Tag Archives: The Marx Brothers

kickin’ up a ruckus

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Dave

The Arab Spring began as a revolutionary movement with a open, and sometimes radical program for renewal, as last compared to the existing order. And it turning out to be something failrly similar to what it replaced. In Syria, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Abdel Fatah Younis, Bashar el Assad, Camp Bastion Helmand Province, Christopher Stevens ambassador, Free Syrian Army, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers A Night in Casablanca, Recep Tayyip Erdogan AKP Party, Syria Crisis Bashar Assad, The Marx Brothers | Leave a comment

silent screams: ROFL

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Dave

Shock of the new. Something outside the rational, ordered mind, that chaotic zone in the dark sphere of the psyche that can never be expressed or given form in speech and the vocabulary of its desire can never be coherent. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Budelaire, chico marx, Groucho Marx, harpo marx, Jacques Lacan, Modern Chinese art, Modern Chinese Sculpture, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek, The Marx Brothers, the three stooges, Walter Benjamin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Yue Minjun | Leave a comment

looney walk timeout

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Dave

Anyone game for fish slapping? … Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Michael Palin! Like a lot of people a certain age, I discovered them not long after PBS began picking up their shows in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged jesse marinoff reyes, John Cleese, michael doret, michael doret design, Michael Palin, monty python and the holy grail, Monty Python Flying Circus, monty python matching tie and hankerchief, nancy greenberg, nancy greenberg art director, Terry Gilliam, The Marx Brothers | Leave a comment

a sagging and bagging story

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Dave

The pull up your pants law. With a recession and lots of people with extra time on their hands. The law is part of a more complex social issue that says more about white culture’s response to hip culture, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged ACLU, Al Jolson, Bell Hooks, Bell Hooks Outlaw Culture, Charlie Chaplin, charlie chaplin baggy pants, dr. keith clark, gary siplin, Heinrich Hoffmann, jim crow, NAACP, pull up the pants law, pull up your pants law, Ralph Ellison, schave and reilly, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, vaudeville, vaudeville baggy pants | 1 Comment

the syrian bridesmaid revisited

Posted on August 14, 2011 by Dave

What if you shave off the rhetorical baggage and ideology from the individual? What is left after sifting through the debris of myth and stereotype and generalization while hoping to eye a few shards; archaeological artifacts of the real? What … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged al schact, anonymous hackers, anonymous syrian defense ministry, bernard lewis, dakota fine, efraim halevi, efraim halevy, ehud barak, francis fukayama, George Romero, jeff jetton, Joseph Stiglitz, Mark Steyn, Noam Chomsky, Paul Krugman, Pauline Kael, Sam Huntington, Susan Sontag, susan sontag 9/11, The Clash of Civilizations, The Marx Brothers | Leave a comment

like a brick in their pocket : and now What? …

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Dave

Why not strive for fame. “The Bitter Ones” say its a need to be envied and that going “viral”- a term which is in itself a euphemism for something that doesn’t exist, is virtual, and has no real meaning- is … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Brent Hartinger, Britney Spears, Casey Affleck, Chaplin, Cintra Wilson, Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, James Agee, Joaquin Pheonix, John Cameron Mitchell, Leah McClaren, Martin A. Gardner, Matthew Brady, Michel Houellebecq, Nicole Kidman, Pamela Anderson, Paris Hilton, Sofia Coppola, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Marche, The Marx Brothers, Tom Gunning | Leave a comment

NOBODY'S PERFECT … HEAVEN KNOWS THEY TRIED

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Dave

”…Problem is, the only open slots are with Sweet Sue and Her All-Girl Society Syncopaters. As if high heels, girdles, and falsies weren’t tsouris enough, “Josephine” and “Daphne” must keep those testosterone levels down while in the sensuous proximity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged American Cinema, Andrew Sarris, Billy Wilder, Cary Grant, Charles Brackett, Damian Cannon, David Thomson, Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, F.W. Murnau, Greta Garbo, I.A.L. Diamond, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Lewis, Laurence Maslon, Mack Sennett, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Kemp, Pierre Schaeffer, Richard Armstrong, Robert Portfino, Sigmund Freud, The Marx Brothers, Tim Dirks, Tony Curtis, William Shakespeare | 2 Comments

SWEET DREAMS & FLYING MACHINES

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Dave

Won’t you look down upon me, Jesus You’ve got to help me make a stand You’ve just got to see me through another day My body’s aching and my time is at hand And I won’t make it any other … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alfred Roller, Bright Lights Film Journal, Cosima Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, German Opera, Gustav Mahler, Hans Jurgen Syberberg, Hans Richter, James Taylor, James taylor Fire and Rain, Marx Brothers, Mozart, Richard and Cosima Wagner, Richard Wagner, Terry Teachout, The Marx Brothers, Wagner Brunnhilde, Wagner Gotterdammerung, Wagner Rheingold, Wagner Siegfried, Wagner Tristan and Isolde, Werner Fassbinder | 1 Comment

Para D'oxy Morons

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Dave

A trio of NFL players have announced this week to donate their brains, their grey matter to science without specifying the preference for hemispheric study. Specifically, a Boston University medical school program special;izing in sports-brain injuries. Unlikely, it is not … Continue reading →