henry timrod

wicked gravity: cut ups and downs

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dave

Love and theft. Plundered, pillaged, worn and shorn. The fragmentary reality that nothing is totally new, it just gets cut up and re-pasted in new and ingenious ways. The background screens and templates remain vitally similar, but the contexts keep … Continue reading →

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one of the boys: men in long black coats

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Dave

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 →