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Tag Archives: Randy Newman
art for the sake of creative destruction
Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Damien Hirst, David Ganek, Eli Broad, Francis Bacon art, Guy Debord, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Quinn, Pablo Picasso, Randy Newman, Stephen Wynn, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning
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after all we did for them
How dare they be so ungrateful! After all we did for them. All those hockey pucks and branded team jerseys we dished out. At least the Gulf States appreciate us coz’ we brought them Tim Horton’s coffee shops; fact is, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Canada Libya mission, Canada Libya mission hotel expenses, Canadian Forces Afghanistan, Christian Tessier DND, Daniel Blouin spokesman military, Don Cherry Afghanistan, Jack Harris NDP defense critic, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maxime Bernier, Maxime Bernier Joe Louis, Randy Newman
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political science
The basics behind anti-Zionism and the despotic regimes, puppet enterprises around and affiliated with it can be traced back to a visceral antipathy towards colonialism in general. Colonialism as a demonic entity and deeply embedded within the fabric of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Ruppin, Brian Williams, Christopher Stevens ambassador, Elie Wiesel, glenn greenwald, Hannah Arendt, Jeff Greenwald, Lucille Ball, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers, Randy Newman, Richard Engel, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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piano in the woods
It was a pretty ordinary interview on Bloomberg last week with Chuck Leavell the great blues/rock pianist. Maybe the best in America right now. It was really light-weight stuff except when Leavell played a cut from his new disc Back … Continue reading
kingfish on the hustings
You have to wonder if this new phenomenon called Americans.select.org is an effort to establish a technocracy rule in the United States, something that Thorstein Veblen felt would be the inevitable consequences of a capitalism as it became increasingly complex … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged american political satire, americanselect, americanselect.org, Constance Rourke, elliott ackerman, future 101 blogspot, Guy Debord, Herman Melville, jackie and dunlap, jackie broyles, James Gillray, john dewey, jonathan shockley, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, mitt romney bain capital, mitt romney new hampshire, Randy Newman, thomas friedman new york times, Thorstein Veblen, travis harmon
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kids play: just tickety-boo
There is the theory of Walter Benjamin on the discarded object, the former fetish object of capitalist consumer culture that becomes re-animated and re-contextualized after attaining junk and discard status. Transformed into a toy. It becomes re-emancipated with revolutionary potential … Continue reading
what if there was no back then
Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged emmanuel levinas, Franz Kafka, Harold Bloom, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Max Brod, pauline pistis, Randy Newman, Robert Crumb, Sam Harris, Theodor Adorno, Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, William Blake, William James
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negotiating away the apocalyse: rain check
Can you negotiate anything? Even the end of the world? Well, it might take a bit of hubris, and the grand finale, the curtain closer with encore is knocking on our door, the grim reaper of grim reapers, on May … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged 10cc, benjamin warsinske, brent townshend, David S. Reynolds, david straker, harold camping, herb cohen, Hilary Spurling, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Randy Newman, samuel colman, sharlotte hydorn, Slavoj Zizek, Stockhausen, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Osborne, zig ziglar, ziggy ziglar
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vaudeville: the eiron and alazon act
Vaudeville. Vaudeville, from the height of its appeal to its demise (1870-1930) remained a mass entertainment firmly planted in the lowbrow. Beneath vaudeville was burlesque which occupied a narrow band that teetered towards pornography and back to decadence. But lowbrow … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Adele Astaire, Aleister Crowley, bill bojangles robinson, Constance Rourke, Edward Bernays, eva tanguay, Fred Astaire, george ade, george fuller golden, gilbert seldes, Herman Melville, kevin courrier, nathanael west, Randy Newman, shirley temple, travis stewart, Walt Whitman
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